We're excited because this also happens to be the day of his 4-month pediatrician visit, which means we get renewed accurate data on his height and weight progress. This is especially important to us this time around because, aside from my being a data geek, we're also interested to see whether his weird shift from "average" to "lanky" has reversed itself. Back at 8 weeks he was more or less at the 50th percentile for both height and weight. Then, at 3 months, he was 75th percentile for height, but 25th percentile for height. Mary and I are both tall and reasonably slender, so this ratio might not have surprised us, except that he started out "average".
These past couple of weeks he seems to have had some kind of growth spurt, in both dimensions. I expect he'll ease back toward the center of the bell curve, on both measures, but not completely return to 50 on either. We'll see. I'll post an update to the growth chart... because I know this kind of thing is galvanizing to the general public.
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