Our advanced child

This morning we visited the pediatrician for the first time. She has been on vacation and would have come to see Lexi right after she was born, but we've had other pediatricians attending to her care until now. This was the pediatrician we chose and visited before the birth, so now we're getting into the regular check-ups with her.

Everything checked out basically normally with Lexi, except...

In terms of her measurements, she's where a 3-month old would be - and she's only 3 weeks old! Yikes! We're raising a beast who's out of control now (we've noticed that she does like to eat often these days)! For several days now, we've noticed that Lexi is longer, and indeed, she measures in at 58 cm now (her length at birth was 52 cm, although the doctor said you can't always stretch out a newborn's legs completely, so maybe she was even a bit longer then). And in terms of weight, she's now at 4.06 kg. For the metrically illiterate, those figures are:

58 cm = 22.83 inches
4.06 kg = 8.95 lb

It's like carrying two large sacks of flour in your arms, or a big, long bag of potatoes.

And for about the last ten days or so, Lexi has had what looks like an outbreak of acne on her face. This is eczema, which the doctor gave us some cream to treat. The doctor says this is normal.

We don't know how we produced a child who is already bigger than average. Neither of us are especially tall or large. We think maybe she got her Uncle Brian's (Sarah's brother) genes, or maybe a bit of the tall Hovick (Stephen's mother's family) genes snuck in.