My Baby is a Bean Stalk

Britanny is an absolute giant. When you look at her around adults, she appears to be a small innocent baby. But the moment you put her next to babies who are easily months older than her you notice the difference. Let me make 1 thing clear: she is in no way a chubby baby. In fact there is often an obvious void at the front of all of her outfits. This occurs because Britanny is so long that she fits in the 6 month range of clothing (and has since she was 4 months) but cannot fill them out.
Let’s do some math. Britanny is in the 97th percentile for her height. 100 – 97 = 3 (inside we are all saying “why did I ever take high school math if all I do is subtract numbers from 100?) This number means that only 3% of babies at Britanny’s age are taller then her. Which says a lot! I’m hoping her growth spurt slows down, or else she will be the tallest non-mobile baby around.
Britanny’s height seems to put her in a very awkward spot in the nursery. All the 1 year olds seem to think that she is around their age, and therefore should be able to play alongside of them. Alas, all she can do is roll from one side to another (typically not all the way, she stops once she is resting on her side). This means that she often gets poked and prodded by other babies wanting to know why they are being ignored by the baby on the floor. She must seem like a defective baby to them. Here they are, some smaller than her, crawling around while all she can do is grab toys and shove them into her mouth. Such an alien concept to them!
Britanny doesn’t seem to notice that she is, in fact, a giant. All she seems to care about right now is the fact that while she has all the components of crawling down (moving your arms and legs) she cannot put them together in a functioning motion. And believe me, she spends hours trying to get this to work. So I’m not sure what is more saddening, that my baby is clearly taking after her Mommy and Daddy in terms of height or the fact that all Britanny wants to do is crawl, since she has no clear understanding of height. Im hoping that Britanny’s growth spurt slows down soon because I would really like her to stay in these clothes for a while- she should fill them out before moving up! If not, I may end up with a giraffe on my hands. Watch out everybody, Britanny is growing!