Bigger and Better

When we were kids our parents kept track of our growth on this Hickory Dickory Dock clock chart, which has somehow survived lo these many eons, intact. There's a notation of our lengths and weights at birth, and at birthdays thereafter. The girl and I continued with the chart with our daughters, though since it topped out at five feet, they weren't on it long.

For the last year or so I've been charting the incredible speed at which my grandkids are zooming up the chart. Today, at about 10 1/2 years old, my grandson is 3 1/2 inches taller and 25 pounds heavier than I was at 11.