{"id":1145,"date":"2008-06-23T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2008-06-23T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T17:15:58","slug":"thats-sir-bam-bam-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/thats-sir-bam-bam-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s Sir Bam Bam to you"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that our most casual observations<\/a> may be gaining some authority.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki was messing around with a height predictor on Babycenter.com<\/a>, and it seems we may have a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 This little doodad takes the child’s current age, height and weight, the parent’s height and give a prediction of just how tall your kid might grow.<\/p>\n

Quinn slots in at a “carbon copy of me” 6 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 Jordy is going to be more or less exactly Nikki’s 5’5″.\u00c2\u00a0 Cael on the other hand, seems to be a bit of a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that the good folks at Babycenter think Cael will be 6’5″ by the time he’s 18.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and just in case that wasn’t enough, there’s a 90% chance that this guess will be within 2.1 inches.\u00c2\u00a0 EITHER WAY.\u00c2\u00a0 Imagine for a minute a 6’5″(or 6’7″) 18 year old jumping up and down, waiting for his supper, which probably will amount to a half a pig every day or so by then.<\/p>\n

I better take up farming or something, or these kids are going to eat me into the poorhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that our most casual observations may be gaining some authority.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki was messing around with a height predictor on Babycenter.com, and it seems we may have a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 This little doodad takes the child’s current age, height and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-it","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}