Giant Babies
What you’re looking at here has not been (significantly) modified or PhotoShopped. That’s our 4 year old daughter and 10-month old son, and yes they’re almost the same size. Just as Rhianna was incredibly small in her youth (mostly due to the prematurity), Ethan is incredibly large. At 10-months of age, we can barely pack him into 18-month outfits.
He’s not "fat" per-se, he’s just big all around. On head circumference, height, and weight, he clocks in at the 90% percentile (meaning he’s larger than 90% of kids in all 3). He weights almost 30-pounds, and is nearly indestructible. He’s trying to learn to walk, and every time he falls and we all rush to the loud "thud" of him hitting the hardwood floor, we arrive to find him looking around with a smile. He’s incredibly happy all the time, and suffers from a uncontrollable, unsatiable appetite for anything to go in his mouth.
He’s got 2 good teeth now, with several more incoming. He can easily crawl, say "dada", and hold his own bottle/sippy cup/pacifier. He can stand, and he can even walk if he has something to hold onto. That, of course, means that everyone on the couch is now fair-game, so our TV remotes have some interesting scratches all over them now. The mobility also means that Rhianna no longer sits in the floor & watches TV while she eats, as Ethan will quickly come to "help".
In other news, Laura is doing well in her RHIA program and preparing to take her CCS exam. We found out that her employer will pay entirely for her RHIA classes, so she’s going to school for free. She’s doin pretty well at work, too, and seems to be enjoying performing the work she was originally educated for. She’s a bit frazzled with the school, certification tests, and work all at once, but she’s doin pretty good on all angles of it.
As for me, things are pretty slow right now at the office. I get to go to Alaska next month for some training, and I’m hoping to have time to take some good pictures (and panorams!) that I hope to post here.
And that wraps up the "Hand Family Update" for a while 
Folks have been on me for not posting much "family" information, so hopefully this will fulfill that end for a few weeks…
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