little miss perfect

Today Eleanor is six months old exactly. And as six-month-olds do, she had a check-up today. She has exactly doubled her birth weight, and is exactly the 50th percentile in weight, length and head circumference (why do we stop measuring head circumference? that would make a nice keepsake growth chart - like tree rings - oh my god does this hat make my head look fat?). Her first tooth nubbin poked through today. I'm pretty grateful that she is so perfectly average.