bonnie & jason

Did you ever notice…

babies have really, really big heads?  One doctor purports that human babies are essentially born “early” in order to get them out before their heads get too big to physically fit through the birth canal.  As such, he terms the first three months of life as the “fourth trimester.”  That’s fine, but he didn’t really go into why their heads developed so much faster than the rest of their bodies.  I noticed this recently when Alissa was doing her standard “you just woke me up from a deep sleep so now I need to stretch my arms above my head” pose.  In the picture, you can see that her hands barely reach the top of her head!  Now imagine how funny you would look if you stretched your arms up and your hands barely reached the top of your head!  Either you’d have a monstrous Mayor McCheese head or stubby Grimace arms.  (I must have McDonald’s on the brain.)  No wonder babies have a hard time keeping their heads up.  Anyway, just a funny observation.