WordPress’s automated permalink creator tells me that this is the fourth time I’ve titled a post “growth.” I suppose the real surprise is that, given the fact that we have two kids, I haven’t used that title more often. It’s a constant refrain in the house, among friends and family, even acquaintances.

“How she’s grown!”

“How he’s grown!”

Still, for K and me, that growth is gradual. Parents get used to seeing their children daily and the incremental changes disappear into the blur of everyday reality until we suddenly see something that shows, pointedly, how much a child has grown.

Like stumbling on an old picture.

At six months, he spills out of the chair he barely fit into at six days.