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Too Little


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Published July 17, 2009 @ 17:31 by Tania in Amazing Kids

Daughter is tiny. At 38 inches, and 31 pounds, she is small for a 3 1/2 year old.

Daughter is too small to trigger automatic doors. Seriously. When she approaches one, it just doesn't open. This happens at grocery stores, Walmart and arenas. It is almost sad watching her approach, hoping that the door will open for her to enter. And when it doesn't open for her, she looks around as if to ask, "what am I doing wrong? Whenever anyone else walks up, it opens for them. What is wrong with me?"

I am not sure of the height or weight trigger set point to get the doors to open. But it is hard to believe that she doesn't register.

She is smart and outgoing and can do almost anything, except open a silly door. Daughter has fallen hard for those buttons that open the doors automatically, and who can blame her?

Every time I see her run up to a building, eager to be the first one inside, I feel sad for her. Some day she will be big enough - I just hope that it is soon.


Gen
July 17, 2009 / 20:39

She is not too tiny at all! I've been telling my 3 1/2 year old not to get any bigger...I wish she was still so tiny that I could cuddle her in one arm. Her response to me is "Fine, I'll stop eating and drinking and sleeping then. That way I won't grow". Guess I'll have to accept her growing!


auntie y
July 18, 2009 / 22:54

it will be really cute to see her in a car seat until she's 8:)


grace
July 19, 2009 / 21:27

It's height. I'm just over 4'10" and many don't work for me either. It's sort of humiliating to be nearly 55 and need to exit the grocery store with a grown up . . .


Tania
July 20, 2009 / 10:24

Height? I had no idea! Actually, now that you mention it, Son Two sometimes doesn't trigger it either... Thanks for the information! Remember when they used to be those pads that you stepped on to open the door?


Tania
July 20, 2009 / 10:25

She is already crying to be in a booster, like her big brothers. Son One is currently trying to eat his way out of a booster before his 8th birthday... something that we are not encouraging.


Tania
July 20, 2009 / 10:31

They do grow up too fast. She still seems so tiny! I can easily pick her up and carry her around. Then I see her sleeping and she looks like she is growing and getting so tall - loosing the baby and preschooler look and becoming such a girl.


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