SteelyKid is a great big baby. By which I mean, she's large for her age. We keep running into other parents whose kids are about the same size as her, but a year or more older.
Every now and then, though, she does something to remind us that she's still got a lot of growing to do, such as trying on my house slippers:
For her sake, I hope those slippers never fit her...
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