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Thu, Apr 5 2007

oh, the agony of the feet…

Around my seventh month of pregnancy, my doctor got a very good picture of my son’s feet on the sonogram. He started to laugh, when he measured them.

You see, my unborn son had feet whose length were just a centimeter shy of the diameter of a tennis ball. Those unborn feet were murder on my ribcage: they liked to dig in and hang out there, used my various organs for a workout, and knocked the stuffing out of me on a regular basis.

You know how mothers coo over tiny socks and itty bitty baby toes? Well, my kid’s feet were no mere amuse bouche. His toes were definitely a Happy Meal.

He teeters on the verge of double wide feet; when he was a toddler, they were almost as wide as they were long. Course, with that much square inch-age on the ground, he was stable as a rock when it came to walking and running. Now, he falls down on purpose.

All of this to say, I laughed out loud when I read this comic yesterday, and I hope the author of Speedbump will let me print it here with full props and a link back to the site:

Speedbump by Dave Coverly, April 4, 2007Speedbump by Dave Coverly, April 4, 2007

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  1. By Lil Duck Duck

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  2. By Christina

    it was incredible. I so missed out on the itty bitty baby toes. WAAH!

  3. By Mama Duck

    Ha ha ha, my little guy’s feet are not quite that big but they sure felt like it!