When Sha and the kids were in Kingston last week, they visited their cousins. Matthew (left) is more our second daughter's age and spent part of two summers visiting us way back when. At 6' 7" he's the tallest person in the extended family.
Danica and Jonathan have met with Rosie and Lukas (right in both pics) several times, but when they last met, Lukas wasn't quite this ... um ... elevated.
His mother is tall. I am almost 6'2" or used to be, and she has height on me, so it is fair to say that tall begets tall.
Look up JJ. ↓↓ Look way up. (Canadians of certain age will know where I got those sentences.)
Dad's dad, Grandpa Rayner, was even shorter than Dad who maxxed at 5' 4".
My grandfather Quinlan wasn't short, but I am guessing that he topped out at 5' 10". Grandmother Quinlan was another shortie.
My husband is 6'3" and I'm just under 5'3". Both our daughters are shorter than I am. Short genes were dominant in our case.
ReplyDeleteNature vs. nurture...start with genes, then feed 'em good! And boys do grow higher than most girls. I noticed your legs in your last post and said they forecast a tall man. So it goes. Glad to see there are lots of tall as well as short people. Short people do some things better, but seldom get credit. I wonder what they are.
ReplyDeleteI come from a very short family. Dad was five foot four, Mum was five foot. Us female offspring are all pretty short. The male cousins coming in mostly five foot six to five foot eight. Then the grandkids! WHOOEEE.....the grandsons are all TALL! My ex husband was five foot four, I'm five foot. Two of our grandsons (with a father not tall either) are over six foot. The third grandson is around five foot ten. My eldest daughter once dated a dairy farmer who claimed it is all the milk in the modern diets.
ReplyDeleteBUT, here's the tricky wrench in the story. We discovered my absentee grandfather was TALL. Much taller than his siblings apparently. There are often hidden bits of DNA that jump up and say "HI!"
Glad you found a new keyboard. And yes, you were a cute little boy with the visiting cats.
ReplyDeleteHeight: I had a grandma at 5' 10",. but her daughter my mother was only 5' 4". I grew up to be able to look down on her at 5' 9". I so enjoy looking at your tall family.
People grow much taller these days. I think the food we eat has made a difference.
ReplyDeleteI'm six feet tall. My younger brother is a shade taller than I am, but between us we're the tallest in the immediate family.
ReplyDeleteYou have wonderful family photos! Treasures!
ReplyDeleteI'm 5'1" but my son is about 6'. Wasn't from my side--LOL! We're all short. Tallest person in the immediate family on my side is about 5'6". I thought there was this rumor that Swedes are supposed to be tall--LOL!
ReplyDeleteMost men in my family are tall, six to six and a half feet. My oldest daughter married into a family of shorter men. When their son was a baby, he crawled over to me and pulled himself up my leg, hand over hand. His head came to my knee and he was barely 12 months. I commented he would be a tall one, and his father said, firmly, "There are no tall men in the family!" And both my daughter and I said he simply had not met the tall men, who were deceased. And, that little boy towers over his father (hahaha!), and is more than six feet.
ReplyDeleteDNA is a funny thing. My brothers were all on the tall side, but I'm shortish. One of my cousins is tall and married a tall guy and all her kids are very tall, including her daughter who is 6'4.
ReplyDeleteThose are tall people. I would think it is hard to just accept such changes in your body when those around you are not changing as fast or as much! Hope they keep their good posture.
ReplyDeleteLove these old photo. And gosh he sure is tall! I wonder if he will keep growing any more than he already has. :-)
ReplyDeleteInteresting! My youngest grandkid can now look her father in the eye. Growth patterns are fascinating.
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