Jordan weighs in

A few bits of news: first, Jordan received his first piece of mail and is now officially "on the grid".

Second, he's been at home on a heavy regimen of eating and sleeping, and the result has been what the nurse somewhat vaguely termed a "3 to 5-day growth spurt" that led to him gaining 5oz over the last 2 days. He's now at 5lb 6oz, putting him at 21 oz of weight gain over the last 12 days, and he's increased in length by 2.5 inches.

I've been keeping track of all his weighings, and I felt like we had enough data to do some estimation. As you can see, there is a reasonable linear fit that can be extrapolated to his weights at the end of year 1 (18 kg = 39 lbs), year 2 (34 kg = 75 lbs), and a health 165 kg (363 lbs) by the time he turns 10.

Fig. 1: Biophysical model of Jory's weight as a function of time.