was I short as a child?

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Local news media in the Boston area lately have been saturated in NFL football. I am a non-fan, but my free association was a photo from the Patriots' training camp several years ago, when at the end of the day one of the players walked off the field to meet his toddler daughter. A great photo - that big bulky guy and the tiny child, walking side by side in harmony. I wondered briefly how it felt for her to be so small next to such a mountainous presence, and then realized that I don't remember feeling small when I was that age. I didn't have pro football player relatives, but I remember being younger than three, a point at which the adults around me would have been twice my height, and I certainly don't remember looking up, or having my eye level be at someone's waist. The only recollection I have of comparative shortness during childhood is the day my newborn sister arrived home. I would have been almost three, and I said "You forgot the baby" because I the car window was above my eye level and while I could see my mother's upper half, I couldn't see that my sister was on a pillow on my mother's lap. (that was years before the invention of infant car seats).