Big Boy, Little Piddy

Ernie at 10 months

Total strangers seem to feel the need to tell me that Perrin is going to be huge.  "Wait until he grows to be 200 pounds," they say.  Perrin is a big boy compared to when he was a baby, but he still weighs less than 25 pounds at two years of age.

Perrin is not a potbelly pig.  Perrin's parents are registered micro mini juliani pigs, which are much, much smaller than potbelly pigs.  Your typical potbelly can weigh up to 200 pounds (which is still smaller than a regular pig).  Ernie (pictured above) was a potbelly.  He probably weighed 25 pounds at 4 months.  Perrin weighed 7 pounds at 4 months of age.

Perrin is started to get offended when people say he is going to get to be 200 pounds, which on his frame is calling him fat.  Telling me that Perrin will be fat is like saying to a mother of a toddler, "Wait until your baby boy has man boobs."  One would never say that!