Unfiltered Story #314724

I volunteer with allot of kids, and for a few of them I’ve been made a godfather or honorary uncle. We use to do special events on occasion where all the kids I had a close relationship with were invited to attend some fun activity with me so the parents and kids could get to know each other.

As it happens most of the kids I have regular contact with are freakishly huge for their ages, as in most are in the 90th percentile for height, for instance my older goddaughter is in the 90th percentile, but her not-so-little sister is in the 99.5 percentile meaning the two are regularly mistaken for twins despite a nearly 2 year age difference.

The one set of children that break this trend are my honorary niece and her younger brother, who are both completely average height. This led to the following complaint one day when we were at a fair.

Niece: “it’s no fair, all my family are bigger then me!”
Me: “no they aren’t, you’re bigger then [baby brother]”
Niece: “but everyone else is bigger.”
Me: “Like who?”
Niece: “you and [my ‘nephew’ (not her brother)] and [my goddaughter] and [the younger goddaughter].”
Me: “okay those kids are bigger, but only because their oddly tall. you’re normal size and perfect just the way you are!”

I made sure to reassure her that she was perfect the way she was, but I admit deep down I was grinning. It made me super happy that she liked all the other kids I’d introduced her to enough to think of them all as part of her family.

A few years later and my niece’s mother has been made an honorary Aunt to my ‘nephew’ she complained was taller then her. When I’m visiting the kids are usually too busy playing with me to do it, but I’m told when the kids meet up for playdates without me they regularly get into debates that amount to “I’m older”, “but I’m taller”.

Personally I love all the kids in my extended ‘family’ regardless of their height.