Your Amazing Body!

Your Amazing Body！

You have an amazing body! Just think about it. There was a lot you couldn't do when you were a baby! But now you acan do so many things! Let's take a look at how your amazing body grows.

Your bones hold you up. They give your body its shape. Without them, you would fall over like a floppy doll! They also protect the inside of your body. Your bones get bigger ad you grow.

When you were born, you had about 350 bones. As you get older, many of your bones will grow together to from larger bones. You will end up with about 206 bones when you become an adult.

How tall will you be as an adult? That will depend on how tall the people in your family are. It will also depend on the food you eat. Do you know how tall you are now? When you go to the doctor for a check-up, she takes your height measurement.

As you get older your teeth grow and change. You had no teeth at all when you were born. When you were about six months old, your first teeth began to show. These were your baby teeth. When you were two years old, you had about twenty baby teeth.