Who would have thought I would ever encourage writing on newly painting walls with a permanent marker?! Well, I wholeheartedly endorse it! My oldest daugther, her husband and my only grandchild have been visiting from back East...so fun! Yesterday, before they flew home (so sad!), we marked little Mckinlay's height on my growth wall...no more pencil marks on the back door for me! This is just the first of many projects I want to do to make my house a fun place for my grandchildren to come. They will hopefully enjoy measuring their growth and seeing how much they have grown since the last time they were at Grandma's house.
Alongside the 1 ft thru 6 ft markings, I chose to put the saying, Nothing Grows like love & Grandchildren. I've done other growth charts where they've chosen to write their family name... The Smith Kids...Watch Us Grow! If you don't want to write on your walls you could just use this growth chart as a measurment wall. If you want something more mobile because you are in an apartment or not in your final house, you could do this chart on a long wood board or full length mirror that you mount on the wall. Then you could could easily move it to your next home.
As I mentioned before, this is the first of many projects to turn my house into a "grandchild friendly" one...especially since grandchild #2 is on it's way! My oldest son and his wife will be having a little girl about the end of October...HURRAY! So in addition to my chocolate philosophy, another one is, as one of my wood boards says...
There's no place like home, except Grandma's!
2 comments:
we wholeheartedly agree with that statement! we sure love you and miss you already!!
I love the blog! We are doing a project in my mom's basememnt and I will need 17 names and a title. I'll look at your fonts and get back to you!
Your samples are so cute!
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