Growing and growing

*Note: I tried to post this Sunday night, but there kept being errors so I waited and tried to fix the problems. Now it is working properly on my computer but not my phone - one of the photos is stretched and the videos are not showing up. So I am posting anyway, and hopefully it works okay for you!

My kiddos are getting so big. Maren grew half an inch sometime in the last month and a half. Linden is four or five pounds heavier all of a sudden, or at least it seemed like all of a sudden until we realized it had been five months since we weighed her. But they are growing up in other ways too — they are getting more capable all the time.

Maren is sounding out words and writing them a lot. One of her most recent things is using magnetic letters to write words, but since there are only two of each letter she ends up getting very creative sometimes:

This one says “bewaruvthedrknis,” or “beware of the darkness.” Not sure why she chose to write this, or where she heard it, but I love it.

Linden has started making things out of Legos. One of her favourite things to make is a hammer, and another favourite is an airplane. Sometimes she makes cars. You know which is which because of the sound she makes when she is playing with it: bang bang, whoosh, or vroom. The other day she decided to make a tower as tall as her:

She has also started drawing all kinds of pictures with sidewalk chalk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssXpC0Bssk

However, she insists that she is not growing up, and that is just fine by me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2L2x3pPj08