Growing Up, Up, Up

The kids are growing up fast. We measured them over the holidays and they had grown an inch from when we previous marked their height two months earlier. Not only that but their vocabulary grows by leaps and bounds every week. They diligently conjugate their verbs and try to match the correct pronouns with their antecedent. Singing the ABC song is no longer satisfactory, they perpetually ask what words the letters spell whenever they see them in their quest to learn the alphabet. They know most of the letters and can recite words that begin with each letter...when they feel like it. Becoming two introduces an independence streak. They only want to do things when *they* want to. Kind of like our cat. Maybe they hang out together too much.

All in all I'm in awe of what kids go through bootstrapping themselves into the world. We all go through it, but watching it from the outside sure is enlightening.

As for the physically getting taller part...we have to remember their gene pool and they are rapidly gaining on Kellie's height so I suspect the inch every two months isn't going to continue. ;-)