I always imagined tallying my kids’ height milestones on a doorframe or wall in the one house where their childhood would play out. But, like so many young families, we’ve spent time in several temporary houses where I knew the door frames weren’t coming with us. Queen Martha of course had the solution with this sweet little modern looking portable growth chart. You can pack it up and move it and it doesn’t look like a preschool classroom decoration! Start by buying a big wooden closet rod/dowel rod from a home improvement store. We started with a 4 footer, mostly for portability ease, and that got us through 7 years. My oldest just reached the top of our stick so I will need to attach a second rod in the near future. You can paint or stain the dowel like Martha did, or leave it raw like I did here. Choose one paint color per child, hopefully colors that will coordinate with your house so it can hang out. I used aqua and orange, colors I knew would stick with us for a while…and colors I happened to have on hand. But how cute would B + W be???I try to mark heights at each birthday but often forget until months later. The great thing about this process is that it lends itself well to randomness. Ours doubles as a pretend boat oar, firehouse pole, and jumping obstacle. And occasionally as a giant sword – consider yourself warned! Happy weekend and thanks for reading!