25 February 2022

Bobo: What's for dinner?

Mr. Brown: Slugs.

Bobo: Again?

24 February 2022

I love how Rosebud has just decided that now she can write, and she does.  On this piece of paper she is listing our family's names.  She writes all the time, and is not afraid to attempt spelling.

The boys came down dressed the same (blue shirt, black pants) on Monday morning, and sat down to play video games together.  Twinkies!

23 February 2022

Nut Brown brought this drawing of an elbow that he did home to me last week.  White colored pencil on black paper.

17 February 2022

Bobo built a Minecraft sword out of sugar cubes.  Here he is pretending to lift it off the table.

15 February 2022

Valentine's Day is not a day of extraordinary celebration at our house, but with two elementary school kids there was a bit more preparation for it.  Both of them had to make a Valentine's box and bring valentines for their classmates.

Rosebud took a shoebox that Rose Pink decorated for her, and she opted for folded boxes with a couple pieces of candy inside.  (she used some of her Halloween candy and then I gave her some leftover Christmas candy for the rest)  She decorated the boxes, and I cut them out and creased the folds, and then she filled them and folded them up.  She was very pleased that she could do that by herself.

Bobo also made up valentines for his class (all 25 members - such a big class!)  He chose a hedgehog stamp and incorporated three of his favorite things: Minecraft, Star Wars and sharing information with others.

He was lukewarm about making a box, so Mr. Brown and I made a paper mache volcano for him.  Rose Pink helped with the painting and the clouds. 

He said it was the best one in the class.

Our ward had a family dance for Valentine's Day on the previous Saturday.  Here is Rose Pink competing in the limbo contest (in three-inch heels!).  She was one of the last contestants, too!  I wish I had gotten a better picture of her in her dress.  She was wearing a formal with silver heels and she looked fantastic.

Here is Rosebud helping blow up balloons ahead of time to help decorate.

On Valentine's Day morning, the kids woke up to yarn trails that led from their bedside to a small heart box of chocolates.  The yarn goes all over the house.  I love strewing it all over the night before.  They ate those for breakfast, and then we hurried out the door for elementary school with Valentine's boxes and bags of cards and forgot Rosebud's backpack.  For dinner, Mr. Brown made borsch (because it is valentine's colors) and heart-shaped chicken nuggets.  Happy day of love!

10 February 2022

Bobo is doing a poetry unit at school and he brought home the following:

For one of the acronym poems he wrote that he was "Annoying" and when I asked him about it, he said that's what people always told him at school.  He is not having as much fun at school this year as he did last year.

9 February 2022

Rosebud gave her first talk in Primary on Sunday.  She wrote it herself - literally wrote it on the piece of paper on her own.  (She spelled obedient as "obeedeeinte") I helped her add some clarifying sentences at the beginning and then she was ready to go.  She practiced it a lot - this photo is of her reading it to her siblings on the couch on Saturday.  On Sunday she got up when called and gave it like a pro.  Super great to see!

7 February 2022

We got a cold snap and a bit of snow and ice!  The kids were all very excited by it and spent as much time outside with it as possible.  

Bobo in particular was entranced with it and went in and out and in and out to be with the frozen water.  We wouldn't let him slide on the ice because of his broken leg, but he spent a lot of time playing with it in other ways.  Rose Pink and Nut Brown took Rosebud sledding down a small hill on a piece of cardboard, and had a lot of fun.  The kids loved the snow!  Fortunately there was no threat of power/water loss like last year.

        

4 February 2022

Yesterday was Hedgehog Day at the Brown house.  We are in the middle of an ice storm so we couldn't get out to buy doughnut holes to make into hedgehogs, so Mr. Brown and I made doughnut holes out of paczki dough and fried them up and rolled them in sugar and called it good.  The kids enjoyed them and there were a few left over this morning for breakfast!  Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures.

2 January 2022

Here is a note that Rosebud spontaneously produced for me.  If you read it where 'c' makes a hard 'k' sound, and if you know that she left it on my desk with a paper snake that had been torn, you can see that it's a request to fix her snake.  I think this is the first time that she's written something to convey a message.  It's so fun to see her learning and getting more comfortable with the written word.