Jack's Homework

Clever assignment by his First Grade Teacher.  He had to create 10 math problems for one of his parents to solve.  So he created a test for his Dad and the answer key.  Gary passed...whew!  Can you?  :)

Princess Bronwyn

Serving a little creativity with Pasta tonight.

Puppet Theater

It might mean your child is a bit creative if you come home to find he built a puppet theater all by himself..including puppets! 

 He is working on his story...  Stay tuned!

Bronwyn Put the B in Bounce

Helping to roll up the bouncy house or hindering?  You guess!

Bouncy houses in February!  Washing toy cars and cleaning the garage.  Oh do promise me these are signs of Spring!

Just 200+ Days to Go

But that isn't stopping Bronwyn from thinking up her Birthday wish list.  I'd say she takes after her mother and is a Type A Crazy Planner if it wasn't for the abundance of evidence that says she just hasn't quite grasped time yet.  Case in point...an example from this morning:

Gary: Bronwyn are you ready for breakfast?

Bronwyn:  I told you I'm not eating this week!  I won't be hungry until tomorrow!

Back to her birthday list.  Today she spontaneously shared her wishes with us.

1.  A robot.

2.  A family of dolls that look just like mom, dad, jack and herself.

3.  A toy dog with a button that when pushed causes the dog to bounce down the stairs.  The dog must be large enough that she can ride on its back while it bounds down the stairs.

Good thing we have over 200 days...may take a while to find these ;)

Lessons from Legos

Thanks to Disney Lego, Bronwyn is becoming as much a fan of the small bricks as her big brother.  Together they built a princess village only to have Emmett from The Lego Movie and Bad Cop invade it!!!

This morning Bronwyn was fighting with Jack over which Lego man she was to be.  Who knew life lessons could be imparted through Lego play. 

Bronwyn: "I don't want him.  He's yellow!"
 
Jack: "Don't judge people by the colour of their skin, Bronwyn.  It doesn't really matter they deserve to be treated equally."
 
Bronwyn: "But he looks tired!"
 
Jack: "Just because he is yellow doesn't mean he is tired.  It's illegal to discriminate."

 HAHAHAHA!!!  Good for Jack.  Much better than teaching her how to burp on command.  Well done, big brother ;)

 

Cinderella's castle and Rapunzel's Tower.  So Stinkin' Cute!!!

The yellow guy in question...

Rare moments of peaceful play.  Thank you Legos ;)

 

Happy Valentine Day

Lego men are yellow

Creepers are green,

I Love You--I want to scream!

Forever be mine,

I'll forever be yours

people in Minecraft call sticks ores!

- Jack (1st grade)

 

 

Bronwyn made us all homemade Valentine with Nanna

Trying not to read anything into this gift...Nanna and Bronwyn made me a wine sleeve....

No deliveries due to the snow...so my loving husband ran out to ensure his girls had flowers.  Mine!

For Daddy's little Princess!

For Dad we made homemade cards.  Step One: Cut out border!

Step #2: with blue or gray markers, draw your secret love message.  Bronwyn drew Daddy and her (they are both wearing shade, fyi...under the sun!

Step 3: Conceal secret message with red, pink and orange scribbles.  We learned scribbles alone don't work as well as if you write messages on top of your secret love note :)

Step 4: Glue heart onto border and use secret decoder heart to read love message. 

We made the decorder by taping red celephane to a cut out heart.  VOILA!

 

Winterpalooza 2014

What can shut Atlanta down for three days? Cause Gary to eat brown eggs? And have Bronwyn convinced Queen Elsa (Ice Queen) is in the backyard?

 

SNOW!!!

 



First flakes fell Tuesday...




Took until Thursday for the ice to stop and a Winter Wonderland to be created!





How long until front yard covered with foot prints? 

Not long at all!  This snow was perfect for snowballs as Bronwyn quickly figured out.  Girls got an arm on her!!!

 

WHEEEEE!!!!!!



DOUBLE WHEEEEEEEEE!
 



My Snow Bunnies!

Snow days are best spent with friends...




and yummy hot chocolate!

Pax 2014

Jack is getting ready for the ice storm.  Caught him in his room building light circuits as he was concerned he didn't have enough flashlights.

Frozen Obsession Continues

Mark this date.  Go ahead...take a screen shot, get a pen, commit it to long-term memory.  Today I'm calling Bronwyn's first bonafide obsession.

Disney's Frozen (the movie)

The evidence?

1.  Day 37 Elsa Pajamas
Its been washed, don't scrunch your face like that!

2. Can list all Frozen hairstyles with corresponding song and dress.  Has attempted to duplicate all!  

3.  Creates Frozen Mashups in her sleep.  
She has separate voices for Anna and Elsa.  Good grief.

4. Believes 'the cold never bothered me anyway'
Day 57 of jacket boycott

5.  Shoves tissues up her sleeve to spontaneously shoot snow from hands
Went through an entire tissue box in 4 minutes...like some sort of princess-crazed spider man!

6.  Knows how to spell Anna and Elsa but she is unable to spell Bronwyn!

7.  Has planned her Frozen birthday party (for September.........) 

8.  Sleeps in her Anna costume...when Elsa pajamas are in the wash ;)

9.  For show and tell--she brought in a photo of her family with Anna and Elsa drawn in the background. 

10. Spontaneously burst into song, 'Let it go' at least 8082 times a day ;)