Saturday morning smiles

The Brynn Photo Shoot

 We took some update pictures of the kids tonight.  Brynn was quite the character!  Check out these poses...

 

 

  

Scott loves anything to do with rocks. He's been learning about Native Americans recently in school and thought he'd make his own arrowhead and arrow. He would recruit his friends and Zach to work on some, too. He found flint-type rock in the yard and chipped away at it, using the back patio to whack it on and other rocks to whittle it into shape. (It actually got sharp enough that he sliced his finger on it -- hence the bandaid.) He attached it on a stick and even trimmed a feather for the end. He was very proud!

We are chocolate chip pancake lovers (well, all except for Chris). The other morning Zach asked if he could help me. So I gave him the job of dropping in the chocolate chips. He started and I walked away to help Brynn -- gone for less than 30 seconds. When I came back, I expected to see all the pancakes chocolated up and ready to flip. Instead, I saw this.... (you can guess who requested this pancake after it was done).

After dinner dancing is a common occurence in the Romney home and we have oodles of pictures and videos of it over the years. It's just too cute not to document. (Again and again and again.) At some point I think it would be fun to show the kids' growth just through the dancing videos! Here are a few recent additions.

It's become a Valentine tradition that Chris and will attach little Valentine surprises to long red ribbons, creating a network of strings throughout the house. They have to find their heart and follow the string to find their hidden Valentine. We make it like to make it tricky.



And my little Valentine Z cleaned up all the mess!

Once There Was a Snowman...

One of Brynn's favorite songs currently is "Once There Was a Snowman". And since we haven't had very much snow this winter (which is fine by me, by the way), when it snowed a couple of weeks ago and wasn't bitter cold, I seized the oppotunity to make a snowman with the Zach and Brynn so she could see a real, live snowman. She didn't enjoy being cold and didn't last very long, so Z and I worked as fast as we could! She liked looking at the window, once we were warm inside, to check on him, though, and thought it was pretty great.

When Scott and Tessa walked home from school that day, they were inspired to build and added a couple more snowmen to the front yard. They worked really hard since the snow was pretty icy!

It was so warm that 24 hours later, they really had "melted small, small, small". The last of the bottom chunks are still in our yard, now covered with a new layer of great packing snow from last night. ; )