Rolling back from Friday to Monday we've got this picture from dropping Brooke off at preschool. Winry was really into her hippo at the start of the week, and was taking it everywhere! She since got a bear from her secret valentine (to be revealed later). We started secret valentines last Sunday I believe, and all drew a name for someone we were going to do special things for each day, just to give a little context to that.
That night Winry found a heart of M&Ms on her chair, also from her mystery secret valentine!
On Tuesday night I went to the temple, and Monica put both girls to bed. This meant there had to be some snuggling for the girls! It also meant that Winry had to sing Brooke her bedtime songs! If you pay attention you'll hear Brooke help Winry with the words, too!
The snow storms of last week have been melting, but the weather hasn't been that warm, and so we're getting some pretty serious icicles! One of them even connects between our roofs!
Monica washed all our Norwex towels this week, and included all of our pet to dry kids towels. Once the girls saw those animal faces, they just had to take care of them! This involved singing songs and rocking them to sleep, and of course "snugga bugga"-ing them. Also, those blankets they're using are our other towels that were in the laundry.
Well that brings us to Valentine's day itself. Winry got a little messy eating her chocolate waffle that morning. Oops. Also, she just had to have her new PEZ dispenser with her, again, thanks Smiths!!
Since we went on our Valentine's date last weekend, we just stayed home that night. Monica made delicious Chicken Parmesan for dinner. We all revealed who our secret Valentine's were after dinner, the girls had so much fun with that! After, they got in their jammies and we watched Frozen 2. They were so excited for that surprise! About an hour in, Winry said she wanted to go take a nap, so we took her up to bed, but Brooke lasted for the whole movie. All in all, it was a great Valentine's!
Okay, okay, big reveal time, I was Winry's secret valentine this year. On Friday I gave her a book that I made for her! You can see all the pages below! I glued pages down inside a board book that we had two of, and wa-la, new board book. Winry has really loved it, and I've read it to her multiple times every day so far.
On Saturday Brooke got a little sad about the state of our snowman. I thought it was pretty funny. I don't know if the head fell off the ledge, or melted away, but at least something it still there.
On Saturday night, Monica went out with her friends, and after dinner I needed a little break before getting everyone ready for bed, so I turned on TOTS. While I was turning it on Brooke was saying "Wait... Dad... are we watching something? Are we watching a show? Are we going to watch TOTS? Are we actually watching this? Are you just checking something?" She was pretty excited when she found out I was leaving it on. The girls proceeded to immediately tune out everything else. They enjoyed the show, and I got my break! Also, there's Winry's new bear, too.
This morning before church we were playing nap... What do you mean that doesn't sound like a real game? Well in our house it is, or at least it was this morning. Winry went lap hopping, but unlike Goldilocks she did not find a lap that was "just right" and ended up not taking an impromptu nap. In fact, she didn't take a nap at all today.
After church, the girls really wanted to go outside and play. At first Brooke blew some bubbles while Winry ran in circles around her yelling "chase me, chase me." And so I ran in circles around Brooke as well. After a while Brooke wanted to switch to something else, and settled on chalk! The girls both had a wonderful time drawing.
It started getting cold while we were out there, so eventually we took a break to all get coats on. And a while later Winry was done drawing and went to hang out with Monica inside while she made dinner. Brooke proceeded to draw a flotilla of things she loves around a picture of herself. These things include: a flamingo, mac and cheese, mario kart, slides, puzzles, the trampoline, presents, Frozen 2, and Dobby our robot vacuum, and the pickle from Winry's cheeseburger.
After she finished, we played a little t-ball on the driveway before heading inside for dinner. We made a paper chain for the girls to shake off for the FHE lesson tonight, and the girls had a great time shaking them off. I'm pretty surprised that the chain never broke to be honest. Important note, always save your object lesson that you know will be very fun for dead last, because once they started shaking, there was no settling back down!
And with that, have a wonderful week ahead!
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