Fresh summer cuts and blue tongues to match.
Hair and Tongue
April 30th, 2012Mondays and Fridays
April 29th, 2012
Mondays and Fridays just Charley and I are together until we pick up Flora after school. He likes to spend those days watching Spiderman, eating pizza lunches, and hitting up a bakery for a treat.
The Brookline Bochmans
April 28th, 2012
The kids had a pizza dinner and brownie ice cream dessert with friends at their new Brookline apartment. Pictured on the couch are: Dominique, Emily (a neighbor), Charley, Flora and Rusty, and Max. Flora and Dom had a great time just being silly, and Charley and Max entertained us all with a wrestling match.
Earth Day
April 27th, 2012
Flora’s Kindergarten class put on an Earth Day Show for the parents. They sang songs about Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling, and displayed their Help-The-Earth inventions made entirely from recycled/reused materials. Flora’s invention is “The Baginator,” a truck with sticky claws to pull down plastic bags from trees and then re-use the bags to power the truck. Her tip for helping the earth was “riding her bicycle to school.” Each child was given a certificate for picking up trash around the school grounds.
Shot
April 25th, 2012
I wondered why he was so quiet! After a morning play date and lunch, Charley passed out on the couch in front of the TV, mid-episode.
April in New England, Really
April 21st, 2012
April Vacation
April 16th, 2012
Another vacation week, God help me :) This time, I signed Flora up for three art workshops at the Creative Arts School in Reading. Monday was Fashion Figures where Flora learned proper proportion, shading, and designed an outfit. Wednesday was Turning Trash Into Treasures where Flora created a sculpture from found materials. And Friday was Fun With Felt where Flora created a “sculpture” from fabric. On Tuesday, Flora and I went out for a Sushi lunch and pedicures, and on Thursday, Marty took Flora to work for Take-Your-Sons-And-Daughters-To-Work-Day where Flora sat in a meeting, prepared a presentation with friend Isabelle, was entertained by a balloon guy, had lunch in the cafeteria, skipped out of the office early to visit the Boston Children’s Museum, and had dinner at the Barking Crab. She was exhausted!
Unseasonably Warm
April 14th, 2012
First Slush off the season: Blue Vanilla and Rootbeer.
Hill Rolling.
Giant Red Tulips.
More Hill Rolling.
Art Show
April 12th, 2012
Charley’s two pieces in his school’s art show: a skeleton sculpture and a rainbow finger painting on tin foil, as well as his group project sculpture made with recyclable materials: a tree. The whole school was entertained by Mister Vic, and got to play drums.
Easter 2012
April 8th, 2012
We started our Easter with an egg and basket hunt in the house (Flora’s basket was under the nesting tables, Charley’s behind a chair), an egg and French Toast breakfast (berries and whipped cream included), mod podging paper eggs (does anyone really eat dyed eggs?), and finally getting dressed in our Easter duds for some silly pictures at our chalkboard wall.
Alice
April 7th, 2012
We joined friend Alice for a tour of her summer camp, Camp Christopher, as well as a lunch pit-stop at Polcari’s.
Play Date
April 2nd, 2012
Flora’s friend from school, Charlotte, came over for a play date. Silliness ensued.
Easter Egg Hunt
March 31st, 2012
We started celebrating Easter a week early with an egg and candy hunt at our neighborhood playground. We ran into lots of friends and the kids found, and later ate, way too much candy.
View Flora and Charley’s “Playground Easter Egg Hunt” photos
Spring is Sprunging
March 28th, 2012
The Mouths of Babes
March 27th, 2012“Squidward is an octopus … and Spongebob is a cheese.” —Charley Hergert
Finn the Rocker
March 20th, 2012
Finn always reclines like this at the top of the stairs — he was just missing an appropriate prop.
[New] Rug Rats
March 20th, 2012
Kiss us, we’re Irish…
March 17th, 2012
Hairs Cut
March 16th, 2012
My Dad used to say, “Are you getting a haircut, or all your hairs cut?” Charley doesn’t care either way — he just loves to have his head and hair touched!
Pal
March 15th, 2012
Charley and his pal, Madison, who he happily ran into at the playground.
The Lorax
March 14th, 2012
Both kids gave The Lorax a two-thumbs-up!
Pru Trip
March 12th, 2012
Waitin’ for the train.
Tickets, please.
Headin’ to The Pru.
Noodles at Wagamama.
Fro Yo at Pinkberry.
Headin’ home and happy.
Breakfast of Champions
March 8th, 2012
Bestest
March 7th, 2012
Charley and his bestest girl, Elsie, take the plunge together at a friend’s birthday party.