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Friday, 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.
View Flora’s “Earth Day” photos
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Monday, 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!
View Flora’s “April Vacation” photos
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Thursday, 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.
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
…”I would have glasses. I would have a wheelchair. I have gray hair and I would have dark eyes.” —Flora
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
My favorite Christmas present, made by Amma.
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Consider yourself lucky if you got one of these Flora-made ornaments for Christmas. She drew all the designs on with pencil first with the recipient in mind, carefully chose her colors to paint, and added glitter glue and glitter to finish the look.
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Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Charley’s chalkboard sketch — note “spooky guy” in lower right corner.
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Charley’s skeleton and bat.
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
We had to put some of our records away because the cats were using them as a scratching post. I was fretting about what we could put in their place, but Charley found a good use for the empty cubby!
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
“Buh Buh, Uh Uh, Guh Guh … Bah-Ugh … Buhg … BUG!” Flora has started to read! After working on identifying all the big and little letters and their sounds, she is now working on sounding out words in books … and on signs … and everywhere! The rhyming Dr. Suess books like Hop on Pop and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish are great beginner books because of the repetition of common sounds (like “op” and “ad”), so we are reading those every night. Flora can also write all of her big letters, most of her little letters, and lots of numbers.
And Charley has been whipping out all kinds of words these days! He is speaking in short sentences and repeats everything. He’s even been identifying colors, some letters, and all kinds of objects. But I love that he still has “Charley words” for some things, like “guy-guy” for hair pomade.
I’m in no hurry for either of them to grow up too soon!
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Shortly after Charley was born, we took the kids to Salem Willows Park in Salem, MA. I took our now-lost Canon Digital Elph to take pics, but after just a short while the battery died. Recently someone from Northshore Life Magazine contacted us via flickr to use one of the photos I took of the vintage carousel for their Summer 2010 article on Salem … and here it is!
View Flora and Charley’s “Salem Willow Park” photos
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Complete with flying jelly fish.
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Flora loves to depict me how she wishes I actually were: long dresses, red lipstick, lots of accessories — instead of how I usually am: sweatpants, no makeup, and accessory-less!
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
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