Fresh summer cuts and blue tongues to match.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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!

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First Slush off the season: Blue Vanilla and Rootbeer.

Hill Rolling.

Giant Red Tulips.

More Hill Rolling.

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.