Spring 2024

Our life is apparently a series of cliches: Where did the spring go? How are the kids so big? How is it summer again? At any rate, it's been a good year, and here we are.

 

Art my mother made, and crafts Helen is working on:

 

Posing for pictures on the way to chorus or swimming:

 

Easter with Grandma and Pop-pop, Grandma Judy, Cousin John, and friends:

 

Making a homemade sushi feast one night:

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Amazing field trips Helen took with Ms. Menna's class this year--to Fenway Park, the Arb, and the Harvard Natural History Museum:

 

More second grade fun: planting seeds, going to the playground across the street as a class, making ooblek, tie-dyeing, picknicking on the Boston Common, visiting the Embrace statue

 

Girls' trip to the MFA for the Korean Hallyu exhibit:

 

Family trip to the big circus at Agganis:

 

Circus classes over April school vacation week:

 

Ms. Yerin's piano recital:

 

Samantha at Clare's Level 99 birthday party and Marcus at DJ's Fogo de Chao birthday party:

 

Samantha's chair refinishing project:

 

Some of Samantha's art and fashion art:

 

Samantha's Girl Scout cooking badge--making something from another state (butter mochi), another country (scallion pancakes), another time period (17th century style hot chocolate), and a dish that makes a statement (crepes flambe)

 

Helen and Marcus's cooking projects--chocolate chip pancakes, flan, and Japanese milk bread

 

Seeing Tuck Everlasting at the Footlight Club:

 

Tour day for incoming "sixies" (7th graders, but six years until graduation) for Samantha at BLS:

 

Marcus featured in the BLS slide show:

 

...and a look back at baby-faced Marcus when he was admitted four years ago:

 

Springtime park time and bike events:

 

Wake Up the Earth with Jason, Christina, and Callie:

 

Mother's Day weekend all-you-can-eat hotpot at Happy Lamb with Jason, Callie, and George:

 

Super fun Ukranian musical "cafe" in Newton with Olga:

 

Mother's Day visit to Pop-pop and Grandma, with flower-picking and chicken-visiting:

 

Are you a supertaster? Tastebud counting experiment (with blue food coloring for visibility):

 

Marnie's retirement party:

 

Frisbee fun:

 

Fancy new boba place and skewers:

 

Chorus concert:

 

Dance recital!

 

Memorial Day with friends: first at our house, and then at Scott and Jason's

 

Putting the final touches on Helen's room (ballet bar, check!):

 

Playground time with friends:

 

The Scooperbowl (back at City Hall Plaza):

 

Celebrating when the Starliner made it to the ISS:

 

T(w)een hair experimentation:

 

Backyard smores:

 

Professional soccer game at Gillette:

 

End-of-the-year school bbq:

 

Other assorted end-of-the-schoolyear fun:

 

Juneteenth working day clearing out my parents' old apartment (which is sold! yay!). Not pictured: one final dip in the pool that afternoon.

 

Exhausted aftermath of three full vanloads of stuff to our house and four SUV-loads of stuff to Savers:

 

Ready for summer? Yes please!

 

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