Author Archives: Vale

Prayers For Pam

07 Oct 2012

Our Aunt Pam is battling cancer. Please pray for her, or send a hopeful thought her way.

And Pam, Oscar and Lucy have a quick message for you:

LOVE and Hugs!!

Laurel Hill Is Great

05 Oct 2012

Click to see larger. Shot on my back with my iPhone.

What’s not to love!?

Lucy has made some sweet little friends. We’re going to have a playdate this weekend with Vicky.
Here’s the two of them, matching like BFFs:

I had a “buzz” with Lucy’s teacher Kaile, and all is well. “She made the transition to pre-school really fast!” We’re encouraged to promote independence by having Lucy do more little things on her own, especially re: potty training.

I asked about Lucy’s major new friendship with a Pre-K boy, Domenic. Everyone seems to think it’s going well. If there was anything off, then I trust Kaile and Maria and Any One Of The Awesome Teachers would tell me. So I’m really happy – he’s a sweetheart.

Here’s Domenic, Giulia and Koko with Lucy on Bike Deck

And P.S.

One More Birthday Event For Oscar

28 Sep 2012

In Oscar’s class, they celebrate all the birthdays for the month on the last Friday.


I baked some XL chocolate chip cookies. Kiera hooked me up with the deluxe packaging (thanks!!). I used some old green paper that I had left over from Christmas cards three years ago. I thought it struck a nice balance between snazzy and homespun. Mark said: “Dude, they’re 2nd graders. They won’t care”


That’s Oscar’s teacher Prudence, and Natalie. Her birthday was Sept. 6th.
(I was kicking myself that I didn’t figure things out… I should have written Happy Birthday Oscar & Natalie! Oh well, mental note for next year.)


The class sings Happy Birthday 3 times.


The first one is in English, the second in Italian, the third is “silly”. You can click this to see it larger.


Oscar probably enjoyed passing out the cookies even more than eating them.


See all those girls on the left? I Love them. I should have tried for a better pic of them, but time was flying, and I’m lucky to have got what I got!


I’m so proud of my son! Seven!


I think he has great classmates.


It was a quick peek into the school day that I don’t often get to see. They’re all such great kids, I wish I had time to hangout with them more!