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Lucy’s 3yr Check Up

30 Nov 2012

This post is long over due! I like to do an update post every birthday / Dr. Visit.

We had perfect check up with Dr. Ernster, back on 10/31.
Lucy was 32.5 lbs. (about 75%)
and 37 inches which is totally average.
Dr. Ernster made her promise to eat more vegetables.
He warned her never to cut her own hair, and she almost cried.
She got a flue shot and didn’t cry (only said, “OW!” – she can be tough that way).


This is one of her favorite shirts, which I got her for her birthday.
She is a size 3T, and her shoes are about a 9. Don’t get me started on her and shoes. It’s shoe-crazytown around here.


Her first artwork, brought home from school, ever!


Motor skills, check!


Kiera let Lucy decorate some cookies. No big deal, no giant effort. I think that’s priceless.


This was today’s classroom project.. All I can say is better ‘there’ than ‘here’!


Dominic has competition nowadays. I’m totally just kidding of course. But Lucy and Finnegan really like hanging out. Today, the two boys were literally jockeying for position. Long story short, it’s no big deal at all, but I loved Mark’s quote best of all,
“This doesn’t bode well”.

CAS Day At Clarendon

13 May 2011


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CAS is Community Arts & Sciences Day. It was a extremely well organized day, run by parent volunteers. I volunteered to be an escort, so I chaperoned a group of 6 kids to different workshops.


First we did a session called “insects” (my favorite, first thing in the am).


Not pictured: a hissing cockroach. Not kidding.

Next our schedule sent us to “Silly Putty” – run by Lucas & Rachel’s dad Robin!

Next was a fun flash mob of dancing, led by the Italian teacher, Barbara

Some older kids were doing fencing, which looked fantastic!


This was an arts ‘n’ crafts workshop, making “Eco Friendly Pins”.
With more than half the stuff made in China, I kept my critical
comments to myself, and enjoyed helping Oscar.


The last scheduled workshop was on the upper yard, with the SF fire dept. I secretly wished we had gotten assigned something that Oscar didn’t know so much about already. But it ended up being hilarious, because Oscar was the know-it-all who answered every question (correctly) and told at least 10 stories. A firefighter in the making.


Last was the Egg Drop, which was great to see. Oscar didn’t make an egg package, but maybe now that he knows the deal, he’ll be excited for one next year.

Room 5 Quilt

14 Apr 2011

Its done! Amanda has done a terrific job. We’ll be auctioning this beauty off to raise money for Clarendon. If you want to take the quilt home it might cost you – but you won’t know, unless you come to the Clarendon Auction this Saturday night! And if you’d like a last minute raffle ticket – let me know!

Here’s the way the kids contributed to their quilt:
We started by asking them to draw a tree. Amanda, our art teacher Ellen, and I all agreed that ‘nature’ might be a good theme for the quilt. Beyond the tree, the kids were invited to add other fun natural elements.
The line drawings were done in pencil, on canvas that I taped to cardboard at the suggestion of Ellen. That was genius because then the kids had a flat surface that was easy to work with. Then Amanda and I traced the drawings in Sharpie.

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In Room 5’s art class, Ellen provided us with some terrific fabric crayons that the kids used to color in their drawings. We limited their color palate in the name area, to attempt a more cohesive look, but also to give them a parameter they had to work within.

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After this step, I removed all the tape and ironed the squares so that the heat would lock the color in to the fabric.

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Finally, Amanda took home all of the squares (22!) and began sewing the quilt. She sourced the fabric, cut, battened and sewed it all together. I’ve made a quilt before, with the help of my mom, and let me tell you it is not easy! I think she rocked it:

(front and back)

So come to the auction and bid on this baby!
What a wonderful keepsake of the kid’s first year of school.

Van Gogh’s Bedroom

23 Feb 2011

Oscar’s kindergarten class studied Vincent Van Gogh last fall.
This little work of art came home at least two months ago, in the backpack, but I am just posting it now. I don’t know how Ellen (the art teacher) had the students go about painting the rooms. I can make an educated guess that they weren’t supposed to copy the room outright. I’ll try and ask her about the process tomorrow.

And, just in case you want to reference the real thing:

The Bedroom (French: La Chambre à coucher)

Recent Artwork by Oscar

07 Jan 2011

Above, this is titled “Winter Solstice”. He did this in Ms. Ruth’s class, during Art.

Above, titled “Jail”, Oscar demonstrates his preferred medium, pen and violence on paper.

Drawn entirely by Oscar, with me telling where to put each line. We used a toy king figurine for a model. Oscar decided on the cross decorations himself. This was a homework assignment on the letter K.

Above, drawn by Chief, with unknown amount of input by Oscar. Much loved by Oscar – infact it’s his favorite work in the whole house. They did this together during the Christmas Sleepover. The model used was a real toy model of an X-wing, a gift from the Mollards. Thanks Chief for putting that one together!

Oscar’s House – First Homework

23 Sep 2010

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By Oscar, Age 5

The homework assignment is to learn your address, and draw your house, numbers included.
I definitely helped him (!) But the drawing is 100% his own. I showed him where to put lines, but I never touched the pencil! We used a picture of the house that Mark pulled up on his iPhone.
We’ve been seeing so much more willingness to draw since Kindergarten started (a huge relief to me!). After I scanned the picture, he colored it and let’s just say it lost a bit of it’s genius. But I had a feeling it would – that’s why I scanned it first! ha.