Friday, July 3, 2015

London House

Would you like a tour of our house in London?  Here is out street: 


And here's our front door


Upon entering, you start to see the vertical nature of the house and also that we might need a new shoe system... 


On this floor there is a formal living room


With a piano!!  Of course we didn't bring any of Noah's piano music, assuming there would be no way we'd end up with a piano.  I'll pick up the music when I am back in Boston for work in a few weeks.


Up 1/2 flight of stairs there is a bathroom


Up some more stairs to the bedrooms... 


kids bedroom with bunk beds and our kids mess already all over the floor


And also the master bedroom with big windows over the street.  There is no air conditioning so we usually have the windows open, so we can hear the street pretty well.  It's a relatively quiet street, the street noise actually reminds me of our apartment on Florence street in Somerville, just the people talking on the street have British accents.


Now up another set of stairs


To an office


And another bedroom


The view from the third floor is pretty spectacular (and also pretty London-y)


Ok let's head aaaaaall they way down the stairs (three flights)


To the kitchen (plus laundry!)


And the family room with a glass wall that opens up to the back patio.  Also this room is stocked with preschool toys (hooray!!).


In the back garden there is a little playhouse full of plastic & wooden food and cooking utensils


I think the kids are starting to feel reasonably well at home. :)


Thursday, July 2, 2015

Arrival in London

So we made it!  After cutting it way too close with our flight and leaving one of our bags at the airport (seriously!?) and being  stuck outside the rental house in the rain, we still managed to arrive in reasonably good spirits and here we are.  We explored the house and the neighborhood and found the grocery store and a really cool playground.


And then went to dinner and had the best Indian food I have ever eaten by a wide margin.  Eva fell asleep as soon as we sat down for dinner and was seriously out for the count. We carried her home and by that time Noah was also weeping with exhaustion.  Bedtime was easy. :)


The trip had some challenges, in the way that trips do.  The kids were fantastic and the grown-ups were pretty good sports too.  We had a great day, and it's going to be a great summer.

Monday, June 1, 2015

Recital painting

Yesterday Eva had her first ballet recital.


It was great, actually a pretty impressive production, and Eva and her class were totally adorable.  I have pictures on the big camera but no time so those will get posted later.

In the meantime please enjoy the painting Eva made today of her and her best friend Natalie (who was in a different recital, but in the same dress)


I love this picture.  I love how there is one big dress split into two girls (each with a rose), how she carefully painted the red straps and used marker to draw Natalie's hair bow, how the background is bright blue, how she wrote "love ballet" in tiny pencil letters.

Also, may I draw your attention to the rose detail?


This girl, her pictures blow me away.

Monday, May 25, 2015

Noah's first transcription

This evening Noah sounded out Mary Had a Little Lamb in order to write it down.


Some of the numbers may be written backwards but other than that I think he got it totally right!

Also it was neat because he was finished practicing and I had already left the room and he just decided to do it on his own :)

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Recent Eva Art

Nighttime scene:

(The speech balloon says "snore snore")

(It's not photographed backward, she just stuck her name on that way)


Nature scene:

(The text says "love ants" and wow, those are certainly ants)

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Pteranodon

Noah brought a book home from the library about Pteranadons.  Eva drew a picture.


Her Pteranadon is amazingly similar to the picture, huh?


(Also below are waves and fish for the Pteranadon to eat)

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Jumping

"these are two girls dressed as princesses for halloween and their little brother dressed up as a cat and they are all jumping on the couch"


And look, that really is the couch, complete with an arm on each side.