invention

Finding that she still couldn't quite swing her legs up onto the pine branch, Frances immediately set

 about creating a tree-climbing apparatus.

In the end, traditional methods proved more effective.

The ancient art of sword dancing

third grade poem video

Lego Hector

This is Lego Hector.

Eleanor is looking forward to it so much that she constructed the entire campsite.  There was no family discussion of Hector plans to precede this; she's just been counting down the days in her head all year.  

Red is volleyball net.  Green is tent area.  Brown is food pavilion.  Circle around red, yellow, and blue flames is people around firepit.  Beyond that, you'll have to ask her.

observing

 Eleanor, doing that thing she does

 Come here!  Look at this snake/spider egg sac/grasshopper that just hatched!

super pleased to have spotted these elusive yellow spittlebugs, who have left their froth on plants throughout the yard and the woods, yet managed to escape detection (until now, that is)

 

upon reading that snails are sometimes thought to have beneficial effects on the skin

composing

Frannie, doing that thing she does

and again here

and with Laurin

(and no, I have no idea what she just said)

summer inspiration

art before breakfast

portraits of each other

maybe Mayma will get to read a book this summer too