Birthday part 2

Happy Birthday to me!

We had the cake on the roof A few more pics here

meanwhile, at home ..Mother's day

Maya made me a tie -dye T-shirt, got me some nice earrings at the garden sale and I got a TV trivia fun book too - plus goodies from Victor
And when I came home, I found an e-mail from Ava and a phone call from Brian. Who said he's in Brooklyn and is coming over!

Science fair at Maya's school

Seder with friends

We know passover actually ended, but ours was a secular get together anyway
So here are some of the pics:
The rest of the photos are here and here

As soon as she arrived, we put her to work

A friend is helping us fix the bathroom - and Maya is all too happy to be in the middle of it

Tulips & work in the garden

Beautiful day in the garden

So great, it made me start a new blog
A lazy, pleasant afternoon in the garden

Earth day play, writing celebration

The kids in Maya's class had a little play at the community meeting for Earth Day. After that we got to hear them read their "How TO" books - Maya's was on apple shells - and we made some for everyone. The rest of the photos are here

Mayalimpics - part 3

Thanks to Tania, maya and mandea for the good weather wishes - we had a superb sunny spring afternoon - in spite of all predictions of rain, clouds and snow. The girls were great = pretty much took care of themselves - from serving themselves with food to finding games to play - leaving us to sit in the sun and beam with pride. Some pics
The rest of them are here and also here

Mayalimpics - Part deux

Today we gave Maya her presents. She was celebrated at school by her classmates and later we had a school conference where we had the usual glowing report (she is kind, she makes efforts to be fair to everyone - and the "critiques" - "sometimes she capitalizes the wrong words and is overly eager in the meetings (hands up)
So, we went to a restaurant to celebrate her. Some pics - from the starting of the Harry Potter diary and the restaurant tonight