Fun with Finn

In Finn’s Tree house  (under construction)

Uncle Allan telling the boys about the new sailboat

Sunday Afternoon with Violette & Hubert

From the top:

Edible flowers for picked for dinner (Leo downed a nasturtium in one gulp)

Kenny & Hubert (Sabine’s name of the day) picking lettuce

Violette on the rocking horse

Sophie’s castle cake with Playmobil knights

Summer Camp

Leo completed his first-ever week at summer camp, having a great time building gnome homes (see the drawing on the white board) and playing games.

Edward Gorey would have loved this

Topics covered in “The Book of Accidents, designed for Young Children”, courtesy of the Beinecke Library  :

• Playing with Horses
• Playing with Candles
• Scalded at the Table
• Tossed by a Bull
• Riding a Wild Horse
• Playing with Knives
• Playing with Fire-Arms
• Playing with Fire
• Throwing Stones
• Falling out of a Coach
• A Boy Drowning
• Climbing on Chairs
• Boys Fighting
• Falling out of a Window
• Troubling the Cook
• Tumbling Downs Stairs
• Climbing Trees
• Crossing Streets
• Worrying Dogs

The Science of Nagging

Just three minutes long — how marketers get your kids to nag you to buy their products.

A related video is below  — five minutes long — about how marketing isn’t what it used to be and how it’s creating a generation of super-consumers.  Very scary.

Another blue ribbon for Sophie and Alibi

Don’t they look great??!!?!

Salem Willows — will it cause nightmares?

Check out all the creepy characters lurking in these photos.  The attitude at the Willows is, “the more stuff, the better”.