Author: Mike

Hard to believe, but it is our last week in Chicago and we are hitting up all the final items on our bucket list. We did Buckingham fountain, the Art Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art with our friends from school Lindsay and Julia and Lyla. Aunt Karen was also in town this week…

Henry and Eleanor finished up the school year and were excited to start summer vacation. We had a chance to go into Eleanor’s classroom and see her final project about the Chicago skyline. She researched several of her favorite buildings and then created clay models of them. Eleanor also had a sleepover with her friend…

It is hard to believe, but summer is almost here! The kids have one week of school left and the it is summer vacation time! This weekend we had our end of school picnic, and Eleanor and Henry both had fun playing with their friends at the park and eating some pizza and ice cream.…

Eleanor and Henry had a fun memorial day weekend with a trip to a Chicago Fire soccer game and a cookout in our back yard. Earlier in the week, Henry’s class had a field trip to the Nature Museum, followed by a picnic lunch at the zoo. Parents were invited to join lunch, and then…

It has been a play-date packed couple of weeks for Eleanor and Henry – we started off with a Monday play-date for Eleanor and a few of her friends, which was great. Then, on Saturday Eleanor had a sleepover birthday party with a bunch of her school friends – her first sleepover party! She had…

Eleanor and Henry celebrated Monkey’s birthday this week with some yummy bundt cakes. It is hard to believe that it is May already – especially with the crazy weather. We have whipsawed from snow to 70 degrees and back again. This week Eleanor’s class put on their assembly, they put on two plays that they…

Eleanor and Henry had a great Easter in Michigan with Grandma and Grandpa and the Martins. It was a short trip this year as we didn’t have any vacation time on either side – but we were still able to get our egg dyeing in. Unfortunately the weather didn’t co-operate so we didn’t get as…

What a strange weather weekend! On Saturday we were out at the park riding bikes and playing basketball, and on Sunday we were stuck in the house all with near constant snowfall. We had some fun rediscovering our puzzling skills – on Friday we tried a “Escape” game at home, puzzling out a series of…