update

School is out!  And the contents of all of the backpacks (a years worth of work) are strewn around the house to prove it.

::Ibby had the nicest teacher ever, who called all of the kids her baby chicks

::Lucy with friends

::Ibby had a birthday this month and beforehand I found many helpful notes

::her class went to the park on her birthday

::Phin had fun there, too

::Peonies!  They smell so heavenly -- if you were here you would keel over in a dead faint I'm sure!