Lace and button detail of my latest knitting project.

For about 25% of our time at the park today Esme worked on that fun trick of tossing the hula hoop out and getting it to come back to you. She definitely improved as time went on. Those looking closely can see that Uncle Corey’s “concentration tongue” is being well employed.

Esme requested that I take this picture. “Don’t I look really short if I kneel like this??”

But I also like how our friends are being so brotherly in the background!

Today we learned that three small girls are equal to one Catherine, but when you add a fourth, the scale tips!

We took a little visit to Eartha with some friends who had never been. No matter how many times we pop in, it is always one of my favorite places to stop

Esme, riding in convertible style to dance class! Thanks, Grandpa!

I’m not sure what amuses me more about this book cover- that Will and Kate are neither King nor Queen yet have the largest portrait on the cover, or the amazing name of the author!

We spent a cold, wet afternoon on Boston Common today, marching for science. The crowd was a huge mass of scientists and science lovers and I was very impressed with the speakers. They brought their own stories and passions to the stage and were not afraid to approach some difficult topics.

Special commendation to everyone who made clever signs. I loved reading them all!

Sign finished. I think I’m ready for tomorrow’s March for Science. We mamas gotta stick together.

This dear little bookmark fell was found tucked in our copy of the Lord of the Rings when Peter recently took it off the shelf to read to the girls.

I must have used it when I (re)read the trilogy in 2001/02. But the bookmark itself dates to much earlier than than, I’d say elementary school, late 80s.

Einstein’s words are just as timely now as they ever were.