Five Brown Kids

Flowers as big as a dinner plate and great smell. We skipped the playground at this park and sniffed magnolias and pushed the swings instead.

This is another easy and super tasty salad. Toss in a bowl: Head of romaine lettuce, washed and torn Few chopped tomatoes Can of mandarin oranges, drained Dressing: Drizzle with Briannas Ginger Mandarin Dressing Top with: Grilled chicken, sliced (mine was marinated in soy sauce and italian dressing) Crunchy chow mein noodles, I like the tiny ones, but these ones work fine too

Fabulous teacher! Silly friends! Here's Taye's end of year PowerPoint presentation on Komodo dragons. I didn't write a single paper or do any sort of presentation on the computer until I was in college. This second grade class makes me feel old. Notice Taye's chime between pages. They each picked their own and that was big excitement.

Here is proof that Tyrone really, really loves that strawberry salad . I was just home from the gym and Tyrone is packing lunch before we head out to Taye's end of school festivities. Tyrone is making sandwiches for everyone else and in this picture sugaring his sliced almonds for his lunch salad. What a man!

Francine, lots of dark pink wave petunias. I'm addicted to them.

I don't necessarily love the thought of all my children home all the time all summer long but I do love the end of the school year with all the activities and fun. Here's Taye (blue bandanna around his neck) dancing his heart out at the school talent show. His class did a medley of TV theme songs. Speaking of Taye, he was one of two second graders in his class who scored 100% on his year end math assessment. He is setting the standard high. And we are so proud. Taye wanted to wear shorts under his pants so he could change as soon as he was done. He wore a pair of next years jeans that were big enough to fit over the shorts. I'm sure you can see the shorts sticking out and the pants falling down :-)