We started to see some clematis blooms in June along with the hydrangeas.

Manor Beach opened for Memorial Day weekend and we were happy to be back!  No concessions again this year, and for most of the summer guests were not allowed but that has since changed.

A hike at Cranberry Lake.

An early dinner with the kids at bartaco in Port Chester.

On June 19 we went down to Wynnewood again for a night to celebrate Aunt Molly’s birthday!

The party was fabulous and included the traditional pinata and face-smashing cake, as well as a regular cake and trumpet accompaniment by Uncle Peter.

Here’s a pic of Sarah’s 1st grade class on pajama day.  Her teacher is “looping” this year which means that she will move from 1st grade back up to 2nd grade and the entire class can opt to stay with her.  From what we hear the whole class is staying except for one friend whose family is moving back to England!  Sarah is in the back row, second from the left.

Blaine got together with two friends from his 3rd grade class for a final playdate since both families are moving away this summer!  One boy’s family is moving back to England and the other to France.

Here are the kids on the last day of school, not very willing to pose for a picture.  It was a strange school year!

Blaine with his classroom aide, Ms. Wilson.

And with his teacher, Ms. Ryan.

Here is Sarah with her teacher, Ms. Walsh.  This will be our third year with Ms. Walsh since she was Blaine’s 2nd grade teacher, then she moved down to 1st and now Sarah will have her again in 2nd grade!

Here’s Sarah with her friend who is moving back to England!  We are going to miss all our international friends who are leaving this year.

And now it’s the summer!  It’s been a summer of experimentation with a lot of different camps and activities.  Here’s Blaine at a pottery wheel class that he took with a friend.

The kids have also been trying out fencing!

One weekend Andrew assembled this model rocket with the kids.  We headed to the middle school to find a large open space to set it off, since Flint park had a lot of sports leagues still playing.  We thought this parking lot would be big enough, unfortunately the rocket went so high that it descended somewhere over the building in the background and we were unable to locate it.  A successful launch!  Less successful landing.

The first week of summer Sarah did a half day tennis camp at Hampshire with a friend.  Blaine did not have an organized activity apart from starting up his summer schedule of PT and OT, so we spent our mornings doing some walks at Manor Park and Sheldrake.