Does it get any grosser?

Brooklyn living... Another mum friend of mine (who also happens to be English, from Leicester) lives nearby. In a big, fancy building, with a lift (wow!) and a buzzer system... Have always been somewhat jealous until I visited her last night and saw this on her floor on the door where they throw their rubbish.

This isn't a joke apparently...

Does it get any cuter?

Margaux in camp today...

When green is brown

Trying to teach Margaux these days that 'grass is green'....
bit hard when this is what our local park looks like!

Margaux Picasso

My daughter loves to paint. Either with actual paint, or my Laura Mercier brand new lipstick...

The heat is on

I think this photo says it all: 330pm and 102 degrees outside..

The dudes and their lollys

One thing to do in this heat is take off your clothes and have a lolly!
Here is Spence, with Campbell and Denim on the mean streets of Brooklyn

Fourth of July

Not much of a great Fourth this year...
It started with both kids having a virus, and a temperature of 102/103 and both sick Friday afternoon. We were down at Joe's parents in Philadephia for what we thought would be a relaxing w/end.
How wrong we were!
After worrying about both kids being so knocked out, we get a call that Joe's youngest sister was in the ER after a bad car crash. Luckily, apart from major bruising and lacerations, she is fine, her car is a total write off.

I then made dinner for everyone, salmon with pesto sauce, gave some to Spence and within an hour, WE were in the ER... he had a crazy allergic reaction to the pine nuts in the pesto, couldn't breathe as his tongue had swollen up so much and he was hooked up to iv's, had respitory mask on him, needles everywhere and me and him had to spend the night at Brwyn Mawr hospital which was amazing. The staff in the ER/Pediatric Unit were unbelievable.

We managed to get some alone time that afternoon and hit downtown for some tapas which was amazing: http://www.amadarestaurant.com

then after at some funky bar with the coolest menu I've ever seen.
We then get back to Brooklyn to so much trash outside that here is a small example of what covered our entire street for two days, it was like Armageddon outside!

Now basking in 102 heatwave! I am missing England more than ever!

Vuvuzela's really are annoying!

Joe had the brainwave of picking up a vuvuzela for Spencer, to cheer on the America/England teams last w/end... obviously (didn't!) work!!
My money is now on Germany winning it after Argentina, my original choice, crashed out.

Thankfully, half of it ended up in the neighbours roof so we are without it, and nobody seems to be missing it (except of course Spence who got really good with it, really quickly!)