Getting warmer

A small post to catch up on the last couple of weeks. We've had some nice spring weather, and we profited. 

 Camille is scheduled to start preschool in the fall at the Brooklyn Waldorf School. They put on a May Day festival in Fort Green park. All the parents helped make crowns for the kids, Camille wore hers for about 3 minutes.

 

Then I put it on.

Playing with the big girls.

Of course there was ice cream.

 Here Camille is playing with her buddy Caroline at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

 

Camille is finally taking the advice Caroline loves to give her: "Relax, Camille!"

We've been doing our best to incorporate ice cream into our schedules whenever possible. (Those cows are free-range and grass-fed, so that means you can eat as much as you want, right?)

 

 Just plain silliness.

Mothers Day Rémi and Camille made me breakfast in bed, then we spent the day in the city and walked home over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Everyday Camille helps out in the kitchen. Here she's helping me snap some beans, I think my Mema would be proud if she could see this skill.

Here Camille's modeling the new bathing suit my parents sent us.  We're headed to Asheville tomorrow to visit Mimi and Pops, then we'll go with my family to the beach the following week, and this bathing suit will have it's actual premiere.

Finally Spring

We have some friends that live at the Brooklyner, a very tall building in downtown Brooklyn that has amazing views of Manhattan from its rooftop deck.  We spent a few jaw dropping minutes hanging out there a couple of weeks ago.

Below, some ballet moments.

This is taken in Camille's dance classroom at the Mark Morris Dance School after everyone else had left. It's always a little hard to drag her away from all those mirrors.

With Hank at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

These two love holding hands.

 

 Hat sharing with Caroline at Prospect Park.

 Then dancing in front of the Brooklyn Museum.

 The girls love the water sculpture out front of the Museum,

and this tepee inside.

There was an Easter Egg Hunt in Fort Green Park that we went to with Hank, June and Anna. Camille was uncharacteristically unafraid of the bunny, and found a ton of eggs. It was a cold day, but a good one.

Hank in seersucker! He can really pose for a picture.

 Easter Sunday we went to our neighborhood bakery for goodies.

 

Les gateaux!

Her Easter dress got it's Trader Joe's debut.

And to leave you, some sleepy pictures,

And below, a sample of Camille's American Idol audition video. (For the Record, she's never seen Beauty and the Beast,  she just likes this song.) This is also pretty much the most concentrated English you'll hear from her.