A 5th birthday with Spiderman (+ Ella)

Every year with Ella gets better and better.  Her 5th birthday this year was very low key – especially as her first day of kindergarten started the very next day. We ate birthday brunch at Radical Eats, played like crazy people and opened gifts with cake before hitting the sack early ...

First day of kindergarten

We’ve graduated to a new neighborhood with a great (public = no massive tuition!!!, Vanguard program) school within a 30 second drive – but unfortunately we found ourselves one street away from the appropriate zoning. Seriously, one street.  After an initial application, testing, interview and lottery process (WHEW)- we got ...