Build-a-Bear holding toy drive to benefit Toys for Tots this weekend
We interrupt your Sunday morning to let you know that Build-a-Bear is holding its annual Stuffed with Hugs toy drive this weekend. The first 100 customers…
Out and About with The Five-Year-Old
The Five-Year-Old, mind-blown: “Whoa. That’s a mirror AND a picture together. That’s cool.”
Bunny Squared and Other News of the Week
Person in bunny suit seen photographing enormous fiberglass rabbit, Hubble sends back deepest view of the universe ever captured, peanut butter recall expanded, and National Zoo closes panda house after Mei Xiang’s cub dies.
Behind the Scenes with The Five-Year-Old: The Artist Who Painted the Regal Rabbit
A few weeks ago, The Five-Year-Old and I had the opportunity to meet Cathy Gruetzke-Blais, the artist who painted the Regal Rabbit. Normally, I like to hold these artist interviews at the bunnies themselves. I find it helps focus a certain wildly roving mind on the topic at hand. But since the Regal Rabbit sits on a busy street corner, we decided to meet at Ben & Jerry’s instead.
Reminder: Fundraiser for The Five-Year-Old’s Four-Year-Old Friend is Tonight!
<UPDATED August 2023 to remove the links to the catalog and other contact information, because y’all are still reading this and the event was 10 years…
The Five-Year-Old Goes to the Movies: The newly renovated Norwood Theatre
As we mentioned last week, the entire Caterpickles Clan is thrilled that after millions of dollars in renovations and two years of very hard work by the theatre’s new owner Susan Lewis, the Norwood Theatre has finally reopened! The grand reopening gala happened August 31st, 2012–85 years after the theatre’s original opening on August 31st, 1927.
You’re Invited to a Very Special Kid’s Night Out at the Gymnastics Academy of Boston – Norwood
It seemed like school had only been out for a few hours when we got the news last July. One of The Five-Year-Old’s preschool friends had…
Bikes, School, Bunnies, Mary Poppins… The Five-Year-Old’s Very Busy Week
In which I get a brand new bike and we get some sad news about the Pete Hamilton Race Car Rabbit
The Five-Year-Old looks at art
Overheard in the upstairs hall of the Kennebunk Inn on a recent trip to Maine…. The Five-Year-Old, excitedly: “Look at that, Mommyo! It’s a volcano with…
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