Reading out loud

How delightful: On this cloudy Sunday afternoon, Blaine and Lucinda are sitting in the living room and reading "Romeo and Juliet" aloud. Lucinda is a fan of "Shakespeare in Love," and chose this play out of Blaine's everything-Shakespeare volume. Meanwhile, Arno is planning his next "junk art" masterpiece.

Junk art

Arno has a new passion at school: making what his teachers call "junk art" out of recyclables.

He's made dozens of these sculptures -- most of them are tanks or jet fighters -- in the past few weeks, and now we have a sculpture garden in our living room.