The summer months are a great time for picnics, so pack up some sandwiches, grab a blanket and cut open the watermelon. We at NeighborhoodCircle.com scoped out some of our favorite picnic spots in the North Shore and compiled a handy picnic guide.

Summer days spent at the pool are great to keep cool, but kids are there to make waves.

When it came to practicing her walk, Allie would not be moooooved. The little calf dug in her hooves while 13-year-old Cody Slivka and 9-year-old Cassidy Price pushed and pulled. Allie soon relented, allowing her young handlers to show her off to a small audience.

GardenABCs.com, a new, locally produced website, is helping educators, parents and local advocates start and maintain school and community gardens.

The Broadway Dreams Foundation is coming to Chicago July 30th - August 3rd to give a 4-day musical theatre intensive camp at the Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest. A concert will be given on Sunday evening August 3rd. This camp is designed for both children and adults who love musical theatre. Active Broadway actors teach and perform with the students. This year's teachers are the wonderful Hollis Resnik, Jarrod Emick, Jeremy Schonfeld and David Petro.

A set of triplets, six sets of twins and 39 singletons: 54 babies in all. And at least three more on the way.