NORA AT WORK

Some of the employees Del works with gave Nora a child size hard hat and safety glasses. That meant she needed to go to work. She went with Del to see what was happening with a dragline crossing a county road. Nora loved the experience and you can tell by the expressions on her face she loved the hat and glasses too. She thought she was working right along side Dad. It takes so little to make a child happy and feel so important. She felt so big. She wore the hat and glasses to eat dinner and also to brush her teeth. She took the hat to school today for show and tell.

HAIR'S THE NEWS

Nora has been requesting hair styles that are a bit unusual. Every day when we get ready for school she has a different idea of what her hair should look like. Ms. Charlynn said they can hardly wait to see what Nora's hair looks like each day. Here are a couple of examples.

ARKANSAS TRIP (MORE PHOTOS)

The deer were beautiful and one of them had twins. Nora loved the fawns. It was fun watching them play.

I wanted everyone to see the what it looked like for the clouds to fill the valley. It was something to see. The photos are taken from almost the place at different times of day.

BLESSED

We were blessed with the nicest vacation. We decided to go to Mount Nebo in Arkansas. It was not planned early and I didn't think we would get a cabin. When Del called to get a cabin they said the call just prior to his was someone cancelling for the days we wanted. We didn't have any choices just one cabin available. When we got there the lady asked how we got cabin 61. We told her and she said it was the most sought after cabin. I asked why and she said it had the best view of any cabin in Arkansas State Parks. She was right. We had the most relaxing days we've had in years and Nora loved it. She said it was our best vacation. We had views out every window and door. The patio was wonderful and the views were fabulous. There was wildlife everywhere. We have pictures of deer I will post later. They haven't been downloaded yet.

Pictures taken from the patio

Nora on the patio

Nora on the side porch of our cabin

Clouds coming down the valley

Pictures taken on a little hike

Sunset taken from our patio

DANCE PHOTOS

There was a professional photographer at dress rehearsal this year and they did a disc instead of pictures on paper. We were very happy about that. I can post and print pictures.

DRESS REHEARSAL

Photos from dress rehearsal.

Nora and Ms. Raevin (dance instructor)

Nora's dance class receiving trophies

EVE'S COAT

I finished Eve's coat and she looks great. I can hardly wait to get pictures of Eve and Joseph together. Their event is this weekend and they have promised to send me pictures. I'll post them when I get them.

FIVE YEARS OLD

We celebrated Nora's fifth birthday on Friday. She was so excited. The only bad thing about being five is changing classes at school in the fall. Nora doesn't want to change classes. She said she wanted to stay in the class with all her friends. When I told her they will be in kindergarten also she was a little better but she still wants to be in Ms. Jackie's class. I wish she could be in Ms. Jackie's class also.

Del and I went for a parent teacher conference on last Thursday. We were told that Nora had met or surpassed every skills test that is given for pre-schoolers. They went over everything with us and she has done very well. Much better than expected for her age. There was only two negative things from the list of six pages and they were minor. She doesn't yet understand yesterday and tomorrow. To Nora everything in the past is yesterday and everything in the future is tomorrow. I was told that is normal for her age. The only other negative remark was about her slight speech problem (very typical for her age). She has trouble with R's. When someone asks her name Nora sounds like Noah.

We're very proud of our five year old daughter. She loves school and doesn't want to be out for the summer.

For her birthday Nora got a bicycle, an easel and hexbugs. It rained on her birthday so she had to try the bicycle out indoors.

Nora and her cousin Baby James

Birthday Girl

Nora's first time on a bike