NORA AND DADDY HAVE BEEN BUSY

Larry Boy Super Hero

(I love the suction cup ears)

Snow Bunny

BIRTHDAY SNOW

We have often heard stories about Del's birthdays when he was a child. The stories usually have tales of snow, blizzards and ice cream. He will now have a new birthday snow story. This is the first time we have had snow on his birthday here in Texas. Del's birthday was on Thursday but we planned to have a party on Friday so some other family members could come. We knew there was a chance we would get snow on Friday and knew to expect 4" if we got snow. Thursday night my sister April called and wanted to come and stay the night with us. She had a meeting about 3 miles from our house and didn't want to drive an hour and a half in the snow on Friday morning. We were very excited to have April come to stay. Nora was thrilled. Anyway, we woke Friday morning to 8" of snow. Classes were cancelled at Nora's school and April's meeting was cancelled also. We had a great day of doing nothing. Friday night no one could get here for Del's party. Del, Nora, April and I celebrated with just the four of us. We ate chili and chocolate cake and had lots of fun. Here are some pictures of the snow and eating birthday cake. I forgot to take pictures before we cut the cake.

Everyone wanted to stick their tongues out and be silly

Del's already getting ready for the Superbowl

Nora is trying to show the chocolate in her teeth

Aunt April and Nora

being silly

Nora took this one of Mom and Dad

And it wouldn't be a celebration without a Barbie Movie(notice the chocolate cake)

A MOST UNUSUAL VISITOR

We have had raccoons coming into the yard at night for a while now but we never watched to see how many. I thought there was one raccoon coming every night. I was wrong. I looked out a few nights ago and there was an albino raccoon on our back porch. After that we started watching to see the raccoons. We counted at least four raccoons of the regular color and the one albino raccoon. Everyone wanted to see pictures but it's been hard to get one. This is the best pictures I could get. I need a wildlife camera.

FASHION

A few weeks ago I bought Nora some plaid cotton tunics. They are so cute and she has knit jeans to wear with the tunics. This morning I put a lovely pink and blue tunic on her along with a cute pair of pink jeans. She said "This is a boy shirt." . I told her it isn't a boy shirt it's a girls cotton tunic. I told her that girls wear cotton shirts too. Then I told her she looked lovely in the tunic top and jeans. She said "No, I look handsome". Can you believe it. Handsome. When I told the director at Nora's school about how Nora felt about her clothes, Rachel laughed. No little boy would be caught wearing a pink and blue tunic top and pink knit jeans. I'm going to have to get a picture of this so you can see for yourself. I wonder what Nora's taste in clothes will be when she's 13 years old?

SNOW DAY OR SNOW DAYS

We don't usually have snow here but last year we had more snow than I ever remember. This year we have had more snow than we got last year. Nora loves it. She got up and saw all the snow and was angry. She said "Mama we forgot to buy a sled." I don't know anyone here who has a sled and I've never seen one for sale here. We emptied a large blue plastic tub she uses to keep toys in and she got inside and I pulled her around on the snow and she was happy. Anyway we didn't have church services on Sunday or school on Monday or dance on Tuesday. We just hibernated for a few days. I made hot chocolate while Nora and Daddy made a snow man on Sunday afternoon and on Monday Nora and I "sledded" and made another snow man. I didn't take pictures on Monday but here are the pictures from Sunday. We actually got more snow after these were taken. Nora thinks it was winter because it snowed and that it's now spring because the snow melted. We may have more snow this coming week and maybe I'll be able to convince her than it can be winter even if there is no snow on the ground.

NORA'S PHOTOS

Nora received a camera from Gammer and Gaffer for Christmas. Here are some of her photos.

Nora's feet while riding in the car

Daddy

Gammer and Gaffer's house

Tink

Aunt April

Aunt Angie

Breakfast table at home

Our Backyard

A restaurant that Nora likes (she took this out the car window and we didn't know until we saw it on the computer.

More feet

On our way to church

Also on our way to church

Church yard