Friday, January 25, 2013

Girls on their Birthdays

Last Monday (the MLK holiday) we went to Granny and Pa's house to celebrate the three birthdays we have in January (Anna on the 15th, Elyse on the 19th, and Jessica on the 24th). Anna and the girls made a mermaid cake:








Thursday, January 24, 2013

Dressing Up

The girls like to dress up, and sometimes when they do they ask me to take pictures of them. Of course, I'm happy to oblige. Here are a dozen pictures from dress-up times in the past few weeks.














P.S. Today is Jessica's birthday. Happy birthday, Jessica! We went to Granny and Pa's house to celebrate all the girls' birthdays on Monday; I'll be posting pictures from that soon.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Go Players

I bought this clay figure of two Chinese men playing Go about twenty years ago. For the past few years it's been sitting on a shelf behind something, gathering dust; I found it this afternoon, and was taken by the contrasting expressions on the two men's faces. The figure is exactly two inches high.