Catch up

As usual, there are many pictures on other electronic devises that don't make it to the blog on time.  (Now that anything is on the blog on time anymore.)  Here's a few.

 After far too long, we took a trip down to American to see papa's work.  Like many cities, they had statues painted up by artists.  Specifically, they had animals.  The girls loved this bamboo panda.

Papa's office!  It's pretty sparse, but he is down there only a few days a week.  He's got to keep most of his things up here with us so he can work from home the rest of the time.

 The nature center close to our house hosted a holiday party.  But it was very well attended and it rained, so everything had to be moved inside.  So it was packed.  Mama and papa weren't in the mood to stay, so they lured everyone away with promises of ice cream.

 And it worked!

The elephant at the Natural History Museum is named Henry!  

Finally, this little girl insists on wearing only "pretty dresses."  Don't try to sneak pants on her anymore.  Brandon almost lost a tooth when she kicked and screamed after his proposal to wear overalls.  So it's dresses and skirts to go out, and then straight home into a frilly princess costume.