It's Been a Long, Cold Lonely Winter

...so long, so cold, in fact, that it wasn't until April that we even remembered that we'd managed to take a few decent pictures.

Emily played a townsperson in her church's Feast of the Epiphany celebration. The building is probably still reverberating from the force with which she delivered her one line, "IN BETHLEHEM!"

She also made a puppet for her school report on the book Junie B. Jones is a Party Animal. The puppet looks better here than when the report was finished - her head had fallen off. Heck, Marie Antoinette must have been a Party Animal herself.

Emily uncharacteristically finds time to pose for a camera, this time with one of her many stuffed animals.

Mikey's birthday

From upper left: Mikey's railroad themed birthday cake. Mikey's best birthday gift is the joy with which he approaches every moment. Bob the Builder fan... or Syracuse Orangemen fan? Mikey, bedhead extraordinaire, Paying the Price to become Mikey, Chick Magnet.

We treated Mikey to a trip to a Railroad Museum, which evidently
paid for its collection by being in an unheated building.
We watched a silent film about the old Rochester subway 23 times
in the only heated room in the museum, then left.

(Other family photos are up one level)