The rains have come and washed away the good packing snow that helped make the snow family a reality. The kids looked out the window today and saw the dwindling mounds that used to be our family. L is gone! D shouted. My arms are falling off! E exclaimed. It's a good thing I was right there to know to what they were referring.

I got some good smiley pics of L after lots of digital camera trickery. I really do need to read the manual. Here is a pretty good one. Note the large strand of drool hanging from her chin.


D and Jeff have caught the Harry Potter bug (about ten years late). They are trying to catch up before the seventh book comes out in July and boy do they have a lot of reading. E and I are also interested, but D and Jeff just hogged the books and are reading far too quickly for our tastes. It's neat to see how D is developing a knack for remembering all of the details about each character and plot intricacy. E likes when the characters hit stuff, fall down or things are on fire. Another reminder that despite their similar size, they are at different developmental stages. For all of you who are out there who know anything about Harry Potter, the kids were geeked to go to various website with "sorting hat" quizzes which place you in a particular house at the wizard school Hogwarts. D and I are in Hufflepuff. "You might belong in Hufflepuff, where those are just and loyal, those patient Hufflepuff's are true and unafraid of toil.", E is in Ravenclaw. "Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, where those of wit and learning, will always find their kind." Uncanny accuracy those quizzes have... Jeff hasn't taken it yet.