Sunday Afternoon

Little E With Sully

Millie Turns Two

Tessy Turning Two

Christmas Morning

Christmas sweet roll made by mom.

This is the Christmas "mystery" gift from Aunt Pat.  It was immediately decided that they were cat socks.....  Miss Kitty modeled.

Emerson's arrival.

Dad gave us a notebook of transcribed letters.  They are letters from Grandpa Nye to Grandma Nye during WWII.  Dad included pictures and other information he discovered as he worked on the transcriptions.  

Dad made the "simple" Christmas dinner.  The centerpiece is from Joel's parents.

Ezra Jack Keats

The Ezra Jack Keats award was given at the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival for the first time this year.  Keats' papers are held at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Book Collection - an amazing archives of children's writers and illustrators.  To celebrate the award and the festival, the archives had an exhibit of Keats' work.  It was beautiful!  I just love his animals.

When I saw the picture below I knew he had lived with kittens and puppies.  This is how it is to live with young animals - crazy and fun and you don't always see what is happening!

I love the motion of the picture below in the tiping of the bowl and in the picture above I really like the shadows.

Keats is known for creating culturally diverse children's books in the early 1960s.  He was one of the first children's book writers to draw diversity and cityscapes.  His book Snowy Day changed the landscape of children's literature when it won the Caldecott Award in 1963 (an award given for children's book illustrations).

Cats Under the Tree

Tessy Preparing for Halloween

Dining Room Updates

Below are trunks that belonged to my grandma and grandpa Nye. The trunk on top has a business card that belonged to my great grandfather (grandma Nye's father). The address on the card is Anniston, AL. But that address was scratched out, and "Columbus, GA" was written in.

Tessy is standing on a chair we just got out of storage. It also belonged to grandma and grandpa Nye.

This weekend we went to a moving sale and got the new rug under the dining room table. We really like the way the dining room is starting to feel - less like an addition and more like living space.

Kittens

Birthday Flowers and Tessi

Growing Kittens

kittens

More Kittens

Below is the back of the sole survivor kitten. The markings are so interesting. It looks like she has a cross tattooed on her back.

Pictures of the Foster Kittens

These are all of the babies about a week after they arrived - their eyes are open. Below is Chicken Little. This is the cat from the other litter - where all the cats died. She is about 2 weeks younger than the other kittens. Below is Tiger Striped Yoda. There are two Yoda kittens, but this one has faint stripes. She is the first one to do everything and she is the last one to go to sleep. This is the mom cat. She is sweet. She has gained a pound or two since she arrived. Much healthier. Some of the Black Beauties started eating hard food this weekend.