1st Sledding Day

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Corinne and Dad take a sled down Harris Hill a few dozen time.

Kathleen's Scarf

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Corinne goes sledding for the first time with Kathleen's Christmas scarf. Thanks Kathleen!

Reading Time

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Only Grandma can read when she visits!

"There's something wrong about not being Spring...

 ...but it looks like Spring now."

Corinne's global warming (or El nino) observation. It is a very bright, (and rare) sunny, 45 degree January day today and Corinne is confused.  Without any winter snow, she is anxious to open up her new super-delux pack of bubbles and 6 (!) bubble making wands, something reserved for doing outdoors when Spring arrives.

Growing Brachiosaurus; Declared the BEST Christmas Present of '06

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Both Nick and Corinne consider this present the best of Christmas of '06. They each got one of these coloring books in their stockings. The $4 coloring books contain 3 tiny dinosaurs that expand (or engorge, as Nick likes to say) in water over a 3 day period.

The disappointing discovery is the rate at which they shrink after taken out of the water...