Cora has taken up styling her own hair lately

Here are a couple of examples:

She likes accessories.

I know this isn't the best picture

but it was the only one I got of Eda and Daniel hugging. These two have become great friends. They haven't always been so friendly.

The girls' curls:

I never did post a picture of our Christmas tree

so here it is:

Nice, isn't it?

The girls decorated and redecorated it regularly. It never fell over. It certainly wasn't a fire hazard. I like it. :)
(The girls had curlers in their hair, thus the handkerchiefs.)

Something is living in my closet...

maybe it's time to clean it out.

Eda had a birthday!

Lil and Scott got a checkerboard cake pan set as a wedding gift and I jokingly said they should make a cake for Eda's birthday. So they did:

But it didn't look quite like a checkerboard when we cut into it. Lil said it was not quite so easy as she expected it to be. Frankly, I don't think it mattered. It was delicious. Chocolate cream cheese frosting and raspberries...

More proof

that my house is cold

Ruby was sitting on the heat vent. Roy joined her. Then Eda and finally Cora and L. I'm not sure how much good the vent was doing them, but maybe they were warmed by sharing body heat.