My favorite human rodent is growing up. Das Mäuschen, the little mouse, my elder niece, started kindergarten today.
It wasn't that long ago that she was charming her way into other families photos as the very earnest 3 1/2 year old flower girl at our wedding. Nor was it all that long ago that she was scaring the neighbors shrieking from her stroller as I took her for walks.
The mouse, most definitely has improved with age, as has her equally charming younger sister, the little lion. It's just that I'm not quite ready to be the aunt of a school girl, not that I have any choice.
So, Macht spaβ, Mäuschen!, and don't grow up too very fast.
No real commentary here, just cute images. The deeper snow was in Central Kansas, the rest in Colorado. The snowman was a morning project on January 1. We had to scavenge snow from around the neighborhood and it was completed by the time the sun came out at 9 a.m. Aster had been involved with snowman creation, but was too cold by the time cameras were pulled out (and, perhaps, looked around and said, "Exercise? Check. Artistic endeavor? Check. Anything else I need to do in 2014?). The tall girls are my nieces. (Yes, the same lion and mouse pictured here. Weird things happen in six years to six-year-olds). The elder of the sledding girls was born after a croquet tournament in 2007 and my dear friend (apparently Distinguished Diplomat on this blog) was pregnant with her sister when we visited Rome in 2009. Babies stop being babies and start being sledding kids! Craziness, I know.
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