A family birthday
It was niece Annie's 5th birthday on Wednesday. She's a little sweetie, who is just a little bit crazy, and a curious mix of girly girlishness, loving all things pretty and fairyish, and the outdoors tomboy. Here she is hanging out, quite literally, with Daddy in the backyard one weekend. (Nobody needs to get alarmed and call DOCS over this - my brother-in-law is in the Army and takes youth who could use a little attention on Adventure Training trips, so he knows what he is about.) She had a little party, at which all she wanted to do apparently was play "parcel the parcel".
And here she is with her little brother, who, poor kid, is getting a little distressed at the way she is being inundated with presents lately while he isn't getting any. (So Aunty Ali is including something for him - I am a little late with some things, because my order for a plastic unicorn went astray, and was held up with suppliers and what not, so I've only just received it myself.)
