At Beavers Bend

Ninarama!

Nina reached her Girl Scout cookie sales goal today, performed in "Fiddler on the Roof" for a full house on three successive nights  (Thursday-Saturday), learned how to ride a bicycle, and finished reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy (which she started with me and finished with Mari). Impressive!

Nina knows

How to ride a bike!

All it took was one session with Melissa, the Bike Whisperer.

Cousins vs. Bongo

Anatevka Sunset

The Anatevka Village Girls: Katie (white head scarf), Paige (blue), Morgan (brown), and Nina.
Tevye (Jaimie Davis) and the Girl from Anatevka.

Norah mamas

The women

Tour de Pablo

Fan Roses for Nina!

Nina's homeroom teacher, Mrs. Nelson, brought a bouquet of the pink roses for Nina to the Friday night show. Sweet!

Opening Night!

Nina takes a bow.

Grandmother, Granddaddy, and Aunt Carolyn joined me and Emilio and Pablo on the first row for Nina's debut performance in "The Girl from Anatevka." It went well!

Coming Soon: A Girl from Anatevka

This Thursday: Nina debuts in "A Girl from Anatevka." After learning about matchmakers from the older girls in her small hometown, an eight-year-old Jewish girl from Anatevka joins friends chasing some of the still available village boys. But the fun comes to an end when the czar forces all the village's Jews to sell their property and move away.

Leap Year Nina

Checking in with Grandmom

Eleanor and Meriweather

It's iBiography day at Hayes Elementary.

Eleanor was born in New York City in 1884. Her parents died when she was young, and she was raised by an unkind grandmother. She went to school in England in 1899, where she learned confidence in herself and to care about others. In 1905, she married Franklin Roosevelt. Her uncle, President Teddy Roosevelt, performed the ceremony.She had six children.
(The six individuals in the photo below are not her children.)

In 1774, Merriweather Lewis was born. His father died in the American Revolution in 1779 when Lewis was only five years old. In 1794, at the age of twenty, he joined the military and became an army captain. It was there that he met William Clark. Soon after, Lewis became a private secretary for President Jefferson.

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January Nina