Jada and Ciara

I haven't posted a picture in awhile and this one is just too cute to keep to myself. These are my nieces--Jada on the left and Ciara on the right. Jada is two and Ciara is almost nine months. My sister and the girls have been staying at my parents' house in Nebraska since they left Texas at the end of July, but they'll be moving to their own place in October.

I hope they haven't forgotten Aunt Nenny and Aunt Alala. My sister says Jada still has quite extensive conversations with us on her toy phone, so I guess she thinks of us every now and then. When I talk to her on the grown up phone she tells me stories about picking cucumbers and finding various letters of the alphabet in her soup and I keep her updated on how the divisions are shaping up in the NFL so far this season. So we're still connecting.

We're planning to go to Nebraska for a few days at Christmas, but in the meantime the withdrawls are pretty severe. For now our dogs are benefitting from the extra love.