Getting ready for spring break!

It is dark when we leave home now, since daylight savings time started. Henry likes to watch the outdoor cats eat. They are a lot friendlier than Sugar, my indoor white cat. She hisses if he dares come near her.
I guess Henry will adjust soon to the time change. I have had to wake him up the past few days. The downside of him not waking me up early is that he goes to bed later than usual. It is still daylight at his regular bedtime now--and it will just get moreso as the year wears on.

We are getting ready for our spring break trip to Wisconsin to visit Joe and Katie and Ben. We finally got the photos we had taken in Dallas during their Christmas visit. The boys look so much alike--it's amazing to me that the agency personnel who saw them face to face say they never realized they were related, much less identical twins.

If we had gotten the photos taken fifteen minutes earlier the boys would have been in ideal moods. They were laughing and playing out in the lobby while we waited. By the time we finally got to our turn in the studio they were tired. Joe, Katie and I hooted and jumped up and down and did all we could to elicit laughs, all the while having to remain close enough to catch them because they were perched atop a big box.
Now is such a busy time. I don't even try to eat breakfast at home anymore--I drop Henry off at the campus children's center and get to my office fifteen minutes early and eat there. During my lunch break and on my afternoon off I try to get as much written on my dissertation as I can. I am basically under the gun to produce at least a chapter this semester--even if it's just a rough draft. I will be so glad when I get it out of the way.

Meanwhile there is lots to do in the library. I weeded out a whole lot of the children's books, then went back through them and took over half of them back. Some cage walls surrounding my area are coming down, we are expanding out but this requires lots of shifting of the books and moving of stacks. And that's just my own little curriculum and juvenile & youth area. We are also weeding the upper floors to make room for renovation up there. I am responsible for education, psychology, counseling, and health & human performance.

But while I am busy here in the library Henry is enjoying the socialization over at the children's center (they don't like to call it daycare--it's the Children's Learning Center). Henry was invited to a birthday party in April. It's the first time I will be making friends through Henry rather than taking him to my friends' houses.