Tonight Clare prepared her first Valentine cards for her classmates at school and for Miss Linda, her teacher. Her MeMe called while she was working and Clare got to hear her MeMe's voice and tell her she loved her.
Thursday night card game with Clare, Mama and Sandra playing "Go Fish." Clare is catching on quickly. 
Today was a most unusual day in Oklahoma City. We had a series of tornadoes come through Oklahoma City and Edmond. The first, and most deadly, was on the ground for over ten minutes and caused some significant damage as it crossed our town from southwest to northeast. Many homes and businesses were destroyed; power lines were knocked down; cars were crushed; trees were uprooted. Our home was about two miles north of the big tornado. All we got was a yard full of quarter size hail. Jim's poor pickup was in the driveway, but it really doesn't matter. It has been hailed on so many times before as Jim used to do some storm spotting in the Oklahoma Panhandle and that was the vehicle he used.
On January 31, Clare got to attend her first Chinese New Year Party with our agency, Great Wall China Adoption. Here are some photos of the children and their families. Sorry it has been so long between posts. We've had a lot of things going on during the past week or so, but we'll catch up. Keep checking.
