In honor of Leap Day, I’m posting yet a third time. Actually, I don’t have time to do anything else before I have to go back across campus and join in with totting up all the points on the exams. (Whee! More hallucinations!)

So my family back home has been complaining that I haven’t been putting up pictures of the grandbaby. There is a reason for my reluctance. An old friend had her baby a couple years back, and man, she emailed me THOUSANDS of pictures, several every day. Naturally, I couldn’t say, "Hey, cute baby, but could you limit it to say 3 or 4 pics a month?" No, wouldn’t go over well. But to make my mom happy, here are some more recent ones of Mei.

My niece Megan has been asking for a picture of my daughter Natsumi–they sent a lot of time together a year ago when we last visited Texas, and Megan (who has three brothers) looks up to Natsumi as a big sister. So this is for Nutmeg:

Finally, a picture of all the females of the family, gathered together: