Christmas at 208 WInspear, 1961

It was the Christmas before Margaret was born: December 1961.  Hayne's Aunt Laura Lu had sent matching red pajamas for Anne and Bill. 

 Hayne took these picture on Christmas Eve.  We have some movies made the next morning, Christmas Day, with their toys.  But I don't have them digitized for posting here just yet.

Front porch of our Winspear Avenue house in Buffalo

When Bill was born we lived in an upstairs apartment near the Buffalo Zoo.  I don't have any pictures of that place; we weren't there long…but we finally moved into faculty housing on the edge of the campus of the University of Buffalo.  

Our address was 208 Winspear Avenue.  We enjoyed that house a lot. It had a great sun porch and a fireplace in the living room.

The lady on the left in these pictures was Bill's godmother.  Her name was Charlotte Claflin.  I met her through la Leche League.

As you can see by this time I was in maternity clothes again; Margaret Ellen was on the way.  She was born January 30, 1962.

Loving the outdoors, Western New York, fall 1960

 In the fall of 1960 Hayne and I took the kids to the country.  We visited a couple of state parks, and even spent the night in one of them.  One of the advantages of breast feeding a child is that you can just pick up and go anywhere …and we did enjoy our weekends when the kids were little.