these are a couple of gifts we got at the shower that i thought everybody would be impressed with. the painting is by my mom's friend dot and my dad built and painted the bookshelf for jack. we loved all the gifts we got at the shower and thank everybody for being so nice to us. we were really glad that johnny's mom and sue got to come from birmingham to the shower.
dot is around 80 years old and just recently took up painting as a hobby. i think she is really good and can capture the real personality of the animals that she paints.
my dad did a great job with jack's bookshelf and my mom did a great job matching the paint to jack's bedding. they make a good team!! my mom has been searching for all the books that were on my cousins list that her kids liked to fill up the bookshelf. also johnny's sister mary and neice molly sent us some books that molly likes to read to jack. my mom's friend gave us some good books too. so we will have a lot of books to read to jack in his new room!! thanks everybody!
