March 26, 1975

Dearest Mother & Daddy--

Received the air-mail package of Steph's activity books on Saturday -- 
Thanks  much.  I really hate to see you spend so much money on air-mail 
postage though --  next time, mail 6 months early!

Things have been pretty slow around here -- Joe has been working on data, 
writing  up his quarterly report, and trying to write a paper on the 
roadrunner.  I haven't been  doing much of anything.  Ladies' Tea is this 
afternoon at our house so I finally got  this house pretty clean.

Stephanie is fast becoming a Mickey Mouse freak.  She has made herself a 
pair of  ears, taped them to some string, and runs around in them all day. She 
listens to the  Mickey Mouse March on her record player about 6 times 
daily.  She and Erin play  "Mickey and Minny" half the time and "Cheetah 
and Wild Dog" the rest.  Of  course most of the nonsense is a direct result 
of her Paw-Paw -- the day before she  left Texas the 2 of them, as you will 
recall, watched Disneyland on TV and her big- hearted, sentamental 
grandfather promised her a trip to Disneyland when she got  back from 
Africa.  She ain't going to forget it either -- she has told hundreds of  people 
about this trip and invited most of them to go along!  You had better stop  
buying savings bonds with your quarters and start buying airplane tickets.

Much love, Jan, Joe & Stephanie.