A pleasant, busy weekend with the kids. A bit cooler than usual, sometimes cloudy and rainy, sometimes sunny but temps in the 70s. Took the kids to the park, to the bacon and egg play place. John loved it there. He liked jumping off a bacon strip over to me sitting on the bench. Hanna saw that and of course wanted to try that too. So she would climb up on the lowest part of the bacon (about 2 inches off the ground), I'd hold out my arms, and she'd "jump" to me. She'd go about an inch, and was still three feet away from me, but she tried!

While we were there at the mall, Rhonda saw a pet shop, and it had puppies in the window, so Rhonda took Hanna by, as she loves animals so much, and Hanna was just delighted! Practically jumped out of Rhonda's arms to get at them. She's gonna be a vet or something like that.

I had the little plastic tee ball set out too yesterday, and boy, Hanna can really whack that thing! It was funny, I was first letting John swing, and we were futzing with the bat, getting him to hold it right and whatnot, and the whole time Hanna was busily picking up the ball and getting it on the tee. She just loves being involved in what everyone else is doing. But when Hanna hit, she has a great swing, connects with the ball. She's a natural!

I let John ride his trike down to the street a couple times. He likes going up the hill and rolling back down, and riding around in the street. I of course stay down there with him in case cars come, but sometime soon I'll see if he can ride his trike all the way to the park.

We went to the library on Saturday, and got some new books, and a Winnie-the-Pooh video (the Blustery Day). John just laughs when he watches it. He thinks it's funny when Tigger bounces all over, or when Pooh and Piglet are sliding around Owl's house. When John is tickled about something, he'll often laugh and say "it's funny".

In church yesterday, a couple did a little drama presentation called the Psalm King, about the life of David. That was just excellent. Lots of humor, well-acted. When David was with the Philisitines, and pretending to be insane, that was hilarious the way the guy portrayed that. It was my first Sunday as deacon, so I had to help serve communion.

I got some baby bananas at the store yesterday. I've never seen those in the store before. They're little bananas, about the size of a thumb. They're harder to peel, and a bit darker in color, but taste good. The kids gobbled them up. We had stopped by after church to get one of our Sunday traditions, one of those roasted, ready-to-serve chickens. mmmmm.