Should be another warm one today, with temps getting to the mid-90s, and a bit of humidity too. Last night was pleasant, so we took the kids to the lake again. Rhonda had got a couple of floaty things at rummage sales yesterday, so we let them play with those. One is just a little blow up dolphin that slips around the waist. The other one they sit in, and it floats. They had fun with those. John is finding his sea legs again. He spent a lot more time in the water last night. He's still a bit wary about venturing too far out, but he loved having me help him jump out of the (shallow) water and fall back and sit down with a splash. Later when we were over at the playground, the sun was going down, it was quiet, and a whole bunch of Canadian geese flew right over our heads on their way to landing in the lake. We could hear the soft beating of their wings. Both John and Hanna watched intently as they flew over.

Hanna continues to imitate John in saying "Oh, man!", like Swiper on the Dora program. She claps her hands like John does instead of snapping her fingers, but she can say "oh nan!" now! She used to say something like "oh ann".

With John, when we put him in the swing at the playground, we usually say "ready set GOOO" when we start him off. Hanna is finally starting to say the GO now too. Except hers sounds more like DOOOOOOHH.

She sees my picture on my id for work and she says "Dadddnnnn". She puts an -nnnn sound at the end of a lot of words.

I finished up a new story last night which I'll hand out to the group at our meeting tomorrow. I wanted to get it done and out of my head so I can now go back to working on The Circle.