After supper last night we sorta wandered outside, and Maya came out next door, so the kids went over and we played around over there for awhile. Maya's dad and I tossed the basketball through the hoop a few times, and John just giggled as it bounced around. They rode bike, and watched as Maya's dad trimmed a shrub and then they helped picking up branches. Later, as Hanna was running on the cement, she tripped and got a decent scrape on her knee. She naturally cried so I brought her back to the house and Nurse Mommy got her patched up.

I wrote a column I submitted to the Star Tribune editorial page. We'll see if they decide to run it or not. Either way, when I know I'll put it up on the website.

Mom sent another chicka-chicka-boom-boom book. Both of them really like the other one they have, about letters, so they were tickled to get another one, this one about numbers.