Last night after naps, I took John over to the lake. Hanna stayed home and apparently just rode her bike around for a long time. It wasn't terribly warm, a rather chilly breeze at times. But, I put that little full body suit on John that Rhonda had got somewhere. I think that helped, and he stayed in the water longer than he probably would've otherwise. It was fun just watching him play by himself in the sand. At one point some Mexican boys, I think, came to play. They were speaking Spanish, and having fun, and John chased after them a few times. The boys liked that and kinda played with him. A couple times I heard them say "El Nino!" When he was cold enough, he got out and I put his clothes on him and he played on the playground for awhile.

When we got home, I then took Hanna with me to the grocery store. In one aisle, we saw an older lady and Hanna said "Gramma!" Then, when we were checking out, an older man came behind us in line, and started talking to Hanna, and Hanna charmed him. He bought her a little inflated Ernie (from Sesame Street) balloon on a stick! Hanna and John had fun chasing around the house with that before bedtime.

Hanna wasn't quite as sniffly this morning, though both of them were coughing a little bit. This steenking cold weather isn't helping. What a waste of August. That makes me most bummed, that we probably won't have any more really hot days to enjoy the lake. So, we basically got just one month of hot lake weather. Out of the entire year. Boooooo. It might get into the mid 80s a few days this week, so we'll see if stays dry too.

Lately John has figured out that Rhonda and I have names too. So, he'll ask us our names, then he'll start calling us "Jeff" or "Rhonda". I think he likes discovering that revelation.