There’s not a whole lot new on this side of the world. It seems like the heat is beginning to break, the last few mornings have been pleasant. We’ll see if it lasts.

Our friend Elaine got here late Thursday night. She will be with us until June 14^th, mom and Elaine will be traveling back to the US together. They have a lot of traveling planned over the next couple of weeks, mostly in the northeast part of India.

Clay got another flat tire on his scooter this week, luckily he was prepared from his last experience and it wasn’t nearly as painful.

Claire was running full speed ahead on the side walk this morning and crashed the left side of her face along the cement. She’s fine, just looks a little worse for the wear.

Clay’s news:

Clay is officially a non-degree seeking graduate student at UNL. That’s right, can you believe it! He’s going back to school- 7 years in, 7 years out; it’s time to get back in. He will be taking classes this summer and next fall while he works on his graduate school application to hopefully start the Ed Psych QQME (Qualitative and Quantitative Mathematical Equations) masters program next spring.

Claire’s Corner:

Monday night we were putting Claire to bed and just before we closed the door she said, “Bye bye, phir melinge!” (That’s “take care” in Hindi)

Earlier the same day she was saying, “grandma, donde está mommydaddy?” (She often refers to mom and dad as one person, it’s not mommy and daddy, it’s mommydaddy.)

OK, I’m going to tell this story knowing that I’m opening up a window judgment into our parenting skills. We have a “Potty for M&M’s” program running in our house right now. So every time Claire does #1 or #2 in the potty chair she gets 2 M&M’s. OK, so just as the program works, on Wednesday Claire did #1, told grandma and she received her award. About 30 minutes later, grandma was on the phone with a friend and Claire came into her room holding the potty chair full of “potty” about 1 inch high. Grandma’s thinking, there’s no way she could have gone that much again, so soon. So she walks out to the family room, where the potty chair resides, and notices that there is an open bottle of water on the coffee table, emptied just enough to fill the potty chair 1 inch high with water . That’s right folks; Claire tried to trick the system. It seems as though she poured water from the bottle into the potty chair and claimed it as “hers” to receive the prize of 2 M&M’s. Tricky little sucker, we are in trouble. Luckily grandma’s quick, no M&M reward for that one.

Sincerely,
Julianna Ehlers