It's Tuesday and some excitement about the next two weekends of the running of the people and the running of the horses.  Evy is running in the marathon. Hurray for Evy.  As for the horsies, more on that next week. 

Meanwhile, Tenzin is here for a couple hours to teach Bea some Tibetan and to keep her entertained for long enough that a blog entry might appear. 

On the sign language front, the beast has picked up "hello", a simple salute from the forehead. She's still really into "milk" but she does it all the time, which makes us think she likes to do it but doesn't know what it means.

On the homeschooling front, we've had a lot of great feedback from people in the neighborhood. We're very excited about homeschooling in the cultural capitol of NYC. It turns out that the Brooklyn Waldorf School also offers classes for homeschoolers and right down the street from us is the Sunnyside Arts Cooperative where they offer ballet instruction in Japanese.  

There is no time for anything these days as usual, so a hello to Whit, Zoe, Ray, Catherine, Chris in Australia, Erik and Marcia, and all the crew. Evan too! And Miles and Rachel in the neighboring borough.

Zoe, we're doing shots for flu only for the Burmese Prince and myself.  We decided against swine flu shot for Bea since it's untested on the little ones, and our doctor doesn't have non-mercury seasonal flu shots for babies, and we can't find them anywhere. It's all a big conundrum of conundrumness but the bottom line is that we're viewing flu as not the plague. (In fact, our pediatrician says he hasn't seen swine flu in his pediatric patients yet this season. Queens and Brooklyn seem to have burned out on the swine flu.)

Jen B do you want to come over tomorrow? Do you have a key? Please just show up. If we're napping we'll be hiding out in the bedroom. 

Did you hear the one about the pilots who overshot the runway because they were on Facebook? If you've written to me on Facebook, I'm not there. Sorry.  

Also Catherine I will write to you re: Boulder/Denver.  Summer program is a great idea.

Other news is that it's raining in Sunnyside and that's all the news that there is. Peace out to all of you and we'll be back next week.