Kurt is recovering well from the surgery on his foot and ankle. The doctor took his cast off yesterday and gave him an immobilization boot instead. He is still not allowed to put any weight on it, but he is supposed to take it off a few times a day and point and flex his ankle 50 times. The stitches are supposed to come out next week. Tomorrow he has his first day of school, though he's been there getting ready several days this week.

I'm back to school work myself, hoping to be able to finish up in the next month or so. Tomorrow I should finish up another paper, so that leaves just one short one and one long one to go. I've decided to give up Bible study on Wednesday mornings until I get the school work finished. Also, Kurt will have to use my car (because his is stick shift), so I'll be stuck at home unless I take him to work.

This morning Luke discovered that it hurts your eyes to look at the sun too much. We were taking a walk, and I observed him looking up at the sun through the trees. I pointed to it and said, "sun, sun". He looked at it for a few minutes blinking and squinting. Then he looked at me, pointed to his eye and said, "eye"! His new word of the week is "pocket". In the picture you can see across the bridge of his nose and to the left where he fell off the bed and cut his face on a suitcase.