sick week

Last week, a stomach bug got each member of the family in successive days.  Josh and Ally came down for a visit and got it also.  Fereshteh held out the longest but still succombed.  For each person, the suffering lasted about a day and a half.

We've had some very pleasant weather this fall, so before the great wave of illness we were visiting parks and lakes on Saturdays.  Below are photos from a short hike in Busey Woods.

Clara likes play-dough and wears goggles during bath time.

Janny has some more words but her favorite is still no.  She loves to eat breakfast and to take walks.  She and I walked around our whole block together.  She laughs at physical humor and cries from not getting her way with much gusto.

We went to the Illinois-Michigan football game in Ann Arbor on Saturday.  The Illini got crushed in a dispirited performance.  We got soaked by the incessant rain, but our spirits remained upbeat, mostly because our tailgating was scheduled for after the game inside out of the rain.  Also, we may have a bad football team, but our academics remain top notch.