Chris left yesterday for a weekend in Virginia and Oskar and I attended the Ice-Cream Social at Dundee Highlands. Dairy Queen provided the ice cream for $1.50 each and generally it looked like a good time was had by all. Gretchen went to the doctors to see if she can get over this really nasty cold she has. We should know in a couple of days. The doctor thinks it’s mostly allergens. Xavier is learning to talk now. He signs and utters something that sounds like “more” and “out” predictably. He has a few other utterances as well, but he’s not reciting Roald Dahl or E. B. White quite yet.