After a rainy weekend, we've had three beautiful sunny days.

World's longest hopscotch arena.  Numbers were added later to the squares.  By the time we brought the kids in for bed, the neighborhood kids were up to over 250.

Dave called home on Tuesday to report the unusual walk he had to his office.  It required stepping over duct-taped students wriggling on the floor of the central building at the university.  It's part of the initiation ritual for the first year students at the university.  They start out in the main lawn, have their ankles duct-taped together and their hands duct-taped behind their back, and then they need to roll/crawl/writhe their way across the lawn, up the steps of the main building, through the long hallway, and into the cafeteria.  Some of the students were taped together.  And it was muddy.  This is what we could have in the U.S. if we didn't have anti-hazing laws.  :)

Our big kiddos walked home from school alone yesterday.  The rotors are starting to come off of this helicopter parent, and it's a great feeling.