One week later...

...we are nearly recovered from our trip.  But in addition to cleaning and putting away in the week since we returned, Tom and I both had a weird flu bug that gave us aches but no fever and Dominik had a rash all over his body with no fever.  Thankfully, we seem to be all recovered now.

You might wonder what the first thing Tom would do, back from a 17-day trip with his family.  If your answer was "build stilts", you know my husband.  We saw these stilts at Conner Prairie, and Tom promised to make a pair when we got home.  Of course, when the stilts came up on the home video, Lukas asked, "When can we make the stilts, Dad?"

Here's Lukas and Konrad trying them out, with Tom's help.  Lukas has gone up to 7 or 8 steps by himself, and Konrad is content to let us lift the stilts while he hangs on...Natalie has shown no interest and I'm happy to leave it that way!