As you can imagine, being cooped-up with your parents for an entire summer is enough to send you screaming into the backyard.

So it’s a good thing that Midori is here for a week, hanging out with Jon and generally adding variety to our lives. It took him a day to get in a social mood, which included the aforementioned tantrum in our backyard, hollering at the top of his lungs. That was just withdrawal from the coccoon of electronics that he’d started to barricade himself behind.

Now he and Midori are as thick as thieves, playing Uno, Smartmouth, Hiss, as well as playing computer games and the like together. No creative writing as of yet, but his spelling and reading are coming back to full strength.

Midori is brought to us by David and Tara & Tamiko and Eduardo. Thanks all!