All is well here in Ohio. We are enjoyoing great weather, I love the summer time here, it stays in the mid 70's most of the time! Tom is really busy with school, it is a lot more demanding than last year because he has a lot of lab work to do. He works really hard while he's at school so he still has a lot of time to spend with Hayden and I when he comes home. Our new fish raising hobby is going well. For those who don't know we bought a 55 gallon tank on E-bay and are raising semi-aggressive tropical fish in it. We have three different types of fish and then they will all end up being 8-12 inches long when fully grown! Each fish has a name and personality and it's been a lot of fun to share this experience as a family. Hayden frequently runs up to the tank saying "nack" "nack." He loves to feed the fish their snack. Finding Nemo continues to be his favorite movie, he wants to watch it all day so he constantly brings me the remote and says "Mimo." It reminds me a lot of Sadie when we saw her last Thanksgiving because she was really into watching Nemo back then. I can't wait for them to get a chance to play together now that they are getting older.
Hayden is picking up words left and right and gets funnier by the day. He loves the kids I baby sit, he's always giving them hugs and even cries when they have to go home! However, he doesn't want to go to nursery. He was fine the first few weeks and then he just started to cry and he cries the whole two hours. He gets so upset if Tom and I aren't around, I sure hope it's a phase! Just as we were getting desperate trying to decide what to do about his nursery blues I got called as a nusery leader to work in the same nursery as Tom. We debated putting Hayden into the other nursery his age (our ward has 8 nurseries so he has several choices) but we decided to take the chance that he won't cry as much next year when he moves into a new class because he will still be with all his church friends. We've got our fingers crossed- in the meantime he does great when he is in the class with Tom and I. He's great at folding his arms for the prayer, singing the songs and coloring. In fact, he's obsessed with coloring all the time which can be a problem when he decides to color in Tom's textbooks!! And he calls crayons "bebe's" for some reason...
For Labor Day weekend we went with some friends down to Columbus and took turns going to the temple there. On Monday we went to the beach on Lake Erie and enjoyed the sand and swimming. We've been to several Indian's games and endless softball and football games for Tom. All around it's been a great summer and we are looking forward to having Kim come in a couple of weeks. Hope all is well! Talk to you later!
Tracey