Greetings from Cleveland! It’s starting to feel like summer time here, hooray!! We’ve been having a lot of fun lately, in spite of Tom’s finger. We got season passes to the amusement park nearby (we had them last summer too) so we went there on Monday and had a lot of fun. The rest of the week has been occupied with Tom’s softball stuff and trips to the “fish store” to get a Nemo fish and then some snails, crabs and shrimp to help with the excess algae problem. I have taken Hayden to the park several times this week, yesterday we went to the Botanical Gardens and then had lunch with Tom on campus and today we went to Chuck E Cheese just because I felt like going somewhere and it was to dreary and muggy out for the park. Lots of fun! Thanks for the reports on the fun movies and books and all the great events in everyone’s life. Marnie hopefully that internet will get set up soon so we can see those pictures! We are enjoying having our house to ourselves for a while because the old upstairs neighbors moved out and new ones don’t come until the end of the month. However, we have found a few snags, for instance apparently their utilities control the hot water and the power for the washer and dryer… no wonder our utilities are so low! But in the meantime, I have no power to my washer and dryer so I can’t do any laundry until we get this sorted out. Hayden has been cracking us up lately with the things he is saying. I think he and Sadie are going to be quite the pair! Anyway, here are a few of the things he has come up with recently:

1. Hayden and I were eating dinner and Tom was getting ready for softball. Tom came in the dining room and started to sing and dance to make Hayden laugh. So Hayden said “Daddy wants to be a Wiggle!”
2. At the park Hayden wanted to play imagination games. First he wanted to pretend we were watching Aladdin and eating popcorn, he got a stick and acted like he was putting into a DVD player (which was the side of a slide) and then sat down and jumped back up again because he forgot to push play. Then, he found two leaves and brought one to me and said “Here’s your controller, we’re playing Halo on the x-box!”
3. Last night at Tom’s softball game I was holding a little baby and Hayden wanted to hold him. So I let him think he was holding him and he sang him the whole song of “Rock-a-bye-baby.” I didn’t even know Hayden knew that song!
4. When Hayden doesn’t want to take a nap he lays in bed and calls to me by saying “I miss you mommy!” If I do happen to go in to tell him to go to sleep he tries to hug me and just says “I love you mommy.” He’s so manipulative but he’s so cute it works great!

Well that’s just a few of the funny things he is doing lately. Tonight we are going to a concert for the Utah Children’s Choir that is performing here in Kirtland. We are one of the host families for some of the children so we will be bringing them back here afterward to spend the night. Tomorrow we get to go with Hayden to a birthday party at the fire station, I think he’ll like it!

I think I’ve written more than my quota for one day, I’ll write again soon! Take care!
P.S. Barb, if you could email me with the exact info for what we owe on those airline tickets and such that would be great! Thanks! My email is tracey@dankus.com... Which reminds me, Tom is usually the only one who gets emails of pictures and other stuff, I would love to be added to your address books, that goes for everyone! Thanks!