Well it’s been a while but I suppose late is better than never! Hayden and I are finally home back in Ohio and enjoying our time with Tom. My parents have dial up internet so between that and our busy schedule I was just not able to keep up with the blogg! I had a great time in Utah visiting cousins, grandma and friends. I think Hayden was finally old enough to really enjoy going on vacation instead of just getting stressed out by being out of his environment. He did really well the entire trip. He loved the fireworks on the 4th of July and he thought the parade was really cool, especially the airplanes that flew overhead.

Since coming home we’ve had a good time going to Tom’s softball games and enjoying the humidity! Last night we went to Geauga Lake and had a great time. Hayden loved swimming at the water park and then we went on a few rides. There was this one ride he saw and he decided he really wanted to go on it. I was sure he wouldn’t be big enough for it but the rules said he could go with Tom. I tried to talk him out of it because it spun you around in the air in circles while dropping you up and down. I saw 12 year old kids getting off dizzy. It was not a ride for little kids but he had his heart set on it. I just knew he was going to cry through the whole thing. But I was wrong and he spent the whole ride saying “This is sooooo fun!” and the whole rest of the night he kept talking about the “red ride.” What a maniac 2 year old!!

Hayden has also taken to giving me new nicknames whenever he wants. For example, it started while playing baseball he called me batter and he called himself pitcher and would say things like “Batter, will help me fix my pants?” “Thank you batter.” But then it got carried off the baseball field and he called me batter all day. The next day he saw me washing dishes so he started to call me “dish guy” and would say “dish guy, what are you doing?” Or he would give me different name and say “laundry guy, can you help me?” He uses the same calm, tone of voice every time. It cracks me up, hopefully you can all see it when we get together.

We have changed our travel plans for going to Washington for the wedding. On Sunday night Tom was just sitting there and started to say that he wished we could to Washington sooner because he didn’t feel like we were going to be there long enough. I really didn’t think we could change our flights at this point but we got lucky and there were some flights available. Tom and Hayden had rapid reward tickets that can be used for anything so we easily changed them to fly out on Monday night. However, my ticket was a little trickier and in order to get on the same flights with Tom and Hayden my ticket would end up costing a little over $500. I have a ticket credit for Continental Airlines that expires in August and I was never able to use it because it was always too expensive to book a ticket for me and for Hayden on Continental so it was going to just be wasted. Well anyway, using the credit I was able to get a ticket for only $300 on Continental and we could cancel the southwest ticket to be used whenever we wanted. So the moral of the story is: Tom gets to play Superdad and fly alone with Hayden to and from Washington. I get to enjoy the luxury of flying on an airplane alone… what will I do if I am not busy singing songs and playing games? I just might relax and read a book! I don’t fly out until Tuesday morning but then we all fly out at the same time on Sunday the 7th.

Well anyway, I know I should have a lot more to write since it has been so long but I just can’t seem to think of anything else right now. I’ll just have to write more soon. Good luck everyone with all your exciting plans, it seems like everyone has something fun going on! I better go get working on the laundry so that I have time to read a little bit from Harry Potter!
Tracey