Happy Birthday Brooke, Isaac, and Jane! What a great trio! I hope you all had a fabulous birthday! I heard there is a joint party coming up for the kids which sounds like a ton of fun! Wish we could come! Hayden loved making birthday cards for his cousins and still asks me everyday at nap time whether the mail man came to get them. He picked out the pictures for the cards. He misses his cousins a ton!

Things here are good, back to normal I suppose you could say. Last weekend we spent Saturday morning at Tom's softball tournament which was fun except that they had a bad official during the second game. He kept making really bad calls in favor of the other team and it was really frustrating. The team complained to him once and got warning not to saying anything else. Later in the game he overheard one team member complain to another team member so he threw the guy out of the game! It was ridiculous! All the guy had said was something like "He can't make a call from out in that position." Anyway, it naturally got the whole team riled up and kind of spoiled the game... not to mention the fact that they lost the game and the next one... all well. We've had plenty of softball for this year.
Saturday night we went to the Indians game and had a great time. It rained but we had perfect seats that were covered so we never had to move. Again the only down side was the fact that the Indians lost by a lot!! But we bought Hayden one of those foam fingers because he has been begging for it and he loved it. He kept yelling "Come on Travis Haffananer!" He's a great little fan!
I think Hayden is finally over the time change from Washington so we can get him in bed around 9:30 which isn't bad for him. He still likes to sleep in until 9am so it's nice. My bedtime goal is to work up to getting him in bed around 8:30. But now that we have that finished we need to tackle the binky problem. I am dreading it and will probably relish in one week of having it easy to put him to bed before I give it up since last week was so challenging fighting the jetlag.

We are hoping to go camping sometime in the next month if we can find a fun place to go. We're thinking we'll wait until a little bit into September in hopes that it will cool off a little bit. It's been miserably hot and humid this summer. We had been able to console ourselves through out the winter knowing that the summer would be so nice and then this year it just didn't happen. Hopefully that will mean that the winter will be a little bit warmer too... we'll see I suppose!

Dave and Adina did you ever go up to visit Canada while you live in Cleveland? My parents are coming in October and we want to go do that but don't know for sure where to go... I guess I'll just have to take advantage of the internet!

Well I think I have babbled on long enough to give you all something new to read. I too spent the whole weekend checking to blogg only to see my own lame blogg still at the top! Oh, one more useless fact. I have decided to do the "nursery" in yellow. The "nursery" is the corner of Hayden's room where we will put the crib. I figure yellow is the only kind of girly color that will not clash with current room decor. Hayden's room is all done up in navy, red, yellow and green sports motif. Hopefully it will turn out cute. Then again, I am not going to do it until December since he needs space to play in his room while he still can!

Okay, no more useless info, I'm off to clean the house while Hayden is still sleeping and Sophie is being good. Oh wait, one more useless fact. Sophie's mom, the girl I babysit, is pregnant, due in February so when I have my baby I will be finished with my babysitting job. I am sad to lose the job but realize I can't do all 4 kids (for one we could never leave the house since I don't have a minivan, and having two newborns would be miserable!) Anyway, now you all know. Have a great day, hope to hear from you soon.