First off, Congratulations Anne and Peter! Andrew looks so cute!!! I am so jealous of all those who got to go and see him!! We have been telling everyone how excited we are for our new nephew, sorry we didn’t get a chance to post sooner! Secondly, thanks again to Lexi and everyone who made for such an awesome reunion. We had a fantastic time! Third, thank you Brent for sending us the Gap discount card, we went to the regular Gap, Baby Gap and Gap Outlet this weekend… we got a lot of great stuff for the fall!

And now for my exciting news: She did it… she really did it! Danica slept all night without waking up!!!! The first night we were home she did her standard waking up and at 3:00am I couldn’t get her to go back to sleep… in desperation we pulled Hayden out of bed (they share a room) put her in the crib and walked out and closed the door. Hayden took my spot in bed with Tom and I headed for the couch, expecting a LONG night… 20 minutes later she was asleep and didn’t wake again until 10:30am!! (That’s 8:30 in Utah time) The next night was just as great! After putting her in bed she woke up a few times but cried only a few minutes and after waking briefly at 2:00 she didn’t wake again until late into the morning! Then last night she didn’t wake at all… it truly seems like a miracle!! After her first failed attempt of crying it out that lasted two miserable weeks this really does feel like a miracle and I figure now that she’s got it I just won’t turn back and things should be good from here on out!!! HOORAY!!!!

I suppose moving onto other news… yes, we made it home safely. After the reunion we spent a few days in Utah running around visiting old friends. We saw BYU and then the last night we went up to Snowbird with my parents to ride the tram, zip line and Alpine Slide. It was a lot of fun. Coming home has been nice and it’s great that Cleveland feels like home.

We got our packet from the Navy with all the info about applying for the AEGD. I am so nervous about doing all of this and dealing with the detailer and such. I hate feeling like someone else has so much control of your life and saying one wrong thing can ruin everything… I know, I know, welcome to the military! I’m still getting used to this idea! We really want to go to San Diego but I’m trying to be prepared for anything. Really going somewhere else would be fine since we haven’t seen as much of the East coast as we would like to while we’ve been here.

As always, Hayden is hilarious. The other day he gave Danica a huge kiss and said “I’m pretending she’s my wife!” Then, he was hugging his toothbrush and said “Now I’m pretending this is my wife!” Another day he was sitting in the backseat of the car and suddenly said to me “Mom, if you were the sun and I was a tree and Daddy was the sky, we’d be best friends forever.” Random!

Okay, I am sure I forgot to say a lot since I haven’t written in a month but I’ll stop there and post this while I can. Great to hear from everyone!

Tracey