We've had a nice week here and have stayed really busy. We're so happy to hear from you Mike and Brooke! It sounds like things are awesome! Not much new here. I started going to Institute on Wednesday's. They have a class from 12-1:30 that has babysitting available. The topic is something about increasing your scripture study skills, we're practicing with the book of Revelations. The teacher is one of those people who has read the bible in Hebrew and is working on doing it in Greek. She knows everything and it makes my brain hurt just to listen to her. The class is really small so when she asks a question I feel like I need to answer. Which means I need to come to class prepared and I need to pay attention (not half listen while dealing with the kids)! I haven't done that in years!!! So it should be a good challenge for me.

We've been busy shoe shopping today and now the kids are taking a nap. Hayden's preschool teacher said that Hayden is doing well. I asked if there are any issues we could work on and she said it's just the normal kind of thing where he will try to take a toy from someone. When she intervenes he says "But I asked nicely and they said no." That sounds exactly like something Hayden would say! Anyway, his teacher has a good attitude about it and just said "But that's what we're here to learn!" So I am going to continue to work with him a bit on waiting his turn for things.

We went to Walmart today and at one point Hayden was on the next aisle but when I turned down that aisle he was gone. He wanted to play hide and seek but he hadn't told me that so I was panicking and yelling his name but he wouldn't answer because he was hiding. Very stressful. Needless to say I had a long talk with him after that.
He asked me to buy him a bubble blowing gun and I said no so he tried to act all okay about it and he handed it to me and said "Okay, please just put it back for me then." But his chin was quivering and he climbed in the stroller and just started to cry. It was the saddest thing you've ever seen. It was not a typical tantrum, it was a quiet, depressed cry because he was so sad he couldn't have it. We didn't get the toy but he luckily cheered up after a while!

Okay, I better go. I just wanted to say hi before the weekend! We are having dinner with our next door neighbors (they are not LDS) on Sunday so that should be fun. Tonight we are going to Cedar Point to enjoy the Halloween festivities. It will probably rain on us but it should be fun anyway! Good luck on your race Dave! The colder it gets the more I am looking at getting a treadmill... don't freeze Dave!

Tracey