Danica has been cracking me up lately. Besides being OBSESSED with watching Dora and playing with our next door neighbor she has also been developing her imagination. She’s constantly pretending she’s doing something, mostly being a mother her to baby doll who is sad a lot... not sure what that means. But anyway, I inadvertently found a way to torture her. One night we were reading a bed time story about different animals noses. At the end it talks of human noses and I pretended to grab Danica’s nose, showing the top of my thumb in my fist they way my dad used to do to me. Well, she freaked out! She started crying and demanding I give back her nose because she needed it! I could not convince her she still had it! The next day we were driving in the car and Alyssa was just being loud and yelling so Danica and Hayden pretended to put in ear plugs. For some reason Hayden leaned over and pretended to take out Danica’s imaginary ear plugs. Oh my, was she upset! She didn’t stop yelling until Hayden pretened to put them back in!!!

Funny story about Alyssa: she is saying new words daily which is soooooo fun because Danica never did that! Danica would just look at me in silence... but anyway, all summer when we would arrive home at night the headlights would shine on the house and we would see geckos all over it so Danica would always yell out “gecko!” Well, the gecko’s are hibernating or something but now every time we pull up to the house, day or night, Alyssa yells out “gecko!”

Sometimes it’s great to be in the military: Tom has work off tomorrow for the superbowl. (We are ahead of the states so the Superbowl is on at 8:00am Monday morning!) We plan to spend the day hanging out with friends!