Sept 4th

Dear Uncle Nate,

Things here are plugging away. It's labor day weekend so we get to spend some time as a family. The pictures are from this evening's walk. The sunset was beautiful. We went walking around the campus of Cranbrook, a private school with our good friends the Behrends and Williams.

Addy starts the second grade on Tuesday. She is note reading her violin music, and started her soccer league. She is adjusting to being back in Michigan. She is starting to get afraid of the dark at night. In fact we can't even get her to go to sleep by herself. She is really dramatic and tries to find any excuse to not stay in bed. "I'm really scared. What if a stranger comes in my room." or "im just really hungry" or "why don't you love me anymore?" Craig can't handle the female drama.

Hope is growing up. She also started soccer. She is now making art projects. Right now her project is to take a perfectly fine piece of white paper and cut it up into 50 pieces, all different shapes. Not sure why we just sit back and let her do it. Just as Hope tormented Addy's art projects, Hayden likes to come up and destroy Hope's projects. Karma. Addy just grins. Hope loves the movie Tangled. She loves Repunzel. She thinks she is a princess, we treat her like one even though we don't think she is one.

Hayden is officially in nursery. It's a big day for a parent at church when the baby is in nursery. It means you can try and enjoy church meetings without having to roam the halls with Hayden. Although sometimes he made for a nice excuse to exit. Hayden's nickname is Dizzle dude, started by you while he was in the womb. He can say it too. He's a happy little boy. He, like Hope, is very independent. While other children cling to their parents, he wanders off to do his own thing. Hayden says some funny words, "dizzle dude," yellow is "lellow" , he's polite because is likes to say "thank you." He loves to say "shadow." In fact today in church it was real quiet and he started saying "Shadow," over and over again real loud. Half of the congregation turned to look at who was saying it so loud, the other half don't need to look, they just know its the Noisy Hunter Family.

Craig is working. Thats about it.

I am still pregnant. Due in December. Craig and I went on a date the other night, and saw the last Harry Potter. It is really good. I can't believe we just saw it. It's been in the theaters for two months. Craig and I still have a good time together. We laugh together often. Nice because our kids are nuts, and we are adding to the chaos. Love you