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<-(sunrise view from our balcony.)
Hello all. I know it's been a while since my last post but there's not a whole lot to report...

We bought Rockband 2 for the Wii and have been enjoying that. Andrew plays the drums, I sing and Helayna "plays" the guitar. We've been trying once again to potty train Helayna without success. She just isn't interested in the potty and when I put her in regular underwear she just pees them and continues playing-she couldn't care less. She's actually grown hostile toward the potty so we've decided to just let it go for a month and try again. Silas has mastered crawling backwards but hasn't quite caught on to crawling forwards. He can also do baby push ups! Andrew managed to capture it on video:

We're still enjoying our apartment but the weather has been rainy and cold most days the last couple of weeks so we haven't gotten out much. Friday night I babysat for our friends Della and Mario Vargas and kept their 2 year old boy, Dominic, while they went out. Saturday Andrew's shop had a football game and cookout at the recreation center right across from our apartment. Silas didn't like being out in the cold so we went shopping at the NEX while Helayna stayed with Andrew and played with his shipmate's 11 month old son, Gabe. 

Sunday night, Mario and Della returned the favor by keeping Helayna and Silas while Andrew and I went out. We went bowling with some guys from his shop for about an hour, but I got bored with it after I kept guttering my ball. We went to this little restaurant called Pepper Lunch in Yokosuka where they serve your food raw on a very hot plate and you cook it yourself. Then we went to the Honch to sing kareoke and just enjoyed having a night to ourselves without the kids.

We stayed up late on Tuesday to watch the inaugeration of President Obama, which took place at 12AM our time with his speech starting at around 2AM. We were very tired but still had Della, Mario and Dominic over for dinner last night. Andrew made spaggeti, meatballs and garlic bread all from scratch. Saturday we are all planning to go to the Buddhist Temple that I've wanted to visit since I got here, and go out to dinner afterward. Hopefully the weather will be nicer than it has been the last few days and I can get some good pictures.

Currently we are waiting for Andrew's Eval. which will determine a lot concerning the path of his career and whether or not he will re-enlist in 2011. He should get it in the next month or so and we are hoping for EARLY PROMOTE! 

We still haven't gotten our address. Andrew has to go to the post office and Housing I think and they won't let him leave work to do it. We're going to try to get it done this weekend or next if possible. 

I guess that's about all the news I have. Will update in a couple weeks. Feel free to call or email us any time! Peace.