I hope that she will forgive me for this, but I thought I would paste an email from A rather than draft a post from me tonight. Here is an email that A wrote to Daddy tonight before he left on a trip to Pakistan:

Dear Daddy,

            Hello!!!!! Is your ring tone on the bark- barking. I don't think the auditions went well for Sleepy Hallow. I was in front of them and I heard them saying the people who got in from my line and none of the people were me. Plus, the only time they looked at Maddie and I was in the very beginning of that dance and we didn't know it so that was a bad impression on Mr. Webre and the other person like Mr. Webre which is Mrs. CC. I think it went well for Alice but I don't know. We were ACTUALLY supposed to be there at 3:30 so we got the time mixed up. We came 40 minutes late and missed the Alice audition but luckily we (Maddie and I) got a place with the pigs. If we are any part in Alice, it's a pig. Bronwin or however she spells her name is going to be a Daisy, you know, the back-up dancers for the Mad Hatter who will be Jared Nelson. We could also have been a sandwich card for the queen of hearts. You know them, they also do the domino effect thing and they do the cartwheels! Well, I hope you remember them. Well, we are to tall for them. Pigs were the only part we could literally get because baby flamingos are already off the list. We are too tall for the sandwich cards and we are too short for daisies. The only other option is to not get in which I hope doesn't happen. I just came from Joanna's party and I had one small cupcake (which was the limit of cupcakes you could have. Yes I know 1 at the maximum) and the movie was good. (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants) It was still fun to see it for the second time. Which reminds me, I'm going to read A TON tonight. I think I can finish it by tomorrow. I hope the ride to the air port is good and I miss you SSSSOOOO much already. I will email you lots and I hope you have a safe trip and flight. If they serve brownies or cofee cake on the plain, keep in mind that I love those deserts. You are taking United Airlines right??? Well, I still wish you would leave notes for us to open each night which you used to do when you went on trips. I'm really sorry if you are in a meeting and you here a loud barking sound. 🙂 (your ringtone). I think mommy will be home soon from Matt Hoffman's birthday thing or whatever. I hope I'll see you soon and I'll tell you how it goes for Alice in Wonderland and Sleepy Hallow. I REALLY HOPE I GET IN TO BOTH!! I won't get my hopes up too early though. I'll just asume I'm not getting into either of them and then if I DO get into one of them I'll be happy. P.S. This is how you change your ring tone. So, go to the app settings with the gray wheel thing on the background and scroll down until you see the ring tone or something like that. Press on that and scroll down till you see the word classic. Press on that and brows through the sound. If yours is on vibrate, then look on the side of your phone a button that is shaped as a long oval and and switch it to other side. That's either the off/on button or the vibrate/non-vibrate button. I hope this information works out well an that you put it to good use.      Hope this email isn't too long.

                                                                                  Love and miss you so incredibly much,

                                                                                                                                                     Alexa