Detachment date is approved

My Commanding Officer approved my proposed transfer date today.  As it stands right now, we'll be flying out of Japan on October 3rd.  It looks like we'll be flying out of Yokota Air Base on the Patriot Express, which is the government contracted flight.  It'll take us to Seattle, and then we'll go from Seattle to San Diego on a commercial flight.  With the approved date, we can now work on the many other details of our move--household goods pickup and delivery, express shipment pickup and delivery, lodging in San Diego, etc.  We'll keep everyone posted as our plans solidify. 

In other random news, there's a newly refurbished playground over near the middle school that RJ and Ryleigh got to go test drive today.  Part of it looks like a pirate ship.  Very exciting...

RJ has been Mr. Question lately.  Mr. Emotion has also been tagging along sometimes, too, like today when we started crying after he asked why the sidewalk was being demolished by the new barracks building.  I explained that it was being rebuilt to allow for cars to go from the street to a new parking lot.  "Why does it have to be replaced?" and  "Why is the impact hammer tearing it apart?"were followed closely by "I'm so sad.  How are the people going to go down the sidewalk?" (tears flowing).  Oh, the joys of a tired little boy who wants to understand everything around him.

Ryleigh's vocabulary is expanding quickly.  Besides some of her favorite words ("No!", "upstairs," and "apple juice."), she's now repeating many of the new terms and words we tell her and also coming up others on her own.  "Chicken," "Ryleigh picture," and "cupcake" are some new terms she's been throwing around.  She's a quick learner.  She'll be forming sentences before we know it!

That's about it in the random news department.  Have a great day!

-Jip