It was a fun and busy week! Mom and Cooper kicked off the week by crashing the Kindergarten field trip at Beaver Creek. I was at school, so Cooper joined Mommy and Heather's class for a morning of nature stations. Coop played "I spy" with the dead animals :)
Watched for winter birds.....
Touched a beaver's mouth to make sure his teeth were real, yep, they were.
And they learned about Fancy the box turtle- she likes to eat strawberries and worms, what a combination. Cooper even had the chance to pet her and he wasn't scared (no surprise there).
As we predicted, my tooth fell out just a few days after my first one did. I came home from school with my tooth inside of the tooth necklace Mommy safely packed away for me "just in case" that ever happened. I explained that I was wiggling my tooth with my tongue during storytime and out it popped! I got off the bus with a big gap between my bottom teeth. Tooth fairy time once again :)
The tooth fairy (whose name is Ethan), left me a receipt, $2, a batman spinbrush and some new decals for my bedroom wall. I am loving this
lose a tooth and get trinkets thing!
It was bitterly cold during the week, so Mommy passed time by playing many games with Cooper. They played his favorite Candy Land. Do you know that cheaters DO win?!?!?
They hit the mall for some retail therapy and of course, quarter rides. That is the only way Cooper gets inside of the mall.
My school had a big prize drawing for kids who have earned Eagle Eye tickets. I earn tickets for doing respectful, fair and responsible things at school. I have earned lots of tickets this year. My parents are so proud. My name was drawn for one of these winter cheese hats, I was so happy to come home wearing this awesome thing (even Mommy thought it was "cute" despite the shape and color and link to a certain NFL team). I am one lucky kid!
Cooper had crazy hair day at preschool and he requested a mohawk. He never wants "product" in his hair for some reason, where I love to have "cool hair" for school. This time, he couldn't wait to have his hair lathered up and sticking up. By the time preschool was over, his hair was flat once again.
This past weekend, we were supposed to have our annual trip to Lutsen, but the windchills in that area were -30 to -50 below. Since our entire time is spent sledding, snowmobiling, and snowshoeing, we decided to go with plan B... Three Bears Lodge/Waterpark. Meggen, Pete and their girls, Lauren and Abby all met up on Friday afternoon. We rented a cabin, so it was a win-win for all. Lauren is 7, Abby is 5 and we play so well together. Lauren read her favorite book for our bedtime story, The Day the Crayons Quit... it is a hilarious book!
All weekend, we spent our time between playing at the cabin with our toys, DVD's, and our own made-up games. We hit the waterpark several times during the day too. The waterpark has a wave pool, lazy river, waterslides (4), hot tubs, swimming pool, fountains, etc... We had so much fun playing in the water!
Since I am 42 inches, I was able to go down the fast body slides. They were dark, twisty and lightning quick! I loved it and was sooooo proud of my bravery.
The next thing I knew, shorty came down the body slide a few moments later (Daddy felt it was OK to do this, Mom had no idea what was going on, ugh!) Needless to say, he loved it too. I was confused by this since I felt finally so big by being tall enough to slide this year. That's the difference between a rule follower and a rule breaker.
Lauren, Abby and I decided we didn't need tubes on the lazy river, so we just ran the course over and over again. It was really fun and exhausting! We put on many miles....
Our last day was spent packing up and a final stop at the arcade (our parents hid this fun place from us until the bitter end). Cooper liked the whack a shark game and I liked the crane/candy and basically anything that spit out tickets. We had over 100 tickets in the end and were able to get all sorts of fun trinkets... pop rocks, spider man notebooks, pirate rings, princess crayons (thanks to Daddy who pushed the button too early).
We missed our Lutsen trip but had a great trip overall. The flu bug hit our cabin (Abby) in the middle of the night, so we have all been officially exposed. Mommy was down and out for a day and a half and knock on wood, besides being exhausted the rest of us are doing OK. Cooper's been hacking (thanks to the chlorinated pools we assume) but he is taking his asthma meds as recommended. This little mini-vacay was just what we all needed. Now let's hope warmer weather returns soon so that we can enjoy our upcoming weekend at the lake!
