Cooper Grade 2

Cooper is in 2nd grade this year and his cute teacher is Miss Maurin, she is the same teacher that Alivia had last year.

Unfortunately his teacher became very ill the first week of school with some serious heart problems. She is maybe her mid or late twenties.

So he went through a week or two of subs and struggled through the changes. His teacher came back for a day or two and became ill again and he know how a permanent sub until further notice. 

I met his sub Ms. Leslie at parent teacher conference and she is fun and was so nice, I told her my concerns she took some notes and we figured some things out. I feel a lot better after meeting with her and am super excited for Cooper and the year ahead of him.

He is still up to his same stuff, dressing up in costumes, pirates and police officers lately. He is loving Eggo waffles and wants to have school lunch everyday. Last year, he would almost be physically ill thinking he had to eat school lunch because he was nervous about what he would have to eat.

He really wants to be Luigi for Halloween and he wants his brothers to be Mario and Toad.

What have we been up to lately?

 The same stuff we are always up too...school, homework, chores, yard work, room mom stuff, working out, cleaning, parent teacher conferences, losing the hermit crab 'Nancy" and then finding her again a week later still alive, flying, errands, shopping, Ben prepping for Target Canada interviews, searching for hotels for a fall break (UEA) vacation and some digital scrapbooking. 

 The kids brought all of their baby books up the other day and the only one that didn't have one was Kessler:( rude mother I know. My excuse is all the other kids baby books are paper scrapbooking and I digital scrapbook and so I don't print them out like I should.

(p.s. typos in the above page that I haven't fixed yet)

So I have MANY pictures that I need to take care of and get journal-ed. Here are 'some' of the pages that have been done recently. Now off to printing them...right? 

Nana and Papa

Ben's parents came to Utah for a week and stayed with us for a few days, and stayed in Park City for a few days at their time share. They invited us up for some time, we may have over stayed our welcome:) four kids in a two bedroom can be crazy. The kids had a blast, swimming two or three times a day, a gondola and a ski lift ride over the fall colors, and the best part being out of school for three days. Here are some pics from the weekend.

Papa doing water aerobics with the kids.

The gondola ride, the kids were more nervous than I thought they would be, they love rides at amusement parks, so I thought it would be a piece of cake...not so much. They got used to it pretty fast though.

Alivia and Cooper in front of us, you can see how Cooper is holding on, he wasn't sure about being on the lift that didn't have him closed in.

Once we got to the top we hiked down about 1.5 miles and watched all the bikers going down on some bike trails, off of jumps and doing cool tricks the kids loved it!

There were a lot of pics I didn't get, Ben and Papa playing and goofing with the kids in the pool throwing them up in the air, Bauer being brave and going in the pool without his life jacket, doing flips under water.

What a fun trip I wish we could do that every year at the same time, the fall colors were amazing.