Friday, April 24, 2009

Chippies


Every year I get a bunch of baby chicks for my AP students to train in class. It means that the weekend before I get to house those chicks in our house. Cooper looks forward to it every year and now Cameron likes them too! This year was the first year Cooper shed tears when they had to leave. No more chippies...:(

Cooper's new bike


Okay, I swore I wouldn't "bribe" my kids to be potty trained. But hey, if it works why not? (Especially once who have experienced cleaning up accidents!) So, Brenden and Cooper headed down to the local bike shop to look at bikes. Cooper found the perfect blue bike and then the talk about using the potty ALL of the time started to take place. Brenden proposed the idea to Cooper that they could get the bike on specific terms: every time Cooper did his poop in the potty he could ride his bike. If he had an accident then it would get hung up in the garage until he proved his potty abilities again. Cooper thought about this for about 20 laps (on the bike) around the bike store. He finally decided that this deal sounded okay. So, home they came with a new bike. Dad let him make two laps around the drive to show me before it was hung up. No sooner had the bike stopped moving on the hook--Cooper eagerly stated, "Mom, I have to go poop!" So off we went and ever since Cooper has become a potty pro! Not to mention a pretty good little biker.

Camping




More camping and biking trips the last two months down to Moab. We have a new favorite place where the kids can run, climb through rocks, and we can ride the rhino or ride mountain bikes right from camp!