Coolidge

Sept 11 2011

2011-09-11T18:26:00.000-07:00

Hello, haven't blogged for awhile. I'll pick it up from last spring break. We went to Great Wolf Lodge in the Wisconsin Dells. We had a wonderful time. We went with the DeVores. Stayed for two nights. 6 hour drive. Not bad. Clayton, Cooper and Campbell loved the waterpark. We saw Karla and Turner Graves there. We went out to dinner at Buffalo Phils with everyone then watched the end of the Butler national championship game together. The room was awesome. Conner MacRae went with us too. We stopped at LegoLand in Chicago. Boys built a lego pyramid and Cooper was enclosed inside of it. The 4D movie was the best part. Fun movie that spit out water. After GWL we went and visited my Grandpa Coolidge. He was 93. That was the last time we saw him alive. He died July 13th 2011. Clayton and I went back up to Baraboo for the funeral. We saw my parents, Aunt Mary, Tom, Tommy, Joelle, Kessie, Josiah, Mallory, Scarlet Belle, Conner, Carol. A lot of people. It was good to go up there and bring Clayton. I was so proud of Clayton that he wanted to come with me.
Summer was fun. We watched Zach and Noah, Rylon off and on. We went to Alabama Gulf Shores for a week. That was awesome. Beachs, restaurants, pools. We caught crabs, jellyfish, stingrays, and saw a shark 50 ft from us while we were in the water. We built sand castles, swam a lot in the pools. Went to The Hangout, and Lambert's Cafe home of the throwed rolls. Went to a great italian rest too. Don't goto FlorBama restaurant as it is not kid friendly. 13 hour drive, kids did great. Campbell loves the pool now. He loves Mallory's pool too. He jumps in off of the side if Becky or I are there to catch him.
Boys have started school. Clayton and Cooper are doing great. Clayton is in challenge class and is doing wonderful on his tests. He has a lot of homework now and reading. Never before this much homework. And he is doing pup running after school on Tues and Thurs. Had his first meet yesterday. Becky was there and said he tried hard. Cooper has 5 gems already in first grade. First boy to do that and only second kid to do it in his class. Cooper is smart too and wants to do well in class. His reading seems to be excellent. He played soccer yesterday and did great. He is small but keeps up and more than holds his own. He seems to be a great little athlete.
Campbell is growing up fast. Talking a lot already. He'll be too next month. 3 word sentenses. Moves the chair in the kitchen around to get what he wants. Got Zours today. Becky and I had a date night last night. First on in a while. Went to Cooper's Hawk then to a movie called Contagion. Great movie. Saw Gerald at the restaurant. Used to play lunch ball with him at the Jordan Y. He is fun. Had a flat tire after dinner that we had to fix. Bummer, but it worked out ok. Kaitlin Fox babysat the boys. She did a good job.
Watched the Colts get slapped today 34 to 7 by the texans at the mishlers house. Bummer. It was fun though. Clayton and Cooper came over after they got back from Marlene's church rally. They played bingo, dunk tank and bounce house. Clayton and Alex won the cornhole tourney. They each got a $10 gift card to Best Buy. Cooper hit the person on the dunk tank down on his first throw. He threw the football today great.
Daycare has been going smooth here. Making money while staying at home with Campbell anyway. Giabella is here all day, then Mallory, Paolo, Cade, Cody, Zach, Noah, come after school with Clayton and Cooper. Zoe comes before school only. P and G get here at ten till 7am. I take Campbell and G to the Monon for a couple of hours and I play bball. I still have fun playing. Hit game winner Friday.
Played in the monon league twice now. Won one and got third in the other. Bout to start again. Playin with Nuckols, Langston, Big Nick, Abisi, Lamers, Ricus, Doug, Cory, and Pete. We have a good team. Ricus broke his are and Lamers are going to sit out the third season. Ricus broke his arm on my head trying to block a shot against Ben's team. Going to pick up Curtis from the monon. I pretty much distribute, move the ball and hit open threes. It's fun. Playin fantasy football too. With Noszka for the 6th year and in my own in Langstons league. Its fun cept Peyton went down this yr.

Spring Break 2011

2011-04-14T05:44:00.000-07:00

Clayton Cooper and Campbell had a jam packed Spring Break. It started on Friday with a Clone Wars finale party. Zach, Noah, Cade, Cody, Cayden and Conner came over. Pizza time! Saturday we took it easy and shopped for snacks and played around the house. Sunday we headed to Legoland Discovery Center in Chicago. We met Misty, Matt, Zach and Noah there. Connor went with us and helped Cooper build a giant lego castle. Cooper was inside it as it was built around him. We learned how legos are built and saw a 4D movie that everyone loved. Campbell broke his 4D glasses one minute into the show. Clayton and Cooper bought a Lego set each with there money. Connor and Zach helped them build it when we arrived at Great Wolf Lodge! 2 nights there. It was a blast. Clayton and I rode all the slides with Connor. Even Becky rode the big slides this time. Zach did too! Racing slides were my fav. Family tube slide had a dousy of a first backwards drop. We saw Turner and Karla Graves. What a surprise. Turner was fun as we played with him in the wave pool and everywhere else. Cooper loves the wave pool. We all went out to eat the second night at Knucleheads. Such a fun arcade place. Huge! We played games and ate dinner then went back to the room to watch the second half of the Butler game. bummer game. Clayton and Cooper had so much fun. Campbell ventured into the wave pool on the last day. We left GWL to visit my Grandpa John in Baraboo. He is 93. Still has his wits about him. Wishes he didn't need help with day to day living. Headed home Tuesday night. Wed we took it easy. Zach and Noah came over. Wed night I had a playoff game. We won by 43. Thursday was a nice day. Zoe came over. Friday we all went to the mall with Grandma Carol for the grand opening of the indy lego store. 3 hour wait to get in. 15 min wait to build a lego block and get a certificate. done. boys had fun and got on TV with Dick Wolfsie. Turner met us up there and we played and ate at the food court. Got home in time for Marlene and Nathan to bring us all milkshakes and cupcakes! Kids loved it. Vanilla and chocolate shakes for taking care of the Peyton and Leo. Kids had fun Wed and Thur walking and taking care of the dogs. Friday night Becky took Clayton and Cooper to Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2. Marlene, Nathan, Misty, Zach, Noah, Tracey, and Courtney went too. Saturday I took Clayton to see Battle LA. He loved it, wants to see it again on redbox. Sunday I took the boys to Old Country Buffet for breakfast brunch. Cooper had a great time and was so sweet. Clayton had fun too. Then I went to woodwind with Phil to play 18. We both shot a 98. Got my first birdie early in the season at the 9 hole. Becky and the boys went to Grandmas for lunch. Awesome Spring Break!

Intro Coolidge Blog

2011-02-24T05:52:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone who cares! Going to try this blogging to share what we do to our friends and to keep a history of what we do and how are three boys are growing up. Right now Clayton is 8, Cooper 5 and Campbell 16 months. Becky works at American Funds for 10 years now. I run a daddy daycare and love it. Clayton and Cooper's best friends come over everyday after school. They do there homework, I check it, then we play. Right now it's winter so we play a lot of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Four of us play at a time. We also have been playing Halo Risk and a card game called Golf. The kids really like Golf. You put out 9 cards face down then take turns trying to get the lowest scoring cards. Cody won last night with a negative 6. Kings are worth neg 2. Cade loves CodMod. So do Cayden and Conner. Zoe and Zach play Moshii Monsters. Noah goes back and forth. Cooper likes every game. He always wants to play Risk. Campbell likes being in the room with all the kids. The interaction seems great for him. He will be like Clayton and Cooper, always having fun. Clayton and Cooper are doing awesome in school. Clayton got a Top Tiger award and is in the 3rd grade challenge class. Getting mostly all 4's on his report card. Cooper has shown vast improvement quickly in kindergarten. His teacher is very proud of him. She says he is always happy and kind to friends and helps out whenever he can. Cooper listens to directions and does not talk in the hall or even look at his daycare friends when he is walking in the hallways.
Last Summer is when we started the daycare. Clayton's best friend from class was tired of going to ESE and wanted to come to Clayton's house everyday. So Zach and Noah have come ever since. Then Cade and Cody who live up the street started to come. Then Cayden and Conner. I watch Conner during the day as he just turned 5. Clayton and Cooper went to Conner's birthday party at Monkey Joe's. They had a blast then went back to Conner's house for cake and ice cream. But Clayton did not have any as he is allergic to peanuts and won't chance eating anything he is unsure of. Maybe we went a little overboard by telling him he may die if he eats nuts, but its true. We used to not let Cooper eat any nuts either, but have become lax on that since we believe he is not allergic.
Last summer we went to Charleston South Carolina for vacation. We had fun at the beach. Clayton was fearful of the jellyfish, but we did not run into any. We stayed at a wonderful condo compliments of Becky's boss Rick. We visited an aircraft carrier and a submarine. We hit a beach every day. Campbell loved it as much as his brothers. We bought boogie boards for the boys. Clayton would go out far to catch a wave.
Before Charleston we went to holiday world for Cooper's birthday July 2nd with the Devore's. We went there for Cooper's 3rd birthday too. For his fourth we went to King's Island with his cousin Connor. We met Noszka and his family there. Mike watched me ride the Diamondback with Connor.
For Christmas break 2010 we went to French Lick to an indoor waterpark with the Devores. We had an awesome time. Clayton rides all the slides now and can't get enough. Cooper loves to play water basketball and generally just run around. Campbell got used to the kiddie pool. It took longer than we thought. The boys got their arcade fix in. Cooper is uncanny with his luck at those games. He got so many more tickets with the same amount of tokens. Like 5 times more tickets.
For Spring Break every year we go to Great Wolf Lodge. We went with the Devore's and Big Nick this year. Second time with the Devores and Nick. We went with the Raymers one year. This Spring Break we will goto the Wisconsin Dells Great Wolf Lodge for two nights with the Devores. Can't Wait.
Trying to remember all the things we have done since this is our first blog. Last summer and fall we played outside everyday. Football, whiffleball, dodgeball, guns, basketball, soccer and kickball. Kickball became the favorite as winter approached. We had 14 to 16 kids playing. Max and Jacob Salyers. John Hale, Max and Jackson Baker, Alex and Nathan Wade, Erica, Kaitlyn and Quentin, Eleni, Xavier, Matt. Plus our regulars Clayton, Cooper, Zach and Noah, Cade and Cody, Cayden and Conner.
Cooper loves playing football and running routes. He is good with hand eye and balls. Last summer we did a tennis camp at Cathedral with Zach and Noah and Cooper did great. Clayton is good also. Clayton tries hard and hussles. Clayton helps everyone else first. Clayton is so kind and has a the biggest heart.