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.
