Renaissance Farir

On Sunday, August 22nd, we head over to the Bristol Renaissance Fair. What an experience!!! The fair itself seemed to go on and on and on...it was never ending to say the least. There was so much to see and do, we didn't know where to go first. The first show that we watched was the Mud Show, where we saw a three grown men, play, fight and eat the mud...that is gross! But Cooper was laughing right along with the crowds!!!
We took a break to watch a fire juggling act while we ate lunch. Cooper and Brewer shared a slice of pizza, while Mommy and Daddy ate a couple of yummy sandwiches. Everything was delicious and fair in price.

Cooper tried out Jacob's Ladder. He was a great sport in trying to climb the rope ladder, but had a great time falling into the pile of hay. Lots of smiles and giggles from him!

Cooper found this really cool play house in one area of the fair. Here he is sitting like a pirate with his sword. Both Brewer and Cooper got one and now we have sword fights here at that house! Cooper and Daddy did a great job painting them too!

As we were getting ready to leave, we spotted this Owl while finishing up our ice cream cones. We couldn't pass this opportunity up since Cooper declared that he was going to be an Owl at his Preschool Graduation! It took some fast pace walking to find Mr. Owl, but we did it and now we have Owl Boy!

Up North

We headed Up North for a long weekend, August 13-17th. We were out and on the road by noon on Friday and arrived around 5pm...a long ride, but we had to make a few more stops than normal because of our new passenger...Buster!
On Saturday, Randy and Cooper went up to Rhinelander to the fish place. Randy found a place up in Rhinelander that deals with a lot of salt water fish and coral, and it just happened so that they were having an open house. The good news of the day was that Randy won a Major Prize... an aquarium light that he had on his wish list! He was pretty excited!
On Sunday, the Sladek clan came over to visit. We had a great campfire and the kids had a blast roasting marshmallows over the fire. Great night...great company....great stars...
On Monday, we went over to Tom, Kris and Gabby's to play and chat. We had a potluck dinner before calling it a night again.
On Tuesday, we packed up and headed back home again. On the way home we stopped off to surprise Grandma Beck. We had a nice visit with her, although it was short.

Buster

Today when we went to work, Ms. Linda asked Mommy if she wanted a puppy. She explained that she had gotten a puppy for Dad, but he did not want it. To make matters worse, Ms. Linda's husband said don't bring him home. So Ms. Linda set out on a mission to give this puppy a new home.
So here is Ghost "Buster" Beck. He was born on June 19, 2010. Cooper and Brewer love him and had a blast playing with him the first night at home. Cooper really wants him to sleep with him, but we need to follow the rules and Buster needs to sleep in his own room.

Weekend at Grandma's

The weekend of July 30th thru August 1st, the boys and I went by Grandma Maria's for the weekend while Daddy went Up North with the Big Boys. On Saturday, we went down to Madison to do some back to school shopping after Grandma was done with her show. Cooper had fun putting on a fashion show for Mommy and Brewer. Then on Sunday we went out to Mr. Steve's Farm. Cooper had a tractor ride to deliver a load, and Brewer loved seeing the cows and yelling MOOOO!

Yuckies Go Away

We are all home today with the stomach virus yuckies. Thursday before we left school, one of Brewer's classmates threw up all over the room. Brewer happened to pick something up by the mess and yup, you guessed it put it in his mouth! On Friday, Brewer threw up shortly after eating lunch and then was back up and running at full speed after a short little nap. Thank heavens, it didn't go any further until early Sunday morning when it got to me. It was AWFUL! My back has never hurt so much from having the stomach flu. Then this morning, both Randy and Cooper came down with it. So we all stayed home to catch up on some much needed rest.

175

I have never been so happy to say that I have a score of 175! For the fourth time of taking the Praxis Reading Comprehension test, I am proud to say that I have passed! Now I need to wait for Carthage to receive my scores so that I can enroll in the classes that I need!

Cooper's Five Year Check Up

On Friday, August 6, Cooper had his 5 year old check up. Going into the appointment, he told me that he was going to be brave. He answered all of the questions for the doctor with little prompting from me. He weighed in at 38 pounds (25th percentile) and is 43 inches tall (75th for height). Dr. Gerlach basically confirmed that he is going to be tall and thin! Then it came time for the shots...it took all that I had in me to hold him down for two shots. The first one scratched him and left him a two inch mark on his upper thigh. But that wasn't the worst of it. On Saturday morning, he woke up with a swollen thigh. It looked like there was a baseball inside his leg, a reaction from the shots! It was very sore for him to walk on and he did little walking and lots of veggin' out!