Birthday and Soccer games

Cooper has been complaining about how he can't see at school because he is in the back of the class.  I talked to his teachers and had them move him closer to the front until I could take him to the doctor.  Low and behold, he did need glasses and he wasn't very excited at all.  I tried to get him psyched up and we went on a search for glasses.  He knew exactly what he wanted and unfortunately they are hard to find in his size.  He wanted plastic frames and not wire ones.  We finally found these glasses as Costco and I must say they look pretty handsome on him.  This is just the store's sample pair, but you get the idea.  When we went to pick up his glasses and he tried them on, he said, "Mom! I can see those boxes over there.  Mom! I can read what that says over there!!"  He immediately became very excited and I was happy that he was.  It even made the girls jealous and they now want a pair of their own. 

Ted's birthday was the day after Morgan's surgery, so it was very low key.  Cooper had a baseball game that Ted took him to while I stayed home and cooked him steak and mashed potatoes.  We then went outside on the tramp and opened his presents.  This is the kids all holding their gifts to Dad.  Morgan got gum, Kendall got orange sticks, and Coop got him a hat.  I love how the gifts got more expensive with their age.  It just goes to show how their little minds work and what they are capable of thinking would be a great gift for their dad.  Too cute!!!

Not the greatest picture, but I got Ted a shock proof, sand proof, waterproof camera

for his backpacking trip he is going on in June.  He has ruined 2 or 3 of our cameras

trying to get "cool" pictures, so I'm hoping this can stand up to the beating it will get.

We then headed in for cupcakes and ice cream and sent the kids off to bed.

Do we know how to party or what?

Cooper and Kendall are both doing soccer this year.  Here is Coop

practicing before his game.

Kendall is on the same team as her best friend Molly (the goalie) and 

she loves that.  She is always out there running with a smile.  That is until

she gets tired and then starts to cry because she wants a break.

At her last soccer game, somebody bumped into her mouth with their

head and knocked out her loose tooth.  She pulled it out and told the ref

and tried to hand her the tooth.  The teenage ref hurried and pointed to her coach.

She ran over to her coach, told him what happened, and put the tooth in his hand.

I was dying!!!!!  We were all laughing on the sideline and I ran over as fast

as I could, apologized to the coach, and got her cleaned up.  Poor coach!!

I'm sure he was thinking that this wasn't what he signed up for.