We Have a Teenager!

Kyle is THIRTEEN!!

After all the years of waiting and wanting, our first baby is now a teen.  Even in this crazy year of The Coronas, Kyle was able to have a pretty great birthday.  

His crazy Mom made an amazing birthday balloon and streamer door hanging that was a little too shocking of a wakeup call.  It was so shocking that Kyle was was actually a little scared.  His day could only go up from there! He really enjoyed ripping out and popping that scary door decor! 

After a day of exactly what he wanted, which was a lot of not much but games and resting, the whole family went to the movies and saw Jurassic Park, then headed to our favorite spot for hibachi and sushi.  Our cook was cracking us up by piling all the extra rice and veggies and steak and sauce to "the birthday boy."  Kyle shared a sushi tower with the other boys, and by 'shared,' I mean halved.  He was so full of food from all the birthday extras that he couldn't even eat his main meal.  It was a Festivus miracle.  He did enjoy finding out that the family across from us had a swimmer, one who swam at Texas Ford Aquatics, the same as him.  In fact, this other swimmer ex

Finally, we went home, where Kyle had a jackpot of amazing gifts AND the tres leches cake that Dad made per his request.

 

 

Overall, I think he had a great teenage birthday!  And his Mom and Dad sure love this oldest boy, who made us parent's 13 years ago. 

Birthday Stats:

W: 145 (95th)

H: 66.75" (95th)

Name: Kyle Cooper

Nick names: I don't really have any

How old are you? 13

Favorite color: blue

Favorite animal: I don't really have one

Favorite book: Keeper of the Lost Cities

Favorite tv show: JoJo

Favorite movie:I have too many.  I can't choose one. There are too many good ones.  Any Harry Potter movies or Back to the Future...those are the ones I will watch anytime.  

Favorite Song; Imagine Dragons songs

Favorite Food: Chinese food

Favorite Drink root bear

Favorite Breakfast food: Cowboy Coffee Cake

favorite snack: Snap'd Cheesits

favorite outfit: Sushi shirt and white, "Weekend Adventures" shirt

favorite game: Jump Force

Favorite toy: legos

Best friend: Emmett

Favorite thing to do: play games

Favorite thing to do outside: swim

favorite holiday: Christmas 

What do you take to bed with you at night? my blankets

Where is your favorite place to go? Disney World

Favorite Restaurant: Hibachi Place Hana

Where do you want to go on vacation? Australia or some popular place in Europe

What do you want to do when you grow up?  I want to be a doctor.

What did you do on your birthday? released 20 minutes early from swim, watched Jurassic Park at the movies, went to eat Hibachi, went BACK to the movies because Dad lost his phone, came home to open presents and eat tres leches cake.  

Evan Practices Golf

Meow is really loving learning and improving in his sport of golf.  He wanted to make sure we made a record of his progression.

 

I'm proud of him for all his hard work and practice. 

Stephen Becomes the Patient

Due to family history of colon cancer, Stephen decided to have his first conoloscopy.

Evan and I got to pick him up and see how HE reacted to the anesthesia he usually administers to patients.  

We discovered that coming out of the drug induced sleep was difficult for him + he just kept saying, "I want a coke!"   

 We are glad that he was able to get this done and have 2 polyps removed before it turned worse.  

Video Game Museum

For a fun summer activity, the boys and I took a field trip to the National Video Game Museum.  Lucky us, it's right here in Frisco!  

WE LOVED IT!!!  

The boys got to play all kinds of games.  

Kyle became the Galaga master, like his father before him.  

It was so much fun, we didn't want to leave.  

This is definitely a must do!  [or must do again!] 

WATERMELON!

 We had some DELICIOUS watermelon this summer, and I learned how much Evan loved that fruit!

VDEO HERE

July 4th Fun

For the weekend, we made a road trip to College Station to hang out at Grandpa's and Grandma's house.  Most of our time was spent in the pool/hot tub.  

Chris came up from Cypress to hang, too.  The boys played for hours with a beach ball. (We forgot to bring the swim shirts for everyone, so we were so grateful that G+G had some we could borrow!)

In the past few years, we have watched the fireworks show from the George Bush Presidential Library.  We've been able to park in a nearby parking lot.  This year, Covid changed things a bit.  The show was still schedule, but we did have to drive around to find a decent, socially distant place to park.  

I love firework and celebrating the freedom of the good ol' USA!