CRAZY!!!

That’s what we’re going around here…. CRAZY!!! Cooper and I are bored out of our minds. We’ve pretty much been trapped in the house since Saturday afternoon. In-between runny noses, sore throats, snot, coughing, lots of snot, achy joints, more snot, wind-chills below 0*, did I mention snot… we have stayed locked up in the house and we’re going CRAZY!!! Tonight when Otey got home from work with a warm truck Cooper and I ran right out (braveing ankle deep snow since we’ve all been to sick to shovel) to meet him. We went out for pizza and then went to the “mall” to let Cooper run up and down the halls and burn some energy. It almost makes me laugh out loud to call the Ottumwa shopping location a “mall” There are seriously like nine stores including the Hal-Mark and Claires. They do have several ride on kid toys that Cooper likes climbing all over and making vroom-vroom sounds on. Speaking of sounds, here is a funny list for you. Coop makes the noise for each of the following things when prompted by “What does a ______ say?”

Monster
Lion
Bear
Giraffe (a bleating sound like a sheep for those of you who don’t know)
Snake
Cow
Pig
Sheep
Chicken
Goat
Duck
Frog
Horse
Bunny (he just says hop-hop-hop)
Dog
Cat
Pirate

I know, I know… my kid’s a genius… did I mention that he has also learned how to wipe his runny nose on his sleeve AND stick his finger up his nose and lick it? He figured those two out all by himself. GENIUS!