We celebrated Coy's 8th birthday this month. He had it all planned and presents picked out. But he started having a hard time at school and was getting into trouble daily. He got sent to the principals office many times. One meeting with the principal we explained that Coy would start loosing presents and his big planned birthday with each additional time he was in trouble. By the end of January, he had lost his entire birthday. Two weeks before, he started to figure out that not getting in trouble = getting his birthday back. He worked hard and by the end he got to celebrate with the day of his choice and he even earned one present back. Our plan must have worked because he made a good turn around in February. Here he is with the cake Jon made for him.
Coy picked Star Wars Episode 1 in 3D. He saw a commercial on TV back in early January and couldn't wait to see it. Its all he could talk about for weeks.
Another part of Coy's birthday was castles and coasters for mini golf. We had so much fun. Of course Jon beat all three of us. But the boys weren't far behind. We thought about riding the rides but the boys were too short for all the coasters they were looking at. I told them we could go back when they are a little taller.
The present he got was a remote control jeep. He didn't earn back the gun he wanted. I told him there is always next year for that. I'm happy he made improvement, so we could make his birthday special.
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