February 2013

February 2013

The month started off with a bang with COOPERPALOOZA!  It's Cooper's birthday, and she celebrates for weeks!  She had a big party, went to dinner with friends, got presents,  and in general made sure everyone was celebrating and wearing their "Cooperpalooza" shirts.  

Cymbre headaches continue, and we are going to see yet another neurologist to see what can be done.  This time we are going to Texas Children's Hospital West Campus.  I've been leery about taking her there, as you hear horror stories of wait times and such and never seeing the same doctor twice, but I guess we will give it a try.  At this point, we are willing to do just about anything to get her some relief.

She will be seeing Dr. Holick a pediatric neurologist.  Guess we'll see...

The Doctor gave us some headaches medicines to try, and then call her to let her know how things are going.  Here we go again....

The girls went to the temple for youth baptisms again.  They love to go with their Dad.  He takes them to Burger King when they are finished.

Cooper has some things entered in an art show at school.  She's painted some pictures, so we will go see them.  I'll try to post photos here.

Cymbre has been missing quite a few of the first three classes with her headaches, so she is going to have to spend some time making them up in tutoring after school.  The AP at school and I are in contact, and we are doing what Mr. Chacon says to get the absences made up before the end of the year.    She struggles because she's in pain almost all the time.

There was a youth dance in Katy that they girls enjoyed.

Cooper has been doing some teaching for Andee so that keeps her busy, and she so loves the tiny ones.

The girls were going to go to the Move Dance Competition, but since we don't dance on Sunday, the competition will not allow them to dance on Saturday or Friday, so Traci pulled them from the competition.  We will go to a different one.

We got family tickets to go see Toby Keith at the Houston Rodeo.  It was a good show.

Cooper is starting her voice lessons in preparation for college.  

The private ballet and tap lessons are continuing as usual.

That looks like about all for the calendar stuff, so I'll have to do the Sunday School lesson stuff later as I don't have that stuff with me at the moment.

As for Sunday School Lessons:

One week was Why Is Learning An Important Part Of Heavenly Father's Plan?

I took the class outside and had them use sidewalk chalk to draw team plans of salvation on the sidewalks.  There were several kids on each team.  I told them they can't use their phones to look it up, use their scriptures, or as an adult for tutoring.  It was amazing to see the detail they included.  Then we discussed the need to be able to teach someone about the plan of salvation without scriptures, or an adult helper, and needing to be comfortable in doing so.

Another week it was:  What Is The Role Of Agency In Learning The Gospel?

We talked about the need to actively seek out learning.  The scriptures can't help us if we don't read them!  General conference talks can't help us if we don't listen to conference or read the Ensign.

The Holy Ghost is a great testifier of truth, but be need to be in tune to receive that revelation from him.

We talked about how we need to be better active learners, and some things we could do to do that each day.  Joseph Smith said that the best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask it from books, but to go to God in prayer and ask.

I think that's it except for adding pictures.  I'll do that later.

Love you.

Mom