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Happy Little Wolf Pups

Happy Little Wolf Pups
Photo-A-Day #3344

Our trip to Great Wolf Lodge included an overnight stay, tickets to the water park, a couple of meals and a few uique experiences. Opinions of our trip are 100% our own.

Today we picked Eva up from school and took the family to Fitchburgh where the first Great Wolf Lodge in the Northeast is opening. We were lucky enough to be invited to stay overnight and experience this fun location. We get to stay overnight and experience all that the Great Wolf Lodge has to offer.

At a quick hour and a half from home the ride isn’t bad, unless you have an excited 6 1/2 year old who is going to ask you every few minutes how far we are from arriving at our destination. But we got there quickly enough and got checked in. Eva and Andrew made some new friends.

I grabbed our stuff from the car and we got settled in. I picked up some fun things for the kids to have as surprises for the trip. Some new towels and some goggles plus a set of Lincoln logs to play with. I had heard that some of the bloggers received Lincoln logs in their invites so I didn’t want my kids to feel left out plus it is a pretty easy toy for them to play with in the hotel room. Continue reading Happy Little Wolf Pups

Ladybug Snacks


Photo-A-Day #3343

Let’s just say that I have a greater appreciation for what my wife goes through when the kids don’t want to eat what she has made.

I’ve been putting the latest Cooper & Kid Kit through its paces with the kids and with that I decided to make all of the food suggestions from the kit. So, yesterday I went shopping with Andrew and got everything needed to make the snack, the drink, the main meal and the dessert. I spent a couple of hours working on the meal only to have Eva ask me about every single ingredient and then not drink the drink, eat the snack and she sort of picked at her main meal then she barely ate the dessert. I never thought that she was so picky before but she didn’t like one aspect of at least every item. I’ll give her a pass on the drink since it I made it with Bold Ginger Ale. I think I would have skipped Ginger Ale all together and substituted Sprite or something else. That probably would have been more pleasing and she ‘might’ have drank it. And it was a complete shock that she no longer likes black olives and hummus. It was frustrating to say the least.

The overall theme of the latest Cooper & Kid Kit is Bugs. It is “The Good, The Bad and The Bugly”. Each meal item had a bug related theme including the main meal of little bugs made out of mini meatballs and chow mein noodles. Everything looked cute and was pretty tasty. Dessert was Dirt cups so how do you go wrong with that? Unless your kid doesn’t like pudding, what kid doesn’t like pudding, oh yeah… mine.