4 year check-up

Coleman had his 4 year appt a few days after his birthday.

I had to have both kids at the doctor with me, and Jeff was at work.  As is typical, we were there for at least 2 hours, but for the first time EVER, it was a nice calm visit without any spastic crying, fighting, or whining children.  They were so well behaved.  I guess my babies are growing up! :)

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Coleman weighed in at 37.5 pounds (I think)…I know it was 65th percentile

and was 41.5 inches tall (75th percentile).  This makes him 42 inches with shoes, tall enough for many “big” Six Flags rides.  Including the Shockwave.  I think Mommy will have to be on the other side of the park hiding if my baby gets on that thing!

 

Coleman got 4 shots.  I cried.

Then, for the next week, Shelby obsessed over whether or not she will get 6 shots when she turns 6, since he got 4 when he turned 4.  I got so darn tired of her asking the same question over and over!  (I am pretty sure they are DONE with shots after 4 until they’re about 12, but I wasn’t making her any promises!!)

Coleman got a perfect and healthy report from the doctor.  He passed the hearing and the sight test.  He peed in a cup like a rock star (but I still had visions of the terrible time I had getting Shelby to do so at her 4 year visit!) (ps- Do rock stars even pee in cups?)

He is my big, precious, cool, awesome, sweetie-pie love boy.

3.2011

Our baby boy turns 4!

Just be you.

 

Weekly Fitness Goals: 1/17 – 1/23

 

Well this week wasn’t great but wasn’t bad.  (Is that how it’s always gonna be?)

The run on Saturday is the longest run I’ve ever done to date, and I was pretty happy with the time- but since I am not used to running outside, I wasn’t great at pacing.  I did the first 2 miles in less than 18 minutes, which is faster than I ever go on the treadmill, then it was pretty rough for me to finish the last 2 miles.  I have a tendon (?) in my foot/ankle that was killing me…I walked a bit of the 3rd mile.  When I was done, my lungs were on fire (it was a nice day outside but the cold air/wind was too cold for my lungs!)

As usual, I am not doing great at getting the cross-training days in, but I am making sure to do the run days.  I think this schedule is a bit much for a full-time working mom who wakes up at 5:00 every morning and doesn’t stop all day!

The scale---it is NOT moving down.  It is moving in the WRONG direction!  Must get my diet back in check.

2.2011

 

1.2011

 

New Years 2011 Eve

To ring in 2011, we headed out to Dallas to our good friends, the Solokolovic’s, house.  It was a perfectly low-key, relaxing, fun evening with lots of great conversation and laughs.  We had games to play but never even got around to playing them! 

The Sokolovics always have a GREAT spread of food, a wonderful big house with LOTS of room for kid play, and great company, so we head over there whenever we know of a party going on ;)  I should have taken pictures of the food---there were fresh pitas, homemade french onion soup, Greek salad, and this amazing slow-cooked, marinated steak with dips galore.  (GYROS anyone?!)  I still dream about them!!  They even reserved one of their bedrooms just for us to stay overnight.  Who wants to be out driving on the highways in NYE?  Not I!

Like Jeff and Coleman, Ben and his son Luke (“Luke I am your father”) love Star Wars.

Luke is just a couple of months older than Coleman.  When Coleman heard where we were going, he had to put on his clone trooper costume because he knew Luke has one.  Within minutes of us getting there, Luke had his own clone trooper costume on too.  I tried to get them to look at me for a picture but Coleman told me, “No Mom we’re watching Star Wars!!”

 

There were light saber battles.

 

There was plenty of silliness.

 

And a lot of really (REALLY) cute kids

 
(if I may say so myself!)

When we arrived, Venesa told us what Ben had omitted to tell Jeff, claiming that one man just can’t say this to another man on the phone--- “Wear your pajamas to my house.”  :)  It was a pajama party!  Within an hour even Jeff and I had our pajamas on.  That’s my kind of party!

 

I went to bed around 2 because Shelby kept waking up with nightmares, and at that point the men headed out to the park across the street for some frisbee.  Yes, wee-morning-hour-in-the-dark-in-their-pajamas-in-30-degree-weather, frisbee.  They played for a FEW hours, and each of them woke up the next morning either limping or holding somewhere on their body that was sore.  Boys will be boys! :)

Disclaimer: this was during a light saber battle in which he was knocked out…he didn’t actually pass out on the floor that night :)

 

Thanks Sokolovics and Sanders and everyone else for a simply lovely evening!!!

Family who get emails

Not the Peck family alerts- but the actual blog post in an email. I am pretty sure none of you ever come to the blog because you can just read it in your email- BUT I think blogger sends you the email with the post as soon as I hit POST, and I often "fix" a picture after I make a post and see it- such as that last one that was blurry the first time I uploaded it. You can always click on the link in your email to see a non-blurry version because you know I won't purposely leave a yucky picture up!

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Coleman's (and Jeff’s!) First Bowl Game

On Sunday January 1, 2011, Jeff, Coleman, Tyler, Laura, Justin and I headed out to the TicketCity Bowl at the Cottonbowl in Dallas.
It was COLD.
The stands were NOT packed, but both teams were represented surprisingly well (especially surprising was the amount of people in purple, supporting Northwestern, which is in Chicago!) 

Originally Jeff and I bought tickets for us, Cole, Shelby, Tyler, and Laura.  Then when we saw the forecast we thought we better leave the kids at home with Nonnie or someone.  Shelby was all for that, but Coleman through a fit.  He HAD to go to the Texas Tech football game!!  Shelby stayed with Millie and Luke for the morning, and made cookies with Uncle Luke (thanks guys!!)
 


We walked in and found ourselves some great seats.

Coleman was really good, with plenty of room to run around.  For how cold it was, I was amazed at how well he lasted- to the END of the game!
 
Did I mention I was cold?  I was wearing a pair of ankle socks and canvas shoes.  Jeff gave me his socks to double-up.  Now that’s true love, right?! haha!
 
Most of the people at the game were smarter than us.  They sat in the SUN.  See the perfect shadow/crowd line???
   
However, Jeff didn’t want to give up our “40 yard line” seats to sit in the end zone.


We had a GREAT time cheering on the Red Raiders to victory!
   

After the game, Coleman got to sit on this red raider motorcycle.  He loved it, but his little eyes are so very sensitive to the sun that they will hardly even open up out in bright sunlight.  You can see in the second picture he does have his little gun up!
  

This week’s physical goals

Not great, not terrible.  I made sure to get the runs in.  It was a busy week with different family in from out of town throughout the week, who we got to immensely enjoy seeing!!

The Ski Trip!!

We had quite a bit of drama and uneasiness prior to our ski trip. 

This trip had been planned for months, and the whole Jones side of the family was going…Nonnie, Poppy (who were giving us this trip for Christmas!), our Peck fam, Millie, Luke, Anna, and Tyler.

First, we were to go to Arkansas for the annual family holiday there, and then on to Pagosa Springs, CO for a week of skiing, returning the day after Christmas.  We were leaving Friday evening.  Jeff was on his way home.  OUR CAR WAS PACKED, all organized by Arkansas bags and gifts, and Colorado bags and gifts.  Then Poppy (my dad) calls me.  He went to the eye doctor because he was having spots show up in one of his eyes’s vision, and a curtain in one of the quadrants of vision.  The optometrist sent him STRAIGHT to an eye surgeon in Dallas, he had a detached retina and would be having emergency surgery, and would not be able to travel this week.  So I started trying to figure out if/how we would go to Arkansas without them, and then just meet them in Colorado.  THEN we found out that because of the high altitude in CO, he would not be able to travel to CO at all, much less ski.  He has something like 6 months that he can’t be on a plane, a mountain, or even really tall buildings because of how the change in pressure would affect his “fixed” retina.

Talk about a HUGE heartbreak.  Suddenly our dreamy Christmas vacation became one without some of the very important people IN that family, and would not be the same.  We decided that we could not be gone over Christmas, and the woman who rented us the house graciously allowed us to switch our dates to come and go 2 days earlier, making it back in time for Christmas Eve.

There is a lot I could write about this trip.  Lots of ups and downs, great times and bummers.  But instead, I will end with the pictures!  It snowed a LOT, like the entire time we were there it never stopped.  Tire chains were a huge hassle.  We missed Nonnie and Poppy.  We had lots of laughs and family snuggles.  We threw snowballs and ate snow and didn’t get a whole lot of pictures. 

The kids both had their first experience at snow skiing, yet Jeff and I only got to ski for a few hours total.  We’ll try again when they’re a little bigger.  And when it’s not so bitterly wet and cold…Spring break??  I forget how much worse being wet makes the conditions, and Shelby (my girl who is never cold!) didn’t really handle it well.  The first day, Shelby just started crying and was a wet noodle in our arms.  She refused to stand up on the skis.  After about 30 minutes of coaxing and begging her, we gave up and we took turns sitting in the lodge with her the rest of the day.  However, Coleman seemed to be taking to it with a lot of help from Uncle Luke, so we decided to sign him up for a one-hour private lesson.  He did GREAT with his instructor, Preston.  They went up the beginner lift (a real, full-size lift) and down a pretty long/windy green 6 times in that hour.  The next day, both kids got to go to the “Wolf Pup” ski school in the morning.  They were in different groups, they put Cole in a higher group because of his private lesson, despite the fact that they rarely let 4 year olds in, much less 3 year olds!!  By that morning, everyone knew Coleman.  We really liked that “small town” feel of the Wolf Pup area.  Shelby stayed on the magic carpet with her class that morning, which is a small roped off kids-only area with a conveyer-belt type lift.  Her group went up the real lift one time at the end of the day.  When I went to check on them at lunch, Coleman had just had enough and wanted his mommy.  They were just about to call me…we decided he would not be doing the afternoon class, while Shelby stayed to attend the class for the rest of the day.

We have videos that will make us laugh for years to come, and we have a few pictures:

Sledding

Snow angels

Hot tubbing

Shoveling

Reading

 

Drawing

Sleeping!

Silliness!

 

Puzzles

Running

Didn’t have to buy one bag of ice the whole time!

Karaoke

Playing

 

I took a few pictures the first day on the way to the mountain (we only went twice) so this is all I got…

Coleman, Luke

    

Daddy and Shelby

  

Anna and Millie

Me and Buddy

 

Uncle TyTy

and one of Cole resting in the lodge.

 

The cabin was gorgeous and we cannot express enough thanks to Nonnie and Poppy for sending us there….or how much they were missed while we were there!