October Update

It's October!!
I usually take 300-600 or more photos in a month, and since August we have a very measly supply of photos. Less than 200 a month. I have fallen off the wagon and must get back on!
So what has been keeping us so busy??
On top of having practices and games at least 3 or 4 days a week...
Coleman has been fighting allergies and being right on the edge of sick for about a month. He's had all kinds of stuff flying around his school, including strep, bacterial bronchitis, and tummy bugs. My theory is that he has an amazing immune system but it is in overdrive and instead of getting full-on sick, he just feels really run-down and crummy. He hasn't had a fever, but he's been through hives, runny nose, stopped up nose, itchy red eyes, ear pain, and now diarrhea and upset tummy. (and he's been to the doctor with negative everything...strep, infections, etc.) Poor little buddy!!
Shelby finished the 1st six weeks of first grade and we are still working hard to make adjustments from kindergarten. She is a student who likes to take her time and do perfect on every assignment. As her teacher has stated, she has beautiful handwriting (the best in her class for sure!) and as we know, is a pretty amazing artist. But she has to speed up. Many of their assignments require drawings with their writing and this really holds Shelby up because her drawings on these writing assignments are impeccable. Now that we're past the first six weeks, unfinished work will be sent home to finish AND have grades taken off. We are praying for her to do better at this, as it is a big struggle for her to let go of her attention to detail and to hurry it up!

Shelby lost her first tooth on Sunday October 9! It had been just a little loose for a long time but on Friday it really started moving. Sunday she came into my room and said it was bleeding. I asked her to let me try to pull it (as I had done the day before) but she said she wanted to try first. She used a kleenex and pulled it right out on her first try! What a big girl! She wasn't scared or worried at all.  But she was very proud!  Of course the tooth fairy came, and even left her a note that she could keep her very first tooth.  What a nice tooth fairy!



We all went to the last Rangers game of the regular season a few weeks ago.  Nonnie, Poppy, Millie, Luke, Anna, Tyler, and the Peck fam.  I stole a few pictures off of Aunt Millie's camera from that game:

Nonnie and Poppy:




Millie and Luke:




Poppy, Nonnie, & Anna:



Shelbs and Aunt Mill:




And just the proof that Buddy was there too, in his Vladi jersey :)



This past weekend Jeff and I went to the ALCS Game 1 to see the Rangers beat the Tigers.  Against the plans I had in my head, we ended up IN the ballpark as soon as the gates opened at 4:00 pm (THREE HOURS prior to gametime!!!) instead of eating somewhere before.  With rain delays, we didn't leave until midnight.  It was the most miserable night I've had in a long time.  (Will not ever again go to a game with a friend and their date that we've never met who can turn out to be the most annoying person I've ever met in my life!!!)  Y'all- she asked how old our kids were, we told her, then she asked if they were walking yet.  Really?  I could go on for hours with stories like that!
Here's the one picture I took, of batting practice:  Then I drowned my misery in beer and nachos the rest of the night.




I love going to Rangers games, but it was really hard to keep up with the game from our seats, where we were up high and couldn't see the big screen.  I'd much rather watch each pitch from the comfort of my living room, and we would be $300 richer.  I don't know if I'll ever pay to go to a game where we can't see the screen again.  You just feel so disconnected from the game!

Okay, on to more fun things!  Shelby just had a 4-day weekend.  She spent Friday with Millie and Anna, where they walked to the dog park, and Monday with Millie, where they got to walk to feed the ducks, and eat at Chick-Fil-A.  Millie and Luke are waiting on their pending move to Madrid, but have already leased their house and are staying with Nonnie and Poppy temporarily.  It is pretty darn cool to have them close by and for Shelby to get this quality time with Aunt Millie before they move away (tears!)  And just how blessed are we to have this family who love to help us out on days like that?  Jeff had originally taken off work, but then we booked a trip to SAN FRANCISCO so he switched out his vacation days so he could go with me ;)

We leave Saturday for a quick little 3 night trip to the Golden Gate city and wine country!  Besides our honeymoon, this is our second or third getaway without our kids and we are excited (happy 8 years to us!!)  Once again, thank you to our amazing family (Millie and Luke especially!) who will be keeping Shelby and Coleman and getting them to school and all that stuff while we're gone!  And thank you to American Airlines for providing round trip fares for roughly the price of a tank of gas! :)  We will be missing seeing Mimi and Jack, Carolina Story, :( one of Coleman's ballgames and picture day for Shelby but we know they'll be in great hands!