I take all of these monthly pictures of Molly Monkey, which I have not put on the blog yet. But what you CAN’T see in the monthly pictures is all the love and help we have outside of the camera lens.
Molly has such and adoring big brother and sister (and doggy)
Waaay back in January, just before her one month birthday, Molly met her super special great grand nana! They were even dressed alike!
If I’m counting right, Molly is Nana’s 10th great grandchild from her side of the family. (Several more from Papa G’s side) I can’t believe we did not even think to take a 4-generation picture, so we will be sure to do that next time we are all together! We hope to go visit Nana and Papa G this spring for some great outdoor weather and time that the kids always love.
Papa G loved on Molly girl a little bit, too!
Well things are so crazy here at the Peck household and I’m so sad that our blog is falling by the wayside. But I will get back on track! I have several blogs to catch up with, but for now: A current status report.
So many things are happening and our lives are just exciting and overwhelming right now. With 3 kids, everything we do is just overwhelming to me.
Aunt Anna got married last weekend. Shelby and Coleman were flower girl and ring bearer. I can’t wait to see real pictures (since I didn’t take any myself!) Just a few with my phone…
with the bride and groom:
and one of Aunt Millie once again takin’ care of Molly girl:
and as soon as they sat down in the car at the end of the night:
(Notice that he caught the garter- wrapped around his arm!)
From the rehearsal dinner:
Molly turned 3 months yesterday! On her 3 month birthday she totally laughed a real laugh out loud to me, then continued to do so over and over for the kids to see when they got into the car from school. She did it again during her bath time last night. I can’t get enough! I have a video, thank you technology! This is more like her 4th laugh ever…I enjoyed the first few myself before pulling out my phone, haha!
Molly has grown to HATE the car and she screams like someone is pinching her without ceasing about half of the time that we’re in the car. However, she still LOVES bath and will go from inconsolable to just quiet and content the SECOND she hears me turn on the bath tub water. It’s really quite remarkable the quick effect it has on her (like tonight when we went straight from screaming in the car seat, wouldn’t calm down, to bath water and complete silence as she patiently waited to be declothed and put in.)
She’s nursing like a champion and I am lucky to be a milk-making machine this time around. My only issue is finding a place to pump on the days when I’m at work. It’s a pain!
She has rolled over from front to back a couple of times but nothing with any consistency. She HATES tummy time, so usually we do it with me holding her up above me or resting her on my legs. If someone is paying her attention she’s a happy girl. Yesterday she scooted all over her crib when she woke up. She ended up with her head right up on the video monitor we have sitting in there. Guess it’s time to mount that thing! She loves to lay on her play mat and relax, loves to sit up with just a little help to stabilize, and will sit in her rocker and watch a full Baby Einstein video now (just once a day!) :)
Molly started at her babysitter on Monday. She will go to her house on Mondays and Fridays while I’m at work. She had a great day and we are so blessed to have found this loving caregiver. She stays at home with her one 2-yr-old daughter and Molly is the only baby that she is keeping!
Molly is an amazingly easy baby most of the time. She fusses if she’s hungry or tired, period. (Or in the car, recently.) When she’s sleepy, she will fall asleep in your arms after you swaddle her and plug in a paci in about 1.8 seconds with a few quick pats on the bottom. She only takes her paci when falling asleep. She still goes for the thumb when she’s awake. She takes like four 1-2 hour naps per day, and sleeps about 10 hours at night (sometimes waking once to eat.) Her schedule was all thrown off last week during spring break and the wedding, when we were out and about and rarely home, but she is jumping right back into it. She was so good at the wedding, missing naps and being passed around through many loving arms, staying up and out past midnight! She was my little grinny baby when we got home. Just look at her playing with my eyelashes! (I was playing, she was just laying there wondering what the heck I was laughing at.)
She basically smiles ALL Day long. She’s completely filling out (lengthwise) size 9 month clothes. She’s not a chunky baby, just so so long.
Now as for BIG sis, Shelby is all into fashion and music and musicians and celebs and attitude. She’ll be 8 (going on 18) in a few weeks. Her most commonly used phrases are, “What what”, “Word”, “O M G”, “F Y I”, and “B F F”. She’s kinda getting too old for me to write about because she and her friends can google now and will soon be reading this stuff themselves. ;) I swear this seems to have happened overnight. One day she woke up and completely stopped calling me Mommy. It’s been MOM ever since. About a week later she dropped Daddy down to Dad and he got to feel what I’d been sad about for the past week. Yes she’s been “rolling her eyes” at us since she was a 2 yr old little miss thang, but the 7 yr old eye rolls are FO REAL. However, all of this is a part of growing up and our Sweet Pea is still a kind-hearted, animal-loving, artsy sweetheart who loves to play with her brother and get dirty in the backyard, and cuddle with Mommy or Daddy on the couch. She has made all A’s all year on her report cards, and is a wonderful reader and writer. She is very helpful with Molly and me, and was recently accepted into the GT program at school (this year was the first year I filled out an application for her.)
One Sunday after church Shelby asked if she could “sunbathe.” So I said yes and she set herself up out on the back driveway. Molly and I joined her. Notice her line of beauty products that she brought out with her (I brought the sunscreen, don’t worry!) She’s been begging me to have a girls night “where we put kiwis on our eyes.” I keep telling her I think it’s cucumbers but she forgets.
Coleman finished up basketball and is starting t-ball now. End of basketball:
We really enjoyed the Upward organization and will probably play there again next year!
Now on to T-Ball! Jeff is the coach and Poppy is the assistant coach. They had their first practice tonight, and Coleman has now dubbed himself “Slugger Ball Strike” (You know how he likes to make up new names for himself.) How freaking cute is this little group of ballers???? (Coleman far left)
He has just started soaring with his reading and writing. His report card was perfect with all M’s (Mastered) and checks/pluses next to everything they include on the report card. His math and logic skills still continue to boggle us all. The boy is way past addition and subtraction. He can do addition and subtraction in the hundreds in his head. Lately he’s been asking about multiplication just out of the blue… “Daddy is 5 times 2 ten?” and I was explaining fractions to him the other day, and how 2/12 is the same as 1/6 and he just gets it.
Here, he wrote this note to Millie in the car all on his own. Afterwards, I reminded him that Aunt Millie DID send him an amazon gift card for his birthday…and that we don’t ask people for presents.
Shelby and Coleman are both taking tennis and loving it.
This week after school one day I forced my whiney children to go on a walk with me along the Cottonbelt trail. After the first 10 minutes of griping, they realized that we were walking along a railroad track and then they started exploring. After 35 minutes of walking, it was time to go and they were begging me to stay and asking when we could do it again. I didn’t get to walk as fast with all their exploring, but at least we all enjoyed the beautiful weather, some Vitamin D, and a little exercise.
Bring it on, Spring!
...is the face of a baby who slept for 10 hours straight last night!!!!
As Shelby would say..."What Whaaaat!!"
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| At least she used the apostrophe correctly. |
I swear she falls asleep while he's holding her half the time. This time she found her sweet wittle thumb!
Play, of course. Sometimes we play with our baby sister. And sometimes we play with our doggy.
Our little Rusty boy went to doggy heaven on Friday.
We (Jeff) got Rusty in 2002 after we moved down to the Tarrant County, after I graduated college but before we were engaged. I found him one day on the internet at a Fort Worth dog shelter. They had him in a very girly little sweater (he’s always loved his sweaters!) with a furry collar and we couldn’t resist the minpin cuteness. He was about 3 or 4 when we got him, making him about 14 or 15 now. He had a wonderful long doggy life and was Jeffie’s little companion for many years.
2002:
2005:
and January 2013:
In the end, Rusty had lost his vision, his hearing, and mostly likely his sense of smell. His mouth and teeth were hurting him and he was pretty confused and lost around the house. We know that now he is laying in a sunny spot in heaven, and can see, smell, taste, and hear it all, like a doggy should! Rusty, Rusty Wallace….you were a good little pound puppy and we loved you very much!
Today we dedicated Molly Rose and made the promise to teach her about Jesus and His love for her, and to raise her as His child and according to His word. The verse they read for her is, "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:21
Nonnie and Poppy stood with us … of course they are our biggest source of encouragement, support, and strength, and an amazing example of dedicated and loving Christian parents. Thank you Nonnie and Poppy!
and also thank you to our other family who were there, Aunt Millie, Aunt Anna and (soon-to-be) Uncle Zach, and Uncle TyTy.
