Spoon feeder Molly

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Coleman: 7 years old!

Coleman turned 7 in January.  He is a perfectly healthy little man.

Stats:
53.8 lbs  (63rd percentile)
48.5 inches (58th percentile)
100/58 bp
20/20 vision and perfect hearing.

I went to eat lunch at school with him on his birthday

Then over the weekend we had a bowling party.  Same place as last year, but he loved it and asked for it again!

This year we scaled back and asked him to choose only 4 friends (and cousin Matthew!) to come.  3 big birthday parties each year will get very costly!  Plus Coleman kind of has a bad end of the deal since his birthday is right after Molly’s birthday and CHRISTMAS!

But he had tons of fun

Buddy is just about to finish up basketball season.  We played in a league where there are 5 teams, and EVERY SINGLE team besides ours brought their entire team to play together.  Which left us with all the 4 and 5 yr olds   But we have an awesome coach, whose son is good at basketball like Coleman, and together they have done REALLY well, especially considering the competition.  He has learned a lot and improved a lot.  They have played zone defense, and actual positions on the court instead of just following the ball.  He’s a good little baller and has had many great games and points this season.  One game he scored 14 points, I think. 

He sure is really growing up and maturing into a very sweet and responsible little man.  This morning he woke up with his own alarm, got dressed, went downstairs and made EVERYONE lunches (4 sandwiches!  4 baggies with apples, oranges, and strawberries! and waters!) then he came up to let us know that he had done that (and wake us up!)  I love it when he’s focused and sweet like that…and it is getting to be more often.  I think it’s a maturity thing, and starting to get over that little boy rough and rowdiness.  He has been going to GT testing at school, but we haven’t received the results from that yet.  He is doing SO WELL in class this year.  He has only had a color change a couple of times, and is just mastering all his school work including math, spelling, reading and writing with little effort.  We are so proud of the boy he is becoming!

 

…but as Jeff was singing all morning in his annoying fake-country-singing-voice…. “Let em laugh, let em giggle, let em sleep in the middle!  Let them be little!” …

Yesterday Coleman was telling me that “it isn’t fair that there are 2 girls and one boy in our family!”  and of course he meant he’d like another boy, but I told him, “Yes you’re right…Poor Molly and Shelby have to share being the favorite girl and favorite sister, but you get to be everyone’s favorite boy and favorite brother!”  He kind of giggled and liked that answer.