A weekend with Colin

Colin and I spent the weekend just the two of us. It was great, but we sure did miss Daddy. Scott was gone Friday through late tonight deer hunting up in Hurley. It sure is true that you don't realize what a team you are until you are the one and only caregiver. Scott is a great partner to have and a wonderful Daddy. Colin's first words each morning were "I see Daddy." And throughout the weekend he kept asking "Where Daddy go?"

We started the weekend off by going to our former neighbors new house, the Patzner's, in Andover Friday night. They have 3 little boys that Colin got to play with. Colin had fun playing and watching the boys run around. They are a little older than Colin so he wasn't so sure about getting in and actually playing with them. I had a great time catching up with Lori. Her husband Neil and Scott both hunt WI so we try to get together this weekend each year since we are both hunting widows. Colin crashed in the car on the way home and slept great until 5 am Sat. morning. I couldn't believe it. My baby that never gets up in the night was awake. I rocked him for a few minutes and he fell back asleep until 7:30, so that was great.

Saturday morning Colin helped me clean the house. What a great little helper he was. Then we got ready and went to lunch with Heather and Koralyn and then they came back to our house for a playdate. Koralyn is about a year older than Colin and Heather is sure she and Colin are going to get married someday! They sure did play well together which was nice. Heather and I were able to just hang back for the most part and catch up. When it was time to go they even exchanged a kiss! How adorable. Heather took pictures so once she sends them to me (hint, hint!) I will post a few.

After Heather and Koralyn left Colin took a wonderful 2.5 hour nap and I caught up on things around the house. Then we called Grandma Geach since she was also a hunting widower for the weekend and we went shopping. Colin is such a good little shopper. He was pretty excited about getting a new pair of shoes at Kohl's that Grandma bought him. It was so funny, he was walking like a penguin in them and laughing at himself when he would walk by the mirror. What a funny little guy. Then we went to Fuddrucker's and had dinner. It was a nice night together.

Sunday morning we relaxed at home and just played. After Colin's nap (yes, another 2 hours!) we headed to the outlet mall for more shopping. Colin even helped pick out a Birthday gift for Auntie Stacy. So I told her that if she doesn't like it she can blame Colin!

I guess you could say we pretty much shopped all weekend. Not a bad weekend :)

Tonight Scott comes home and both Colin and I can't wait. We are lucky, this year he is home for a few days. Usually he is gone Friday through the following Saturday or Sunday after Thanksgiving Day for deer season. But this year he is home for a few days and we will all head back up Wednesday night for Thanksgiving weekend.

Have a great week everyone!

Colin's Fat Lip

Tuesday night Colin and I were playing at home having a great time waiting for Daddy to get home from work. Like most accidents things happened so quickly. The phone range, I saw it was Auntie Stacy, I went to hand Colin the phone and at the same time he tripped over his feet and down he went flat on his face with no time to put his hands out to keep him from falling flat on this face. I immediately picked him up and he buried his face into me. I was not expecting what I saw next as he threw his head back. BLOOD!! For those who know me, blood is not something I am good with, but I am trying to get better at not freaking out the minute I see it. I know that if Colin is anything like his Daddy, there will be many days ahead that accidents will require stitches. So I tried to stay calm, ran him into the bathroom (and at this time I have a white shirt on that is now blotchy red) and washed up his lips all the while he is crying the most painful cry ever. After cleaning him up I realized it really wasn't all that bad. By the time Scott got home about 10 minutes later his lip was huge! Of course he didn't want me to put ice on it so the best I could do was give him a sippy cup of cold milk. All night he kept saying "Kiss it" and sticking his lip out. It must have felt very funny to him because he kept putting his fingers in his mouth.

Well, I lived through it and so did Colin. I guess these little accidents are just preparing me for the bigger ones ahead some day!

Here are a few pictures I took right after it happened.

A weekend in Hurley and Camp

For those of you who know us well know that Hurley, WI, and especially the deer hunting camp, are places we visit often. Colin made his first trip to Hurley when he was 2.5 months old and has been going there every few months since then. This past weekend we headed up to Hurley Friday night and spent the night at the Hurley house (this seems to be the new name for it since there is now a second house near by that is Jason and Melissa's house). On Saturday morning we got up and started getting ready for a trip into camp. This was going to be Colin's first sleepover in camp. Before heading out Colin needed a 4 wheeler ride with Daddy. He loves anything that he can "drive" with Daddy.

We made our way into camp and shortly after getting there Uncle Jason and Auntie Melissa joined us. We had a great afternoon and evening in camp playing with Colin, watching deer, making dinner and just spending time together. Colin even took a great afternoon nap in Grandpa's bunkbed!

We were a little concerned with how Colin would do sleeping in camp. We decided the best thing would be for him to sleep with me (mommy) instead of in the pack n' play. We warned Auntie and Uncle that it might be a sleepless night, but they were up for it. Colin did great! He went down at 8:00 and woke a few times to rollover and go back to sleep and didn't wake up until 7:30 the next morning.

Sunday morning we got up and Daddy made us a great breakfast. We took our time getting packed up to go back to Hurley. Colin got more playtime with Auntie and Uncle and Daddy and Uncle were able to get there deer stands ready for opening deer season next weekend. Colin, Auntie and I also took a walk and found Daddy and Uncle in the woods.

Both Deke and Tucker joined us for the trip and of course both of them had a great time. It's amazing how much they both love charging through the woods and just being up north.

Here are a few Tucker pictures of him enjoying exploring the woods.

Sunday night after getting in from camp we relaxed at the Hurley house with everyone and had dinner. Monday morning we got up, went out for breakfast and packed up to go home. We made a quick stop by Auntie and Uncle's house to say goodbye. Colin slept a good portion of the 4 hour drive home but when he was awake he kept asking about Hurley, camp and Uncle's house. I guess those are becoming a few of his favorite places to go.

We will be back up to Hurley for Thanksgiving Weekend and in camp for a Turkey dinner. We can't wait!

A new place to check-in on the Geach Family

Hello everyone. Welcome to the Geach Family Blog. I attempted to keep a baby website updating everyone on Colin every few weeks but it was more time consuming than I could keep up with. After seeing so many people using blogs and checking this out I'm making the attempt to start a blog for our family. My hope is to update it as much as I can with quick little updates on what is going on in our family. We hope you stop by to check-in on us and to see what each of us are up to. Enjoy!