That would be Mallory’s name if you called her all of her favorite foods.
I was going to leave this post at just that because I think it would have been funny but I’m sure I would disappoint all of Mallory’s fans who come here to read up on the pumpkin-head. So here are some other recent Mallory observances:
- While she loves bananas, pancakes, pasta, peas and grapes, she doesn’t like steak. Really, I think that’s the only food she won’t eat. No wonder she looks 8 mos pregnant!
- When it’s time to put her shoes on, she will turn around and try to back into your lap. The funny thing is that she will turn around whether she is one foot in front of your lap or 5 feet in front of your lap — you get watch her slowly back up, anticipating the crash onto her shoe-putting-on-chair.
- All the things you read about dogs and new babies say you should keep the dog’s feeding area kid-free while they are eating so they don’t feel threatened and snap at the baby/kid. Um, yeah, we don’t follow that rule at our house. Mallory will toddle over to Cooper’s dish and squat down sumo-style, to watch him inhale his dinner. She usually is giving some sort of running commentary but it’s unclear what she’s trying to tell us. Maybe she’s saying “Breathe, Cooper!”.
- We are out of the hair-pulling-bully stage but now we are on to the hitting-bully stage. I hope she doesn’t do this at daycare, but when she’s playing with her cousin Lauren, and L has a toy M wants, M just takes it. Then L takes it back. This is followed by M squealing in protest and hitting L on the arm, which in turn is followed by me saying “Mallory, NO hitting. It’s not nice.” Then M starts to cry. Then L starts to cry. I have posted before that these girls will probably grow up like sisters, which means these kinds of fights are inevitable but I feel badly for my brother-in-law if that’s how it goes every single Wednesday in his living room. If there is any silver-lining it’s that Mallory ADORES Liam and will go over to where he is on the floor and squat down and sing and talk to him. That is beyond cute.
That’s all for now. I am still working on that video and some pictures I have backlogged.