So I have this survey thing to see what people thought about me creating a second blog to I could keep family stuff separate from Mallory stuff. I have a whopping six responses. Five answered that they like everything together. But today someone answered the survey with the third option I gave, which is “Who cares – this blog is dumb”.
I was laughing out loud. No one was supposed to actually pick that option!!
Month: January 2008
What do I say?
I don’t even know how to title this post. So I’ll just jump into the stories:
Mallory likes to help give Cooper dinner. Usually she is happy with giving him his arthritis pill and then showing me where his bowl is so I can dump his food.
Tonight, she reached for the cup we use for his food so I let her at it. This is a one-cup plastic measuring cup, filled to the brim with little pebbles of dog food. She immediately tips it and some of the food dumps on the carpet. She loses it and starts crying. I tell …
Gone in 60 seconds
Mallory just ate an entire hotdog in 60 seconds. I am so not exaggerating.
Marroly
I forgot to post about how all the Japanese people on Guam couldn’t pronounce Mallory’s name. They would bend down and say “ah…so cute” and then look at us and say “name?”. We’d say “Mallory” and they’d look back at Mals and say “ah, Marroly…Marlory…”. One time a lady even said “is hard?” after trying to say her name. LOL.
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I have also failed to post that when I want to put Mallory’s hood up on her jacket (because it is freaking cold around these parts these days), she will look up at me and point to my hood. …
Cross your fingers
So far today has been a normal day for Miss Mallory. She slept for an hour at school (good), fell asleep on the way home from school (very good), ate a good dinner and didn’t freak out in the highchair (good), had a fun bath (good), and walked herself to her bedroom for night-night, stopping to give me a smooch on her way (also good). Rick is in reading his Outside magazine to her and giving her a bottle…I hope tonight is the night that she is back to my easy-to-sleep baby.
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I have posted before about Mallory …
Calgon, take me away!
We are having a rough time adjusting to real-life. For all the sleeping Mallory did on Saturday & Sunday day, she wants nothing to do with it now. This is completely uncharted territory for us – she is usually fantastic at bedtime. I am sick and dealing with my own re-entry adjustments so I am about to lose it.
Sunday night – she had a 3+ hour crying session, tossing and turning on my chest, going from my left shoulder to the right and back and forth. In the middle of it, she lifted her head up, pulled out her pacifier …
"NO!!!"
For some reason we have yet to get Mallory out in the snow. Not for lack of snow, but I guess for lack of motivation by mom & dad. But we got some good snow while we were out of town and it continued last night and this morning. Mallory’s changing table is under her window and every time we go to change her diaper, she points out the window and says “NNNOOOOO” – it totally sounded like she was saying snow! So we bundled up the pumpkinhead and out we went. She had a hard time walking in the …
Returning to Real Life
I forgot that re-adjusting to real life and real time was going to be hard too. We got home yesterday around 2p, which is 5a tomorrow Guam time…Mallory slept on and off the whole say home from the airport and the grocery store and then fell asleep during dinner at 5.30p. We woke her up for a bath – I didn’t want her to wake up at 3a if we let her go to sleep that early.
Well, she went down last night without a bottle (now that our traveling is over, weaning her from her nighttime bottle is my …
We're back…
We are back to the frozen tundra…and it doesn’t seem as cold as I expected it to be when we returned to Michigan. Mallory was SUPER GREAT on the plane trips today, she slept for 2/3 of the first flight, and about 3/4 of the long 12 hour flight. Rick & I felt like super parents because she was so well-behaved!!
Mallory was SO excited to see Cooper – she was giggling and screeching when he got home from the dogsitter’s, it was so cute. She was exhausted from our long day of travel, even though she slept so much…she even …
Miscellaneous pictures
The view at night from our hotel room.
There it is! The site of my birth :-)
Funny sign at one of the national parks – notice the last bullet point: “Unexploded ammunition, mines, bombs, etc., are extremely dangerous. If sighted, call 911”. All of the parks have this same sign – I didn’t realize what a huge part Guam played in the second World War and that the US saved them from the Japanese. I must read more about it when we get home.
Tackling daddy at the beach…
Mallory having trouble with her new water shoes.
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