Month: April 2008

The lake is totally thawed, Cooper has been in it a few times already, and we are making the huge mistake of showing it to Mallory…pretty soon she won’t be content to just hang in the yard when she realizes she can go swimming every day.

This last picture – Rick had to grab Mallory because she was about to just start walking into the water.
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We went for a walk in the woods tonight. I swear she weighs about 400 lbs. Plus she is always leaning one way or the other in the backpack so it works …

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I don’t really have anything to report but feel like I can’t go all weekend without a post.
The weather was crappy yesterday so unfortunately Mallory & I didn’t make it to the spring football game. Rick was working so Mals & I had our standard girls-day-in all day. For as easygoing as she usually is, she still shows flashes of my personality occasionally.
This seems like a perfect point to share the poem I read for the forensics contest when I was in the 2nd grade. I memorized this poem and won out of my class, and then I had to …

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Today was one of those teaser spring days in southeast Michigan – 70 degrees and sunny; tomorrow will be 40s and a threat of snow/freezing rain/blech. My boss sprung me from work a little early (thanks Z-dogg!) and Mallory & I made a trip to the local Dairy Queen. When I picked her up at school, I asked her if she wanted to go to DQ – she *very* enthusiastically nodded her head and was ready to go. The amazing thing is that she has never been to Dairy Queen before, and she does not normally nod her head enthusiastically …

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I realized I can turn off the talking part of Mallory’s new talking vacuum. But she saw me turn it off and she turned it right back on. Dammit Jim.

Mallory likes when I vacuum – she likes to help me vacuum and also tries to walk the cord of the vacuum like it’s a tightrope. I thought she would enjoy a vacuum of her own.
I made the mistake of getting Mallory a talking toy vacuum. This stupid toy says “This place is a mess! What a pig-sty! That isn’t a rabbit – it’s a dust bunny!”. But there might be a good side to it – I immediately got my vacuum out to clean up the mess and dust bunnies.
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I think I forgot to post about our …

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We get this a lot. When Mallory was little-little I thought she was ALL Rick – the round face, dark eyes. Then I think she went through a phase where she looked like me – since her cheeks were getting Sammie-sized. And we get some random “she looks just like your dad (ie – my dad, Mallory’s grandpa)!” comments, which are interesting…must be the lack of hair and big tummy? Just kidding grandpa…
But seriously – looking back at our baby pictures, I think I see more of me in her now than Rick. She still has Rick’s eyes but the …

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I had a relaxing family-free sick day today; Rick & Mallory got home late this afternoon after hanging out at the softball game. When they got home, Rick wanted to do some spring cleaning in the yard and I begged him to keep Mallory with him. I was feeling a little better at this point but not well enough to listen to “mamamamamama” and “upupupupupupupupup” non-stop. But I was feeling well enough to try to do a little cleaning inside ~ when I was putting clothes away in Mallory’s room, this is what I saw outside her window:
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