Mallory

My Kid Rocks

Not sure if I should be proud of this or a little disturbed – but it’s too funny to not share.

The new Kid Rock song “All Summer Long” came on the radio yesterday when we were in the car. I looked in the rear-view mirror and Mallory was totally rockin’ out in the backseat. This will be fine until she starts to sing the words “drinking whiskey out the bottle”, etc. ;-) 

We had her dancing tonight for a while but didn’t have the camera fired up early enough so it’s not worth posting. Rookie mistake.

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Mallory is now 18 months old. I’ve heard/read that there is usually a vocabulary explosion at 18 mos and we are starting to witness it. Her latest is “goo-mee”, which according to the Mallorian-to-English dictionary means “excuse me”. Most common usage is “goo-mee bahbah”; the slang translation for this is “get the %#&$ out of my way, Cooper”. Other use heard – “goo-mee mama”.

I am impressed with her manners – seeing as how three of her most recognizable words/phrases are “peees” (please), “gob-ah” (thank you), and now “goo-mee” (excuse me). We must be doing something right.

Mallory is also starting to put two words together – tonight she said something that sounded like “wanna gide”, which I interpreted as “want to go outside” and I got a big nod so I guess I guessed right.

She is obsessed with pointing out what is ours and what is hers. If we ask where her tummy is, she shows us her tummy, but then she has to come over and lift up our shirts to see our tummies. Same with ears, shoes, toothbrushes, etc.

Her big 18-mo appointment isn’t for a couple of weeks so stay tuned for her new stats.

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Had my second photography class last night. MAN does that teacher make it sound hard to take pictures! It’s like golf – where you have to concentrate and think about so many things (feet placement, club selection, grip, angle of wrists, keeping your elbow straight, tilting out my bum just right, “wrinkles” in my wrists on my backswing, etc) – in photography there is the ISO, f/stop, exposure, shutter speed, white balance, yada yada. Makes me want to just keep using auto everything. One woman in the class was good though – she specifically asked “so what do I need to do to take great pictures of my kids?”. The teacher didn’t give a straight answer (how could he with all those variables he just taught us?) but I have hope that I’ll learn something.