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Mallory & I had a fun visit to my friend Amy’s house tonight (actually Amy’s mom’s house). They have two ponies, Carmen & Duke, and a black & white bunny named Oreo. This first picture is Mallory seeing Carmen head our way – she was a little bit afraid. I don’t think she ever even touched the pony at all. Then we went to see Duke who was in the pasture (I think that is what it is called?) and Mallory threw a couple of apple wedges to Duke who gobbled them right up. She was adamant about holding my hand everywhere we walked, which I think is a good thing, but it was so unlike her normal “I’m so independent, leave me alone” attitude that I found it interesting.
Then it was off to see Oreo; again, Mallory was a little reserved but actually reached out to pet the bunny a few times. Then she was all about leaving Miss Amy’s mom’s house in order to go to Miss Amy’s house to eat dinner.
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Speaking of dinner, I weighed Mallory tonight – 32.8lbs. No wonder I get out of breath carrying her around. I just scheduled her 2-yr appointment and will again ask if we need to worry about her weight. She very rarely gets any sweet treat or junk food and we try to be good about giving her veggies at least once a day. We don’t normally do juice but have had to do prune-apple juice lately due to her non-pooping. Everytime I ask the doctor about it she looks at Rick and me and says that based on our builds, she isn’t worried about Mallory – but 32.8 lbs today is 97% percentile!! Let’s just hope Mallory inherited Rick’s obsession with working out over my general laziness ;-)
The new big-girl bed isn’t going so great. Mallory goes down fine at night but at some point in the night she is up screaming bloody murder. Last night I was up with her from 2:30a-4:30a. I have heard from some other friends that their kids are sleeping funny lately so maybe it’s the change of season or maybe it’s the new bed but whatever it is she needs to knock it off and go back to sleeping through the night.
Anyway, seeing as how I got less than ideal amount of sleep last night, I’m going to bed earlier than I normally do. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE sleep baby girl.