friends, Mallory

No no no

October 9, 2008

That is Mallory’s new thing. It’s not just one “no”, and it’s not “no mommy” anymore. Now it’s a calm “no no no” – when I try to sneak a barrette into her crazy hair, or if I tell her it’s time to leave daycare. It’s pretty funny.
Here is Mallory taking a bath in our bathtub the other morning. I couldn’t fill it up too high because Rick was in the shower and I didn’t want to steal all his hot water. She was cracking me up how she was lounging there – and the face she is making is …

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Baby Arlo, Pregnancy

Boy or Girl?

October 7, 2008

I have added a new page at the top (Boy or Girl?) for everyone to be able to follow along with my “symptoms”, so I can have some people to co-obsess with me over whether I am having a boy or a girl. I know that this obsession could be easily solved by just finding out right now what we are having but it’s way more fun to annoy my mom & my mother-in-law (and Deetza and Triplet-Jen and many more) by not finding out! There will also be a link to the official Baby Arlo poll on the right …

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Mallory, Pregnancy

Oh how I love that girl

October 6, 2008

Last night at about 10.30p I heard a ruckus downstairs. Being the tired mom that I am I figured that if someone was breaking in, the dog would bark. And if it was Mallory, I would soon hear “hi momma!”. So I decided that I would stay in bed until it was clearer what I would find if I actually got out of bed to investigate.
Well, I didn’t hear either of those things. Instead I heard my sweet baby girl whimper at the bottom of the steps. I ran down the stairs to see her lit up by the little …

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Weekend Review (10/05/08)

October 5, 2008

Here is our weekend:
We had swim class on Friday night, which is really open swim while a pimple-faced kid gets paid to take attendance. Of course this annoys the ever-living-crap out of me, almost to the point that I will let Rick take Mallory by himself and I’ll stay home and pretend that the teacher is actually teaching. I should be happy that he & Mallory get 30 minutes of playtime and enjoy the laughter and giggles that I hear from the pool and it’s not as though she is really going to learn how to swim since she is …

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Mallory, video

Smarty Pants

October 3, 2008

Mallory “reading” a book with Rick:

Mallory counting to five (she can really count to ten all by herself but gets performance anxiety when the camera is on):

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Laundry

October 3, 2008

That is my excuse for my hiatus from blogging. I finally got a month’s worth of laundry put away. It had to be done.
Well, the good news is that just because I haven’t been blogging doesn’t mean that Mallory isn’t doing anything funny. And JUST as I typed this she did something REALLY funny and those pictures are downloading…stay tuned.
We have these big floor pillows that we prefer to keep stacked up in a corner. I don’t think Rick and I have ever used them for anything but they are from back in my olden days and I have memories …

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