Yes, a boring post title and I swear that more than half of the blogs in my Google Reader have had that same post title (well, without the belated part) and I swore I was going to be way more creative than that but then here I am, using the boring post title. My whole family is still sleeping right now so I need to quick post while I have peace and quiet.
To make up for the boring post title, I will show you a video of a sweet little girl wishing you a happy holiday:
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We had a …
Wow – sorry about my absence. I just realized I hadn’t posted since SUNDAY and I know all eight of my readers are going through Mallory & Arlo withdrawal!
First of all, congrats to my dad – he passed a big test yesterday (something about green building and saving the planet for Mallory’s future). He’s been studying his a$$ off for weeks and hadn’t passed any of the practice tests he took and was really worried about the test yesterday. You need 170 right answers pass, and he got 179 right! He really IS an engineer! GO DAD!!!
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Along the …
Mallory had swim class Friday night and with Rick out of town, I enlisted grandpa to come get in the water with Mallory so I didn’t have to. The class is unbelievably unstructured and un-instructured (you KNOW I’ll be calling again on Monday) so it was basically 30 minutes of playtime for Mallory & my dad – not that either of them minded. Mallory had the hugest smile on her face the entire class so even if she didn’t learn the butterfly stroke I guess it wasn’t a total loss. We had dinner at Miss Cheri & Scary Larry’s house …
For about 6+ months now, one of the big news topics is the rising price of gas. An impending hurricane would send gas prices up and up and they got as high as $4+/gallon by October 2008.
But the last couple of weeks, they have been dropping and dropping…and are now down to ~$1.74 (my sister even saw $1.68!). I know this isn’t Mallory or Arlo related but thought it would be good information for when they come back and read this in 30 years and gas is up to $20/gallon or something :-)
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Other news of the times …
Ok, I have a new funny thing to report and a sad thing to report.
When we take Mallory’s clothes or pajamas off, she says “NAKED BABY!!!”
The sad thing to report is that I tried to get Mallory on video saying “tonytail”. But now she says “ponytail”.
Here we are on the eve of 22 weeks. My lower back has been having some issues (like sharp stabbing pain) and my right ankle continues to blow up like crazy by the end of the day, so those are both fun. At least my heartburn is under control, thanks to the Zan.tac.
The baby is moving like CRAZY; it’s seems as though once I could feel it move all bets are off! I think s/he had hiccups today because I was feeling spaced out movements that would be consistent with hiccups.
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Mallory went down FABULOUSLY for bedtime …
That is a common question in our house most mornings. I really need to get her on video saying “tonytails” because it’s too stinking cute.
And I think Mallory also thinks everyday is audition day “American Idol“. That girl is singing ALL.THE.TIME. My favorites:
“blah, yada, go away, tome adain nother day”, which I’m guessing is “rain, rain go away, come again some other day”
“blah, yada DIRTDAY TO YOU!!!!” (happy birthday to you)
“P S R T V W X Y Z now sing me” (ABCs)
Patty Cake is usually a duet she & I sing. Her part is in bold: Patty Cake, …
Here are the Mallory funnies of today:
In the car on the way home from school, I was yawning. From the backseat Mallory asked “you tired, Mommy?”
Rog is here working again today. Mallory asked where he went. I said he went upstairs. Then I asked her what was upstairs (expecting her to answer “(new) wall” or “mommy’s bed” or something). But instead she said “Wog!”, with a tone that said “mom – you are such a dumb-$$ – you just told me Rog was upstairs so why are you asking me what is upstairs??”
The girls were super cute when we left …
Had a doctor’s appointment today with the Great Dr B. Everything looks great – the only thing I was scolded about was not exercising. She made me promise to do my Prenatal Yoga DVD every Saturday and try to increase from there (I am guessing she wasn’t impressed when I said the only exercise I got was carrying Mallory up the stairs…). She had a hard time finding Arlo’s heartbeat with the doppler – but I wasn’t worried since I was feeling the baby move all morning. The doctor had to slide that thingy across my stomach for about 30 …
At about 22 seconds in, look ~11 o’clock. You can see my blue shirt jump out. The baby will kick a few more times in that same spot.
(Sorry you have to mostly watch the heaving of my big tummy while I breathe – it’s hard to hold my breath these days!)
Oh, and I was thinking on my drive in to work today “hmmm, the baby is quiet this morning” and then I started playing Amy Winehouse and now the baby hasn’t stopped moving for an hour. Either Arlo hates or loves Amy Winehouse!