Cooper Duper has a friend staying with us for a few days ~ his buddy Barkley, a 1.5 yr old yellow lab ~ while his family goes camping.
It took the dogs all of about 2.5 minutes to start TEARING through the house, while Mallory clung to me and squealed and laughed. There were a few rounds of dog wrestling and water drinking contests too. The last shenanigans I saw were tug-of-war with a stuffed animal.
Rick is taking this little visit as an opportunity to teach Barkley a few things; Barkley’s parents would like us to teach him how …
Year: 2008
Baby Bear Hugs
Here are the girls saying goodbye today at school.
ps – that is Alli hollering in the background…
Cutest.Girls.Ever.
Unfortunately there is no video to accompany this post so you’ll have to just close your eyes (after you read it) and visualize how completely hysterically cute Mallory and her BFF Alli are.
This is what happened when I got to daycare today:
The girls were out on the toddler playground with about six other boys & girls. Alli was chasing Mallory – and whatever Mallory stopped to look at or touch, Alli copied her. The did a lap around the playground like this (with me hiding behind a bush so neither of them saw me).
Then Alli ran to …
Tag This
From about the time Mallory was 9 or 10 months old, she has LOVED the little satin tag on her bear blankie. Whenever she was tired she would rotate the blankie around and around in her hands until she found the tag and then she would stroke that little tag.
In the past few months, she has started to rub the satin tag on her cheek when she is tired but more recently she rubs the tag under her nose. I think it’s so funny and sweet.
But – it makes me mad that these women came up with this idea …
Cooper’s Annual Dock Photo
We didn’t know it when we took Cooper’s picture on our dock that first spring that we would turn it into an annual thing. The first picture is from 2005 and he is only 11 weeks old – and had been home with us just 3 days.
Night-night
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I love when Mallory chases Rick into her room for her bedtime story, “GO GAGA!” She knows the routine of water and pacifier and book and blankie and bear and she knows to come give me a hug & a kiss before they start reading their book.
Tonight she got to read one of her favorite books – it plays a little song when you open it and the batteries were slowing dying and I finally got around to replacing them. How happy was she to have her oldie-but-goody back in the rotation?
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Here are some pictures of Mallory …
Bye!
Mallory got a “BYE” (that would be “bike” in Mallorian). She sees Rick ride a bike and gets excited so we got her a tricycle yesterday. It is a little big for her – I was very torn between the smaller one and the bigger one and I went with the bigger one which may have been a mistake. I don’t know if she’ll grow enough this summer to be able to really use it so we may go back and get the smaller one too. I also got her a bike helmet, which she insisted on wearing out of …
Just some stories – June 19-style
I have been bad about taking pictures but good about collecting stories. Here goes:
I’ll ask Mallory “who am I?” and she’ll yell “mama!”. So I ask her who she is – she points to her nose and says “BABY!”. We can point to Rick or Cooper and get her to yell Gaga or buhbuh. It isn’t such a big deal that she knows who we all are – but it’s beyond adorable that she points to herself on the nose and says baby.
Yesterday when Alli showed up at school, Mallory was in the midst of her breakfast of yogurt and …
The Booger Eater
I’ve been feeling a little under the weather the past couple of days – today is probably the worst – it’s just a little cold and I am exhausted. Mallory had something last week – a runny nose and a bad cough.
One of my co-workers just came in and asked if I was sick and if I caught something from the “little booger-eater”.
LMAO.
This morning's conversation
This was my conversation with Mallory this morning as we walked out the door of the house:
MCB: “MAMA!” (while pointing to my car)
STB: “yes, that is mama’s car”
MCB: “BABY!”
STB: “yes, baby (Mallory) is coming with me in my car to go to school”
MCB: “YAYA (Alli)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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Mallory officially graduated from the infant room to the toddler room at daycare. She had spent some in the toddler room before her graduation so it wasn’t totally new but Monday morning she was a little out of sorts when we hung her bag up on her new hook and put her food in …