I always love hearing what songs brides pick to dance to with their daddies at weddings. My dad & I danced to “The Last Farewell” by Roger Whitaker. When I was growing up my dad used to always listen to Roger Whitaker as he was working on projects around the house…hearing this song takes me back about 25 yrs ago and happy memories growing up. It sounds like a sad song but I still liked it just because of where it puts me when I hear it.
The bride at the wedding we went to last night picked “I Loved Her …
Year: 2008
Safety Girl
We had a big project today – we needed to finish installing the new storm door and Mallory wanted to help, which meant sitting on Rick’s lap while he drilled some holes. But we told her she needed safety glasses on if she was going to be that close to the drill, etc.
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After some hard work installing the new storm door – Mallory & Rick made a smoothie. I guess Rick makes a smoothie every morning and as they drive to school, Mallory grunts from the back seat because she wants his smoothie. Today …
Baby baby baby
Our baby has a new favorite toy – her baby. The one in the bathtub has been a favorite for a while, but this week she’s taken to carrying her other baby all over the house – trying to give her a pacifier, a drink of milk, wanting the baby to be swaddled and have a diaper (even turning the baby over and pulling up her dress and saying “kinkee!”), holding the phone up to the baby to talk…and then finally this morning – the baby had to go potty, and Mallory had to have the phone.
I SWEAR I …
Frocolate, of course!*
We had a dinner out with some Fish & Hen friends on Friday night at Mongolian BBQ.
After dinner, we went to Kilwins to get some ice cream – the girls went in the store with all the kids, while the husbands stood outside scheming about how to go to the bar down the street for some “car bombs“…so the guys left, and took our friend’s 3.5 mo old twins with them. I guess that when they got to the bar, there were no seats outside so the bouncer was trying to usher them inside. One of Rick’s friends had …
I LOVE being outside!
This being outside stuff is AWESOME – Mallory will play and play by herself forever – chasing a ball, chasing the dog, hanging in her little plastic Adirondack chair, taking a drink of water, putting her cup back in the cupholder on her little Adirondack chair, going down the slide, saying “Hi” to Rick’s football guy statue. As long as I make sure she stays out of the Cooper-poop bucket, she has free reign of the backyard. It is FABULOUS!! Yeah for warm sunny weather :-)
Spring is Coming…
The lake is totally thawed, Cooper has been in it a few times already, and we are making the huge mistake of showing it to Mallory…pretty soon she won’t be content to just hang in the yard when she realizes she can go swimming every day.
This last picture – Rick had to grab Mallory because she was about to just start walking into the water.
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We went for a walk in the woods tonight. I swear she weighs about 400 lbs. Plus she is always leaning one way or the other in the backpack so it works …
Weekend Review
I don’t really have anything to report but feel like I can’t go all weekend without a post.
The weather was crappy yesterday so unfortunately Mallory & I didn’t make it to the spring football game. Rick was working so Mals & I had our standard girls-day-in all day. For as easygoing as she usually is, she still shows flashes of my personality occasionally.
This seems like a perfect point to share the poem I read for the forensics contest when I was in the 2nd grade. I memorized this poem and won out of my class, and then I had to …
Amazing
Today was one of those teaser spring days in southeast Michigan – 70 degrees and sunny; tomorrow will be 40s and a threat of snow/freezing rain/blech. My boss sprung me from work a little early (thanks Z-dogg!) and Mallory & I made a trip to the local Dairy Queen. When I picked her up at school, I asked her if she wanted to go to DQ – she *very* enthusiastically nodded her head and was ready to go. The amazing thing is that she has never been to Dairy Queen before, and she does not normally nod her head enthusiastically …
Addendum to "This place is a mess!"
I realized I can turn off the talking part of Mallory’s new talking vacuum. But she saw me turn it off and she turned it right back on. Dammit Jim.
This place is a mess!
Mallory likes when I vacuum – she likes to help me vacuum and also tries to walk the cord of the vacuum like it’s a tightrope. I thought she would enjoy a vacuum of her own.
I made the mistake of getting Mallory a talking toy vacuum. This stupid toy says “This place is a mess! What a pig-sty! That isn’t a rabbit – it’s a dust bunny!”. But there might be a good side to it – I immediately got my vacuum out to clean up the mess and dust bunnies.
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I think I forgot to post about our …