OK. My sweet darling daughter needs to expand her vocabulary. The only word she wants to say lately is mamamamamamamamamamamamama. With a clingy dog and a clingy kid, I can’t hardly even go to the bathroom in peace. And she is sort of anti-anyone else right now, including her dad, so even if someone else is here, it doesn’t really help much. It’s almost painful. (So much for me thinking that the ear tubes were the cure-all for her occasional whininess [is that spelled right?].)
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So, as annoying as the constant mamamamamamamamamamamamama-ing is, she is still pretty cute. Here …
Year: 2008
Kinky
Another no description needed video:
Dr Mallory, at your service
This week has been full of ear drops for Mallory and she is soooo good about letting us put them in her ears. She wants to carry the little bottle around and will come sit on our laps when we ask her to so we can put them in. Then she wants to put the drops in our ears, and just today I asked her if Cooper got his ear drops. Looks like an early candidate for vet school if you ask me:
I’d like to point out that if I got that close to Cooper with a little …
Post-Op Report
We have an almost new kid. I know I’ve said before that Mallory is a pretty happy and agreeable child; but if it’s possible, I think she’s even happier and more agreeable after getting the fluid pressure relieved from her ears. She had a sort of rough first night on Tuesday (probably partly due to the fact that she had a 4 hour nap so she didn’t want to sleep at night) but last night and tonight she has been awesome.
Last night she played for about an hour while I made dinner…
yes, that is a bikini top she’s wearing…
…and then …
Funny
So not sure if you read my buddy’s comment on my “New Trick” post – basically it was picking on me about how Mallory let my “I love you” fall flat on the floor at the end of the video. I emailed him back and told him about how I almost edited that end part of the video because it hurt my feelings a little how she dissed me.
This is the email I got in response:
you’ll be fine.
Her whole social-awkwardness perception is off a little. Maybe because she’s only 16 months. The only conversation she thinks is worth having is …
All Tubed Up
Tubes are installed in my little pumpkinhead’s ears. Mallory was soooo good at the hospital. She took all her medicine and let Aunt Emily weigh & measure her. She looked A-DOR-ABLE in her little gown tied in the back. She got the little ID anklet thingy put on and then pulled up her gown so they could put one on the other ankle (but alas, only one ID anklet per patient).
coloring in the waiting room wearing her JLo warmups
“But I need TWO anklets”
Sweet gown, dude.
I think I was more nervous than Mallory was.
(The pictures stop here because I thought …
Not a good start
Reports are that the littlest patient woke up on the wrong side of the crib this morning (Rick is home with her, I’m at work). She didn’t want anything to drink…she’s got a long day ahead of her.
Wish us luck.
New Trick
Mallory learned a new trick this weekend. Actually, she self-taught herself a new trick this weekend.
I realize that I may seem like a horrible mom for standing by while she put herself in danger but (a) I have faith in my daughter’s balancing skills, and (b) if she does fall she’ll learn quicker to not do it again than she will if I freak out and scream “Don’t do that!!!”. I’m happy to report that she hasn’t fallen yet and we are working on me calmly reminding her that chairs are for sitting.
That said – I can’t resist her triumphant …
TubeDay Tuesday is Tomorrow
We got the call: Mallory’s surgery is set for noon tomorrow. Nothing to eat after midnight tonight, only Sprite, apple juice or water tomorrow morning until 8:45a and then nothing until after the surgery (probably a trip to Wendy’s for her favorite chicken nuggets will be in order!). We will hide her booster seat tonight and I have to make Rick PROMISE to not eat in front of her in the morning. She totally wants whatever we are eating, especially at breakfast. On the weekends she gets pancakes and I eat cereal. She usually wants a bite or twelve of …
New baby
Congrats to Shauna & Brian on the birth of their third baby (and third girl!) Sage. I don’t know any details besides her name but hooray for the new baby :-)