I forgot to post about how all the Japanese people on Guam couldn’t pronounce Mallory’s name. They would bend down and say “ah…so cute” and then look at us and say “name?”. We’d say “Mallory” and they’d look back at Mals and say “ah, Marroly…Marlory…”. One time a lady even said “is hard?” after trying to say her name. LOL.
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I have also failed to post that when I want to put Mallory’s hood up on her jacket (because it is freaking cold around these parts these days), she will look up at me and point to my hood. …
Year: 2008
Cross your fingers
So far today has been a normal day for Miss Mallory. She slept for an hour at school (good), fell asleep on the way home from school (very good), ate a good dinner and didn’t freak out in the highchair (good), had a fun bath (good), and walked herself to her bedroom for night-night, stopping to give me a smooch on her way (also good). Rick is in reading his Outside magazine to her and giving her a bottle…I hope tonight is the night that she is back to my easy-to-sleep baby.
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I have posted before about Mallory …
Calgon, take me away!
We are having a rough time adjusting to real-life. For all the sleeping Mallory did on Saturday & Sunday day, she wants nothing to do with it now. This is completely uncharted territory for us – she is usually fantastic at bedtime. I am sick and dealing with my own re-entry adjustments so I am about to lose it.
Sunday night – she had a 3+ hour crying session, tossing and turning on my chest, going from my left shoulder to the right and back and forth. In the middle of it, she lifted her head up, pulled out her pacifier …
"NO!!!"
For some reason we have yet to get Mallory out in the snow. Not for lack of snow, but I guess for lack of motivation by mom & dad. But we got some good snow while we were out of town and it continued last night and this morning. Mallory’s changing table is under her window and every time we go to change her diaper, she points out the window and says “NNNOOOOO” – it totally sounded like she was saying snow! So we bundled up the pumpkinhead and out we went. She had a hard time walking in the …
Returning to Real Life
I forgot that re-adjusting to real life and real time was going to be hard too. We got home yesterday around 2p, which is 5a tomorrow Guam time…Mallory slept on and off the whole say home from the airport and the grocery store and then fell asleep during dinner at 5.30p. We woke her up for a bath – I didn’t want her to wake up at 3a if we let her go to sleep that early.
Well, she went down last night without a bottle (now that our traveling is over, weaning her from her nighttime bottle is my …
We're back…
We are back to the frozen tundra…and it doesn’t seem as cold as I expected it to be when we returned to Michigan. Mallory was SUPER GREAT on the plane trips today, she slept for 2/3 of the first flight, and about 3/4 of the long 12 hour flight. Rick & I felt like super parents because she was so well-behaved!!
Mallory was SO excited to see Cooper – she was giggling and screeching when he got home from the dogsitter’s, it was so cute. She was exhausted from our long day of travel, even though she slept so much…she even …
Miscellaneous pictures
The view at night from our hotel room.
There it is! The site of my birth :-)
Funny sign at one of the national parks – notice the last bullet point: “Unexploded ammunition, mines, bombs, etc., are extremely dangerous. If sighted, call 911”. All of the parks have this same sign – I didn’t realize what a huge part Guam played in the second World War and that the US saved them from the Japanese. I must read more about it when we get home.
Tackling daddy at the beach…
Mallory having trouble with her new water shoes.
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Video of the Slide…
Ok, before I sign off – here are two videos for you, a little teaser of all the other video & pictures you’ll get to see once we get home….
The first one is your view going down the slide. The second video you can see Mallory’s face as she & Rick go down the slide. Priceless.
Coming Home
Coming home on the plane from Guam to Osaka, they were showing the movie “No Reservations”, but we couldn’t find the channel that had the audio in English. Turns out that the movie didn’t have the English audio, and they made an announcement that they were very sorry that the movie didn’t have English audio. Then they made the same announcement in Japanese. Um, the Japanese had audio for the movie, why did you have to make an announcement for them???
Sitting in the Osaka airport right now and actually found a wireless network. This airport isn’t like the Tokyo airport …
Revenue Opportunity
I think Rick & I may have a little revenue opportunity on our hands.
At least a couple of times a day, Japanese tourists use broken English to ask if it is OK to take a picture of Mallory. We always oblige and laugh about it. We can’t figure out if it is because of her blond curly hair or because she looks like a sumo wrestler.
Yesterday my dad actually gave a lady his card because it was a cute picture of Mals and me and he wanted her to email it to him. Not sure if she understood his request, …