Year: 2008

Mallory, Miscellaneous

Stuff to remember

December 3, 2008

I am worn out and thus this will be a boring post; and that means it is going to be done up bullet-style.

Leaving daycare today, we were already in the car – Mallory yelled “BYE AL-SON (Allison)!!!!  BYE FWENDS (friends)!!!!!  BYE DEMI!!!!!!!  BYE MEHWEEEEE (Mary)!!!!!” (Demi & Mary are two of the teachers).
Whenever it’s time to eat, Mallory tells me “eat time!”
She is still obsessed with pretending to offer us food – usually with her spoons that she grabs from the silverware drawer, but sometimes she pretends with her hands. The other night we spent about five solid minutes of …

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Baby Arlo, Mallory, Pregnancy

Pregnancy Update (23w3d)

December 2, 2008

Baby Arlo is advanced already! This is the info from my 23w email I got: ”…now that she’s more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound, and you may be able to see her squirm underneath your clothes…” (note – the use of “she” here is babycenter (dot) com’s doing, not mine…do not read anything into it…next week it will refer to the baby as a “he”).
Anyway – the email says that at 23 weeks we MAY be able to see the baby squirm under my clothes. But seeing as how I saw the baby squirm …

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Mallory

It’s beginning to look a (little) like Christmas!

December 2, 2008

Yeah! We got our tree up today!! Rick brought it in the house this evening and Mallory helped him screw the base on the tree:
   She sang some sort of “turn it round” song during this exercise.
Then Rick asked Mallory where the tree should go. She told us “outdide”. But after Rick suggested maybe in the living room, by the TV, this is where she thought it should go:

Mallory wanted to help put the star “on top” of the tree so she grabbed her little stool (also her potty) to assist in reaching the top …

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coops, Mallory

Slowly

December 1, 2008

Slowly is Mallory’s new command when she is making me sing either Row, Row, Row your boat or Patty Cake. She’ll tell me “sssllllllloooooowwwwwllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” so I have to sing it slowly.
She is also working on her hockey-speak. She makes a lot of words end in “ie” or “y” that aren’t supposed to (like how most hockey players have nicknames that end in “ie” or “y”: Chris Chelios = “Cheli”, Steve Yzerman = "Stevie”, etc). She says milky, juicy, and some other things that I can’t think of right now.
New song in her repertoire – “Jingle Bells…HEY” (skipping “…jingle …

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Baby Arlo, hockey, Mallory, rb, stb, travel

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving

November 30, 2008

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 …

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Mallory, Miscellaneous

A Posting Drought

November 27, 2008

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 …

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Baby Arlo, Mallory

Weekend Review

November 24, 2008

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 …

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Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Stuff

November 23, 2008

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 …

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Mallory

Bad news & good news

November 21, 2008

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”.

Baby Arlo, Mallory, Pregnancy

22-week-Eve

November 20, 2008

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 …

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