Year: 2008

Mallory, Miscellaneous

Tonytails or bawettes?

November 20, 2008

That is a common question in our house most mornings. I really need to get her on video saying “tonytails” because it’s too stinking cute.
And I think Mallory also thinks everyday is audition day “American Idol“. That girl is singing ALL.THE.TIME. My favorites:

“blah, yada, go away, tome adain nother day”, which I’m guessing is “rain, rain go away, come again some other day”
“blah, yada DIRTDAY TO YOU!!!!” (happy birthday to you)
“P S R T V W X Y Z now sing me” (ABCs)
Patty Cake is usually a duet she & I sing. Her part is in bold: Patty Cake, …

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friends, Mallory

Too tired to come up with a good title

November 18, 2008

Here are the Mallory funnies of today:

In the car on the way home from school, I was yawning. From the backseat Mallory asked “you tired, Mommy?”
Rog is here working again today. Mallory asked where he went. I said he went upstairs. Then I asked her what was upstairs (expecting her to answer “(new) wall” or “mommy’s bed” or something). But instead she said “Wog!”, with a tone that said “mom – you are such a dumb-$$ – you just told me Rog was upstairs so why are you asking me what is upstairs??”
The girls were super cute when we left …

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Baby Arlo, Pregnancy

Arlo Update

November 18, 2008

Had a doctor’s appointment today with the Great Dr B. Everything looks great – the only thing I was scolded about was not exercising. She made me promise to do my Prenatal Yoga DVD every Saturday and try to increase from there (I am guessing she wasn’t impressed when I said the only exercise I got was carrying Mallory up the stairs…). She had a hard time finding Arlo’s heartbeat with the doppler – but I wasn’t worried since I was feeling the baby move all morning. The doctor had to slide that thingy across my stomach for about 30 …

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Baby Arlo, video

Video of Arlo kicking me

November 18, 2008

At about 22 seconds in, look ~11 o’clock. You can see my blue shirt jump out. The baby will kick a few more times in that same spot.

(Sorry you have to mostly watch the heaving of my big tummy while I breathe – it’s hard to hold my breath these days!)
Oh, and I was thinking on my drive in to work today “hmmm, the baby is quiet this morning” and then I started playing Amy Winehouse and now the baby hasn’t stopped moving for an hour. Either Arlo hates or loves Amy Winehouse!

Baby Arlo, Pregnancy

Arlo’s Gold Medal

November 17, 2008

Oh.
My.
GOD.
This baby of mine in my tummy is doing some Olympic gymnastics or something and it is KILLING me. It doesn’t hurt but it is way annoying! Doesn’t s/he know that this is quiet time in our house? It isn’t “play quiet” (ie, the code word for roughhousing back when I was little) time.
The baby is 21w3d today and we have our next doctor’s appointment tomorrow morning! Time is going really fast overall but it seems as though each day slowly crawls along. At my last appointment, the Great Dr B told me I could have another big ultrasound …

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Mallory

Wook at me, mama!

November 16, 2008

Mallory has been full of it all weekend – hardly any meltdowns and we have had a lot of fun.
Friday night Rick took us out to dinner – I suggested meeting at the Pub in town, but he said “aren’t you craving BW3s?” This from the man who NEVER EVER responds when I say I NEED a peanut buster parfait from DQ or that I NEED to have pizza, even when I try to blame it on being pregnant. So the fact that he was trying to get me to play the “craving” card just because he wanted BW3s …

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Mallory

Ok, last post for today

November 11, 2008

Two quick stories.

Mallory & I took Cooper for a walk in the woods a couple of weeks ago and my sister & her brood + their 6-mo old yellow lab Obi joined us. The kids were all pretty good the whole way up the hill and the dogs were having a BLAST chasing each other and running. We were about 1/4 of the way back down the hill, and Lauren was bent over on the dirt road to look at something and 120 lbs of streaking yellow & black lab barreled into her behind and she was sent headfirst into …

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