I mean, doesn’t EVERYONE wear a tutu over their pajamas with their fancy shoes and play with cars before a Michigan football game?
To reference (again) my favorite movie, if you believe you are winning because you are breathing through your eyelids or wearing a garter belt under your uniform or if it’s because you are wearing a tutu with your pajamas and fancy shoes – then that is why you are winning.
I say go with it; it worked against Minnesota. Nothing like starting the superstitions young.
Year: 2008
Mallory’s two-year checkup
We had Mallory’s two-year well-child appointment today. She now weighs 33.5lbs and is 35.5” tall. Her weight is 98th percentile and her height is 89th. She still has a tiny umbilical hernia that has a year to close otherwise we have to see the surgeons but the pediatrician is convinced that it will close on it’s own.
Mallory was a maniac during the appointment, and was being SOOO bossy to Rick – telling him “do dis, gaga” and wanting him to imitate her. She didn’t want us to put her shirt back on after she got weighed so she was running …
Mallory the Builder
We are having some work done at our house (not the big addition, just enclosing the stairwell to the master bedroom). The guy came and framed it last weekend and until he comes to do drywall this weekend, we have some unfinished construction. I had to nail up some 2x4s across the openings in the studs so that a little person or a big dog didn’t walk through the openings and fall down the stairs.
Of course Mallory wanted to help:
And then after she hit herself with the hammer, I gave her a new tool:
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I have so much I …
Catching up on some birthday pictures
Here are a bunch of pictures from last week that I haven’t posted yet – the first set are all from our home birthday celebration and then a couple from her birthday breakfast. Mallory really got into her birthday and presents. When we got home from work/school on Friday, there was a package from Mallory’s grandma – I told Mallory she had more presents and she went RUNNING to the living room and stopped short in front of the entertainment center, looking for her presents. I guess I should have waited until I opened & unpacked the box before telling …
Halfway there!
Holy fast – I can’t believe we are 20 weeks already – and since pregnancy is 40 weeks, that means that we are halfway through this pregnancy. And since Mallory was a week late, today we are 20.5-ish weeks along, I really am halfway through :-) We have our next appointment next Tuesday – stay tuned for that update.
Here are my 20-week belly pictures and the belly progress pictures!
It's raining, it's snowing…wait, it's SNOWING??
Wahoo! We got our first snow of the season yesterday! I am so excited about the holidays this year and getting Mallory all fired up for Santa and everything, I’m ready to start decorating for Christmas RIGHT NOW (and I would if I could get into the attic but Arlo is preventing that from happening).
Mallory wanted to call her Papa & Nina to tell them that it was snowing up high. I’m sure they miss the snow a lot, seeing as how they live in Florida.
Two gems from today
In the midst of all my blog-recovery, Mallory gave us two gems:
She had just finished breakfast and had some milk left on her face; of course once I put her on the ground, Cooper came to check her out. She sternly told him, “NO TISSES, BUHBUH!” (no kisses, Cooper).
I was on the phone for an hour with tech support trying to get my blog figured out – Mallory kept telling me to “top talking, mama” (stop talking, mama) over and over again.
That’s all I got for now.
I’m getting a little emotionable*
Holy hormones or something but man am I about to lose it. It really hit me about an hour ago and when I looked at the clock, it was 8:10p…and Mallory was born at 8:11p so I wonder if my maternal intincts were reminding me that it was the time?
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Anywho, today was Mallory’s actual birthday. Since Rick wasn’t going to be home after work, we went to birthday breakfast this morning and Mallory wore her brand new birthday shirt that Allison’s mom got her (but if you asked Mals who got her the shirt, she would tell …
I boated
That’s what Mallory did yesterday if you were to ask her after about 3.30p.
Mals got to go to the polls with me after work and I had my purse stuffed full with a banana, a book and some oyster crackers to help us both endure the long lines I expected to see. But lucky for us, we walked right in, got my ballot and sat down to fill it out. She kept trying to knock over the cardboard science-project-display-like barriers that were surrounding each voting station but I filled my ballot out quickly and we were ready to go. I …
Fancy Mallory
We celebrated Mallory’s birthday tonight. Judging by the look on her face, I think that the Fancy Nancy dress and coordinating fancy fuchsia shoes were a big hit.
More pictures another day.