Spotted outside my house today:
Month: March 2009
38w3d Appointment
Had my 38w appointment this morning. Ended up just being the non-stress-test seeing as how my doctor is in Scotland. Luckily I am OK with the other docs in her group so it’s OK if I go into labor before she gets back this weekend. But I did find the most adorable onesie that I will get if this baby is a girl and is born after March 20 so after this Friday works for me.
Anyway, back to the appointment. All was well with baby Arlo. My sister was able to come up during my appointment to say hi …
Well, hellooooooooooo
I think I told you about how Mallory has been imitating my doctor’s greeting from last week. I got her on video this morning (yes, she is sitting on the toilet).
A bad day v a good day
We had two days on the complete opposite ends of the spectrum this weekend. Let’s start with the bad day.
Saturday – Rick had to work so it was just Mallory & me all day. We had a decent morning even though I was tired. But then she refused to nap and that set the tone for the rest of the day – she was whiney and angry about everything. We had plans to go to the Michigan hockey game Saturday night but when she didn’t go down for a nap until 4p, and woke up 30 minutes later in …
Fun with Photoshop – what do you think?
Ok, so at the expense of my daughter running around in a diaper all day with no constructive play (and me trying to get her to nap for two hours), I had some fun playing with pictures today. I thought her hair was extra cute & curly today so we had a mini-photo shoot in the living room.
Here are the before and afters:
Original
Cropped & Auto adjust levels
Action “Lovely & Ethereal”
Action “Soft & Faded”
Action “Black & White”
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Mallory’s New Song
Ok, so Mallory gets a big kick out of sleeping in my spot (this started when I let her fall asleep in our bed when Rick was out of town a few weeks ago). Anyway, she made up a little ditty about this – however in this version she has substituted “mommy’s spot” with “my spot”.
Adventures in potty-training – March 11 update
Mallory wore the same diaper ALL DAY LONG on Wednesday. This included a potty visit upon wake-up, four potty visits during the day at school, a potty visit at the dinner restaurant and then the cherry on top? POOP IN THE POTTY BEFORE BED!!!
Be glad I didn’t get a chance to grab the camera before Mallory flushed the toilet. :-)
She is in a training pant today at school. We’ll see what happens. Stay tuned. I’m sure you’ll be on the edge of your seat waiting for my update.
37+ week update and Miserable Mallory
Well, two days of pre-baby maternity leave down and not much relaxing yet.
I had my weekly NST and OB appointment on Monday and I took Mallory with me. Mallory was too cute telling everyone about Baby Arlo in my tummy and alternating between telling everyone it was a boy or a girl. We got to see Arlo on the ultrasound screen but I don’t know if Mallory really understood what we were looking at. Baby is still head down (good) and was SUPER active (good for the doctors, not good for my uterus) so we got to skip the …
From the mouth of babes
Overheard this weekend:
Mallory & I bought a box of Girl Scout Cookies from some scouts at Lowe’s this weekend. After we got in the car, Mallory says “We got some cookies! HOO-RAY!!!!!” and made this funny face and gesture with her hands.
Then we made a trip through the McDonald’s drive-thru. Mallory says “my french fries” and I said “no, MY french fries”. Totally serious she asks back “will you share?”.
We never made it to the Wings-Blue Jackets game on Saturday. We drove all the way downtown, telling Mallory how we were going to take the train (aka People …
A few random pictures
Background: Rick sometimes sleeps with his leg crossed over this other knee. This is an issue in the winter time because it creates this huge drafty-cave thing under our covers. Plus, his legs will sometimes start to fall to one side and it jerks him (and me) awake.
So, when Rick checked on Mallory the other night, and saw her sleeping this way, he couldn’t wait to take pictures and show me.
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I posted the other day about Mallory getting into all of her barrettes. Apparently she still had some left to unpack. She grabbed that …