Miscellaneous

Michigan

May 31, 2009

I have to admit that although I’ve lived in Michigan for all but 1.5 years of my life, it never ceases to amaze me how we can go from freezing and snow just three months ago, with naked trees and a frozen lake and then boom – here is summer and it’s beautiful and sunny and green. It happens every single year: when the leaves start coming out on the trees I get all excited.
But I do need to say that I love all of the seasons.

Miscellaneous, stb

My other Mother’s Day present

May 30, 2009

I keep forgetting to show my last Mother’s Day gift that Rick got me. Isn’t it adorable? Don’t give him too much credit, I sent him the link…but he did get my hint and got it for me for Mother’s Day. He got it from this place.

The reason I didn’t take a picture of it on my hand is that in order to get the detail of the rings, I had to shoot it in macro, which then magnified every single wrinkle on my fingers. And while the ring is really attractive close-up, my fingers are not very attractive …

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Carson

Carson – 8 weeks

May 29, 2009

My sweet baby boy is eight weeks old already. I can’t believe how big he is getting and how much less fragile he seems. We’ve settled into an eating routine (every three hours) and he’s staying awake more and is spending more of his awake time just chilling and not crying. He weighs ~13.5 lbs according to my measurements. We have his two-month appointment next Friday so we’ll have official stats then.
Carson started daycare on Tuesday and is doing fine with it. He pees on the daycare ladies too so it’s good to know it’s not just us that …

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Carson, Mallory, stb

I am surviving!

May 29, 2009

I am surviving my week of single-parent-ness. Barely, but I am surviving.
Our schedule for the beginning of the week was bath for Mallory as soon as we get home, then dinner, and then book & bed time and I was able to have her in bed by 6.45p with lights out for me by 9p. Thus I was able to function fairly well Wednesday & Thursday. Carson woke up only once per night those nights and went back to bed easily (I should raise his allowance!).
Thursday night we went to my dad’s to watch the Michigan softball game that started …

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Mallory

The Fancy Fisherman

May 26, 2009

My sweet darling little girl in a pretty pink dress wanted to go fishing with her dad. 

We told her she needed to put on shoes to go fishing. Here is what she picked out:

The funny thing is that when I sent her to her room to get shoes, I KNEW she was going to grab these shoes…I had just put them in her shoe bin after keeping them high on a shelf for a special occasion. But let’s be real here – where in the world can a little pumpkin wear fancy white shoes if not …

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Miscellaneous

Happy Memorial Day

May 25, 2009

Well, more catching up to do.
Rick’s dad & his wife were in town this past weekend visiting from Florida (or “Flor-did-da”, as Mallory likes to say). We had a pretty low-key weekend planned, with only two agenda items: watch Michigan play softball and get the lights working on the boat trailer. I’m happy to say the boat trailer lights work and that Michigan softball is headed to the World Series.
But I am a little sad that softball won because it means my 7-wk old baby now has to start daycare two weeks earlier than we had planned; Rick …

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Carson, Mallory

Catching Up

May 24, 2009

I have a feeling that there will be lots of posts with the title “Catching Up” in the future.
Anyway, here are the pictures from our boat trip this week:

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I’m going to do these in bullet format to get them documented:

Mallory & I were eating breakfast yesterday – when Rick & Carson came downstairs, Mallory said “here come da boys!!!”

We’ve been getting lots of great gifts for Carson; Mallory has started to imitate me when we are checking out the clothes. She’ll hold stuff up and say “Dis is SUPER CUTE!” or “How cute is dis?” or …

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Carson, Mallory, rb, stb

Sacrifice

May 22, 2009

So, I’ve determined that I can’t eat chocolate and I can’t have caffeine. Both cause my sweet little baby’s tummy to get very grumpy and that isn’t so fun for mom & dad.  Luckily I can survive without caffeine (just need to make sure I have caffeine-free coke on hand) but the no chocolate thing has been sort of hard. And you know I’m making sure Rick knows all about my dietary sacrifices for his son. His response? “Oooooh, so I can finish off those Oreos?”. I performed (and failed) a caffeine test yesterday and Carson was horrible all afternoon …

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Mallory

There’s your hug

May 21, 2009

Mallory gave me a hug this morning.
After she pulled away, she put her hands on my shoulders and patted me a few times and said “There’s your hug!”, like it was a to-go hug to get me through the day.