Mallory

It’s da SAME!!!

August 24, 2009

Mallory spends a good deal of her time pointing out things that are the same – she’ll see some random pink thing and she’ll get SOOOO excited and tell me “It’s DA SAME just like my TOES!”, as an example.
So imagine her joy at discovering that her new Princess toothpaste is DA SAME as the Princesses on her shirt.
She thought it was pretty cool.

Mallory

The One Where…

August 23, 2009

Do you remember that episode of Friends where Phoebe is trying to teach Joey to speak French? Where she got him to properly repeat the French word/phrase syllable by syllable, but when she asked him to say the whole thing, it was unrecognizable? Please tell me you remember (Ok, when Mallory reads this in 50 years, she’ll have no idea what the heck I’m talking about. Friends? Huh?)
Anyway, we are dealing with the same language pronunciation thing here.
I can get Mallory to say “lemon” and “ade” but she can’t say lemonade – it still comes out “lemolade”
I can get Mallory …

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Mallory

Yeah, dat’s what it says…

August 22, 2009

Mallory found this Coppertone bottle in the midst of my organizing/cleaning frenzy.
She said “Dat says ‘walking dogs, bear, tents’”.

And then she showed me the walking dog, the bear and the tent.
And then she said “Yeah, dat’s what it says”.

Mallory

I Like Spiders

August 21, 2009

Alli’s mom came across a “Little Scientist” camp that she thought would be fun for the girls. But it is, of course, held during the work day which doesn’t work so great for poor children who’s parents both work full time. Miss-scene (how Mallory says Alli’s mom’s name…) figured that between the four parents, we could each take both girls one week of the camp.
Of course Rick drew the first week because it was the only time he could go since football hadn’t started yet. He said it wasn’t very exciting, etc, etc, in usual Rick fashion.
Alli’s dad had the …

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friends, Mallory

Creative Movement

August 21, 2009

Sweet Mallory and her BFF Alli did GREAT in their first dance class! It was 30 minutes of six 3-yo and two 2-yo kids running around like crazy. Our girls are sooooo advanced, they did great in the 3-yr old class. It has nothing to do with the fact that the 2-yr old ballet classes are only offered during the day because apparently only SAHMs want to take their 2yo & under to dance class…but I digress. God bless the dance teacher of these eight crazy preschoolers!
Here they are, stretching their ears so they can be good listeners in class: …

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Miscellaneous

Meltdown Meter

August 20, 2009

Alli’s mom & I are going to try to take the girls to a dance class tonight. But they had science camp this morning (I just realized I need to put a post up about that…will do after Alli’s mom sends the pictures) and Alli’s mom is worried that tonight might not be a good night for dance class. We agreed that we both reserve the right to cancel, depending on where each of the girls is on the meltdown-meter.
But Mrs C’s last email to me just said: “you know, of course, I include myself in the  list of possible …

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stb

Fins

August 18, 2009

I went to see Jimmy Buffett with my dad last week. He’d never been, and I’ve only been once before, so we justified the insane price of the tickets by saying it was a once (or twice) in a lifetime event.
We got a late start but figured we’d be OK since everyone was supposed to be there tailgating all day before the concert; surely no one would be rolling in at 6.30p for the 8p concert so we should have avoided any traffic. Great plan except it was rush hour(s) in Detroit. And there were some other people who didn’t …

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stb

Things a mom has to do when dad isn’t around.

August 16, 2009

I consider myself a pretty fun mom.
Well, maybe I’m just a mom who used to be fun because I realized how much I do NOT like getting dirty or wet or whatever when Mallory wants to play.
So this weekend, when Mallory wanted to go swimming, I actually had to get in the water, because how can I expect her to get in the water if mom is whining “it’s too cooooold”? And when she wanted to “tickle my back”, I couldn’t say no because I didn’t want to get my hair wet – especially since I was trying …

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Mallory, Pictures, travel

The Up North Trip

August 16, 2009

We are on our annual pilgrimage to visit my aunt & uncle “up north”. The kids were great on the trip up, Carson slept the entire time up which was fabulous. We also timed our trip so that we would get to see my grade school friend Mandy & her family. They discovered a great little petting farm near their house so we took all four kids there on Saturday. They had two mamma pigs and a bunch of little piglets – some of whom were trying to nurse, so Mallory said “Mommy, those piggies are trying to eat like …

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Carson, rb

The conclusion is, there is no conclusion

August 12, 2009

So, I’ve been peanut-free since the beginning of July and Carson’s “possible peanut allergy” rash cleared right up. Correction, I’ve been peanut-free since the beginning of July with the exception of one Nutter Butter inhaled before I remembered I am not supposed to be eating peanut butter but it was SOOOO good. But anyway.
Well…we went to the allergist on Monday to see about Carson’s “possible peanut allergy” rash.
And all we know now is that I still can’t eat peanuts. They did a skin test and it came back negative – but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have an allergy. It …

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