The “Carousel of Progress” is one of Rick’s favorite attractions at Disney. It’s a 21-minute show where you “…travel through time from decade to decade as the family discovers fantastic new technologies that make their lives more easy, comfortable and fun…”
We’ve had our own “Carousel of Progress”, where my darling children have discovered fantastic new skills that make mommy’s life more easy…
Mallory learned to pump her legs on the swing (so we’ve alleviated some of the “can you push me??” requests).
And Carson can re-pacifier himself.
How happy am I?
Year: 2009
Time to Laugh
The theme this week is “Time to Laugh” and you are supposed to use a joke or a cartoon or picture or whatever.
Given the fact that I have my own personal laugh factory happening in my house almost every day, I figured I had to go with these two pictures. I think it’s a tie.
I titled these: “Handy Mallory” and “Mallory, The Cold Ballerina”. I’ll ask you to name these photos in another post.
Before & After
I wanted to share the before & after of one of my recent favorite photos.
this is SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera):
and this is after I “Lightroomed” it (using Adobe Lightroom):
I think I could play with it a little more, and I don’t know that it would ever pass muster with some real photographers, but it’s all about me and what I like and I think it’s fabulous. I tried cropping it down more to have it just be Mallory & Allison, but then it seemed to really lose the fun of seeing the teacher and the other …
It’s da SAME!!!
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.
The One Where…
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 …
Yeah, dat’s what it says…
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”.
I Like Spiders
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 …
Creative Movement
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: …
Meltdown Meter
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 …
Fins
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 …