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 …
Year: 2009
Catching Up
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 …
Sacrifice
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 …
There’s your hug
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.
Boat time
We had our second boat trip of the year tonight and we ventured across the lake to get pizza.
Mallory was great with letting us put her “boat coat” on and then went to point out EVERY.SINGLE.BOAT on the lake. We saw sailboats (last summer she called them “bow boats”) and a kayak and jet skis.
I had the camera but Mallory isn’t so photogenic with a sippy cup in her mouth and lake-effect wind blowing her locks all over the place. And Carson slept the whole time.
That’s all I have tonight; I’m writing from my iPhone and it’s too hard to …
One
On Sunday night, Mallory asked if she could play before bed. She wanted to “pway for ONE WHILE”.
Then on Monday night, Mallory asked if she could play before bed. She wanted to “pway for ONE SECOND”.
From the mouth of Mallory – May 17, 2009
We were sitting on the patio yesterday at Gigi’s house. Mals pulled her chair to be close to where Gigi was weeding, but then she pulled the chair closer to me and said “let’s talk about football”. LMAO.
Another funny from yesterday: riding in the car, Mallory puts her bear blankie over her head to play peek-a-boo with me. Then she covers her head again and says “Tell Carson where Mallory is!” which translated means “Ask Carson ‘where is Mallory?’”.
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I started back to work on Friday and it didn’t suck too much. Seems like people were happy to see …
See dis M?
I realized the other day that I hadn’t gotten much video of Mallory lately and I had to rectify that. I don’t want to forget her little lisp and her raspy voice.
Anywho, here are Mallory & Carson pre-bath time last night. In the very beginning you hear Mallory say “…be quiet a second” – I didn’t start recording fast enough to get her saying “HEY WICK” before the “be quiet a second”. Rick was in the kitchen doing the dishes and I wanted him to be quiet while I videoed (is that really a word?) the kids…so I hollered out …
Crybaby
I was chatting with a friend today about Carson and his gassiness and she was telling me about her son cried a lot when he was an infant because he had a lot of gas. I replied that Carson seems to cry a lot too – but she didn’t believe me since I hadn’t blogged about it. So Kim – here you go (I advise you to turn down your speakers):
All during this crying spell, he was kicking his legs trying to work out the gas. Poor kid!
I’ll add that Kim said she cut chocolate out of her diet for …
Mallory & Carson ~ May 12, 2009
I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again – for as ornery and grumpy as Mallory is with us for bringing home a baby, she is in love with her baby brother.
After her failed attempt to pick Carson up in the video above, Mallory wanted to hold him on her lap:
And here is a close-up of her making she she is holding his head:
And here she is burping him. What you can’t see is the burp rag across her chest/under her arms…