Year: 2009

Monday night.
Softball Banquet.
I’m invited.
Mallory isn’t.
Tell Mallory she is going to Miss Cheri’s because mom & dad are going to dinner.
Here is the conversation:

STB: Mom & dad are going to dinner – you get to play with big Mallory & Bryce!
MCB: I wanna go to the ressaurant!
STB: No, mom & dad are going on a date.
MCB: I wanna go on a date!
STB: We’re just going to eat spinach
MCB: I wanna have spinach!
STB: Well, really we’re just going to have corn (figured this would work because she told us the night before that she doesn’t like corn)
MCB: I wanna have …

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Funny conversation with Mallory yesterday. We were out in the backyard – I was sitting in a chair feeding Carson, and she wanted me to push her on the swing. I told her to lay on the swing on her belly and swing that way. Cha-CHING! Go MOM! She did that for about 10 minutes!! Anyway, I really wanted my cup of water and wanted Mallory to retrieve it for me from the table by the house. I kept asking her to get it for me and she kept saying “jussa minute”. Finally, after she told me to watch her …

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I got a fancy double jogging stroller from Rick & Mallory & Carson & Cooper for my Mother’s Day present but Rick will be happy to know that my favorite gift was the free one I got…Carson’s first smile!!! Now I am acting like a crazy lady trying to get him to do it more and more :-)

Wednesday was Mallory’s 912-day birthday. Also known as 2.5 years or 30 months. Good grief time has FLOWN. I look at her and think back to when she was a little pumpkin barely crawling. Or when she called Cooper “buh-buh”. I love to go back through the blog archives to remember what life was like before Mallory wasn’t talking CONSTANTLY. It’s hard to believe that she was so funny before she even talked for real. Remember this gem (from February 2007…~ 3 mos old) or this one (February 2008 ~ 15 mos old)? And I look at Carson and get …

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On Saturday: “I’d like to go swimming. It is warm enough.”
But really it was like mid-60s and windy, so not only was the air not warm, the lake was still freezing.
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This morning, while cuddling in bed with mom & dad:

me: “I love you, Mallory!”
MCB: “I love DADDY!”
me: “Wha???”
MCB: “And I love COOPER! and CARSON! and ALLI!”
me: “What? What about me?”
MCB: “Brush your teeth.”

Here are a collection of photos and stories from the weekend:
No idea:
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I guess I decided to do my nesting/cleaning on Saturday (about 4+ weeks late?) and cleaned the fridge. Mallory just HAD to help me (I wasn’t planning on cleaning out the door because those shelves didn’t need it but she took care of that whole task for me. She had to ask what each item was when she pulled it out of the fridge and before she put it away.) Notice the bottle of champagne – that is from our honeymoon back in January …

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