Mallory

Adventures in potty-training – March 11 update

March 12, 2009

Mallory wore the same diaper ALL DAY LONG on Wednesday. This included a potty visit upon wake-up, four potty visits during the day at school, a potty visit at the dinner restaurant and then the cherry on top? POOP IN THE POTTY BEFORE BED!!!
Be glad I didn’t get a chance to grab the camera before Mallory flushed the toilet. :-)
She is in a training pant today at school. We’ll see what happens. Stay tuned. I’m sure you’ll be on the edge of your seat waiting for my update.

Baby Arlo, Mallory, Pregnancy

37+ week update and Miserable Mallory

March 11, 2009

Well, two days of pre-baby maternity leave down and not much relaxing yet.
I had my weekly NST and OB appointment on Monday and I took Mallory with me. Mallory was too cute telling everyone about Baby Arlo in my tummy and alternating between telling everyone it was a boy or a girl. We got to see Arlo on the ultrasound screen but I don’t know if Mallory really understood what we were looking at. Baby is still head down (good) and was SUPER active (good for the doctors, not good for my uterus) so we got to skip the …

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Mallory

From the mouth of babes

March 9, 2009

Overheard this weekend:

Mallory & I bought a box of Girl Scout Cookies from some scouts at Lowe’s this weekend. After we got in the car, Mallory says “We got some cookies! HOO-RAY!!!!!” and made this funny face and gesture with her hands.
Then we made a trip through the McDonald’s drive-thru. Mallory says “my french fries” and I said “no, MY french fries”. Totally serious she asks back “will you share?”.
We never made it to the Wings-Blue Jackets game on Saturday. We drove all the way downtown, telling Mallory how we were going to take the train (aka People …

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A few random pictures

March 8, 2009

Background: Rick sometimes sleeps with his leg crossed over this other knee. This is an issue in the winter time because it creates this huge drafty-cave thing under our covers. Plus, his legs will sometimes start to fall to one side and it jerks him (and me) awake.
So, when Rick checked on Mallory the other night, and saw her sleeping this way, he couldn’t wait to take pictures and show me.
   
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I posted the other day about Mallory getting into all of her barrettes. Apparently she still had some left to unpack. She grabbed that …

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Baby Arlo, Baby Fred, Pregnancy

It’s not my imagination

March 7, 2009

I really am bigger now than I was at 40w with Mallory. Photographs don’t lie (36w with Arlo is on the left, 40w with Mallory is on the right). I think my belly looks rounder in the picture from 2006 but it’s still not as big as the picture on the left.
     
And if that wasn’t proof enough – my dad did the math.

Baby Arlo, hockey, Mallory, Pregnancy, rb

That was FAST!

March 7, 2009

Holy cow this week went FAST! All of a sudden it’s Saturday morning and I’m 37+ weeks prego.
Here’s the recap.

You all know about my doctor’s appointment Monday – but the newer news related to that is:

my insurance won’t extend my physical therapy benefit for another month to allow me to see my physical therapist for my pregnancy-related back pain. I’m not sure I really understand how if pregnancy lasts MORE than 60 days, can they restrict the coverage to 60 calendar days of treatment. Additionally, I am allowed either 15 or 30 actual sessions during that 60 days, …

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coops, Mallory

Four Little Fingers

March 4, 2009

And that is how old Super Cooper Duper Coops is! Mallory was excited to sing Happy Birthday to Cooper and give him fancy peanut butter treats.

Miscellaneous

Photoshop Comments

March 4, 2009

As I mentioned before, I am messing around with Photoshop and putting different filters on almost all of my pictures. So if anything looks really gross or horrible, PLEASE comment and tell me that my adjustments suck!

Mallory

No juice for you

March 4, 2009

Mallory & I were heading downstairs for our morning juice today and she yelled at Cooper:
“You can’t have any (juice), Cooper! You don’t have hands! You aren’t big, you are a dog!”
(We talk about her having juice because she’s a big girl, so I’m guessing that’s where she gets the “you aren’t big” part being a requirement for Cooper to be allowed to have juice).

Baby Arlo, Pregnancy

36w3d Baby Arlo update

March 2, 2009

Just real quick – had my weekly appointment today and non-stress test. Baby Arlo looked fabulous on the monitor, nice heart accelerations, etc. I am nervous that EVERY.SINGLE.PERSON who has observed this baby on an ultrasound or monitor has commented on how active the baby is.
Anyway, the nurse was reading over the little printout thing that the monitor spits out and said something like “…I see some contractions…”. I was like “WHAT THE $%&#??” I haven’t felt much of anything contractions-wise ever since I quadrupled my water intake after my trip to triage back in January. Plus, I’ve resigned …

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