Year: 2009

With Rick out of town, I am full time mom & dad & breakfast/lunch/dinner-maker & daycare dropper-offer & daycare picker-upper & the “parent” in the pool for Mallory’s Parent-Tot swim class & the put-to-bedder at night & & &. I think you get the picture.
This is exhausting when I’m not 35+ weeks pregnant, so it’s killing me right now. Mallory was pretty good over the weekend but today was fabulous, and it makes having to wear all of those hats a little easier.
Here is how our day went:

I got up and showered. Then I woke Mallory up and …

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I have to admit – “smart aleck” is the PG version of what I really thought when this happened today.
Mallory & I went to my dad’s for dinner and to watch the Michigan basketball game. I had to run to my sister’s to get something and when I got back, the door to my dad’s was locked. Mallory was on the inside of the door and through the window right next to the door, she could see me standing there with my hands full (including holding my keys in my hand).
My dad yelled “It’s OPEN!” so Mallory yelled …

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I wasn’t sure how to title this post, but here she is telling me & Cooper how it is.
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I thought we’d step up the potty-training this weekend since we were going to be around the house most of the time. So I put Mallory in her new big girl underpants twice (with rubber pants over them) and two times she failed miserably. :-(
The second time she came out of her playroom and I quick got her on the toilet to empty out a rubber pant full of #1 and #2. Got her cleaned up and then she …

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I am on drop-off duty for the next week. This morning on the way to school, this is what I heard coming from the back seat of my car:
“Is dark out. I see you, Moon!! Hi Moon! You silly!!! I see you!”
and
“You sit wight there, daddy sit wight there, Wyan sit wight there, I sit wight here”. me: Where are we going?? “Flor-did-da!”

We try really hard to work on Mallory’s manners. She is pretty good with please, thank you, and you’re yelcome (welcome) but the one we are having a little trouble with is “I’m sorry”.
She tends to hit us when she is really frustrated (usually it’s frustration + being exhausted) and our rule is that we immediately stop whatever we are doing, remove her from the situation if necessary, and she has to say she’s sorry, and tell us what she did to require her to say she’s sorry. Sometimes she is pretty quick to say “I sorry” and will point …

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