Nevermind her bajillion bug bites, please.
Last month, Mallory asked me to paint each of her fingers a different shade of pink.
It worked out that her middle finger ended up with a very pale, but shiny, shade of pink.
As Rick was loading them in the car before school, Mallory showed Rick her “Shiny Finger”.
Nice, Mals.
Needless to say, I won’t paint all of her fingers different colors anymore.
I need to revise Mallory’s calendar to include “Monday is SHARING day”, which comes after Sunday “Staying home day”.
Sharing Day in the Bumblebee room has been a cluster for us. Mondays are hectic enough as it is, let alone trying to remember something for Mallory to bring for sharing. So Rick & I were pretty happy when we remembered Sharing Day the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weeks of school.
That is, until Alli’s mom mentioned something about remembering what LETTER they were on for Sharing Day.
Wait – WHAT??
The calendar they send home every month, has a letter …
Carson had his 18-mo doctors appointment this week. The doctor was pleased with everything; I think this 18-month appointment is where they can start to evaluate if there are autism issues or something, and while I didn’t have any concerns, it was nice to hear the doctor tell us all was well.
But she was a little concerned that he doesn’t have any understandable words. He does lots of “talking” but we have no idea what he’s saying. He uses sign language for “more” and “all done” and tells us he is thirsty by getting a sippy cup out of the …
Carson brought me a book yesterday morning, but I was trying to get out the door for the game so I told him to go ask Mallory to read it to him. He turned on his heel, walked over to Mallory and said “yaaaaeeee guuuuuu yyyaaaaaa” and then Mallory said “OK, I’ll read you a book”, so he turned around and did the big backup-plop onto her lap.
Michigan hosted Michigan State this week. Both teams were undefeated and ranked (MSU #17, UM #18) so there was a TON of hype surrounding the game. I chose to not take the kids (Emily already had a babysitter at her house so I added my kids to her mix) and that proved to be a bad decision, since Michigan has won every game they’ve gone to this year – which is every game that they could realistically make (I’m not crazy enough to drag them on a 6-hr each way road trip to Indiana last weekend).
ANYWAY – this week …
We were re-watching the end of the UM-IU game this morning before school, and the announcers said something like “…but Denard isn’t wearing red” (or something like that). Mallory asked me what that meant and I somehow explained that they were joking that IU wishes Denard played for them.
Without skipping a beat she said, “YEAH! Because then we wouldn’t have three quarterbacks!”
I asked how many we’d have if he did play for IU and she said “just two”.
We tried out a new pumpkin place this year (I promise it had nothing to do with finding a cool place to take pictures…ok, I lie, it was all about that).
It was a little chilly and I probably shouldn’t have let my kids (especially Mallory) run around, let alone run around without a coat on, but I promise that she had it on most of the time. I still haven’t that “money shot” for this year, so we’ll try again next week. I will admit that I think this is cheating since I don’t get this many do-overs with other people’s kids…
And …
With the illness that’s been circulating in our casa the past month (I’m about to start another round of antibiotics for my sinus infection and I’m still working on a cough, plus Mallory’s been hacking for a couple of weeks), it’s no wonder that both kids have been coughing really badly the past few days.
Last night was the worst – Mallory sounded HORRIBLE and I almost thought she was going to throw up from coughing so bad (I almost took her to the ER), and Carson has a little barking cough too. So both kids got in with the doctor …
What happens when you take a cute hairdo…
add in a cute dress…
and some leggings…
and some Santa socks?
You end up with this stunning outfit!
But before you can leave the house, you need some brown polka-dot shoes…
We try to pick our battles around here, so this is what happens when you tell her she can wear whatever she wants but it has to have pants and socks.