Mallory

More brainwashing

October 3, 2010

I know everyone thinks we are brainwashing our kids, what with all the GO BLUE-ing and MICHIGAN-ing and BOO “insert whoever is next on the schedule”-ing that goes on around here.
But this takes the cake.
Rick’s usual shirt of choice (on workdays anyway) is a dark blue adidas shirt with the block M. But since Michigan had a game on September 11, adidas put out a special issue of the shirt, with the stars & stripes filling in the block M, instead of just a solid yellow block M.
Well, tonight at dinner, Mallory pointed to the flag-filled block M and …

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Mallory

“When I get big…”

October 3, 2010

Mallory just told me that when she gets big, and I get small*, she is going to get a pink computer, and have two girl kids, and two girl babies, and two girl doggies and one boy dad (husband).
*She says this a lot – that I’ll get small when she gets big. It’s pretty funny logic.
And then she asked me if before I went to kindergarten and before I went to “grades” (I’m guessing that means 1st grade, 2nd grade, etc), if I went to preschool, to HER preschool.
You know how they have those live chats where …

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Carson, Mallory

My silly offspring

October 3, 2010

Remember how I wrote a few weeks ago about how hard it’s getting to get a good normal picture of my kids together?
Here’s another example of what happens when I ask them to sit nicely for me.

Carson, video

That’s my dad!

October 2, 2010

Rick got some air time today during the Michigan game; I had to replay it for Carson to see what he’d do when he saw Rick on TV.
I’m so glad I recorded it. LOL.

Mallory

Watch it! Watch it!

October 2, 2010

We are getting ready to watch the Michigan-Indiana game and ESPNU was running a little promo. Denard had a quick spot (like two seconds) and Mallory yelled that she just saw Denard. I asked where and she said “you have to get the gamote (remote) to see it”. I backed it up a bit and she started to say “watch it! watch it!” and when Denard ran across the screen, she looked at me with a big grin.

Carson, Mallory, video

Dance it up!

October 1, 2010

The kids and I got new music this week, courtesy of Miss Header.
Enjoy.
(And yes I realize that the song from the second video needs to come out of the rotation for the kids…Mallory learns songs too quickly for me to allow her to get this one in her head, even though the bad word is sort of rubbed out.)

Carson, cousins, Football, Mallory

Bowling Green is a bad team

October 1, 2010

Another nasty rainy cold windy day of tailgating…must be Michigan in September.
It only looks like I’m drinking a bloody mary in this picture, but I promise I’m just holding my mom’s drink while she took our picture.

The funniest thing about this day – Mallory was about to head back into the van – it was freezing, by the way – when she spotted her cousin Lauren about five tailgates away with Gigi. Mallory was in the middle of telling me “I’m going in the van, I’m cold…WAIT – WHAT IS LAUREN EATING???” and Mallory took off …

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