Year: 2010

Carson, cousins, Mallory

Yo, Cuz…

September 7, 2010

I totally meant to head downtown to check out this cool photography spot but instead we just hung out at Aunt Emily’s for a while.
Unfortunately this picture is semi-out of focus in real life – but it’s still pretty cute.

Shane wasn’t interested in hanging with the little kids, so he headed back to his Nintendo DS cave.

And then, because I can – I took a whole bunch of pictures of my baby boy (he was in a trance watching his sister and cousins run around the yard like the crazy people that they are).
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Carson, family, Mallory

Bumblebees and Caterpillars

September 7, 2010

The first day of school for us wasn’t too special, since both of my kids were still going to the same daycare…but they did both move up a room, so I jumped on the “first day of school” bandwagon and took first day of school pictures.
Mallory is in pre-kindergarten this year (the Bumblebee room), and Carson graduated from the Inchworm room and is now a big Caterpillar!

It was really windy (it has been for days). Not so great when two of the four people in the picture have long hair, so we tried again with the dog – …

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Carson, Football, Mallory

Undefeated!

September 4, 2010

I am so glad today is over. I was so nervous going into it – I just wanted the game to be over. I wanted to know how the team looked, I wanted to know who was going to start, etc. You’d think since Rick is at practice every day he’d give me some scoop but he doesn’t tell me anything. Blah.
We had a new tailgate spot today and we also had very unseasonably freezing cold weather. Well, it wasn’t really freezing, but there were like million-mile-per-hour winds. Well, they weren’t really a million miles per hour but the temps …

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Carson

The #8

September 1, 2010

Carson got his fourth haircut today. It makes me so sad to cut off his wingy curls but most of the time they are a fuzzy mess and I just can’t deal.
My biggest issue was the back…so my hair chick pulled out the clippers, and attempted to relax me by saying she was only using the #8.
I hope the curls don’t get mad and not come back when his hair gets thick enough to have the curls look cute instead of messy. I keep trying to remember how we got through this stage with Mallory – and I think it …

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Mallory

I never want to forget these.

August 31, 2010

Mallory first said this on our trip to California back in January and I don’t know that I ever posted about it – but she called PALM trees PLUM trees. She did it again on our trip to Florida in May.
I need to get it on video.
Because IT IS SO STINKING CUTE.
Her latest is scream cheese. I kept thinking she meant cream cheese, but what she really means when she says scream cheese is STRING cheese.
Duh.

Mallory

Is it that obvious?

August 25, 2010

We walked up to the grocery store after school today (oh yeah, if I ever finished that post about our new house, you’d know that we are 2.5 blocks from a grocery store!) and Mallory rode her pink bike and wore her pink helmet. This was the first time she could ride her pink bike to the store because we just got her a pink bike lock.
So as we locked up her pink bike with her pink bike lock, and she took off her pink Princess helmet and hung it on the handlebars of her pink bike, a nice …

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friends, Mallory, video

Noisy Shoes

August 19, 2010

Mallory graduated to pre-ballet & tap this summer (from her regular old creative movement dance class she was in last year).
They alternate weeks of ballet & tap and you know I keep the tap shoes in the car lest I forget what week we are on and don’t have them with us.
Today was the last day of class so we asked (and were granted) permission to watch class. And because I’m *that mom*, I had my camera.
Good thing, because if I hadn’t brought my camera – who would have gotten a picture of Mallory’s super-wedgie?

And we wouldn’t have this picture …

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Carson, Mallory, video

Sometimes, a picture just won’t do

August 19, 2010

Imagine I wrote a post here about my sweet son, and how he has learned to wink. It started out with him trying to imitate me winking at him and has progressed to him winking on command {making my kids do silly things is truly one of my most favorite things about being a mom…}.
Carson winking consists of him squeezing both eyes tight. It is beyond adorable and I can’t stand it. I do need to get an actual picture so when I make a book from my blog, I have a record of it (but maybe in a few …

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Mallory

My competition.

August 19, 2010

Looks as though I don’t have to look very far for my closest photography competition.
Mallory told me tonight:

“I have to do some work.
I have to order some pictures that I took with my polka dot camera. Maybe when I turn 4, I can get some makeup and a phone and a computer….
Ok, I have to order some pictures. Don’t bug me.”

 
Oh Lord, that kid kills me.