Carson, Mallory, video

Chocolate

February 26, 2011

The resort last week had a Kids Club – and while Mallory & Lauren only visited it for about an hour one day, they still enjoyed the nightly show that the Kids Club put on. There were usually a bunch of dances and games, and one of the songs totally got stuck in my head. I asked the Kids Club lady to teach it to us the day we left and she was a great sport and let us record her doing the dance.
I found the song on iTunes, and ended up finding the dance on Youtube (this video is …

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cousins, Mallorian, Mallory

More from my Zoo

February 26, 2011

Mallory: “Mom, what time is it?”
Me: “10.46.”
M: “Hmm. That’s weird. 10.46? That’s really weird.”
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Mallory saw me holding Cameron one afternoon at the pool and immediately her baby radar picked up on it. “Mom! Can I hold baby Cameron?” I told her that later, after she got out of the pool, that she could hold the baby. That night at dinner, Mallory went over to my sister. “Um, Aunt Emily? Um, can tomorrow, um, can I hold…?” Emily interrupted her and said “do you want to hold him right now?” Mallory was in heaven.

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Her cousin Lauren is …

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Carson

The real explosion

February 24, 2011

Carson’s word explosion is continuing. The coolest thing is that while most of his “words” aren’t super clear, he is starting to repeat you when you ask him to say a word. On it’s own, you wouldn’t know that “neh” is “Shane”, but that’s how he says Shane when I ask him to say it. This is a huge improvement over a month ago when you’d ask him to say a word and he’d give you a look like “oh HELL NO”.
So, without further ado, here are his latest words, followed by the English version.

kinky (complete with nose pinching) – …

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Canvas-able

February 24, 2011

I had a goal on this trip to get a canvas-able picture of us. I hired my sister to take our pictures one night on the beach.
Success.

Miscellaneous

It’s my Blogiversary!

February 21, 2011

Holy cow – my blog is five years old this week! I started this blog when we found out we were pregnant with the Mal-Star in February of 2006.
My blog turning five means that my pumpkin will turn five in about nine months.
Hold me.

Carson, Mallory

Mama’s Boy

February 17, 2011

While I still can, I am making this boy of mine love his mama like he should.
Which means that he got a tattoo of my name on his bicep today. He smudged it a little before it totally dried, but I still LOVE it.
Here’s my sweet baby showing off his guns (he flexes like this when we ask “where are your muscles?”).

Mallory got a little flower on her foot.

Carson, cousins, Mallory, travel

More Punta Cana pictures

February 17, 2011

I dragged the kids out to the beach before breakfast the other day. I got nothing good of the two of them together. ARGH.

Mallory cleaning her feet off…

Then that night we tried to get one of all the grandkids on the beach in jeans and white shirts. I haven’t finished going through all of them yet, but here are some of my favorites.
This picture of Mallory CRACKS.ME.UP.

Carson doing his “sleepy face” for me. CRACKS.ME.UP.

And these are all from my little camera from earlier in the week. I have videos to share too but they will have to wait until I …

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Punta Cana, the beginning

February 14, 2011

Here’s the diary of our trip (so far).
We had to wake up at the a$$ crack of dawn on Saturday to make our 8.30a flight out of Detroit. The kids did fairly well, and Carson napped on the first leg, and Mallory should have napped on the second leg but the excitement of having a Gigi and a Grandpa and an Aunt Emily & Uncle Mike, and four cousins at her fingertips was too much to allow her to close her eyes.
We arrived in Punta Cana around 4p local time (3p ET) on Saturday. After loading all twelve of us …

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