Mallory

No cake for mom

May 23, 2011

Mallory – an hour past bedtime: “if you let me look at your phone I’ll let you have some cake on my birthday but if you don’t let me look at your phone you won’t get any cake”.

Carson, Mallory

More Softball

May 23, 2011

The theme for this past weekend was softball softball softball and more softball. The weather was glorious so the kids & I made it to all the games.
I’d like to point out that while I do like to keep my kids on a decent routine and schedule, I am not a super stickler for enforcing strict bedtimes. However, it makes life way easier to keep things pretty normal. So this weekend’s schedule wasn’t one of my finer parenting moments.

Softball Friday night, game started at 8p. Carson is usually in bed by 7.30p, Mallory by 9p. I didn’t leave the ballpark …

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Carson, grandpa, Mallory

Ziplining Away…

May 20, 2011

My dad loves being a grandpa. Like he LOVES it. He doesn’t love changing diapers, but he loves hanging out with my kids and Emily’s kids, and spoiling them pretty rotten. Santa ALWAYS fills stockings for the grandkids at my dad’s house, and the Easter Bunny seems to make a stop at my dad’s house to hide all of his eggs so the grandkids have to go help my dad find all the eggs the EB hid, and then of course they get too much Easter candy…
So basically my dad is a big kid.
This past Christmas, my dad got a …

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Mallory

Phone Letter

May 18, 2011

We’ve been working with Mallory on learning our phone numbers. Rick’s is pretty easy, because it’s a good “patren” (pattern) for Mallory to learn. She has, however, learned it ####-### instead of the usual phone number sequence of ###-####, but she knows it and that’s all that matters.
Now we are trying to work on learning my phone number. I have a 0 in my number and when I was telling it to her tonight (###-oh-eight-two-nine), she said “NOOOO mom – you mean ZERO-eight-two-nine. OH is a LETTER and we are doing your phone NUMBER not your phone LETTER. ZERO …

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Mallory

Honestly!

May 16, 2011

Mallory just asked Carson if he wanted to go upstairs so they couldn’t hear mom.

Mallory

The Daily Picture

May 15, 2011

One of Rick’s new computer picture-video projects is a plan to take pictures of the kids every day and then make one of those super-fast videos as you watch them grow over the year. Sounds fun, in theory, but we’ll see how he does (he’s already missed at least two days this week…).
Yesterday our darling daughter was in a goofy mood when Rick tried to take her picture and all I could hear was Rick laugh-yelling “MALLORY! STOP IT!” with Mallory also giggling almost uncontrollably. A couple of “KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN, MALLORY” were thrown in too.
She thinks she is …

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Carson, Mallory

WES GO BOOOO!!

May 14, 2011

My kids are turning into some pretty fierce softball fans this year – it’s pretty fun to watch…both my kids and the games, since we can now stay for the whole game instead of me fighting to keep them entertained. Both kids yell “LET’S GO BLUE!!!” (“WES GO BOOOO” in Carson’s case) and shake their pompoms most of the game. We’re trying to teach Mallory about the scoreboard and how to tell how many runs we have…that’s pretty fun to watch too, when she yells out “MOM!! MICHIGAN HAS SEVEN AND THE SPARTIES ONLY HAVE ZERO!!!”.
One game I do play, …

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Mallory, stb

The Woi-al Wedding

May 11, 2011

Like lots of girls my age (or are we ladies now?), I remember when Princess Diana and Prince Charles got married. My friends & I used to argue over who got to have the fake name of “Princess Diana” when we played. Yes, we were ridiculous.
So…when this new Royal Wedding came upon us, I will admit to getting caught up in the hoopla. Not enough to plan a big party or take the day off work to celebrate, but I was excited about it. I set the DVR and planned to watch it with Mallory when we got home from …

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