Rick painted us up a little sports complex today when Biggie came to play.
We got a baseball diamond…
Biggie calling Carson safe
And a football field. Looks like our groundskeepers need to water the lawn more, though. And it looks like my husband needs to spend a little more time noticing that the names in the endzone are to be read properly from mid-field, not from the bleacher seats behind the goalposts.
After a long night of playing and eating at Coach Hoke’s house, the kids fell asleep so fast they didn’t have time to get in trouble. Normally Carson gets moved to his crib before either kid falls asleep because they can’t leave each other alone.
Mallory in her new Fancy Nancy dress that her Grandma made. And Carson riding the zipline with his sister’s pink sunglasses.
Not sure what else I need to say except thank goodness for days (and laughs) like this to make up for days (and tears) like yesterday.
I am ready to get up and start my day. But the minute I try to roll away from my baby, she rolls closer and does this. I think Rick slept in the three-walls-pink-one-wall-purple room last night (not sure why) so Mallory stayed in here all night. I would love to go get a picture of Rick in mallory’s flower bed but I need Mallory to sleep more so I’m stuck!
We are having a garage sale today. The morning started out slow. Like REALLY slow. Like we only sold one item in the first hour-ish we were open. I was severely second-guessing our decision to participate in a neighborhood garage sale, when I had other productive things to do, like go to Target.
But I did get my computer out and have gotten sort of caught up on some photography business related blogging. And then I remembered I had a webcam.
Looks like I’ll still get to go to Target – yippee!!!!!
We had a long overdue Hens Night Out* last night for Stacie’s belated birthday. After chips and salsa and some margaritas downtown, we got the obligatory SUPER CUTE group shots (and mini-group shots). But I won’t share the picture of my thigh where Mello gave me a big fat bruise for some reason.
After dinner we walked over to Kilwins to get some ice cream. I told the Hens to to stop so I could take our picture – and then I turned on my camera’s self-timer and set it up on my purse (which doesn’t make a great tripod, by …
There are a lot of things I’ll miss (and already miss) as my kids get older.
Today I realized that I’ll miss how Carson holds the (pretend) phone up to his arm to show Grampa his tattoo, since it makes total sense that since you can hear Grampa through the phone, that he can see through the phone too.
(Mallory did this too – holding the phone up to the TV so my mom could “see” the hockey game we were watching).
I had a SUPER great idea to have my parents & Rick’s parents complete this cool grandparent questionnaire. I thought it would be SO fun to have for Mallory & Carson when they were older. {I am happy to email this to anyone without answers if you want to borrow it! Just comment below or send me an email at stb (at) smellslikepopsicles (dot) com!}
I originally sent this out to all the grandparents in March 2009…the month I was due with Arlo (aka Carson, my now almost 27-month old son). My dad is the only one who has returned his …
Father’s Day / Sunday June 19, 2011 / Clear Lake Michigan
Guest Post by Grampa
This Father’s Day, I took my favorite daughter {Samantha}, my two favorite granddaughters {Lauren & Mallory} and two of my favorite grandsons {Liam & Carson} to my co-worker Judi’s house on Clear Lake. Two other little girls that were at Judi’s house (her granddaughter Brynn [7] and her friend Mia [5]) wanted to go tubing so I said I’d tow them around the lake a few times with my boat. My favorite granddaughters Mallory and Lauren wanted to ride in the boat also, and the adult spotter …
BIG goings on for my going-to-kindergarten-this-fall little girl.
This week & next – she has SAFETY TOWN, where she learns about, well, safety.
I guess stuff like stranger danger, bus rules, why you need to wear a helmet while riding your bike, etc.
So tonight, after her inaugural “pre-jazz/hip-hop” class (heaven help me if the teacher actually showed her some of the “moves” Mallory showed me tonight), we had her first night of Safety Town.
Carson & I dropped her off. She was, of course, VERY shy and was trying to hide behind me. Carson, on the other hand (when the teacher asked Mallory …