I was sort of dreading the two whole days I was going to be home alone with the kids after Rick left for New Orleans on Christmas Day (and we weren’t leaving until December 28).
We spent some time at my dad’s house on Christmas day – we watched the UM-Nebraska game, and Carson first learned “Denarding”.
Santa comes to my dad’s house for the kids…and “Santa” brought Mallory & Lauren eye shadow. This is Mallory’s self-portrait so she could see what she looked like after applying some makeup.
Here she is again after going CRAZY with the eye shadow (and she had access to a mirror). OhMyGod.
We had a playdate on Tuesday with Mallory’s friend from kindergarten (who happens to have a younger sibling Carson’s age). We went to the Treehouse in Chelsea, and playtime ended when Mallory fell on the slide and was convinced she had lost her top teeth. She didn’t, and they weren’t even wiggly. Phew.
Mallory & Laci.
As I was packing for the bowl trip, I found our OSU game tickets in the diaper bag. I wasn’t sure if I should remove them from the diaper bag or not (I can be a little superstitious sometimes…but alas, I did remove them [because I didn’t want to lose them], and all was OK with our bowl game.)
We had a little playdate at Nathan & Addy’s that afternoon, and hung out in their basement watching football (Go Broncos!). Carson & Mr Bob cheered to it being 4p and not being at school or at work. Carson is rocking a Hard Rock Café shot glass for his drinking vessel.
Then, just as I was getting things finished up downstairs (I had a goal to leave my house looking decent so I wouldn’t be so overwhelmed when we got back from the trip) and was heading up with Carson to put him to bed when he had an incident with a dump truck and split his lip wide open. Nothing a little Tow Mater ice pack and hugs from mom couldn’t fix (it looks worse than it was), but DAMN that kid gets banged up a lot!
The flight the next day was good – it was a charter so no big-airport hassles. Only issue is that Mallory was a MESS when we were descending into New Orleans (turns out she had an ear infection that we got diagnosed the morning of the bowl game…)
