Mallory

Things Mallory is learning

It is amazing to witness Mallory learn so much stuff in kindergarten. The reading, drawing, writing, “grow” & “shrink” math skills, songs, etc. It is so cool. She reads EVERYTHING to us now – billboards, text messages on my phone (remember that when you text me from now on…), random pieces of paper in my car. She also spells EVERYTHING. Ask her whose car we should take to run errands and she says “the M-O-M-M-Y’s car”. It’s crazy.

About that random piece of paper in my car. I picked up a flyer at her dance studio last week. About once a month or so, they offer a parent’s night out – you can drop off your kids on a Friday or Saturday and for $35 they will play with them and do crafts and feed them popcorn and stuff from 6p-11p.

The flyer reads: “Do you need a night out??? Let us take the guess work out of date night for you here at [dance studio name]!…” It goes on and outlines what they offer.

Mallory the stinker picks it up and starts reading it. She reads it every time she gets in my car. But it has morphed from reading it to now she picks it up and says “I need a night out!” and she goes on to read the verbiage on the flyer. I’m cracking up thinking that she probably thinks the “night out” is the fun night at the dance studio. She thinks the girls should go to the night out on Fridays and the boys can go to the night out on Saturdays. Cracks me up.

But on to some other funnier things she is “learning” at school…an expanded vocabulary that now includes “that is soooo GROSS!” and “that is sooooo DIS-GUST-ING!” and “that is soooooo ANNOYING” and “that is so AWESOME!!!!” (ok, she used awesome before, but it sounds funnier now for some reason). I can’t even stand it because she still has a small lisp when she says ‘S’ so it comes out “that ith thoooooo GROTH!” and then it’s even funnier.

And I’m not sure where her flair for the dramatics comes from. Lord knows I’m as unemotional as they come. Just don’t ask Rick. :-)