Carson, Mallory, rb, stb

Shenanigans

March 12, 2012

Mallory did the Shamrocks & Shenanigans race again this year – but this year she upgraded to the Kids’ 1K race, and Carson did the Kids Dash.
Carson talked about it ALL WEEK, asking us constantly “WHEN DO I GET TO DO MY WACE????”.
He was also pretty excited to do it with his buddy, Becca. Becca just turned three. Carson looks like a giant compared to her. Carson was concerned that Becca didn’t have “fast runner shoes” like he did (she had regular boring pink & brown tennis shoes, not white & blue like his).
They lined the kids …

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Mallory

Mallory’s First Book Report

March 10, 2012

Mallory loves school. She loves her friends and learning. She loves gym class day, but loves art class day more (much to Rick’s dismay). She loves riding the bus. And she loves grabbing her folder out of her backpack and showing us everything she did at school that day.
On Tuesday, she pulled out her folder and showed me that she had to do a book report. She’d picked out a book about bears, and had a list of questions she could use to come up with three details that she learned from the book. She chose:

How does your animal take …

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Carson

My Tiger

March 6, 2012

This is how I found Carson asleep tonight when we came upstairs to check on him.

I think someone is ready for baseball season to hurry up and get here.

Carson

I am CARSON

March 4, 2012

Coming home from school the other day, Carson & I had a conversation that involved me asking what he did, like what his job was.
He told me: “I pway (play) with my sis.”
Yes you do, Carson.
Unless, of course, you are grumpy. Then stuff like this happens (a day later, on the way to swim class):

MCB: “Carson, you are a GOOFBALL!” CWB: “I am NOT a GOOSE BALL! I am CARSON!” MCB (laughing): “You are a goofball” CWB: “No I am NOT. I am CARSON. …

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coops, Mallory

Happy Birthday Coops!

March 4, 2012

Last year when we got close to Cooper’s birthday, I told Mallory we could do a dog-safe cake for him. We got busy and it didn’t happen in 2011. I knew I couldn’t not do it again this year, so we made Coops a peanut butter-carrot-honey-egg cake (with cottage cheese frosting).
Mallory did the garnishes with the cut up carrots. She wanted to use seven candles, but I didn’t really want to use our fancy cake candles in this gross cake, so we went with a single orange twirly candle (to match the orange carrots). It was almost as though …

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Mallory

A downside

March 3, 2012

The downside to your kid learning how to read is when you are enjoying a cold drink out of this glass, and your 5-yr old asks “Mom, what does that say? Big-something-beer?”
Nice.

Carson

Hockey Guys

March 1, 2012

I got invited to play hockey guys tonight. Carson had the guys all lined up and I started to set my goalie up and he said “no! Dey are going in da wockerroom wight now.”
I had to beg to be the team with the #30 goalie but Carson wanted to be the yellow team.
Blah.

Mallory

Three Years Ago

February 29, 2012

I got my first iPhone three years ago…and I have yet to delete a picture from my iPhone album (and because I’m semi-good about backing it up, I haven’t *lost* any pictures yet – probably just the ones I took just prior to leaving/losing it in a cab in NYC two years ago…but anyway).
So…when I have a spare minute or two, I love to go back and look through my iPhone photo album. These pictures are some of the very first I took with my iPhone in January-March 2009. Mallory was just a few months past her second birthday, and …

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grandpa, Mallory

Riding the rails with Grandpa

February 28, 2012

When my dad asked about what Mallory wanted/needed for Christmas, I looked around our house and realized there wasn’t much she needed. There are plenty of things she would say she wanted but nothing she needed.
We’ve talked about maybe taking the train to Chicago one of the times that we go and it never seems to work out for us to travel by rail.
This, along with the memory of my dad taking me by train to Battle Creek when I was about Mallory’s age for a tour of the Kellogg cereal factory, led me to suggest to my dad that …

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Carson

All boy

February 28, 2012

I don’t ever want to forget how Carson sometimes sleeps flat on his back, with his hands behind his head.
Just like his dad.