Mallory came home with this in her backpack today. I asked her what it was.
She said it was “abstrapt art”.
Year: 2012
The Boys
Went into Mallory’s room this morning to wake her up.
She rolled over and asked sleepily: “Are the boys up?”
I told her one of the boys was, the biggest one.
She asked if the 6-yr old boy was up.
Took me a minute to realize she was talking about Cooper.
Bottoms
Carson just yelled at Mallory from the basement: “Get your bottom down here!”
You can say that again
We are watching ice dancing on tv and Mallory keeps saying “ooh that’s hard”.
Then Carson said “oh dat’s HARD!!”
Mallory said “That’s right, Carson. You can say that again.”.
Hi-O
In January we also went to Ohio (or “hi-o” as Carson calls it) to visit Rick’s mom for the weekend. And I do love how perfectly brainwashed my kids are because when we stopped to go potty at a gas station in Ohio, Mallory walked past a display of OSU Buckeye stuff and said “oooh yuck. Boo Ohio”.
We had a fun weekend in Cincinnati – Grandma took the kids to a Build-A-Bear workshop place to build-a-bear…Carson didn’t get that you weren’t supposed to take the full stuffed animal with you when you picked out what you wanted to make, instead …
Our Silly Boy
That sweet boy of mine. I can’t stand him.
He is equally opinionated and easy-going. In a span of five minutes he can swing from absolutely-no-way-on-earth-I-will-NOT-let Mallory have the white cup at dinner time to giving her a big nod YES when she finally asks nicely (through tears) if she can please use the white cup at dinner.
He is talking like crazy and the stuff he comes up with is awesome.
This morning he came downstairs and still had his pacifier in his mouth. I told him he had to ditch it unless he was getting back in bed. He complained that …
Unpacked
Upon checking in to a hotel recently, Mallory took it upon herself to unpack.
She took her bag of bathroom stuff and set up shop in the basket that formerly housed the supplies for the coffee maker (after announcing “there is a COFFEE MAKER in the bathroom!”).
Badder Teams
“Mom, do you know who the badder teams are? The state teams. You know, Ohio State and Michigan State…”
Kids today
It’s no secret that I am a nerd and love gadgets but even this is ridiculous. When I tell Mallory she has something on her face, or that her tooth looks extra wiggly, she asks for my phone so she can take pictures of herself to see what I’m talking about.
I’ll admit I’ve done this a few times (when there isn’t a mirror nearby), but the fact that my 5-yr old does it too? It cracks me up.
“You so happy?”
Carson FINALLY went poop on the potty Thursday night!!
He had started his normal pre-poop grunting routine so I got him on the toilet. I’d read that if you give them a stool for their feet, it helps (since dangling feet make it hard to go poop?). This also allowed him a table to play with his Lightning ‘Queen (Lightning McQueen) and Mater (Tow Mater) toys while he tried to go poop.
I left him alone for a minute and he yelled at me “I WENT POOPY!!!”, and sure enough, he had.
As he finished, I started jumping up and down. …