Carson

What a difference a thumb makes

April 22, 2012

Carson loves to make the “I LOVE YOU” sign with his hand, so when you ask him to tell you he loves you, he makes that sign.
But every since he turned three, he follows it with “but if you put the thumb in, I can PEW you!” and he pretends to shoot us. I think Spiderman shoots webs like that?

Carson

Baseball boy

April 21, 2012

I’m sure it’s not that unusual that a 3yr old kid is all over baseball, but remember it’s my blog and my gig and I like to brag about my kids.
But Carson LOVES baseball. He loves Awex Lavila (Alex Avila) and can tell you what the score is on tv. He tells grownups that he likes their Digers (Tigers) hat. It’s hysterical.
Last week we were watching a Tigers game and someone got a home run. Carson said “Bye bye!!!”.
Love him.

family, Mallory, Miscellaneous

Five weeks after the tornado

April 21, 2012

I haven’t written about the tornado since we were a week-ish out.
It’s funny when I go back and read about the damage, or rather lack of damage, I thought we had. We knew we had some missing shingles and some damaged siding, and a busted up garage door and screen, but in the past month, we’ve discovered other damage.
We had a structural engineer come inspect our house a few weeks ago; he determined that we were very lucky in that we had lots of bracing in our attic space and that it probably saved our house from losing …

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Mallory

Things Mallory is learning

April 17, 2012

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 …

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Mallory

Soooo Boring

April 13, 2012

Mallory asked how much longer she had of kindergarten because it is getting “sooooo boring”.
I asked if it was boring because she already knew everything and she said yes.
Except she doesn’t know about scientists yet since they only started learning about them on Tuesday.

Carson

Carson at 3

April 12, 2012

I need to get Carson’s birthday interviews going but in lieu of that, I’ll share some other stuff he’s doing/saying.
But first – he had his well-child doctor’s appointment last week. I had to wake him up at the daycare for his appointment and he was sort of a mess when we got to the doctor. He snapped out of it quickly and turned on the charm for the pediatrician. It was hysterical.
She was happy to hear that he’s sleeping well, and eating well, and that he’s totally potty-trained, even at night. She isn’t worried about his speech (even though …

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Mallory

Gold Medals

April 6, 2012

A few weeks ago was the first week of spring football practice. There ended up being early practice on Monday…like early in that Rick had to be there at 5.30a. So I had to get the kids ready and drop Carson at daycare and then the plan was to take Mallory to Rick at work, and he’d turn around and take her back to school when school started.
Monday morning was OK – not great, but she did pretty well for Rick at work. His concern is that she would have a temper tantrum about something dumb and he’d have …

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Carson

Woody & Lightning & Tigers

April 3, 2012

Carson was so excited about turning three.
Apparently the unofficial theme was Toy Story and Cars and Tigers because most of his gifts fell into those categories. He also got his own Mobigo (with a Cars game…) and a tackling dummy.
Gigi & Grandpa and Lauren & Liam came over to celebrate with cake & ice cream, and watch our big three year old open his gifts.

Carson

FREE!

April 3, 2012

My sweet baby boy is three. I seriously can’t stand it.
We had a party with some of his little friends from school on Sunday, April 1 (my birthday!). Mallory’s best friend from kindergarten came too (with her little sister who is three days older than Carson) to help distract Mallory from bossing Carson and his friends around.
It was pretty cute. Carson was soooooo excited to see his friends outside of school, especially his BEST FWEND BEN BEN. The boys spent most of their time in the basketball section and my plan to have Mallory’s friend come to distract Mal worked …

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Mallory, stb

First Day!

April 2, 2012

Things I need to remember before saying things to Mallory.
Mallory turned 5 last November. Before I left for work on her first day of school after her birthday (which was on a Sunday), I made a big deal about it being her first day of school as a FIVE year old!
Fast forward to this morning, as I’m walking out the door for work, Mallory gave me a hug and kiss and said “Have a good day! It’s the first day that you are going to work when you are FORTY-TWO!”.