Mallory started a new activity in the fall of 2012 (well, I guess technically she re-started an activity because she did gymnastics briefly a few years ago).
After two sessions of gymnastics we got suckered into signed up for a little meet at her gymnastics place back in December . It was sort of like her dance recitals where you pay money to sit and mostly watch kids you don’t know but it’s worth it to watch your kid do her thing with a HUGE smile on her face.
Luckily Mallory was the first one in her rotation so we could pay …
Month: March 2013
Hmmmmm
So, Michigan is playing in the NCAA tournament starting today. After a side conversation that included Mallory asking “didn’t Michigan lose to Wisconsin in the tournament last weekend”, we talked about how it was a different tournament.
When I got Mallory off the bus this afternoon, she had a green shirt on. I told her I hoped that the Jackrabbits of South Dakota State weren’t green. She looked at me with a nervous look and I suggested maybe she could change her shirt. She said yes.
Then she said…
“Or I could take my shirt off and paint my stomach!”
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The room under the stairs
Before encouraging (or allowing) your kids to start an insane collection, think about what they will do with the collection when they are 40 (or what their wife will do with the collection). These are all full of baseball cards.
And all of these bins were under our stairs and would have prevented our whole family from taking shelter during the tornado, had I chosen to take shelter.
I’m moving them today.
The Dexter Tornado ~ a year later
March 15, 2013. The anniversary of the tornado that messed up our neighborhood.
I wasn’t as emotional yesterday as I thought I was going to be (ill-behaved children and a Michigan basketball loss helped keep my mind off the anniversary), but it a milestone I was happy to pass.
I don’t need to re-write about what happened on March 15, 2012 – you can read about it here (March 15, 2012 post). And I don’t need to re-write about what the days were like after the tornado – you can read about that here (March 17, 2012 post). And I …
Teaching Trash Talking to My Three Year Old
Carson did the Shamrocks & Shenanigans Race this morning and came in second in the Kids Dash.
After the race he was telling me all about the race and how he was behind this other girl but then he just ran right past her.
I asked him if he Denarded her. He grinned and said yes.
Then he said that he didn’t know her name. I suggested that maybe her name was Third Place.
He grinned again. And started the story over and told me he Denarded that other girl and her name was Third Place.