Thanks, sweet girl, for this. I am excited to have this face documented. I think we have the spotlight picture for her high school graduation invitations and/or wedding reception slideshow.
Year: 2013
And then there were 5
Mallory lost tooth number five today.
And then she lost her lost tooth at camp (the camp counselor gave her her tooth back wrapped in a napkin…which Mallory then lost).
She looks like a redneck hillbilly with that other top tooth all loose and stuff.
June 2013
Looks like my inability to actually post things regularly means I will be writing monthly updates. That’s depressing. But oh well. Warning – this is a really long post
June brought a tornado siren, a tornado, the end of the school year, a dance recital, a room change and three weeks of camps (the tornado siren and tornado were technically the end of May, but close enough to June to count).
Tornado Siren
Rick left for the College World Series with softball on Tuesday, May 28th. We were supposed to get bad weather that night but just as Mallory’s gymnastics class was wrapping …
The Barbecue Shop
Rick had the idea that I can give Carson a haircut at home every other time he needs a haircut. I asked the C-Dog yesterday if I can cut his hair and he said no.
Softball Boy
We can’t forget Carson in all of Mallory’s batgirl-ness.
First up :: After every game, he hustles himself to his spot outside the Michigan locker room where, because he has learned/memorized every single softball player’s name & number [thanks to the softball cards they handed out this season], he greets EVERY.SINGLE.SOFTBALL player by name as he gets a high five and sometimes a hug.
Here he is greeting them all after their Super Regional win back in May:
Then, if we have time, we hang out outside the locker room so he can say hi again.
Here he is with “the best home …
Duh
I love when Mallory brings home a piece of artwork from school and I ask her what it is and she gets all, like you know, totally valley girl on me and says “DUH, like, you know, it’s a ________”
This week’s installment of “mom, how can you not know?” is this gem. Duh, it’s an ant playground.
Totally
Michigan softball is in the World Series and due to some tornados in Oklahoma City, the games got switched around and Michigan was scheduled to play their second game at 9.30p ET last night. But then due to the 7p game going 15 innings, Michigan’s game didn’t start until 1a. I had fallen asleep and woke up in the 2nd inning, just in time to see us take a 2-0 lead that went the distance (thanks to a home run by the best home runner). I tried to wake the kids up to watch the end (at 3.30a) but they …
First & Second
After almost two years of weekly swim lessons at Goldfish, Mallory graduated to the swim team. At her first swim team practice, they told us that we should just let her swim for 30 minutes or so because it will be a big adjustment from her 30-minute swim lessons but at the 29 minute mark of the one hour swim team practice, she was breathing heavy on the side of the pool, but she didn’t give Rick or me any indication that she was ready to get out of the pool. At the end of practice, I think the coach …
Mother’s Day Tea
The annual “Mother’s Day Tea” at Carson’s school was the Friday before Mother’s Day and seeing as how I forgot about it last year, I wasn’t going to miss it this year. Carson and his classmates sang a couple of songs and then we had a tea party with finger foods and tea. See the bottom for videos. Way.Too.Cute. I love Carson’s big grin peeking out at me during his songs.
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Another
Another for the “things I didn’t think I’d hear as a mom” files:
“MOM!!!! My pee looks like a football helmet!!!”
Turns out the bubbles he made in the toilet were in the shape of a football helmet. He wasn’t joking or exaggerating. It really did look like a football helmet. I took a picture but will spare y’all that visual.