With football season being done, so is Carson’s obsession with football guys.
He is now in love with his hockey guys.
Guess we will have to invest in the baseball guys for his birthday in April.
Later on Mallory & Carson were playing school or family or something, and Carson thought the three sisters (all named Katelyn) would want his toys. They have football guys, hockey goals, Mater and Lightening McQueen, and a couple of candy canes. This picture cracks me up.
I was sort of dreading the two whole days I was going to be home alone with the kids after Rick left for New Orleans on Christmas Day (and we weren’t leaving until December 28).
We spent some time at my dad’s house on Christmas day – we watched the UM-Nebraska game, and Carson first learned “Denarding”.
Santa comes to my dad’s house for the kids…and “Santa” brought Mallory & Lauren eye shadow. This is Mallory’s self-portrait so she could see what she looked like after applying some makeup.
Here she is again after going CRAZY with the eye shadow (and she had …
FINALLY it was game time!
We hopped on the bus at the hotel to head to the SuperDome. We got the always fun police escort and it took us right down the middle of the trolley tracks on Canal Street. It was awesome, especially when Biggie pointed out (via text) that I was getting a police escort to a tailgate.
Mallory got confused by the scoreboards. She thought that the numbers next to the TOL (Time Outs Left) meant the score. She finally found the real score and said “OH! There it is! It keeps trying to trick me!”
Ryan was a few …
New Years Day found us at the Aquarium and Insectarium. Mallory only liked the sharks and the pizza at lunch. She still had a really wiggly tooth.
Miss Amy, Denard, Denard, Mallory, Riley & Braden
Mallory with her new friend Riley.
My goofball being a goofball.
Mallory & Riley, with Mallory’s bratty younger brother who wanted to be in the picture.
The two Denards. The funny thing about this picture is that when Carson first got up there, he had his arms wrapped around Mikey’s neck, and Mikey wasn’t a big fan of that.
Mallory & Riley
There was a hurricane simulator thing. Carson …
We arrived in New Orleans Wednesday afternoon. A mixup on the plane caused us to not get lunch, so my first order of business was food for the kids.
We found a little spot across the street from the hotel (Daisy Dukes) and the kids ordered pizza, and I ordered a bloody mary. I semi-noticed that the menu said unlimited bloody marys, but didn’t think about it until my drink was almost gone and the waitress asked if I wanted another drink. She brought another drink which, after traveling all day with two semi-grumpy kids, I had no problem almost finishing.
But …
Two funny things the kids said in the last 12 hours.
Last night – as we were approaching the concierge desk to ask for a pizza place recommendation – Mallory (whose second tooth is *this close* to coming out) whispered to me “Can you ask if the tooth fairy comes to this hotel?”.
And just now this morning, I could hear the kids stirring from their room next door, and then I heard Carson yell “ANYBODY DER?? IS DER ANYBODY DER??”
Carson sort of likes football.
And he likes to run around the house and then fall down randomly, and then say he scored a touchdown.
Carson also likes Denard.
At my dad’s on Christmas day, we were watching the Michigan-Nebraska game and my dad told Carson do to what Denard does after he scores a touchdown.
I finally got a good video of it.
After all the buildup for Christmas…it was finally time.
I had to get up extra early because I forgot to put out one of Santa’s gifts for Carson (please don’t let Mallory read this blog until she already knows about Santa…), plus I wanted to get breakfast in the oven. I took the opportunity to take some pictures before the chaos started.
The kids came down and we had to let Carson go potty before letting Mallory at her presents. Carson was excited to get started so he came back in the room without any underpants. I am not able to share …
We had Christmas Eve with my family here at our house this year.
After we opened presents, we ate and drank. My dad brought this stuff:
It was good – it made me feel like we were back in the Dominican Republic.
After everyone left, we drove around (Rick drove…I wasn’t fit to drive after that tropical sea breeze) and looked at Christmas lights. Mallory kept saying that she wished we had more lights like our neighbors and I told Mallory that putting up a lot of lights is hard work and daddy works a lot during the time you are supposed to …
I’m still not sure how it’s already almost Christmas.
We have presents, some of them are wrapped. Some are still hiding in plain view. Luckily the kids haven’t yet gotten the snooping bug, because then Rick & I will have to get more creative in where we put stuff.
Our tree has ornaments on it, and Carson has already added, removed and re-added the candy canes (at first they were in one big cluster in one spot, now they are on every lower branch of the tree…it’s hysterical).
Mallory’s last day of school for 2011 is tomorrow and they get to wear their …