Carson is doing pretty well with sleeping in his own bed – most of the time. There are nights though where he won’t settle down and out of necessity I let him come to our bed to sleep. Last night was one of those nights. He had a weird weekend of sleeping and didn’t nap much and is still working on a weird cough so I think he just can’t figure out how to go and stay to sleep very well.
So last night when he was calling for me I told him to climb in my bed. When I came …
Category: Carson
Mohawk
I usually make Carson’s hair up into a mohawk after his baths – he laughs and Mallory laughs and it’s fun.
Combing his hair this morning – I started to wet it down and then he requested a “Mo-awk”. I got out the pomade or styling gunk or whatever it’s called from under the sink and tried to get it to stand up. It’s too long to really hold the mohawk – unless I sprayed it with hair spray and I had gotten enough dirty looks from Rick when I pulled out the styling pomade stuff so I chose to not …
Weally Fast
Here is the video of Carson’s latest parlor trick. We had to get it on video before it wasn’t cute anymore. (I also had to enlist the help of our neighbors to act as his audience. If it’s just me asking him what Denard does, he will take off for a (weally fast) lap, but that isn’t quite as cute as watching him do the arm pump motion.)
After Saturday’s game, I asked Carson if he wanted to go say hi to Brady Hoke. He said yes so off we went. He kept telling me “I on’t ee im” (I don’t …
Homework
No, Mallory doesn’t have *real* homework from school yet, but we know lots of people who do Kumon. We weren’t ready to do real Kumon, so instead I got Mallory some Kumon workbooks from amazon.com and we are going to try to be consistent in working with her every day. Except Saturdays because we are too busy with football to take time out to do homework.
So M has some math workbooks. So far it’s just been practicing writing numbers and she is already sometimes bored and being grumpy about it. It isn’t making me excited for when she has real …
More Mallory (and one Carson)
After the UM-EMU game last weekend, Mallory told Rick “I was looking at you (down on the sidelines) through the binoculars and I said HI DADDY and why didn’t you even say anything?”
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STB (giving MCB a big hug after school on Thursday): “Did you know that I think about you all day and wonder how you are doing and if you are having fun at school?”
MCB: (nods head)
STB: “Do you think about me and what I’m doing?”
MCB: “Well, I think about that you have breakfast”.
It’s a true statement that I eat breakfast almost every day in the …
Perks
Just a fun little photo session we did of the kids at the football stadium during the summer.
Yes, it’s a perk. No, I can’t take your family’s pictures there. Sorry.
September Update
So – I’m sure you are all DYING to hear how school is going for Mallory. I can’t believe I haven’t done a wordy post since school started two weeks ago.
The good news is this – school is going fantastically. I think? She still runs off the bus every single afternoon, and she & Nathan race down the street (well, at least the days that Nathan’s mom doesn’t pick him up at the bus stop in her car). My dog – who is the world’s smartest dumb dog – learned – after just two days of walking to the bus …
Tattoo
Oops. Should have put sunscreen on before applying the football helmet tattoo.
Rivalry
Carson’s daycare director took these pictures and put this together today. I’m afraid of what is going to happen the week before Michigan and MSU actually play.
Cause
Carson asked Mallory to take his socks off of his feet.
Mallory sat down to help him and asked him: “Carson. Why do you love me more than mommy and daddy?”
Carson: “Cause”.