I love their breakfast conversations. This morning – this happened:
MCB: “CarTHUN – we usually want the Buckeyes to lose and Michigan State to lose. But when the Buckeyes are playing Michigan State, we can win (root) for Michigan State.”
CWB: “No. BOOO Spartys”
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And I wanted to save this for Michigan State week but I’ll share it now.
Mallory & I were at the pharmacy the other day, and (for some unknown and weird reason) the shelves with a million boxes of Trojan condoms are right next to the pharmacy checkout at our grocery store.
They look like blocks, so my …
Category: Carson
Carson update
With all the kindergarten goings on, you’d think we didn’t have another kid in the house, so I thought I’d give a quick update on Carson.
He’s back in his toddler bed (which he calls his “big kid bed”).
He doesn’t leave his bed very much once we’ve put him down, but he does get out a couple of times, mostly to stand at the top of the stairs and yell down either “I COME OWNAIRS WIB YOU?” (I come downstairs with you?) [to which Mallory responded tonight – from her own bed – “NO CARTHUN!”] or “YOU COME DUDDLE ME, MOMMY?”, …
Game One
Michigan’s 2011 season started yesterday.
The weather predictions were all over the place the whole week before the game. As late as Thursday night there were predictions of 60% chance of strong afternoon thunderstorms on Saturday. By Friday morning it had dropped to 20% chance – HOORAY! But it was now forecasted to be in the mid-90s. Hmmm.
As we packed up the van Saturday morning I totally forgot to pack rain gear. But it was like 80* and not a cloud in the sky at 9.30a. I had sunscreen though, which was all I thought we’d need.
Biggie & Rich had a …
Update to “See Ya”
So, yeah. The crib. The one I disassembled this weekend and then had Rick take to the garage tonight? We have a problem.
I guess Carson was totally playing us with the whole “I totally won’t ever get out of my toddler bed I love it so much go ahead and sell the baby furniture” thing.
He refused to stay on his toddler bed tonight so he is in his pack & play now. The one he barely fits in.
Which begs the question…do we re-setup the crib? With Rick not home at bedtime for the next 3+ months, the …
See Ya
The end of an era.
This crib has been set up in my house for five years. It came down today.
Hold me.
Beds and Bears
disclaimer – this post was written from my phone at 10pm, thus the poor flow and anything else that makes it not the same great writing you are used to finding on this blog.
Bedtime here has been going very well with Rick busy with camp. I’ve moved bedtime up sort of significantly and I am happy to report that I think I’ve witnessed fewer tantrums, which is a good thing.
Carson’s room is painted and we moved his toddler bed in there after the paint dried. The first night with this new arrangement – he wanted to sleep in his crib …
Thank goodness for little boys
Thank goodness for little boys who love their mommy.
Coming home from my hair appointment tonight (where I went all dark brown for fall – no more blonde) I kept checking myself in the rearview mirror, and was freaking out about what my hair looked like and Carson said “wook pwetty, mommy”.
Sort of takes the sting off Mallory saying I don’t look like me anymore.
Sparkle
It’s a rare night that our kids are up after dark so we did sparklers the other night after a late night at Dexter Daze.
No one got burned or had any injuries from the sparklers – which is always good news!
Mallory
Addy
Carson
Daily Picture Outtakes
Rick is still doing his daily pictures of the kids in front of the 6’ ruler he made.
Some pictures are really funny. Like these.
With Sugar on Top.
For some reason, Mallory is on this Disneyworld v Disneyland thing and was asking Carson if he wanted to go to DisneyLAND since we only have ever been to DisneyWORLD (actually, Mal, you’ve been to DisneyLAND but seeing as how you were only 7 weeks old, I can see why you don’t remember).
Carson, not having any idea what his sister is asking, smartly agrees with is bossy older sister and says “YETH! I GO TO DITHNEYLAND!”
I asked Mallory if she knew we could probably go to Disneyland if Michigan made it to the Rose Bowl this year and that she …