Totally copying this idea from a few other blogs I read…I wish I’d started it when Mallory was born, and done it every 6 months or so. Oh well – better late than never…so here we go!
Our “school-day” mornings usually start with my alarm going off sometime between 5 & 5.30a. If the alarm sounds closer to 5a and actually does the additional job of saying “GET YOUR A$$ IN FRONT OF THE TV AND DO YOUR WORKOUT VIDEO”, I’ll work out and then start getting ready for work.
Then I wake Rick up ~6a, and then the kids. The order …
Category: Carson
…and here’s the video
Here is the video of Carson playing with his football guys.
Enjoy.
Coach Carson
We got Carson this football set back in September but seeing as how he was only 1.5 years old, he had more fun throwing the football dudes all over the family room instead of playing with them…which made my “OMG WE’RE GOING TO LOSE SOME OF THE PLAYERS AND I WON’T BE ABLE TO SLEEP UNTIL I KNOW WHERE THEY ALL ARE” anxiety level go through the roof. So his football set spent a good part of the past three months on top of the fridge, which made him go stand in front of the fridge yelling and pointing at …
Tired
That was neat.
I finally went to bed early for the first time this week, only to have my “get a good night’s sleep” efforts foiled by my kids.
I need to back up. Apparently our new house has the suckiest heating and/or insulation in the entire universe. Our first floor programmable thermostat would be set to 68 and the second floor (where the bedrooms and our showers are) would register a toasty 64 degrees. SIXTY FOUR. As in holy cold, Batman.
Thus I was sleeping on a heating pad set on medium every single night. It was taking me an hour to …
Big House Skate
Big goings-on in the Big House this week – they put in a hockey rink so that Michigan and MSU can play on Saturday in front of a world-record 100,000+ people! They have had all sorts of games being played this week for all different levels of hockey, and tonight they let athletic department folks and their families come skate.
Before our skate, we watched Brendan skate in a game. When we walked in the stadium for that game (without Rick), Mallory had questions about the big machinery that was outside Rick’s football equipment room. I explained it was the refrigeration …
Sometimes
Bath time tonight – the kids chose our bathtub.
Carson is standing up in the tub, which is filling with water, and starts to pee.
Mallory gives me a sideways glance and says “sometimes I do that.”
Nice.
We cheated
I think it killed my husband a little bit today, but we bought a fake Christmas tree this year. Rick grew up working for his grandparent’s garden center in Cincinnati and at Christmas time, he was on tree delivery duty. He’s a little bit thorough (ok, a LOT thorough) when we shop for Christmas trees (well, he’s thorough about really anything we’re going to spend money on) – and buying a tree usually takes us an hour or so (and that’s even just going to a place where they have the trees already cut – it’s not like we’re hiking …
A Thanksgiving Pictorial
A teething baby…
A reading of Pinkalicious by Grandpa…Two of the silliest girls ever…An attempt to get all six in one picture…Decorating Thanksgiving cookies (notice Tank is already eating his…)…After dinner…Zombies watching Charlie Brown.
So much to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Just a quick post and run today on Thanksgiving – I’m actually hosting this year so I should probably not park myself in front of the computer all day!
Michigan has a game this weekend (first time in a long time that they’ve had a game Thanksgiving weekend) and it bums me out because this was always our first weekend to have Rick all to ourselves since football starts in August. But this year – not only do they have a game, it’s an away game, so after practice today (yes, there is practice on Thanksgiving, it’s ohio state week, for …
Thunderstorms and scary stories
I know I might portray my kids as being sunshine and fairy tales all day every day. Truth be told, they get along pretty well most of the time.
So when this happened today, my first response was that I needed to take a picture so that I could document my kids fighting.
I think it started because Carson wanted to sit on the little bench, and then Mallory decided she wanted to too, and then Carson decided he did NOT want his sister to sit next to him, because then Mallory started hollering “CARSON ISN’T SHARING”. (These pictures aren’t great because …