…closets?
Our hotel room is so huge that we were able to put Carson’s pack-n-play in the walk-in closet.
And then I saw the other closet and told Mallory that it was where she’d be sleeping. She took me seriously and insisted on sleeping there every night of our trip.
Works for me!
While I slaved away in class, Rick took the kids hiking.
And you know that Mallory had to have her pink camel.back with her for the hike.
Apparently Mallory got tired by the end of the hike and Rick had to carry both of the kids. I scoff at that. One day for a few measly minutes ain’t NOTHING compared to every football Saturday when I have to carry both kids back to the car after the games.
Carson is enjoying his first “beach” experience. This resort has an awesome pool with a little sandy area next to the pool, and then it is like a ramp into the water, so my sweet boy can crawl right in. Sounds good, eh? Carson getting himself into the water? Um, not so good because at 9 months he isn’t smart enough to know to *stop* when his mouth starts to go under water. So Carson at the pool/beach involves a lot of us laughing, then grabbing him and moving him to shallower water, over & over again.
So – I have …
My house this morning.
Does it make me Mom of the Year to leave Mallory like this while I grabbed the camera and took five pictures?
I brought her carseat in so I could move the straps up (ohmygosh she is getting SO big) and she couldn’t resist buckling herself in. But then she fell backwards and couldn’t get up. And then her brother decided to come laugh at her too.
These pictures are soooooo last year.
In my busy-ness with my business (get it? my photography “business” that I’ve been so “busy” with? I’m so clever), I never posted these shots from the O-State tailgate.
Firstly – a bevy of self-portraitsCheri & me
my dad & me
Rick’s buddy Kevin and me
Carson pulling Bryce’s hair
Shocking…Mallory is eating!
With Rick’s buddies again – Mike & Kevin.
With my children at the game…who’d-a-thunk we’d be coat-less at the OSU game (but I needed to scramble and get Carson a snowsuit for the Delaware State game back in October??)
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I haven’t shared a fun video of my sweet boy lately; here he is playing with one of his new Christmas presents and it ends by giving his mama some loving. It’s pretty funny how the baby open mouth kisses are so gross unless they are from your own baby, and then they are the best thing in the whole world.
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Side note – my sweet boy has an ear infection in one ear and fluid in the other, so he’s on antibiotics for the first time. I *just* realized that we should be watching for a reaction to …
As much as I would love to wait and see if Carson’s hair curls like Mallory’s, I wasn’t loving seeing his scraggly hair over his ears and the collars of his shirts. It made it look as though he’d just gotten out of bed, which I guess when you are 8mos old, isn’t really that much of a stretch, since you are taking 2-ish naps a day.
Anyway.
So we got Carson a haircut. Check out the “Chip off the old block” post for a decent “before” picture.
He was good and sat on Rick’s lap the whole time. It’s …