i have been waiting for a day like today for a long time. almost a whole day with nothing to do. mallory let me sleep until almost 7 (too bad rick’s alarm went off at 6a) and promptly went down for a nap ~8.30am. i should have gone back to bed too but i am on a scrapbooking mission to get as caught up as possible. it’s practically blizzarding outside right now so i don’t feel guilty sitting here doing nothing :-)
yesterday was good friday so we sent mallory to daycare in her adorable bunny outfit that brendan & kaylie’s …
Category: Mallory
life lesson from a 6 year old
my nephew is unbelievable. i told him today that i don’t want him to get any bigger because if he gets older, i get older.
his wise response? “well, that’s just how life is.”
are you KIDDING me??!?!?!
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in other news, we have had a few days of teaser spring weather. they have been forecasting rain for days and days and it hasn’t really shown up as they’ve been threatening. today mallory & i stopped by the Michigan softball game for a bit (rick had some showing off to do…) and then we came home to play with cooper. with the lake thawed and …
look ma, no hands!!
today when i pulled up to mallory’s daycare, she was out for a walk in the parking lot. i started to giggle seeing her sitting in the 4-kid stroller and had to run back to the car to get my camera phone. when i came back, she had her hands up ~ it totally looked like she was in a roller-coaster car, saying “look ma, no hands!!!”
family photo
for as many pictures that we take of mallory, in the past 4+ months we have only taken two pictures of all three of us. so when we had mallory’s 3-mo pictures taken last month, we had some photos taken with rick & me too. here we are!! :-)
already a rinkrat
i had my end-of-season hockey tournament this past weekend and our team was hosting it again. this meant that our manager/captain basically lived at the rink for the whole weekend and mallory & i were there to help almost the whole weekend. mallory helped check in all the players at the sign-in table in the hospitality room and was very agreeable to being passed around to all of my teammates. we didn’t get super-great sleep out of her the nights after being at the rink but while we were at the rink, she was very enjoyable. it is so nice …
smart baby girl
i can’t help but brag about our smart baby girl…she is already reading!!!
food!!!
we got the green light from the pediatrician to start MC on rice cereal. i think it had more to do with spending the one-on-one time with her and less to do with her being “ready”. the pediatrician made some comments about both rick & i working and doing whatever we can to make sure that dinner time is special, etc. either way, i was excited to get started!
i had mallory take a little nap after her appointment which she was happy to do once i gave her a little tylenol (she got 3 shots again at this appointment) so that she …
mallory got hit by a train
so we got our first accident report from daycare yesterday: mallory got hit by a train. a slow-moving toy train, but a train none-the-less. she had a tiny red mark under her eye which was gone before i could get a picture. the bump looked appropriate seeing as how she is going to be a rinkrat all weekend!
i forgot!
i forgot to post that mallory made it to her first UM hockey game on Friday night! she LOVED it, except when Michigan scored. i don’t think it was because she was upset that UM scored, i think it was mostly because of the loud crowd. luckily we didn’t go to the saturday night game when UM scored 8 goals.
the best part is that she handled being up past her bedtime beautifully, thank goodness.
it's tough being 4 months
rick put mallory in her exersaucer today and turned around to start making himself some lunch. he came back to check on her a minute later and found her passed out in her seat. rough life, eh? maybe the time change screwed her up.
yesterday we had a playdate with one of my pre-natal yoga moms and her husband and their 7-mo old son Kyle. jen & i actually went to college together and ran into eachother at the yoga class (embarrasing for me because for as good as my memory is with regard to numbers and dates i am sometimes bad …