I haven’t written about the tornado since we were a week-ish out.
It’s funny when I go back and read about the damage, or rather lack of damage, I thought we had. We knew we had some missing shingles and some damaged siding, and a busted up garage door and screen, but in the past month, we’ve discovered other damage.
We had a structural engineer come inspect our house a few weeks ago; he determined that we were very lucky in that we had lots of bracing in our attic space and that it probably saved our house from losing …
Category: Mallory
Things Mallory is learning
It is amazing to witness Mallory learn so much stuff in kindergarten. The reading, drawing, writing, “grow” & “shrink” math skills, songs, etc. It is so cool. She reads EVERYTHING to us now – billboards, text messages on my phone (remember that when you text me from now on…), random pieces of paper in my car. She also spells EVERYTHING. Ask her whose car we should take to run errands and she says “the M-O-M-M-Y’s car”. It’s crazy.
About that random piece of paper in my car. I picked up a flyer at her dance studio last week. About once a …
Soooo Boring
Mallory asked how much longer she had of kindergarten because it is getting “sooooo boring”.
I asked if it was boring because she already knew everything and she said yes.
Except she doesn’t know about scientists yet since they only started learning about them on Tuesday.
Gold Medals
A few weeks ago was the first week of spring football practice. There ended up being early practice on Monday…like early in that Rick had to be there at 5.30a. So I had to get the kids ready and drop Carson at daycare and then the plan was to take Mallory to Rick at work, and he’d turn around and take her back to school when school started.
Monday morning was OK – not great, but she did pretty well for Rick at work. His concern is that she would have a temper tantrum about something dumb and he’d have …
First Day!
Things I need to remember before saying things to Mallory.
Mallory turned 5 last November. Before I left for work on her first day of school after her birthday (which was on a Sunday), I made a big deal about it being her first day of school as a FIVE year old!
Fast forward to this morning, as I’m walking out the door for work, Mallory gave me a hug and kiss and said “Have a good day! It’s the first day that you are going to work when you are FORTY-TWO!”.
Some comic relief
I was browsing through some old pictures tonight, trying to clean up un-needed images. I came across these pictures of the kids from February when I needed them to sit in my “studio” so I could test out some new lighting techniques I’d read about.
My instructions to the kids were to sit in one spot and stay still while I changed my settings. I was hoping to fire off a bunch of pictures of the same “pose” with different settings so I could see how they all looked.
But instead, here is what I got: Carson giving himself direction, and when …
More Daily Outakes
Just downloaded a bunch of pictures off of the camera that Rick uses to take the kids pictures every morning.
I am seriously dying here.
Enjoy.
Spashl
“I am spashl beecus I have a brthr namd Carson”
Or “I am special because I have a brother named Carson”
Daddy & Daughter
Mallory had a big date night earlier this month…the much anticipated “Daddy-Daughter Dance”.
She was FIRED UP the week leading up to the event. She talked about how what if it was called the “Daddy-Daughter Kissing Dance”, or what if it was called the “Daddy-Daughter dance but with no daddies”.
Every day she woke up and told us how many more days until the dance, etc.
The morning of the dance she wanted to put on her dress at 7a. Later that day we were at the mall and I found a much more A-DORABLE dress that we talked Gigi into buying for …
Mall
Mallory’s school work as started to come home with just “MALL” written at the top. We call her “Mal” (like “cal” but with an M), and apparently she thinks you spell Mal with two Ls. Which I guess when you are just learning how to read and write stuff, it makes sense…when you sound out her name, the Ls stay together, right?
But whatever. I think it’s hysterical.
Our little Mall.
And I wrote before how she likes to find new ways to write her name. This is a favorite – having all the letters be joined together. Perhaps she …