Mallory did the Shamrocks & Shenanigans race again this year – but this year she upgraded to the Kids’ 1K race, and Carson did the Kids Dash.
Carson talked about it ALL WEEK, asking us constantly “WHEN DO I GET TO DO MY WACE????”.
He was also pretty excited to do it with his buddy, Becca. Becca just turned three. Carson looks like a giant compared to her. Carson was concerned that Becca didn’t have “fast runner shoes” like he did (she had regular boring pink & brown tennis shoes, not white & blue like his).
They lined the kids …
Category: Mallory
Mallory’s First Book Report
Mallory loves school. She loves her friends and learning. She loves gym class day, but loves art class day more (much to Rick’s dismay). She loves riding the bus. And she loves grabbing her folder out of her backpack and showing us everything she did at school that day.
On Tuesday, she pulled out her folder and showed me that she had to do a book report. She’d picked out a book about bears, and had a list of questions she could use to come up with three details that she learned from the book. She chose:
How does your animal take …
Happy Birthday Coops!
Last year when we got close to Cooper’s birthday, I told Mallory we could do a dog-safe cake for him. We got busy and it didn’t happen in 2011. I knew I couldn’t not do it again this year, so we made Coops a peanut butter-carrot-honey-egg cake (with cottage cheese frosting).
Mallory did the garnishes with the cut up carrots. She wanted to use seven candles, but I didn’t really want to use our fancy cake candles in this gross cake, so we went with a single orange twirly candle (to match the orange carrots). It was almost as though …
A downside
The downside to your kid learning how to read is when you are enjoying a cold drink out of this glass, and your 5-yr old asks “Mom, what does that say? Big-something-beer?”
Nice.
Three Years Ago
I got my first iPhone three years ago…and I have yet to delete a picture from my iPhone album (and because I’m semi-good about backing it up, I haven’t *lost* any pictures yet – probably just the ones I took just prior to leaving/losing it in a cab in NYC two years ago…but anyway).
So…when I have a spare minute or two, I love to go back and look through my iPhone photo album. These pictures are some of the very first I took with my iPhone in January-March 2009. Mallory was just a few months past her second birthday, and …
Riding the rails with Grandpa
When my dad asked about what Mallory wanted/needed for Christmas, I looked around our house and realized there wasn’t much she needed. There are plenty of things she would say she wanted but nothing she needed.
We’ve talked about maybe taking the train to Chicago one of the times that we go and it never seems to work out for us to travel by rail.
This, along with the memory of my dad taking me by train to Battle Creek when I was about Mallory’s age for a tour of the Kellogg cereal factory, led me to suggest to my dad that …
My Sweethearts
I think I haven’t taken any pictures in February.
Well, except for on my phone and those don’t count, really.
But here are some pictures from January – I took these for the kids Valentines cards for school.
I got out Carson’s pink & white striped oxford and he said “THAT’S A GIRL SHIRT!” and I told him that handsome boys could wear pink too so he decided he could wear it. But he made it clear that only girls and handsome boys could wear pink shirts.
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We had a great week here – the kids weren’t sick, and I’m getting more …
Work
Mallory asked me today what DAY she was born (like what day of the week). I told her she was born on a Monday.
“Whoa! You didn’t have to go to work that day!”
Nope, you’re right. I didn’t have to go to work that day.
Then she said that on the day Carson was born, I was bored.
Um, bored isn’t how I’d describe that day.
My new work
So – this new job I just started this week. Mallory had been asking a bunch of questions about my new job and my new job friends, and last week I drove by where my new office is so she could see where it was.
On my second day, I participated in a walk-thru of some buildings on the athletics campus. It was pretty fun because as we did our inspections, I got to see Biggie and Bonnie and Hutch, and the volleyball coach and Mallory’s dance teacher and Riley’s dad.
I had to the tell the story a million …
Murphy’s Law
We’ve had a hell of a week around here.
I started a new job at the University this week – one that requires meetings and one-on-ones with my boss and visits to buildings on campus, along with a class I am taking on Wednesday nights (as part of my job). I am super excited about this new position and was fired up to start.
I’ll back up here and talk about Carson’s poop. It isn’t the point of the story but it’s relevant. Carson didn’t poop much last week. He pooped Sunday night (reluctantly) so we started him on Miralax. Then he …