I love their breakfast conversations. This morning – this happened:
MCB: “CarTHUN – we usually want the Buckeyes to lose and Michigan State to lose. But when the Buckeyes are playing Michigan State, we can win (root) for Michigan State.”
CWB: “No. BOOO Spartys”
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And I wanted to save this for Michigan State week but I’ll share it now.
Mallory & I were at the pharmacy the other day, and (for some unknown and weird reason) the shelves with a million boxes of Trojan condoms are right next to the pharmacy checkout at our grocery store.
They look like blocks, so my …
Category: Mallory
Off she goes
Today was kindergarten day!
But first I had to take a picture last night of my baby girl when she wasn’t yet a kindergartener.
And here she is – on her first morning of being a kindergartener. Doesn’t she look so much bigger and different?
Here are my kids all dressed on their first day of school in 2011. My neat idea last year of having a chalkboard with their room/year on it was a really great one – right up until I hid the chalkboard so the kids wouldn’t ruin it and couldn’t find it. Enter a piece of paper and a …
Game One
Michigan’s 2011 season started yesterday.
The weather predictions were all over the place the whole week before the game. As late as Thursday night there were predictions of 60% chance of strong afternoon thunderstorms on Saturday. By Friday morning it had dropped to 20% chance – HOORAY! But it was now forecasted to be in the mid-90s. Hmmm.
As we packed up the van Saturday morning I totally forgot to pack rain gear. But it was like 80* and not a cloud in the sky at 9.30a. I had sunscreen though, which was all I thought we’d need.
Biggie & Rich had a …
So long, farewell…
Last day of preschool for the pumpkinhead was on Friday. I was way more emotional than I should have been, given the fact that Carson still goes to that school, and Mallory should be back there next summer for daycare.
I did lose it big time with one of her former teachers (who is now one of Carson’s teachers). Miss Mary was one of Mallory’s caregivers in the infant room, and Alli and Mallory used to fight over Miss Mary’s lap – I’m sure there are some good blog posts about that from 2007-ish :-)
So, the end of an era, sort …
It’s football season
We use football season (and game weeks) as our family’s calendar sometimes. Like when Mallory, at 3-ish years old, told her teacher that FOOTBALL SEASON is the season that comes after summer. And the other night, when signing up for teacher conferences with Mallory’s kindergarten teacher – the other parents were asking “is that the week of Thanksgiving?” while my husband asked “is that Ohio State week?”
This year’s football season was a huge milestone for us to hit, because for months we’ve told Mallory that once football season starts, she would start kindergarten.
Michigan’s first game is tomorrow. That means …
Beds and Bears
disclaimer – this post was written from my phone at 10pm, thus the poor flow and anything else that makes it not the same great writing you are used to finding on this blog.
Bedtime here has been going very well with Rick busy with camp. I’ve moved bedtime up sort of significantly and I am happy to report that I think I’ve witnessed fewer tantrums, which is a good thing.
Carson’s room is painted and we moved his toddler bed in there after the paint dried. The first night with this new arrangement – he wanted to sleep in his crib …
Two weeks
This morning in my house:
Mallory: “Wait, where’s daddy?”
me: “At work.”
Mallory: “Oh, right.”
me: “I’m so sad it’s football season.”
Mallory: “I’m not.”
me: “You’re not? How come?”
Mallory: “’Cause that way we can win!”
Sparkle
It’s a rare night that our kids are up after dark so we did sparklers the other night after a late night at Dexter Daze.
No one got burned or had any injuries from the sparklers – which is always good news!
Mallory
Addy
Carson
Daily Picture Outtakes
Rick is still doing his daily pictures of the kids in front of the 6’ ruler he made.
Some pictures are really funny. Like these.
With Sugar on Top.
For some reason, Mallory is on this Disneyworld v Disneyland thing and was asking Carson if he wanted to go to DisneyLAND since we only have ever been to DisneyWORLD (actually, Mal, you’ve been to DisneyLAND but seeing as how you were only 7 weeks old, I can see why you don’t remember).
Carson, not having any idea what his sister is asking, smartly agrees with is bossy older sister and says “YETH! I GO TO DITHNEYLAND!”
I asked Mallory if she knew we could probably go to Disneyland if Michigan made it to the Rose Bowl this year and that she …