My no-more-naps Mallory is struggling with some self-control. I’ll admit, she comes by it honestly but HONESTLY – she is out of control sometimes. It’s killing me.
After dance class, I muttered under my breath “argh – you are driving me crazy!” and Mallory with the super-hearing-power says “What mom? I drive you crazy?”. I told her yes, she is driving me crazy.
MCB: “We talked about that at school today.”
STB: “You talked about what at school today?”
MCB: “About driving our moms crazy.”
STB: “When did you talk about this?”
MCB: “At lunch.”
STB: “Who said they drove their moms crazy?”
MCB: “Just me …
Category: Mallory
The Many Outfits of Mallory
To quote my friend Shauna: “Honestly”.
After school one day, Mallory wanted to change out of whatever she had on that day – she ran upstairs and was gone for forever. When I asked what the deal was she said she needed help with her belt.
I went to the bottom of the stairs and looked up and saw her dressed like this.
I admire her creativity but the polka dot shirt and plaid shorts with shiny pink belt was quite an outfit. She’s worn this ensemble a few times since then and it makes me laugh and shake my …
Wow
MCB: “Carson! When you were taking a nap we sawed the FROG on the GRILL and I sawed it and then I SCREAMED when it started to jump at me!!!”
CWB: “Wwwwooooooowwwwwww.”
Summertime
Kids + melting food colored flavored ice = outside on the lawn, please.
I. Am. A. Genius.
Yeah, so maybe you’ve heard me talk about how Mallory falls asleep in our bed every night. And that it doesn’t necessarily make me sad that she sleeps in there, but I’m starting to get nervous that as Carson is getting close to transitioning to a big boy bed, that he’s going to think he can fall sleep in our bed every night too. This has already started a little because he wants to read his bedtime book in our bed and then we move him to his bed.
And maybe you’ve heard me talk about how much Rick’s football schedule …
Cago
We took a family trip to Chicago a few weeks ago. Rick & I had Cubs tickets and we had a babysitter (my cousin) lined up to watch the kids for us at the hotel while we went to the game.
As we neared the city Friday afternoon, and could start to see the big buildings, we pointed out to the kids that it was Chicago. When we got into the city and were driving amongst the big buildings, Carson would point out his window at a building right next to us at a stoplight, and would yell “CAGO!!!”. It was …
If you can’t laugh at yourself…
Lots of Cousins
We went to Chicago this weekend (more on that later) for a Cubs game (more on that later too) and got to meet up with lots of my cousins for dinner on Friday night.
The restaurant was noisy which was good for covering up my “not handling the time change well since we didn’t eat dinner until 8p Michigan time” kids but not good for trying to catch up with my cousins.
It was fun to see everyone though, and we’ll see them all again in October when Michigan plays at Northwestern!
Imam (my cousin Whitney’s boyfriend), my cousin Whitney, my cousin Rory, …
Take me away
Who needs a big relaxing bubble bath or ice cold beer when you have this sort of visual entertainment to help you forget about a rotten day at work?
My Tigers
We went to the Tigers game last night.
Carson was excited. He said he was going to catch a ball.
Mallory was not excited. She was hot. And Rick was making fun of her.
Carson was adorable when he would excitedly yell “GO TIGERS!!!”.
Unfortunately he didn’t catch a ball this time.
Mallory was more excited when Rick finally gave her $10 to go ride the merry-go-round and we saw Paws on the way. Carson wouldn’t pose with Paws.
Both kids were excited about the temperature dropping two degrees once the sun went down, as well as riding the tigers on the merry-go-round.
I was excited that …