After three years, Mallory hadn’t lost one of her ear tubes. And her cool ear doctor, the great Dr Possum Hunter, doesn’t like to have tubes in for more than three years, so we had to have her one tube removed. They said this procedure was basically the opposite of putting the tube in – meaning it was very routine. The only problem from Mallory getting tubes was that she woke up HORRIBLE from the anesthesia, so my only request of the anesthesia team (um, my sister) this time was to PLEASE don’t have that happen again.
Mallory was a wonderful …
Category: Mallory
Green Day
Be sure you see the videos at the bottom of this post…
I’m a little slow on the “have fun and make everything green” uptake for St Patrick’s Day. Reading about how other families have leprechauns wreaking havoc on their house for St Patty’s Day – I need someone to remind me next March 13-ish that I want to do that, K?
But I had fun with our St Patrick’s Day dinner! I wasn’t sure how green food coloring + orange mac & cheese would turn out, but lucky for me green food coloring is dominant.
Mallory drank her green milk too fast …
Nightime
It’s no secret that we let Mallory fall asleep in our bed (like almost every single night). The deal is that Rick moves her to her own bed when he comes to bed, and she usually makes that transition without waking up (but it’s pretty funny how she sometimes stirs when he goes to move her and then she ends up just staying in our bed all night).
Anyway.
So – we (or rather I) let her fall asleep in our bed at bedtime because I feel it is the lesser of two evils. I LOVE sleep, and I sort of want …
It’s RACE DAY!
Mallory was BEYOND EXCITED to run her first race yesterday – she did the Kids Dash in the Conor O’Neill’s “Shamrocks & Shenanigans” race. I think Rick & I spent some time in Conor O’Neill’s back in the day, so it was hysterical to be in there with the kids before the race. Mallory asked where the crayons were and I assumed that my old haunt would *never* have crayons, for God’s sake, it’s a BAR! But, I guess they get kids in there now (probably because it’s non-smoking?) and they did have crayons. Phew.
Anyway, Mallory was running the race …
A biscuit, a basket
Michigan hockey is playing in the CCHA playoffs this weekend and we’ve watched some of the games. Rick was off painting, so after Michigan scored a goal, I told her to go tell daddy that Michigan put the biscuit in the basket.
I’m in the midst of a 30-day challenge with my neighbor and 13 straight days of doing an insane workout – on top of playing hockey the other day – my whole body, and my knees specifically, have been killing me.
After my workout today, I told Mallory (who insists on working out with me every day), “My …
Pure Fashion
Short-sleeve brown shirt, pink satin-y princess vest, purple fleece vest, paired with a tiered fuchsia skirt, footless cream-colored tights, white socks and brown shoes. Pure fashion, I say.
Like sister like brother
Carson can’t NOT do everything his sister does, even when it makes absolutely no sense.
Take this morning, for instance – Mallory had finished her cereal and was drinking the milk from her bowl (c’mon, you know everyone does that).
Carson, not to be outdone, lifted his bowl to his mouth too. But he only had dry cereal in it.
And then there was dry cereal all over the floor.
My mom’s the goalie
I am playing hockey tonight. Of course Mallory said she wants to come watch. Seeing as how the game is almost too late for me (9.15p usually finds me heading upstairs for bed), it was really too late for Mallory.
But Mallory asked me why I always put my water bottle in my mitten for the back of the net.
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Also, any conversation about sports almost always morphs into “who would we root for?”.
Like – “If the Hawkeyes and Ohio were playing, we would want Hawkeyes, right?” and “If Ohio and Michigan State were playing, then we …
Profession
Rick emailed me this, with the description that Mallory said it yesterday (I’m assuming he emailed himself so he could remember it):
“If you swallow a candle it will burn your heart. Then you will have to swallow a band-aid to make it better.”
I forwarded it to some people so they could see how funny Mallory is.
My dad wrote back:
“I think you should steer her away from medicine. Sounds like an engineer.”
I think I’m not sure who is funnier, my dad or Mallory.
Punta Cana–the end
Here are the last of the pictures from our big vacation. We had a great time – once we got past the leaky ceiling and long day of travel. We spent all day everyday at the pool, except when we were at the snack bar or lunch buffet eating enormous amounts of french fries, pizza or nachos with nasty liquid cheese. My dad & Emily did go scuba-diving one day, and the grown-up boys went deep-sea fishing (Rick also did some deep-sea puking…)
Um, can you say sunburn? My only sunscreen screwup of the week…
Me & my darling sister.
My mom. She …