Carson, Mallory

Christmas 2010

December 27, 2010

Christmas 2010 was spent in a hotel room in Florida and I was determined to make it somewhat special for the kids…this is what our little tree looked like with all the presents under it on Christmas morning.

Mallory and Carson slept in until 7.20a on Christmas morning before Mallory came to my side of the bed and asked if Santa came. I told her I wasn’t sure and she said that their stockings looked like the had stuff in them. So we got Rick up (he is the WORST in the morning) and the kids anxiously awaiting the word GO …

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Carson, Mallory

Our semi-warm Christmas Eve

December 27, 2010

With Michigan getting to a bowl game again this year, Mallory was fired up for her Christmas vacation. Michigan became bowl-eligible with the win on her birthday, and she got a cute Princess packpack for her birthday, so she’s been talking for almost two months about how she was going to take her pink packpack on our Christmas vacation.
Rick left on the 23rd, and I flew down with the kids on Christmas Eve. We’d sent all our presents down on the equipment truck so we could celebrate Christmas together in Florida. The kids were pretty good on our flight down, …

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Carson, Mallory

The Refrigerator Babysitter

December 27, 2010

Is it bad that I let Carson be entertained by the fridge for 15 minutes so I could play on the computer?

Mallory just looked at these pictures with me and was quick to point out that “that’s the mess that Carson made but that I cleaned up for you”.

Mallory

She cracks me up

December 26, 2010

I started keeping a running list of stuff Mallory said because it was just too hard to try to remember and then blog about. So this is a few months worth of funny stuff that comes out of her mouth:
“When I grow big I’m going to have a pink phone with purple sparkles, from a different kind of Target store that you have never been.”
“Look how awesome my hair is getting.”
MCB – “I smell someone” STB: “who?” MCB: “it’s you”. STB: “what do I smell like?” MCB: “Cherry pie.”
“Dad cracks me up when he says beautiful.”
“It’s not nice …

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Carson, cousins, Mallory, Miscellaneous

Cuties by the Christmas Tree

December 21, 2010

We celebrated Christmas with my family on Sunday (since we’ll be traveling on Christmas day). As soon as my family started bringing presents in the house, Mallory was BEGGING to open them…and then her cousins started in on the begging too. The mean parents made them all wait until we had some snacks first and then they went to town. Oh, I was the mean mom & aunt that also made them pose in front of the tree with all the presents before we let them open any.

I love how excited the girls are to have their baby brothers on …

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coops, Mallory, stb

How to clean your dog

December 21, 2010

Cooper was BEYOND need of a bath, and if you have a dog, you know that the hair from a dog bath is INSANE (especially when you don’t brush the dog regularly…). I refused to let the kids’ bathtub also be the dog washing bathtub, and I FOR SURE wasn’t going to wash him in our bathtub, so Mallory & I took him to the Dog-O-Mat.
Cooper wasn’t very thrilled with being put in the tall bathtub, but lucky for me, they have leash connectors up there so he was tethered in place.
Mallory was supposed to help me, but instead she …

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Mallory

Eyes Wide Open

December 20, 2010

Bedtime continues to be a battle – we want Mallory to go to bed, she doesn’t want to go to bed by herself.
Unfortunately many nights dissolve into me realizing I should go to bed anyway so technically she wins. A lot.
Tonight I came up for bedtime and she was still awake. I told her to close her eyes and GO TO SLEEP.
But she told me she likes to go to sleep with her eyes open.
Whatever.
Just GO TO SLEEP.

Carson, Mallory

Ho ho ho

December 20, 2010

We had a successful trip to see Santa this year. Both kids were happy, but I was irritated with the guy working the Santa picture booth. He said we couldn’t take our own pictures, so we said we’d take the smallest package, got the kids’ picture taken (um, thanks for getting them looking at the camera, numb-skull), and got in line to pay our $16.99 + tax for a 5×7…when a lady walked up with her two kids, told the guy she didn’t need him to take a picture, and promptly – AND RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE GUY – …

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Mallory

Funniest Girl Ever

December 20, 2010

SCENE: Our living room, Sunday morning. Carson is walking around with a fireman hat on backwards (so the big brim thing is over his face, instead of protecting his neck from random fire debris).

STB: “Mallory, look at your brother” and I start shaking my head.
MCB: looks at Carson, starts shaking her head, looks at me and smiles & says “I don’t get him.”

*I think I’ve used this as a post title before. Oh well.

Mallory, video

Oh Jingle Bells

December 18, 2010

Mallory continued on with dance class this fall, and while her little tap/ballet class didn’t make the cut for the holiday recital, they still put on a little show for the parents on the last day of class before the Christmas break.
Have to say that she takes after her mama when it comes to dance class. I *always* had to be behind someone else because I could never remember the steps. It was a bad day when I was late to ballet and had to be at the end of the barre because when we faced the direction that made …

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