Mallory said “me and Carson” and I told her “Carson and I”.
She said “mom, remember that shirt you have that says ‘I am silently correcting your grammar’? You should do that now!”
Category: Mallory
Lucky Sister
Mallory: “I’m really lucky. Do you want to know why? Because I have a really smart brother who knows all about football.”
Halloween 2013
My two pumpkins.
Mallory swapped out her ($25) Hello Kitty costume at the last second to be a cowgirl. She “pinky-promises” to be Hello Kitty next year if the costume still fits.
Here she is at her school parade during the day on Halloween:
Minnesota – October 2013
My children still love going to football games. We did have that one glitch where Mallory wanted to know why her friend got more staying home days than her, but that was because there had been like 5 home games in a row, and then we did two away games in a row, and Mallory was burned out. But that was so 2011.
These days, the kids are awesome. They are great at the tailgates because there is tons of junk food and Carson can play football down the hill. We can watch the team come by in their busses two …
Mallory’s Goofy Face
Thanks, sweet girl, for this. I am excited to have this face documented. I think we have the spotlight picture for her high school graduation invitations and/or wedding reception slideshow.
And then there were 5
Mallory lost tooth number five today.
And then she lost her lost tooth at camp (the camp counselor gave her her tooth back wrapped in a napkin…which Mallory then lost).
She looks like a redneck hillbilly with that other top tooth all loose and stuff.
June 2013
Looks like my inability to actually post things regularly means I will be writing monthly updates. That’s depressing. But oh well. Warning – this is a really long post
June brought a tornado siren, a tornado, the end of the school year, a dance recital, a room change and three weeks of camps (the tornado siren and tornado were technically the end of May, but close enough to June to count).
Tornado Siren
Rick left for the College World Series with softball on Tuesday, May 28th. We were supposed to get bad weather that night but just as Mallory’s gymnastics class was wrapping …
Softball Boy
We can’t forget Carson in all of Mallory’s batgirl-ness.
First up :: After every game, he hustles himself to his spot outside the Michigan locker room where, because he has learned/memorized every single softball player’s name & number [thanks to the softball cards they handed out this season], he greets EVERY.SINGLE.SOFTBALL player by name as he gets a high five and sometimes a hug.
Here he is greeting them all after their Super Regional win back in May:
Then, if we have time, we hang out outside the locker room so he can say hi again.
Here he is with “the best home …
Duh
I love when Mallory brings home a piece of artwork from school and I ask her what it is and she gets all, like you know, totally valley girl on me and says “DUH, like, you know, it’s a ________”
This week’s installment of “mom, how can you not know?” is this gem. Duh, it’s an ant playground.
First & Second
After almost two years of weekly swim lessons at Goldfish, Mallory graduated to the swim team. At her first swim team practice, they told us that we should just let her swim for 30 minutes or so because it will be a big adjustment from her 30-minute swim lessons but at the 29 minute mark of the one hour swim team practice, she was breathing heavy on the side of the pool, but she didn’t give Rick or me any indication that she was ready to get out of the pool. At the end of practice, I think the coach …