Here are some long-awaited pictures from “Thience” Camp.
I took the Mallory & Alli on “Frog Day” – so they got to look at some tadpoles & almost frogs in some shallow pans. The teacher also had some red jello which was supposed to feel like frog eggs (blech!). Then we walked down to the ponds to try to find some more frogs. I should clarify that I am part of the collective “we” in regard to walking down to the ponds, but I am not in the collective “we” when it came to looking for frogs. I’ve never considered myself …
Category: Mallory
A reading of “Brown Bear Brown Bear”, by Mallory
Here is Mallory reading one of her favorite books:
Some of her other favorite books are:
All of the Fancy Nancy books
Ella Sarah (she can read {recite} most of this one too)
She is really getting into the interactive books where you have to find stuff behind flaps and doors. Not like how she used to like them (just trying to find stuff), but now she reads them to her dolls and her brother.
Busted again
We had a more normal bedtime routine tonight for Mallory. “Normal” consists of her coming out to talk to me/us a couple of times before she finally settles in and falls asleep. I thought she’d reached her normal number of “but I just need {whatever}” trips from her bedroom, so I grabbed my usual evening snack of a couple {okay, four} Chips Ahoy Reduced Fat cookies and a big glass of milk.
As I finished my second cookie, I heard the tiny pitter patter of Mallory feet across the kitchen floor and hurried to swallow the cookie, take a big swig …
My Grandpa is an Engineer, #2
I had to take our fan apart to vacuum all the dust off of it and you know Mallory just had to help me put it back together again. I left her to work on it and went to fold some laundry, expecting her to do a couple of screws and then get bored. But I came back and she had the one side all put back together again, and she said “But I have one-two-three-four-five-SIX (screws) left?” (each side of the fan has six screws).
So I flipped it over and let her finish. She got all …
Good Girl
A lot of people have told me that the Terrible Twos are nothing compared to the Terrible Threes, and that for as naughty and ornery and grumpy as Mallory has been the past year, that it’s only going to get worse (and I know that in the grand scheme of the world, she is a pretty good kid, but it’s all relative..when she’s good, she’s great but when she does get ornery – LOOK OUT).
So I’ve been dreading her upcoming third (OMG – she’s going to be THREE!) birthday, and was very scared about what is to come. But …
Daddy’s new hair-do
I think I can post these without any explanation. Enjoy.
Fire up, it’s SATURDAY!
Michigan kicked off their 2009 season with a big win over my alma mater on Saturday. Everyone said I was brave to take both kids to the tailgate/game. But really it’s mostly that we aren’t rich ~ I can’t imagine my babysitting tab if I had my sister watch both kids all day on a Saturday. The weather looks shady for next weekend so I might have to figure something out. We’ll see.
But – my children were, in a word, awesome. All day long. I was a little shocked. I sort of wanted them to be jerks so I had …
Two Year Old Grammar
If you’ve ever met my dad, you know he is a FREAK about correct grammar and spelling. Last night after the football game, Mallory said, “Grandpa! Me & Mommy went POOPY!” (we’d both just used the bathroom at my dad’s).
My dad tried to correct her and said “My mommy & I went poopy”.
Mallory said back “NO – YOU didn’t go poop. Just me and my mommy went poopy. Sam and Mallory did.”
Head start on next week’s Alphabitty Entry
I might have to make my buddy Mike be a guest blogger on my blog if he’s going to contribute gems like this.
Here is email I got this morning. If you are new to this blog – check the bottom-ish section of this post for the background…
from: Mike
to: Samantha
date: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:30 AM
subject: B is for…
You gotta use this $hit. This is solid GOLD! I only had 5 min so it’s not perfect, but the idea is there.
— Michael Folk
A is for…Alphabitty
I found the “Alphabitty” idea on 4 Love of Family a while back, but she was in the middle of the alphabet so I sort of tucked the idea away on my “that would be fun…I’ll keep it in mind for a scrapbook idea in the future” list
However, my to-do list is getting longer, not shorter, so this idea sort of fell off the list, until I saw today that MamaBear is starting over with A ~ just the kick in the tush I needed :-)
I can’t promise that my pages will be anything superfantastic or win any awards, but …