Mallory has been looking forward to turning 6 since it meant she could finally be a batgirl for a Michigan softball game. She ended up being batgirl for three games in one weekend a few weeks ago (when it was freezing and snowing) and had SO MUCH FUN. She tells me all the time “ALLLLLL the softball girls know me…” and now that she’s actually hung out with them in the dugout and the lockerroom, I think she has some new BFFs.
As luck would have it, she got to be batgirl for the pink game (for breast cancer awareness) last …
Category: Mallory
All About MOM, by Mallory
This came home in Mallory’s backback yesterday.
I am giggling that the best thing I cook is cookies, but she is pretty spot on with the rest of it. I have to admit that I was like “I am NOT 43 years old!” and then I was like “oh wait, yes I am”.
Oh, how I love that girl.
FINALLY the Treasure Chest
Ever since Mallory started losing teeth, she’s been on this “I DON’T WANT YOU TO PULL IT OUT BECAUSE I WANT TO LOSE IT AT SCHOOL SO I CAN GET A TREASURE CHEST!!!” This results in some disgustingly loose teeth that hang on by a thread for weeks and weeks longer than they need to because she is waiting for it to fall out at school.
Tooth #4 had been ready to come out for a while and we were back on tooth watch.
So the day that Mallory got off the bus yesterday and I said tooth watch and she gave …
Learning through texting
I love that she practiced it on her own. Haha.
The picture I sent her is of her sleeping in her tent in her room and her feet were sticking out, a la the Wicked Witch of the East.
Cutest.Kids.Ever.
I know everyone thinks their kids are the cutest kids ever, but I need to clear something up.
My kids are the cutest kids ever. Witness them asleep tonight.
Together.
In Mallory’s tent.
Cuddling.
With Mallory’s phone and Carson’s new football helmet nightlight.
Game over. I win.
Snowflake Meet (aka Mallory’s first gymnastics meet)
Mallory started a new activity in the fall of 2012 (well, I guess technically she re-started an activity because she did gymnastics briefly a few years ago).
After two sessions of gymnastics we got suckered into signed up for a little meet at her gymnastics place back in December . It was sort of like her dance recitals where you pay money to sit and mostly watch kids you don’t know but it’s worth it to watch your kid do her thing with a HUGE smile on her face.
Luckily Mallory was the first one in her rotation so we could pay …
Hmmmmm
So, Michigan is playing in the NCAA tournament starting today. After a side conversation that included Mallory asking “didn’t Michigan lose to Wisconsin in the tournament last weekend”, we talked about how it was a different tournament.
When I got Mallory off the bus this afternoon, she had a green shirt on. I told her I hoped that the Jackrabbits of South Dakota State weren’t green. She looked at me with a nervous look and I suggested maybe she could change her shirt. She said yes.
Then she said…
“Or I could take my shirt off and paint my stomach!”
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Snow Day Recipe
After having no snow days in kindergarten, Mallory has had four snow days in first grade. I’ve heard my teacher friends talk about how to encourage a snow day with some bedtime rituals, so I laughed when Mallory got off the bus today and told me what she wanted to do before bed.
Here is the video of her telling me what she learned about how to get a snow day:
And she was beside herself at bedtime, running around the house, getting a white crayon and a spoon and yelling at Rick & me so that we could simultaneously flush three …
Six-ish months of posts
I really should title this “A year-plus of posts” because I really feel like it’s been that long since I’ve been really writing here. So I’m going to do a massive update post (with no pictures, because that is my big road-block lately) and try to get caught up.
Football started, school started, activities started, we went to Purdue for an away game, the Tigers made the World Series (Carson still loves baseball), Tigers didn’t win the World Series, Halloween, Mallory’s birthday, basketball season started (Carson still loves basketball), Thanksgiving, Christmas, trip to Tampa for the bowl game, Mallory lost …
Little Mallory [also known as “the day Devin tweeted about Mallory”]
Make sure you read this post first, and then read this.
So – two days after Devin Gardner & Jeremy Gallon visited Mallory’s classroom, Mallory participated in “U Meet the Athlete” with the Michigan Dance Team: they did 90 minute dance practice, and then got to dance at a Michigan women’s basketball game.
We got to Crisler and as the game started, I noticed that Devin was sitting directly across the court from us (me, my mom & dad, Miss Header & Chris, my sister & her family). I [mostly jokingly] said to Mallory that she should go say hi – thinking there …