The tailgate started at 10a for the 3.30p kickoff. We got home at 9p. Holy long day.
My 7-yr old nephew was going to come with my dad but turns out Shane didn’t want to come, so my 3-yr old niece came instead (which then made Shane decide he DID want to come – oops). I think my mom & I were thinking my dad was a little nuts to invite Lauren. But turns out my dad wasn’t so dumb – I wonder if he knew that Lauren was going to want to sit with Mallory the whole game?
The girls were …
Category: Mallory
My Pish Gaga
Roughly translated it means “Hey Mom – I just went fishing with Dad over at the lake!”
(there should be a slideshow of pictures here)
Help A Sister Out
Here are two versions of the same picture. Which one do you think is cooler and why. Please discuss.
Ideally I would like to get one of these shots of her on the beach in Wisconsin enlarged for our wall but don’t know if I should do SOOC (that’s Straight Out Of Camera for you non-photography types) or play with it a little.
PS – I know the one on the right is a little dark.
Fall is coming
Wow – fall is coming FAST. I seem to forget that this happens every year. The days getting shorter, the needing a coat or a sweater in the morning, the fact that we aren’t obsessed with mowing our lawn weekly because it’s going to snow soon anyway so who cares?
I am sitting on the couch with a fabulous semi-warm & semi-cool breeze coming in the front door. There are still boats out on the lake and why wouldn’t they be, it’s still in the 70s. But I guess I still think of football season meaning the end of summer.
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Video of the lake
Here is video of Mallory playing in the lake yesterday.
Disclaimer: It is a long video and there is stupid mom commentary. You’ve been warned.
I DIDN’T PROOF THIS VIDEO BEFORE POSTING AND JUST REALIZED IT STALLS AT 4 MINUTES. THAT MAY BE THE END OF IT OR IT GOT SCREWED UP WHEN I UPLOADED.
Mallory has an announcement
Our little pish
Another little posting drought. So sorry.
Here is a collection of short stories from the past few days.
Mallory can finally stand up (with her head above water) at the sandbar on our lake. We went out yesterday with my sister’s kids and she wanted her boat coat off so off it came and I was surprised to see that she could touch. She had SO.MUCH.FUN. jumping around with Shane & Lauren. We went back out later when Rick got home and she showed off her new “pish” (that’s fish in Mallorian) skills. She got braver and actually ended up underwater a …
Not for lack of material
Oh man. I am a bad blogger. Today was the first day in, um, forever I think, that I got ZERO hits on my blog. We have to fix that.
And since I already typed this out once today in an IM, I am just going to cut & paste here. This was my Wednesday night. Enjoy.
rick was supposed to bring cooper to my dad’s for the day
i was supposed to watch emily’s kids from 5.30-7.30 (overlap between her work & michael’s sked)
so M & i were going to spend the in between time w/ rick at his work
so …
Up North, 2008
Well, we made it back from our trip up north. O.M.G. how exhausting. Mallory is NON-STOP and I don’t know if she was pushing it just because my mom was there and she thought she could get away with it or what but she was out of control. She was still a very good little girl but when it came time for diaper changes or getting dressed, she would run away from me LAUGHING.
I’ve been going “up north” for probably close to 30 years now. Back when I was little, I would spend a week up there in the summer, …
My mommy!
Funny Mallory & Alli story again today. I had to use the bathroom when I got to daycare today. As I’m going potty, both Mallory & Alli were pounding on the door yelling for me. I heard Alli yell “MOMMY”. And then I heard Mallory yell “NO!!!!! MY MOMMY!!”
Thank goodness I was already going potty, otherwise I would have peed my pants.
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Continuing at daycare, as the girls were saying goodbye to each other, Alli said something to Mallory and Mallory lifted up her shirt and Alli stuck her finger in Mallory’s belly button. Then Mallory said the same …