Rick ran out to get some ice to make smoothies at like 10.30p or whatever and just called to tell me that my H^&T#J()UD)*&#^$^*#(&)&^ car died – like just shut off while he was driving. That it smells like gas, looks like there is a puddle of gas under the car, and that it sounds like gas is pouring out of the engine as he is trying to start it (and I had 3/4 of a tank of $4.50/gallon of gas in there).
Out.Stand.Ing.
He is about two miles from our house. With the dog. Mallory is asleep. So was I.
Have I …
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I'm back!
I made it home from Austin and successfully avoided the hurricane that was heading that way.
Here is what has happened last week:
Cooper usually went to my dad’s house for the day. One day when Rick & Mallory went to pick him up after bootball practice, Mallory and my dad got into an argument about who’s name is Mimi. My dad kept pointing to himself saying “Grandpa!” and then pointing at Mallory saying “MIMI!” and Mallory would get SO MAD and would point at him and say “NO – YOU MIMI!”. My dad said this went on for a few minutes …
Michigan v Utah – recap
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 …
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)
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 …
Out 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 …
While the girls were up north…
(Back story: because of Rick’s work schedule this weekend – our friends Larry & Cheri were going to help with Cooper duty. Cooper went to their house on Thursday morning and would stay there until Rick could get him after work on Friday. Then on Saturday & Sunday L&C would come let Cooper out. )
But here is how the weekend went down:
On our way up north Thursday, Rick calls to tell me that Larry told him that Cooper peed three times in L&C’s house and can I call Cheri and find out what is going on. Um, why didn’t you …
My Sweet Sleeper
Check out how we found Mallory last Saturday when we went to check on her after she’d fallen asleep.
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We stopped by Rick’s work this afternoon so Mallory could say hi to her dad. We got there during one of the practices. Mallory was a little unsure, seeing all the big football players and clung to my leg most of the time. We stayed to watch them run about a dozen plays and whenever the QB threw the ball and the receiver didn’t catch it, Mallory cheered. So I scolded her for cheering for the missed ball.
Rick pointed out …
Busy Saturday & Bow-boats
Rick had some yard work to do in the lot across the street from our house and Mallory insisted on helping. She dragged the shovel across the street for Gaga and then gathered up bunch of wood for him too.
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New word as of today: “bow-boat” = sailboat. Our lake has sailboat races almost every night of the week and there was a big one this afternoon and Mallory was pointing out all the bow-boats to us on our afternoon boat ride.
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One of Rick’s friends is in town visiting from China, where he …