Category: words

While struggling to pull up underpants or shorts that might be a smidge too small, Mallory will complain that they are “too heavy” to pull up by herself, and asks for help.

Mallory seems to be more a fan of cloudy days than sunny days. Whenever we are in the car and the sun is beating on her, she covers her face with her hands and says “HOT, Mommy!”.
It makes me giggle.
Oh, we used to have a shade on that window but then she broke it and I haven’t replaced it yet.

So, Mallory’s new thing is “What dat, Mama, hmmm?”
I am trying to pay attention more when I talk to her to see if she picked it up from me. But it is so funny to hear her say “hmmmm?”.
She also says “K” for OK all the time. It is hysterical. She says it 100 times more than she says yes and it’s another random thing that we are trying to figure out how it made it’s way into her vocabulary.
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This week has been somewhat uneventful. Rick didn’t have work Sunday night like he normally does, but did on …

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I thought I’d have a decade or so before I had to fight over the radio in my car. But no.
My kid likes her kiddie music. You know – the Bah Bah Black Sheep, Wheels on the Bus, No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, the Itsy Bitsy Spider that I’ve had to sing in the car for the past month. I expanded our music collection to get more options and purchased a three-CD set of children’s music. I asked Rick if he needed a CD for his car and he said no. What? How does that work? If I …

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Mallorian: “Bahbah, go mama? Bahbah?”
English: “Cooper, where did Mama go? Cooper?”