We went to the waterpark with Alli and her folks on Sunday. The girls were *so* excited to see each other after the long break because of Christmas & New Years.
The waterpark is pretty cool – they had a great kiddie pool with a slide (see video below) and then a lazy river with a little side pool with a bench all the way around that the girls put a lot of miles on. And they serve beer! Not that I had any but I think Rick was wishing he didn’t have a hockey game later that night.
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This month in history
January 2005 -Just got back from my first “part of the program” bowl trip and was planning our July wedding
January 2006 – Rick & I went on our belated honeymoon to Aruba…and got pregnant with Mallory a few weeks later!
Janaury 2007 – Living life with a 3 month old; I returned to work and Rick was “Mr Mom” for about six weeks
January 2008 – Our trip of a lifetime to Guam
January 2009 – Expecting Mallory’s sibling
Look how far we’ve come!!
Safety First
I know I owe you all a post about the waterpark but the Bachelor starts tonight so I don’t have time to type it up.
Instead, I’ll share this picture of Mallory in her new safety glasses, and with her toy – but very real & heavy – hammer.
All by myself
Today was a day of (almost) all by myself. Rick & Mallory ran errands [he has been FABULOUS with giving me some alone time – thank you, hubby!!] so I could scrapbook and grocery shop in peace. I didn’t get much scrapping done because my stupid back started to hurt leaning over the table but I made a little progress. And tonight we were supposed to go to a holiday party at a friend’s house but I am partied out from the past three days and have been going to bed way too late (and sleeping in way too late …
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
We took Cooper on a long overdue walk in the woods again today, that poor dog is so neglected (at least by his pre-little-sister standards), I can’t stand it. And because we have some snow we brought the cameras and the sled :-)
Happy New Year!
We had a fun New Years Eve – we went to dinner with a couple of our friends to my favorite restaurant in Saline and then we hung out with some other friends for a couple of hours (a lot longer than I’d planned on staying awake!). We got home just before midnight and let Mallory climb into bed with us so we could all watch the ball drop and celebrate together. Then Mallory ended up changing the channel on the TV just as the ball dropped so we missed anyway.
The three of us in …
I done frying now, Mama
Seriously? She kills me.
Mallory was being SUCH a grump yesterday. Rick was home with her while I went to work and then Rick & I went to see Marley & Me (holy sad…more on that later) so Mallory went to Aunt Emy’s house. She had a good dinner and a good nap and everything yesterday so who knows why she was so grumpy last night on our way home from Em’s.
She got mad because I wouldn’t let her buckle her own carseat buckles (um, it’s FREEZING OUT and I’ll have to end up doing it anyway so HURRY UP). She …
A Little Baby
Mallory’s new thing this past week or so is wanting us to help her because she says she is a little baby. If she wants us to feed her, she’ll say “feed me like a little baby” and then she’ll start this super high-pitched baby talk. It makes me want to laugh soooooo hard but I don’t think we should encourage her to act like this since pretty soon (13-ish weeks, to be exact) there will be a real live little baby living here.
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Another new thing lately is her telling us “NO HELP ME, my do it”. …
Ugh, I hate nights like this.
We went to visit Rick’s mom this weekend to do Christmas with her. Mallory was awesome the whole weekend and was a great traveler; she didn’t need any Monsters Inc or silly kids music to keep her happy the whole trip down or home. But Mallory got all of a 40 minute nap today and was awake by 11.15a, when she normally goes down for a 2-ish hour nap at 11.30a, so she is beyond tired right now. She is standing at the door in her room (where she is baby-gated in) crying for me, pleading “MOOOOOMMMMMMYYYY”.
Normally when she is …
Third Trimester
OMG. We are in the third trimester today. All of 27 weeks. I can’t believe that I now start doctor’s appointments every two weeks for the next couple of months, before starting weekly appointments and the non-stress-tests for the last month.
Nothing else to report. Rick is heading to his mom’s tomorrow with Mallory; I am not sure if I’ll be staying home or going, it depends on how I sleep tonight and what my back feels like in the morning. I’m nervous about undoing my physical therapy progress by sitting in a car for 4+ hours and then sleeping on …