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 …

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Today is the day that Rick can no longer wear Nike to work.
So today he came downstairs in his new Adidas-wear and I put Mallory in her Adidas tennis dress.
I’ll point out that Rick still had on a Nike watch, Nike glasses, Nike underwear and Nike socks.

It is sort of a little bit really hot this week so Mallory & Rick went for a dip after dinner. Mallory loves this slide but for some reason was afraid of it at first tonight. She would reach for Rick before she would even start sliding down the slide:

But then she got a little braver and at least started down the slide by herself:

Here she is being sassy and sticking her tongue out at me (she is still too cute even when she is being sassy!):

And finally she didn’t even wait for Rick to be at …

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