Last night after we cleaned up after dinner, I cut myself a piece of Turtle Pie (leftover dessert from Easter dinner). I asked Mallory if she wanted some…we got her into her booster and she started pointing & grunting. I told her to use her words and tell mama what she wanted.
In rapid fire succession she signed “MORE-PLEASE-EAT”.
‘Atta girl.
Proof
Just in case anyone doubted that Mallory was on TV this week…here she is over Hitchcock’s right shoulder. :-)
Happy Easter!
I was so excited about Easter – because it was the first time Mallory could really get into the holiday (sure she went trick-or-treating but she didn’t understand the whole get dressed up, go up to the door, ring the bell, say “trick or treat” thing).
We dyed Easter eggs yesterday without much of a mess, and whatever dye Mallory splashed on herself she just licked off her fingers. Nice.
The Easter Bunny came and hid exactly 25 eggs; we asked him to only hide plastic eggs because otherwise Cooper would eat them…plus then if Mallory missed …
Gentle
When Mallory gets grumpy and starts hitting me we always remind her to be “gentle” – and then she will rub my face or my hand. It’s pretty sweet because she’ll stroke both of my cheeks with both hands and look so cute. It’s hard because when she is asked to be gentle it’s because she was doing something naughty in the first place so I don’t want to reward the being gentle thing too much for fear that it will encourage her to hit me so she can rub my face after. Perhaps I am overthinking.
Anyway, the funny …
Go Blue (Jackets)!
Mallory got to see her second ever NHL game last night (her first being when she was 6 weeks old…). We had sweet seats again for the Blue Jackets-Red Wings game and Mallory got on tv a lot because she was mostly standing right behind Hitch.
I guess there were a couple of spots where she got some good exposure because at two points during the game, both Rick’s & my cell phones were blowing up with texts and voicemails. My mom would call and leave a message with the time left in the game and what she saw. How nice …
Tiny Bubbles
We are making progress in our swim class – Mallory has always enjoyed it but just Monday night started actually blowing bubbles in the water. Here she is practicing in the bathtub. Please, please, please ignore my crazy mom cheers in the background. I almost edited out the sound but then realized you wouldn’t be able to hear her bubble-blowing. Enjoy.
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The other day when I picked my pumpkinhead up from school, I asked about the food we send for her. She gets breakfast, snack, lunch, and a second snack at school; I was wondering if a single grilled …
Mamamamamamamamamama
OK. My sweet darling daughter needs to expand her vocabulary. The only word she wants to say lately is mamamamamamamamamamamamama. With a clingy dog and a clingy kid, I can’t hardly even go to the bathroom in peace. And she is sort of anti-anyone else right now, including her dad, so even if someone else is here, it doesn’t really help much. It’s almost painful. (So much for me thinking that the ear tubes were the cure-all for her occasional whininess [is that spelled right?].)
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So, as annoying as the constant mamamamamamamamamamamamama-ing is, she is still pretty cute. Here …
Kinky
Another no description needed video:
Dr Mallory, at your service
This week has been full of ear drops for Mallory and she is soooo good about letting us put them in her ears. She wants to carry the little bottle around and will come sit on our laps when we ask her to so we can put them in. Then she wants to put the drops in our ears, and just today I asked her if Cooper got his ear drops. Looks like an early candidate for vet school if you ask me:
I’d like to point out that if I got that close to Cooper with a little …
Post-Op Report
We have an almost new kid. I know I’ve said before that Mallory is a pretty happy and agreeable child; but if it’s possible, I think she’s even happier and more agreeable after getting the fluid pressure relieved from her ears. She had a sort of rough first night on Tuesday (probably partly due to the fact that she had a 4 hour nap so she didn’t want to sleep at night) but last night and tonight she has been awesome.
Last night she played for about an hour while I made dinner…
yes, that is a bikini top she’s wearing…
…and then …