Mallory came out of her playroom with her sunglasses today; I velcroed them up for her. No further description necessary.
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Mals & I got to see K & E and their twin babies J & A today. Mallory usually doesn’t stop saying BABY whenever she sees anyone smaller than her so I thought she’d get a big kick out of J & A. I think she was a little nervous with all the new faces because she was very quiet. But E was holding J and then I picked Mallory up so she could see …
Mallory & I did a little mother-daughter bonding at the scrapbook table today. I think this is my proudest day as a mom:
look at this meticulous sticker placement: EUREKA!!!
Paul Simon’s “The Obvious Child”, interpreted by Mallory:
Pay no attention to the dog in the foreground destructing the indestructible kong.
We get a daily report from school every day with what Mallory ate, when she napped, and when & what kind of diaper changes she had. I don’t normally pay attention to anything other than the nap column, but yesterday’s meal column was full so it stood out to me. This is what it said:
Food
Time
oatmeal cookie
6:25a
yogurt, milk
7:55a
cheerios, watermelon, 1/2 banana, water
9:05a
pizza, carrots, refused milk
11:50a
1/2 banana, watermelon, cheerios, water
1:25p
more carrots, cheerios, water
3:00p
We provide all this food (Friday was pizza day so we just sent money for that) so I shouldn’t be surprised that she ate all this. And the oatmeal …
I thought I’d share more about our decision to do tubes.
Mallory had a hearing test which she passed with flying colors. They did another little test to see how her eardrums move (it helps the doctor know how much fluid is behind the eardrums). That result was just OK – not perfect but not horrible. When we met with the ENT guy, Dr Possum Hunting (not his real name), said that her ears didn’t show any signs of permanent damage so the decision was up to us, or rather me, since my husband is on vacation working in Florida.
One of …
So this really cute book that Mallory just loves is becoming a big fat pain in my arse. She is OBSESSED with “Fancy Nancy”, which is pretty adorable (it’s the book she’s “reading” to herself in the video from a few days ago), but this obsession has started to interfere with diaper changes, getting dressed, taking baths, etc.
She wants to carry the book around and read it ALL.THE.TIME. And because it’s not a little board book, it’s big, like bigger than 8.5 x 11, she can’t read it while laying on her back while I change her diaper. And …
If you’ve met my husband, you know he doesn’t say much. But check out this email he sent me this morning at 2:18a:
from Rick
to Samantha
date Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:18 AM
subject the week
Went to fill up the tank the other day so I could return the car to the rental agency. Figured there would be a few gas stations at the airport so I would wait to fill up there. Got to the airport exit and saw nothing. Had to go all the way out a road till I saw one after a couple miles, maybe two miles. Almost …
The theme this week at daycare was “Jungle Animals” and today was Elephants. The kids colored ears and then the teachers put the ears onto hats; and then the kids paraded around wearing their elephant ears.
Secret Society of Walkers: There is a corner of the kitchen at daycare that Mallory usually likes to go stand in while I wait patiently for her to decide to put her coat on so we can leave. Today Miss Makeda told me that the walkers in the infant room (there are four – Mals, Alli, Pavol & Emily) always go …
Mallory is getting tubes March 11.
Wahoo! We got Mallory’s appointment with the ENT people moved up to tomorrow! I don’t know why I’m so excited about this; I guess I’m just hoping to get a break from the near constant antibiotics Mallory has been on since November. I’m also interested to see if it affects her mood at all since she is so happy most of the time – will fixing her ears let her be happy all of the time?
Mallory will come to work with me in the morning and we’ll go get some of the famous cafeteria pancakes that I eat almost every …