Rick & I had a fun date night last night while Mallory had a fun night at Auntie Em’s. My old friend Hitch is the coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets and got us tickets to the game.
We had a quick dinner in Greektown and sort of took our time getting to the Joe – I was looking forward to seeing Coach after the game and the time in between was just fluff. Plus I figured Coach wouldn’t know if we got there late anyway. I didn’t even bring my camera because usually the seats are up in the …
Flying
Mallory was at Uncle Mike’s yesterday and Shane was twirling her around. She slipped out of his hands and went headfirst into the closet doors. I gasped and grabbed her before she really started to cry and she must not have been hurt too bad because she was very quickly calmed by a pacifier and her blankie. But Shane was very quick to say “Sorry Mallory. It was an accident.”. I told him maybe he should give her a kiss on her head where she hit it, which he did, and then I used my Love & Logic on him:
Me: …
SMRT
I had the laptop back up and running within 30 minutes of being home yesterday. I am so SMRT. I don’t have Live Writer installed yet – I am trying to be good and do all the XP updates and everything before loading up the hard drive with programs. If Rick asks me one more time “is it ready yet?” he might just get popped.
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While in the throes of getting the network card recognized, I had to keep Mallory occupied in our bedroom and away from the stairs. I have one of those Body Shop Handy Massager thingys …
A girl & her dog
I haven’t posted directly from wordpress in a while (have been using Windows Live Writer) and just saw this picture here as a draft.
I’ll have to do some research on when this picture is from – I am guessing mid-December-ish.
Crash
Blogging will be on hold for a few days while I rebuild our laptop. I reformatted the hard drive to remove Vista (while I thought Vista was cool, I think it made our computer run a little slow) and reinstall XP but now the laptop doesn’t know it has a network card so no internet/network access. Thank goodness we have the desktop so I can download drivers and such. But in the meantime, I will be focusing all my awake non-Mallory home time on getting the laptop running again. Wish me luck.
Giddy Up
Mallory (actually she was still Baby Fred at the time) got this cool rocking horse from Rick’s Aunt Sharon & Uncle Gary at one of our baby showers. They made it for her and it has a blue & yellow “M” on the side – not quite a block M, but what do you expect from those Buckeyes? And I am not convinced that there isn’t a hidden scarlet & grey O on it somewhere…
Anyway, Mallory has sat on it a few times and let me rock her but today she figured out how to make it go on her …
Double Whammy
Check out Mallory’s double whammy bloody nose and bloody lip. This is what happens when she runs through the kitchen and the dog blows by her.
I heard her fall but she does it so much that I didn’t go to her right away (she almost always gets herself up and continues on her way). But she let go with such a scream and then I saw the blood coming from two places – scared the bejeezus out of me. After a little mom cuddling and a few run-throughs of her new “Fancy Nancy” book and she was …
This
This is what winter is all about. Big snow followed by a day off to recover from the big snow, light snow today, a little more snow forecasted for tomorrow.
I like this way better than the snow, 50 degrees, snow, rain, snow, 60 degrees pattern we’ve had so far this winter.
I love all the seasons, but when they are supposed to be here. 60 degrees & rain is fine, in the spring. 60 degrees & rain in the winter – blech. How depressing.
Bring on the snow!!
Best Friends
Mallory’s friend Alli came home with us after daycare today – her mom & dad both had to work late and Mallory & I had no plans after school so Alli got to come play :-)
It was good for Mallory to have to share her toys and her stuff. She is pretty territorial – she’s only had kids over here to play a handful of times so I was interested to see how she’d do. She didn’t do so hot with the sharing.
Here are some fun pictures of the girls from their playdate:
Poor Super Coop…he was way more …
Naming Babies
Got this email from my dear college friend Kyle today. His wife is due February 14th with a boy. I asked if they were sharing names:
I have always thought I’d name my baby after whoever was in the news the day he was born. That made for conversation during the Super Bowl if my son were born Sunday and Plaxico was the MVP. Justin (one of Kyle’s best friends) named his son Eli, so that was off the table AND Vicki is still pregnant. Super Tuesday came and went so Barack is gone, too.
LOL.