I think this is a record for length of time between posts, at least lately. I think I had been pretty good about getting something up at least every other day but life has been hectic lately I guess.
In the midst of the hectic-ness, I got myself a fancy massage. I really wanted to get one at the fancy spa at our hotel in Guam but my WWRS (What Would Rick Say) bracelet kept me from dropping the $$ on it. So I waited til we got home so I could use my gift certificates to the Aveda Salon here …
She's a lot cuter now…
Here is Mallory at ~20 weeks. Who knew she’d grow into such a funny little girl? (The belly is the same though, that’s for sure).
Dad rocks
Go Rick! Two nights of bottle-free successful bedtimes. I didn’t even know about the Wednesday night being bottle-free until last night. I guess I can put “pack up bottles” on the weekend to-do list. *Sniff*.
"Who Cares"
So I have this survey thing to see what people thought about me creating a second blog to I could keep family stuff separate from Mallory stuff. I have a whopping six responses. Five answered that they like everything together. But today someone answered the survey with the third option I gave, which is “Who cares – this blog is dumb”.
I was laughing out loud. No one was supposed to actually pick that option!!
What do I say?
I don’t even know how to title this post. So I’ll just jump into the stories:
Mallory likes to help give Cooper dinner. Usually she is happy with giving him his arthritis pill and then showing me where his bowl is so I can dump his food.
Tonight, she reached for the cup we use for his food so I let her at it. This is a one-cup plastic measuring cup, filled to the brim with little pebbles of dog food. She immediately tips it and some of the food dumps on the carpet. She loses it and starts crying. I tell …
Gone in 60 seconds
Mallory just ate an entire hotdog in 60 seconds. I am so not exaggerating.
Marroly
I forgot to post about how all the Japanese people on Guam couldn’t pronounce Mallory’s name. They would bend down and say “ah…so cute” and then look at us and say “name?”. We’d say “Mallory” and they’d look back at Mals and say “ah, Marroly…Marlory…”. One time a lady even said “is hard?” after trying to say her name. LOL.
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I have also failed to post that when I want to put Mallory’s hood up on her jacket (because it is freaking cold around these parts these days), she will look up at me and point to my hood. …
Cross your fingers
So far today has been a normal day for Miss Mallory. She slept for an hour at school (good), fell asleep on the way home from school (very good), ate a good dinner and didn’t freak out in the highchair (good), had a fun bath (good), and walked herself to her bedroom for night-night, stopping to give me a smooch on her way (also good). Rick is in reading his Outside magazine to her and giving her a bottle…I hope tonight is the night that she is back to my easy-to-sleep baby.
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I have posted before about Mallory …
Calgon, take me away!
We are having a rough time adjusting to real-life. For all the sleeping Mallory did on Saturday & Sunday day, she wants nothing to do with it now. This is completely uncharted territory for us – she is usually fantastic at bedtime. I am sick and dealing with my own re-entry adjustments so I am about to lose it.
Sunday night – she had a 3+ hour crying session, tossing and turning on my chest, going from my left shoulder to the right and back and forth. In the middle of it, she lifted her head up, pulled out her pacifier …
"NO!!!"
For some reason we have yet to get Mallory out in the snow. Not for lack of snow, but I guess for lack of motivation by mom & dad. But we got some good snow while we were out of town and it continued last night and this morning. Mallory’s changing table is under her window and every time we go to change her diaper, she points out the window and says “NNNOOOOO” – it totally sounded like she was saying snow! So we bundled up the pumpkinhead and out we went. She had a hard time walking in the …