Pretty low-key day. Went for a quick dip in the pool and then tried to nap. As soon as daddy got home off we went to Universal Studios. Mallory didn’t get to do much but as always she got huge enjoyment out of people watching (just like her mama).
One of many cool things about this trip is that I am learning so much about my kid. Being able to spend so much downtime with her has been so fun — she is so much smarter than I knew! Last weekend at home, around 9am on both Saturday & Sunday, I …
December 27 – Day 3 – Only one post
Posting after-the-fact but wanted to keep the chronologicality of the blog intact.
Mallory & I spent all day at Disney on Thursday. We went in the morning with Miss Cheri and her Mallory & Bryce and we rode it’s a small world and the Flying Dumbos. Mallory danced along with the singers on the first ride and wanted to stand up on the second one.
We came back to the hotel for a quick turnaround to drop off C, M & B, and to pick up dad and we headed back to Disney for some more fun. We saw the show …
December 26 – Day 2 – Post #3
Some more pictures from Day 2. Here is Mallory running away from home. I’d left the lock thing in the door because some friends were stopping by and next thing you know she’s out the door and down the hall, with her backpack and sorter block bucket in tow. One time she did it and the maids had to return her. I don’t leave the lock thing in the door anymore.
December 26 – Day 2 – Post #2
Just came back from the pool. There is a little kiddie pool that is only one-foot deep. Mallory loved it – and she kept trying to dive under the water. I’ll have to ask my sister and my mom what they did with her at the pool on Monday. She is certainly way braver today than she was at our last swim class.
Just checked the weather for the rest of the week:
Thursday, Dec 27 High: 80 °F RealFeel®: 81 °F Sunshine and warm with the temperature approaching the record of 82 last set in 1990
Wahoo!
December 26 – Day 2 – Post 1
Ok, I should explain that since I’m stuck in a hotel room a lot on these trips, I’ll be blogging in almost real time and there might just be multiple posts from the same day. Sorry if you don’t like it.
Mallory is in the midst of her morning nap, a little late since it’s afternoon, so we are a little off schedule. But for good reason.
We had breakfast today with the Florida, Michigan State & Boston College families…and Mickey, Goofy & Pluto. They had balloon guys making things out of balloons ~ and Mallory got a “bootfall” on a stick.
Finally …
Christmas – Day 1 – Orlando
We finally made it to Florida. The flight was OK, thank GOD for the kindness of Rick’s co-workers. I had Mallory, Mallory’s carseat, Mallory’s diaper bag, Mallory’s little cooler with a lunchable and milk, Mallory’s backpack with her toys, and Mallory’s mom’s laptop bag, stuffed with magazines and books. So people were great, helping schlep my stuff off the bus and on the plane, and back off the plane. To my surprise, Rick was waiting on the tarmac when we landed in Florida. On my first trip in 2004 – he screwed up big time. The busses pulled up in …
Christmas Morning – pre-trip
Well, our Christmas started off sort of rough. Mallory was up at 3:30am and wouldn’t go back to sleep to save her life. So after three hours of her fighting sleep I gave up and just got us both up. She rewarded me with a 2.5 hour nap starting at 7.30a so I could at least finish packing. Here she is after her nap, trying to look sweet and suck up to me for waking me up so early…
Christmas Eve
Poor mom had to work today, so Miss Mallory got to hang with Aunt Emily and her favorite cousins. They went on a field trip to the Y to go swimming and to Emily’s in-laws for a Christmas celebration. I joined up with them at Em’s after work – Mallory has the *best* time hanging with Shane, Lauren & Liam, it’s so fun to watch.
Mallory & I are at home tonight waiting for Santa, but I have to hurry up and go to sleep because Santa won’t come if we are awake (that’s that I had to tell Shane so …
"Don't know…"
Finally got this on film:
Please forgive her ragamuffin appearance…today was a lazy lazy day and I didn’t want to dress her up in really cute clothes since that would just magnify the slobbiness of my sweats & t-shirt.
This is what Mallory does when she is trying to say “don’t know” in response to me asking where something/someone is. These pictures are her direct answers to “where is Cooper? where is Daddy?”, respectively. I love it when she does this, it makes me laugh so hard.
We can’t quite figure out where she learned it, because we …
Family Christmas
Rick left this morning for the bowl trip so we celebrated our little family Christmas last night. Mallory *so* didn’t get into it, unfortunately.
From the moment we found out we were knocked up, I have been fretting over how we handle Santa when we are never home on Christmas morning. The plan was to tell Mallory that Santa knows we won’t be home so he will bring her gifts on the day we tell him to in the letter she will write to Santa. This year was screwy because M & I are going to be home on Christmas morning – …