As promised, here are 4th of July pictures of Little Miss Mallory.
My dad ended up coming out today and we boated up to Zukey Lake Tavern for a late lunch/early dinner. My dad the engineer was in heaven because we gave him a project (removing the speakers that don’t work).

Mallory has learned to fall asleep pretty quickly on the boat which makes it easy to not have to watch her every minute but it sort of paralyzes me since I’m the one stuck holding her the whole time!
   
Mallory was awesome at the Tavern, what with so many people …

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Lazy, lazy day. The weather isn’t nice so we are stuck inside. Mallory should be wrapping up her morning nap any minute now. Poor girl takes 3 hour naps in the morning when she’s at home, but at daycare she barely takes a couple of 30-40 minute naps. They say it’s because she is way too interested in all of the other kids and needs to keep an eye on all of them! Rick & Cooper curled up on the couch for a snooze also – how a 65lb lab can think he’s a lap dog is beyond me. We …

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We had a great weekend – the weather was outstanding and we did a lot of relaxing! It was so nice to not have anywhere to be most of the weekend so we took advantage of it and spent a lot of time on the water. Mallory continues to LOVE the lake and the boat and even giggled when some water sprayed up into her face.
Rick & I had a wedding to go to on Saturday so Mallory spent the late afternoon/evening with our friends. They have a big chocolate lab and a silver lab – who are Cooper’s best …

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Mallory is *thisclose* to crawling. She actually will roll to her stomach and reach like crazy for stuff. She is working on her spin move ~ she will twirl around on her tummy to reach a toy I’ve set behind her. As exciting as it is to watch her develop these new skills, I am equally anxious about what will accompany her being mobile.
*no more worrying just about the dog licking the dirty dishes while we are loading up the dishwasher;
*the baby gates we bought 2 years ago will finally really be used for a baby;
*the dog will probably finally …

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Phew. Things have calmed down at our house. The dog is back to normal (as normal as a high-strung, 2-yr-old, clingy lab can be) and seems to have recovered from Sunday’s episode. The vet couldn’t feel anything in Cooper’s tummy so they told us to just keep an eye on him. We aren’t supposed to worry about the possiblity of epilepsy or treating the seizures until he has more than one seizure in six months. After talking to friends who have labs that have had seizures, it doesn’t sound that uncommon and I almost feel silly for rushing Cooper to …

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(post started Thursday, June 21)
My blog-policeman-friend is going to be dissapointed when he returns from vacation to find only one new post about Miss Mallory so I better get something added here quick.
Rick was busy with football camp so I was a single parent again. Cooper decided to see what would happen if he ate three of my socks and a pair of my underwear. Hopefully he learned that it isn’t too fun…I don’t know if he was ornery that we went for two boat rides without him last weekend or what, but his upstairs priveledges have again been suspended …

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Father’s Day is always the start of h*ll week at Rick’s work so unfortunately his first Father’s Day wasn’t anything remarkable. Mallory got him some daddy & me books to read to her and I got him a hamburger recipe book (Mal’s dad LOVES his hamburgers). Most other women can get their husbands shirts, socks, watches, sunglasses, etc – but Rick gets all of those from work, so it makes buying stuff for him sort of hard. And anything he needs for biking or whatever he just gets because I would have no idea.
However, Mallory gave me a gift today …

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Mallory is trying so hard to stand up and to crawl. Just this past week she started to pull herself over her feet from a sitting position to being on her tummy. She tries to kick a little but ends up scooting backwards and then rolls over to her back. And she will try to pull herself up on anything she can get her hands on – a bucket of toys, her parents, and – when he is close enough – the dog. Here is a video of her trying oh so hard to get to her feet, while a …

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We have had a busy week; Rick was gone for a work trip so MC & I held down the fort. She was pretty good all week – and had a couple of firsts.
One is clapping — she has done this before but always with a toy in her hand so I always thought she was just trying to transfer the toy from one hand to the other and kept missing. But Thursday night she full on was clapping. She doesn’t move her left arm though, it stays pinned to her side, and she has to keep checking her alignment, …

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Mal-Star & I headed west Saturday to visit Mol-Star & Manda-Star for a wonderful brunch prepared by Molly’s folks. We had a great time just spending time with good friends – we did a little swimming, a little sunning, and a lot of chatting. Mallory was adorable as usual, she sat and played by herself for a bit so that we could eat. When it was her turn, she actually got some waffles and bananas and egg yolks. (It is so fun giving her “real” food – it will make life so much easier when I don’t have to pack cereal …

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