Over breakfast this morning, Mallory asked “how did the first person that was born come up with all the words?”
And then “how did the first person that was born get a last name?”
And when I grabbed my phone so I could blog her questions right away, she asked me if I was going to “look it up”.
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I’m off today to start a five day weekend. Michigan plays Alabama in Dallas tomorrow and I’m going to enjoy a whole day to myself (and send the kids to daycare). Of course my sister called me at 6.20a.
Rockin’ on the Deck
Mallory put on a little show for me on our deck a few weeks ago. How stinking funny are her rocker faces??
I know
The kids are watching a show we just discovered (thanks to my awesome neighbor) called “Super Why”. There are four characters and they fly around reading.
Carson is watching it for the first time this morning and Mallory just joined him. He said “The princess one is you, Mallory!”
Mallory said very matter-of-factly: “I know.”
Carson’s comment really sounded like this though: “The pwinceth one is you, Mae-woe-wee!”
Go to bed
I’ve been fighting with both kids for 90 minutes to go to bed. They wouldn’t go to sleep.
Carson wanted to sleep in Mallory’s room and I said fine until Rick and I saw them in her window watching us in the backyard.
There have been numerous “I hafta go to the bathrooms” and “I’m out of water!”.
I am exhausted myself. I was ready for bed at 8p so after the first 30 minutes of fighting with them, I gave up and went to bed. I got Carson (who was still crying because I kicked him out of “Malsy’s” …
Grandpa’s Field of Dreams
In the summer of 2012, I found this Fisher-Price thing that allowed you to use it as a tee (for t-ball), or have it pop the ball up to you, or lob it to you like coach pitch. My dad ended up buying it (because he is the biggest kid ever – remember the zip line in the back yard of his old house?) and that weekend organized a baseball game in his backyard. He bought bases and a pitcher’s mound too, and invited all of his grandkids over for a game.
Gigi took care of the concessions – providing …
Muscles Out
A few weeks ago Rick surprised us – in typical Rick fashion – by asking me casually on a Friday “want to go to the Tigers game tomorrow? We might have passes to watch batting practice.” If I ever get around to blogging about the rest of our summer vacation, you’d know that Rick really wanted to get to the ballpark in Toronto early enough to see batting practice, but so did about 100 other people so we didn’t get to see much.
So, Rick asked around (thanks Jay!) and was able to get us passes for batting practice. It was …
Triathlon Trip–The Race
I am going to do a combo post here – my narrative and Rick’s race report. Rick’s stuff will be in blue italics, and my facebook statuses are in red. .
My race day really started the night before. I was actually able to get to bed at an early time for me, around 9 pm. This was perfect because I was planning on waking up at 3 am, six hours of sleep is what I was looking for. The alarm went off at 3 and I was on my way: shower, dress, grab my morning clothes bag, head out the …
A Triathlon Trip, Part 1
I figured I could share some pictures from the first half of our trip – these are a hodge-podge of phone pictures and little camera pictures and real camera pictures.
I’m not sure I’ve written much about it, but Rick has been training for an Ironman Triathlon – 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run. That’s a lot of miles.
Anyway, it’s been months and months of training and early morning workouts and all day workouts and long workouts on Saturdays and/or Sundays. So to be near the end of it – I was a little excited.
We headed out …
Live blogging Rick’s race
I had an idea to live blog during Rick’s race. If I was better prepared I would be doing this through Rick’s training blog but I don’t know his log-in stuff off hand.
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Sweet sleeping
They are so cute when they are sleeping!