To quote my friend Shauna: “Honestly”.
After school one day, Mallory wanted to change out of whatever she had on that day – she ran upstairs and was gone for forever. When I asked what the deal was she said she needed help with her belt.
I went to the bottom of the stairs and looked up and saw her dressed like this.
I admire her creativity but the polka dot shirt and plaid shorts with shiny pink belt was quite an outfit. She’s worn this ensemble a few times since then and it makes me laugh and shake my …
Wow
MCB: “Carson! When you were taking a nap we sawed the FROG on the GRILL and I sawed it and then I SCREAMED when it started to jump at me!!!”
CWB: “Wwwwooooooowwwwwww.”
Summertime
Kids + melting food colored flavored ice = outside on the lawn, please.
Evolution of a Bathroom
Well, we’ve been in our house for over a year (still haven’t had that housewarming party – oops!) and we are slowly tackling projects. Rick painted Mallory’s bedroom right when we moved in (she wanted “three walls pink, one wall purple”) and then we did our guest bath (I think I blogged about that?) and we (or rather Rick) finally moved on to the kids’ bathroom. It was the only room that really needed to be painted except I’m growing to hate all the other colors of paint in the rest of our house – but not enough to paint …
Mr. Clean
Remember how I told you that Carson cleared his own plate when we were up north?
Here are the pictures.
Yes he’s wearing his sister’s pink sunglasses and pink & blue flipflops.
Dashing Warriors
So I ran the first race I ever signed up for the other day. This was the one that got me to start actually trying to run this spring, and then I ran that other 5K in June – which was the first race I’d ever run. But the race today was the first one I ever signed up for.
But this wasn’t just any race, it was the Warrior Dash.
And this is what the Warrior Dash is: Warrior Dash is a mud-crawling, fire-leaping, extreme run from hell. This fierce running series is held on the most challenging and …
Carson. Almost 28 months.
My. Kid. Is. A. Genius.
I’m listening to Carson count to 15.
I. Am. A. Genius.
Yeah, so maybe you’ve heard me talk about how Mallory falls asleep in our bed every night. And that it doesn’t necessarily make me sad that she sleeps in there, but I’m starting to get nervous that as Carson is getting close to transitioning to a big boy bed, that he’s going to think he can fall sleep in our bed every night too. This has already started a little because he wants to read his bedtime book in our bed and then we move him to his bed.
And maybe you’ve heard me talk about how much Rick’s football schedule …
Cago
We took a family trip to Chicago a few weeks ago. Rick & I had Cubs tickets and we had a babysitter (my cousin) lined up to watch the kids for us at the hotel while we went to the game.
As we neared the city Friday afternoon, and could start to see the big buildings, we pointed out to the kids that it was Chicago. When we got into the city and were driving amongst the big buildings, Carson would point out his window at a building right next to us at a stoplight, and would yell “CAGO!!!”. It was …