Imagine I wrote a post here about my sweet son, and how he has learned to wink. It started out with him trying to imitate me winking at him and has progressed to him winking on command {making my kids do silly things is truly one of my most favorite things about being a mom…}.
Carson winking consists of him squeezing both eyes tight. It is beyond adorable and I can’t stand it. I do need to get an actual picture so when I make a book from my blog, I have a record of it (but maybe in a few …
My competition.
Looks as though I don’t have to look very far for my closest photography competition.
Mallory told me tonight:
“I have to do some work.
I have to order some pictures that I took with my polka dot camera. Maybe when I turn 4, I can get some makeup and a phone and a computer….
Ok, I have to order some pictures. Don’t bug me.”
Oh Lord, that kid kills me.
The Beauuuuutiful Princess
The “red sky by night” last night was spectacular – so I (of course) grabbed my camera to see what I could do.
This is what I did. No photoshopping of the background, I promise. When I asked Mallory who it was a picture of, she said “the beauuuuuuutiful princess”.
Here are two more of my silly princess.
Run, Carson, run!
An empty fieldhouse? Check
A bossy big sister? Check
A little boy who can’t sit still? Check
Seasons
Mallory’s teacher told me a funny story about my sweet girl today.
Apparently they were talking about the calendar last week, and how it was August, and the season was summer.
Mrs Paula asked the class what season came after summer. Mallory put her hand up and Mrs Paula called on her.
Mallory’s answer?
“Football season! And then it’s winter!”
Sunflowers & Siblings
I PROMISE YOU that I don’t tell them to hold hands like this. Mallory just reaches her hand out, sometimes telling Carson to hold her hand, but he always does without a fight. I really need to get a good close up of just their hands.
Anywho, I took the kids out to check the sunflowers at Domino’s Farms. Carson was more interested in anything that wasn’t sunflowers, like the cows across the street…that had an electric fence keeping them in. Or Carson out.
So all of us headed across the street – and I couldn’t get any good pictures there because …
A boy & his dog
Yep, still working on that post about our new house.
But here’s another peek…
The other night I couldn’t find the dog anywhere. He’s usually asleep somewhere in my room while I slave away over my computer editing pictures. We have baby gates up so I know he didn’t go downstairs and then I noticed both of the kids doors were open.
I grabbed the flashlight and looked in Mallory’s room first – only things on the floor in there were the piles and piles of clothes I need to go through and put away.
Next up was Carson’s room…and there, …
Is that a bad word?
Oh my sweet girl.
We were talking today about how the football games start in a few weeks, and Mallory said “GO BLUE!” and then she said “GO BUCKEYES!”
I whipped my head around and said “WHAT did you just say?”
“I don’t know”, Mallory replied.
Then she asked “Is that a bad word?”
Rick & I both asked her what she said and she quietly said “Go Buckeyes”, and we had to tell her that yes, that was a very bad word and she better not say it if she wants to go to any football games.
Later on in the day, …
Just three more minutes
Rick’s been out doing yardwork, and Mallory has been watching him from my bedroom window for about 30 minutes. At 8.52p, she asked if she can just stay up and watch a little bit longer, and I told her she could for eight more minutes, since she took a good nap on our way home from up north. She yells out the window “Daddy! Mom said I can watch you for EIGHT MORE MINUTES BECAUSE I TOOK A GOOD NAP IN THE CAR!” and then she ran downstairs to go help him him.
She came back up and asked for …
Field of Dreams
There is the most fabulous park just two blocks from our new house. Two play structures (one big for the big kids and one small for the small kids), a bunch of swings, and a HUGE open field.
The kids & I trekked up there the other day and I made two mistakes. The first mistake was bringing the dog. It was insanely hot and there are no trees near the play structure to tie him up in the shade. The other mistake was letting Mallory ride her bike combined with bringing the dog. We have to adjust her training wheels …