Our sweet girl picked up a new sport this winter and Mallory is having so much fun. I love that she is showing an interest in a variety of sports and activities (she’s doing a theatre camp over spring break!) and isn’t afraid to express her feelings about each. For instance – she is constantly doing cartwheels but doesn’t want to do gymnastics. She is still doing dance but maybe this is the last year? She did volleyball last fall and liked that but chose to do hoops this session. Plus she is wrapping up her winter swim season. Rick & I …
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Rick is out of town this week so I had to take the kids to before care for before school care.
This picture is remarkable in that it shows my kids at school and neither one had a meltdown getting ready that morning. That never happens. #momsrock
Ski Trip 2014 – Take 2
I hate to say Mallory jinxed the football team, but I think Mallory jinxed the football team. Back in the summer she asked if the next time Michigan didn’t make it to a bowl game, if we could go to Colorado to ski at Christmas.
Well, we didn’t make it to a bowl game. Or even Colorado. But we did go skiing up north before Christmas. And we had a fabulous time.
These are all iPhone pictures so ignore the selfie-ism-ness of them :-D
We arrived around 5p on Saturday, thinking we’d get unpacked, swim (outside!), grab dinner and watch my Broncos play …
Rock Star
Mallory swam today.
Check out those time improvements.
That is all.
Oh and she won a heat finally!!
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In an effort to actual post stuff more frequently, I’m going to try this 52 week thing.
This is week 1.
Mallory got her grade back on a speech she did last month about Michigan football. I have a video of her practicing her speech somewhere – I need to find it. She recited Bo Schembechler’s “The Team, The Team, The Team” speech. So awesome.
I am in a challenge with a friend to get 30 days of 30 minutes of exercise, so I have been on the treadmill earning minutes and steps. Last night Carson came down after his bath and announced …
#JustKeepSwimming
Mallory is still swimming this fall – this time for DCAC. Fall swim team was way different than summer swim team – it isn’t as warm & fuzzy as we experienced with summer. After some adjustments – to new coaches and swimming inside and cold pools – Mal-Star is rocking it. She had a couple of friends who swam this fall with her and helped with the transition to this new team.
These pictures are from a meet in Dexter in December (was just a small one-club meet – so I got to be on the deck to take pictures!). Mallory …
November 2014
I miss this place.
I really do. I miss recording all the funny stuff the kids say because they are still so crazy funny.
Mallory is doing great in 3rd grade; according to the teacher she is a dream student. Carson is doing great in kindergarten when he isn’t getting in trouble for kissing girls at lunch or trying to tackle friends in his classroom.
C has a clip chart in his classroom and the whole class starts green in the morning – you can then either move up to blue – purple – pink, or move down to yellow – …
First day of school – 2014
And just like that, it was the first day of school. Mallory was heading to third grade (and a new school!) and Carson was heading to KINDERGARTEN!
Both kids have been very excited about school starting. Mallory woke up Monday morning [the day before school started] and said “I wish it was TOMORROW already!!!” and on the first day of school, Carson woke up and said “I am just SO tired but not so tired I need to go back to sleep but I need to stretch because I need energy for the PLAY-ground.”
I didn’t even get any getting off the …
2014 School Year – videos
I just heard about this super fun app for my phone (future readers, that means it’s a program on my handheld mobile telephone – currently I’m using an iPhone 5). It allows you to create these adorable videos – they prompt you with questions and put it together with the music and everything!
School started two weeks ago but I still did the beginning of the school year template. Here they are for both kids.
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Almost
After a recent rainy afternoon, the evening sky provided a perfect opportunity to try to take some pictures of my kids. Unfortunately, the mosquitos also got the memo about it being a good night to be out & about. And that, along with Carson’s inability to give me a natural smile 90% of the time, made for a shortened photo session. But I still got these pictures and love them – my almost kindergartener and my almost third grader.
I still can’t believe it.