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Who is this?

Is this Mallory?  Or is this me?

It is me!

The old pictures came out this Christmas and this one was given to me.  I looked at this and couldn’t believe my eyes!  Took it to Jesse and he was also shocked!

It really threw off Mrs. Carolyn’s daughter because Mally wore flip flops like that this summer.

I kept this picture because I hear all the time how much Mally looks like me, but I don’t ever see it.  But I see it completely here.  We are standing the same, the look on our face is the same, we do look alike.  : )   

2 More Christmas Celebrations

We went to my Mom’s side of Christmas on Christmas Day.  Earlier in the week (before Christmas) my Mom had stopped by our house on her way back from finishing up her Christmas shopping and she mentioned that Max looked like my cousin Beau.  Well Beau just happened to be at Christmas and I had my camera.  So I grabbed Beau and said, “How are ya with little kids?”  He says, “I think I am pretty good with them.  Wait… How little… Why?”  I explained and placed Max on his lap and started snapping.

Hmm…

I’m not sure… but maybe a little.  And if you thought Max was having a good time – it was fake!  He was actually doing this…

The poor kid does not do well with getting teeth! 

He had to be held and by me the whole time.  Except I could not get the little stinker to snuggle in and relax enough to take a nap.  So I (literally) started yelling “SHANNON!”  Until she came and she says, “Is it snuggle time?”  : )  She loves snuggle time.  She took him and came back empty handed within 5 minutes.  Where’s Max!?!  He is sleeping in his car seat!  WHAT!  I mean, EXCELLENT! 

Then he woke up and was a bit happy again and sat by Grandpa and played.

And laughed

And had a grand ‘ol time!

Mally, can I take your picture?

Are you ignoring me?

Mally!  Mally Rae!

I got her to go sit by Grandpa, but I couldn’t get her to look at me.

A quick snap of the two of us.

This is my Grandpa Earl (my Mom’s Dad).  Sporting his lucky Packer shirt.  The Packer game was just about to start and he had to go change and put his Packer shirt on.  : ) 

Our last Christmas was with Jesse’s family and Max was still teething and extremely fussy.  Jesse’s Dad held him for awhile and was good as long as Max couldn’t see me.  Which is why the angle of the picture is more kitchen cabinets then them.  : )

Back in my arms.

Yup, that is Jerry crashed sleeping in the back ground.  : )  He was sick.

Mally copying Jesse by having to take pictures too.  She is using her play [real] cell phone that Grandpa keeps charged just for her to play with when she comes to visit.

I don’t have a lot of pictures of me and Max… and Jesse was playing around with the camera.

Mally moved these chairs over to this spot and she would like to sit there now.  Max and I are moving.

Trying to give Max some little puffs to eat.

He just wants to shake the container and drop it on the floor.

And that is the end of our Christmas Celebrations!  It was a pretty great Christmas!

Christmas Morning

I wanted a picture of them in their Christmas jammies before they opened presents.  Max was being the pesty little brother and kept going after Mallory’s hair.

Not sure what the pouty lip is about.

More hair pulling.

Good enough.  Lets open presents.

One of the traditions when I was growing up was we got new toothbrushes… so I passed it.

We noticed Max’s first tooth on Christmas morning so his toothbrush arrived just in time!  Except he doesn’t like it at all.  He wrinkles up his face and shivers when I attempt to put the toothbrush in his mouth.

If you were to ask Mally what she wanted for Christmas she would have told you a piano.  I found this killer deal on a keyboard and scooped it up for her.

She wanted it out of the box right away.

She played and played.

She thinks she needs to sit in a chair to play though.

Max opened a couple more and then…

he got mad and cried.

So we took a pit stop for breakfast.

Ah.  Much better.

He does not like to wear hats. 

Got it off Momma!  Ha!

Mally got a play set for her babies.  So she was feeding Sweetie Pie… I mean Maxwell… breakfast.  Again, she needed a chair to feed her baby because I sit in a chair when I feed Max in his highchair.

I got a new camera and was playing.  *big big big grin*  : )

Still playing… side view of Max’s spikey hair.

Max playing with his new toy.

You run a car down the ramp and then the center spins and spins until it shoots the car out the exit ramp.

He tossed his nuk in and let it spin.

That is all the pictures I have of Christmas morning.  It was very fun and relaxing little family time.

Christmas Eve

Early in December we had an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party… and here was our family picture from that.

I really wanted to make a Christmas Card out of that picture but time got away from me and it never happened.

Christmas Eve we had Christmas with Jesse’s Mom’s side of the family and then we had Christmas with my side.  We attempted a quick family picture…

Please Mally!  Can you smile for just one picture?

Guess not!

The rest of us will smile and look cute and you can cry!  When you are older you won’t like this picture… but I will.  : ) 

If I can remember correctly she wanted to stand by us and not be held.

Pink Eye

My first day of Christmas break… Mally woke up with a very messy case of pink eye.  We could almost see it coming, but we weren’t positive because she has been battling a cold and when she has a cold her eyes are effected too.  But this was much worse then a cold in her eyes!  It was yucky!  So I made her an appointment and it was confirmed… pink eye the day before Christmas get togethers!

I don’t remember when I took this picture… but this wasn’t the worse. 

We went to fill her prescription at Target and had to wait 25 minutes so we visited Starbucks and she had her first taste of Starbucks…aka hot chocolate.  : ) 

Then I had her ride around in the cart with her hot chocolate while I did a bit of shopping and I didn’t realize she bit the cover and was spilling hot chocolate all down her jacket!  She kept saying her cup wasn’t working anymore and I just kept telling her she needed to tip it more.  Woops!  When I finally looked at her she had a huge mess!  (I had one of those mega carts with the kid addition on the front of it and it feels as if I am driving a semi in the store when I have those carts! So I was focused on not crashing and taking wide turns.)  Thank goodness for wipes!  : )

She was a rock star at letting me put drops in her eyes too!  It only took about a day and half and she her eyes were back to normal… and as of yet… Max hasn’t caught it!  : )