This post is going to be all over the board – but I have these pictures and random stories to post about.
New Years Eve – Mallory dancing to the music.
Playing DJ with Daddy and being told she can’t touch. : )
We had a party in the new garage for New Years Eve – however there was a huge ice storm and the roads were glare ice and people couldn’t come… but the neighbors came! : ) The slipped their way down their driveways and up ours! Jesse’s family also came – they call themselves “supreme ice drivers” and no ice was going to stop them.
I thought it was very big kid of Mally to sit on her chair like this.
I’ve been reading up on potty training – not full force just a few things here and there. One of the things I read was to introduce the potty early so they are not afraid of it. Also to let them sit on it (fully clothed) to help them get use to it as well.
I was at Target one night looking at the potties and decided that I wanted one that went on the real toilet and found one with Elmo on it! Elmo is a big deal around here! Perfect I thought.
A couple days went by and she was in the bathroom and I decided I would show her the Elmo potty. She immediately wanted to sit on it. She had already brought a book in the bathroom – so she sat on the potty reading her Clifford book. Tifford (aka: Clifford) is also a really big deal around here.
She has asked to sit on the potty a few times since we introduced. Also if I ask her if she wants to sit on the potty she will nod her head and yell “Yesh!” and run for the bathroom. Pretty soon I’ll take the next step with her and see if I can get her to actually go!
The kitchen is no longer my space. When we got Maggie (the dog) I had made a rule that the dog was not allowed in the kitchen. Then Mallory came along and I use to distract her with things from my cupboards… then she got bigger and I could put on Elmo or Clifford or Mickey Mouse and she would play in the living room. Not anymore!! As soon as I head to the kitchen she is heading for the chair saying “chair. chair.” and pushes it all the way across the kitchen and bumps it against the cupboard and climbs up wanting to help.
I’m learning on how to have her help me. I started out just giving her kitchen tools to bang around – however that increased my dish washing! Sometimes I have her stir – except one time she saw me bang the spoon on the bowl to clean it off and now she just wants to bang the spoon – she is a repeater!
Tonight I had her help me by adding the shredded cheese to our meatloaf. It was parmesan cheese. She then decided she needed to try the cheese. In the mouth it went. She didn’t like it. She started picking out the cheese in her mouth and putting it in the meatloaf! Ahhh! Noooo! So before you come over for supper at our house – let me know so that I can send Mallory on a mission with her daddy and keep her out of the kitchen. : ) By the way – Pioneer Woman Meatloaf is good!
Here she pushed her chair up while I was packing away the Schwans stuff and she stole my glass of water.
Mallory also likes to yell “Esse” (Jesse) while we are making supper. When I am done with supper I usually yell down to the basement for Jesse to come up and eat. I told you she is a repeater so she stands at the top of the stairs and says “Esse. Esse.” Now it has become a game because I usually say “Who? What is his name?” while tickling her. She says “Esse” with a grin. I say “No! That is Daddy! You call him Daddy!” and she says “Daatee”. She adds a t her daddy – and I secretly hope she always says Daatee because it is so cute! She usually only says Esse at supper time otherwise she always calls him daatee.
That is the end of my randomness. Time for ice cream! : )
