Snack Time

I’m a very routine kind of person.  Mally and I do the same thing every morning, afternoon and night.  But there are times where you need to switch it up.  So yesterday afternoon we had snacks on the kitchen floor.  We also got to eat our snack out of a little cup!  Oh my!  What fun was had!

I love watching her little hand get those treats out of that container!  Adorable!

She also does this trick where she spins in circles on her butt.  Here she is spinning and shaking her cup.  I even captured treats flying out of the cup!

On the Go Photography

Now that Mallory has entered the crawling stage I have to enter a whole new photography stage called… think quick!! 

I was feeling adventurous yesterday morning so I dressed her up… er… um… put a necklace on her!  : )  I get her in the chair set my settings, or so I thought.  And then looked at my screen and saw these dark pictures.  Ick.

Made some adjustments.  Too bright!!  And now she wants down already I have only taken 3 pictures and they were all dark!

I’ll put her on the floor.  AHHH!  Forgot to change my settings again!!  I have to be quick with her because she won’t sit still but then I forget to set my camera up and then she is gone light a bolt of lightening.

I mean gone!  She is heading right out of the room! 

Down the hallway!  I’m still trying to set my camera as she crawls away and it is not working!  My brain can’t think fast enough!

  Wait!  I should really brush my teeth while I’m crawling by the bathroom.

  Enough of that.  Lets go!  I can brush while I crawl!

Back down the hallway and I have finally turned the camera to auto!  Enough is enough!  : )

She stopped to pose for me!  Aww!  Good thing I was on Auto or this picture would of never turned out.

Brush some more!  She has three teeth you know!  It takes a lot of brushing to keep them sparkly white.

My books!!  See my toothbrush back there!  I brought it with me all way from the bathroom!  Silly girl!

Uhoh!  Elmo is on!

One last sweet picture from our little “session”.

Back to brushing teeth…

and reading books!

Chapter 2

I think it is official… we have reached the second chapter in Mallory’s world… Toddlerhood!!

She has perfected sitting on her own.  She has modified her crawl (yet again) into this sort of half sit half crawl position.  That way when she gets to her destination she doesn’t have to work so hard to sit.  LOL.  She is off the bottle!!!  Okay it has only been two days of no bottle… but I packed them away and she now drinks milk from a sippy cup.  Before she would drink anything from a sippy cup, but you put milk in it and she wanted nothing to do with it.  Speaking of milk – I’ve started to transition her to real milk this week also.  I’m on the verge of getting my OWN body back!!!  I’m so very excited to leave my little friend in the closet to collect dust for awhile!!  : )

Oh and this week I found Mallory like this when I went to get her from her nap.

Hi Momma!

She was so proud of herself!! 

Now getting her to take a nap is a little challenge.  Especially since her sound machine batteries are dying and it only plays for literally 5 seconds and shuts off.  Yesterday I went up there and she is sitting up, banging on the sound machine… I think she was trying to fix it for us.  : )

Yes she is going to one of those that has to fall asleep to sound.  The other afternoon we were at my parents house sitting outside and she was so tired so we put her in the truck in her car seat to take a nap.  She fussed.  I told Jesse to turn the radio on… she was asleep in seconds!

I remember when I was an awkward middle schooler and my cousin, Megan, was a cool high schooler.  She had me come stay with her on a school night!!  We did such fun things like go to a gymnastics meet and then I think the basketball game.  Oh and then we went to the cafe to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes.  Anyway, that night when we finally came home to go to bed she had to sleep with the radio on and I could not fall asleep for nothing!  Good songs would come on and I would have to wait for it to end… and then another one!  Here I have turned Mally into that girl.  : )

Who do you see in this next picture?  I can’t put my finger on it.  I either see myself or my sister… or even my dad.  My Dad’s baby picture is in the hallway at my Mom’s house and when I walk by it I think I see Mally.  Even the tax guy said, “You look like Grandpa John.”