Doggie Daycare!

Hanging out with Marley!

We've been having fun dog sitting for friends over a long weekend...Mallory loves dogs, so she has been loving it! When we take the dog for walks Mallory likes to hold the leash with me. She likes to play and get kisses from the doggie and when she has had enough she tries to snap (it's the cutest thing) and says, "go!" It's funny bc I think she has been watching me when we interact with the Nanny dogs bc I do that...when we need a little space! Some other cute things that Mallory has just started doing in the last week are: giving neck hugs! They are the best!! She used to think hugging was just leaning in with your whole body...She also now nods "yes" when you ask a ?...She knows how to answer in the affirmative! Yay!!!! And lastly when she gets in Time Out and we have a conversation afterwards about why...when we finish we always say something to the effect of "we had to have you have a Time Out bc we love you, okay?" and she says, "kay." :)

A Real SCORCHER!!!

Mallory didn't want to give the Moonbounce a try...maybe next year?!?!?

But she loved the bubble machine....
Hanging out with Daddy....

We had our neighborhood Block Party yesterday even though it was 100 degrees (108 wuth the heat index) outside...a real "SCORCHER"!!! It was a small crowd, but a lot of fun...it was hard to be outside with the weather being so oppressive...so a lot of the people who RSVPed didn't make it....who could blame them for staying home in the ac or at the pool?!?! But we enjoyed sno cones, music, cotton candy (Mal looooooooved hers and ate it in .5 secs!), burgers and hotdogs, and chatting with neighbors.... :) (Thank you MiMi and PaPa for hanging out with Mallory as we got ready for the party! It was so nice to have the extra hands and only have to have her be in the heat for an hour!)

And today the 3 of us have done a whole lot of NOTHING!!!! We took a little vacation from everything and stayed home and hung out as a family without any distractions...it was so NICE! :)

What?!!?!?!??

Susan and I gave out the loudest "girly screams" when we went outside this afternoon....I heard a "rattling sound" and saw a snake in our flower bed! It was the snake rattling the leaves it was slithering through...It ended up being a "harmless" black snake...but snakes of any kind freak me out...PaPa "the Nature Boy" had to put the snakes and the cats together to see what they would do...and Mike took some cool pics...then the guy slithered away to the neighbors...I hope he doesn't come back to visit any time soon!!!!!!!!!! And this morning we were just talking about not wanting our yard to be like a show from "Animal Planet"....how crazy that we would see the first snake in our yard in the 4 yrs we've lived here!!!

Rescuing Raphael!

Our 3 cats ganged up on a poor bird this morning....such a horrible sound! And we can't bare to have it all "Animal Planet" in our backyard....so Mike saved the little guy from an untimely fate...He is currently taking little "Raphael" to a lady who does rescues in the area...she nursed the last bird we found "Roger" back to health about a yr and half ago. Good luck little Raphie!

Back to Middle School!

We had the Middle School Girls spend the night last night from church...it was a lot of fun...we made homemade choc chip cookies...listened to all the girl's ipods (lots of artists we didn't know!) and watched some movies...the girls all crashed by 2:30 am....Lots of fun, but hard to hang as a preggie....Can't wait to snag a nap today! :)

Happy Little Guy!

Thanks for the fun lunch date today Laura and Peter! What a cheery personality your little guy has! Mallory had fun playing with him and hugging! He was very patient with her "smarmy-ness"! Hope to see you all again soon! :)

Silly Mommy "Trix" are for kids!

We started out our day planting our hydrangeas in bigger pots...Mallory enjoyed watering them, but got soaked in the process! Then we had a wonderful hr and a half nap! (Daddy worked his magic and got her to take both naps on Sat....kids--- once you think you have them figured out they change things on you (hence the title of this post)...so I guess we will try the 2 nap thing a little longer....it's def nice!)

Then we headed to MiMi's for lunch and fun this afternoon...Mallory loves the fish pond that PaPa made several yrs ago. We even had a "special delivery" from the mailman...A package from Aunt Joyce! (Thanks for the cute pink jogging suit! Can't wait to put Mallory in it!) We went on a nice walk and hung out with old neighborhood friends...then I was off to Summer School Training for PreK. It was good to get back in teacher mode and see old coworkers! I'm excited to meet my class in July! :)