A Really Cute Thanksgiving Program !

So every year at Mallory's preschool, they either choose to do a thanksgiving program or a Christmas one. This year again they choose thanksgiving. This is Mallory's 3 year to be in a program there and each year she has come more out of her shell. This year she sang all the songs loudly and with excitement! It was so much fun to watch her! My mom aka Nana, my dad, aka Pops, and Daddy all came with me to watch! Oh and we can't forget baby sister Mary Claire was there too, but slept almost the entire time!  Daddy even filmed it for his family to see. 

A lot of the songs were the same from last year but they also added some new ones too. My favorite new was Give Thanks with a grateful heart. After the program they have their class Thanksgiving party and then we go home. Here are some pictures from the occasion! 

Sweet Mallory turns 4!

Its hard to believe that 4 years ago I had sweet Mallory, while we were living in Tallahassee, FL. This year we had a art party at our house. I think she had a lot of fun!

Here are some facts about Mallory:

- She can write her name pretty good.
- She is right handed.
- She can recognize all the alphabet letters and numbers 1-15.
- She can count 1-50 pretty good.
- She is now associating words with the letters. She loves to tell me all the words she can think of that start with each letter. ex. D for Dog, Daddy, Diaper, and Donut.
- She loves to color and can now stay in the lines pretty good.
- She loves to sing songs.
- Her favorite shoes are her cowgirl boots.
- She can ride a bike with training wheels really great now.
- She can write most of the letters pretty good in the alphabet.
- She still loves putting puzzles together.
- She has started loving to play games. The newest favorite is Pop the Pig and Cooties.
- She got her first marriage proposal by a little boy name Jonah at school on the playground!! She told me that she didn't respond except with a laugh! Ha!
- She loves having her Aunt Kathleen as her teacher this year at Trinity Play School.
- She is finally starting to get a little independent on me! I can now say I actually hear the words "I will do it myself". I wondered if that would ever happen!!
- She can now buckle her own car seat harness!
- She still adores her baby sister and loves to give her kisses and hugs.
- She still take naps pretty good, although will try to fight me about taking them some days.
- She loves ice cream as long as it's vanilla and its Blue Bell!
- She is still a picky eater, but that's gotten better! She still loves chicken nuggets and mac-n-cheese! She is so use to eating the easy-mac that she doesnt' even like homemade mac-n-cheese! If she only knew what she was missing!


Mallory's questionnaire:

1. What's your favorite food?? Mac-N-Cheese

2. What's your favorite movie? Hello Kitty

3. What's your favorite Color? Pink

4. Who is your favorite friend? Story

5. What's your favorite thing to do? Cook

6. Where is your favorite place to go? The Grocery Store

7. What's your favorite toy? My Puzzles

Sweet Nanny (Johns grandmother) made the trip and told us she wouldn't miss this birthday for anything! This was over 8 hours total riding in the car for her in one day! 

The amazing cake our friend Mrs Beth made! She is so talented! 

It's time to paint! 

 

The only family picture we got. Mary Claire was asleep and didn't get to be in it! 

Our sweet Birthday Girl!! 

All the kids in their aprons I monogrammed. 

Mallory's reaction to us singing Happy Birthday to her!! 

Mallory with her masterpiece the day after her party. She was so proud and so am I! I even already hung it on the wall downstairs! 

We had so much fun celebrating Mallory turning 4, but I would like for this year to not fly by so fast!! I am definitely blessed to be her mommy! 

 

Mallory's first Hair cut!!!

Well we had another first happen recently at the end of July. Mallory finally got her first hair cut. Really it was just a trim, but it was more than she had ever had cut! When she was a baby, she had the famous "rat tail" going on, so I eventually couldn't take anymore of that and I cut it off.  Our friend Bridgett who use to cut hair and still does it a little bit on the side, was at our house cutting John's hair and offered to cut Mallory's! I had been wanting to trim it for a while, in hopes it would help it thicken a little and stimulate growth, but was chicken and really wasn't sure I could trust anyone but maybe her.

So I bit my lip and said lets do it!

Mallory did awesome and sat there just like Mrs. Bridgett asked her too! She did great! We were so blessed that Mrs. Bridgett didn't mind showing up at our house and cutting not only John's hair but also Mallory's!

She brought her sweet 4 yr old Jillian with her and afterwards she was ready to have a tea party with Mallory! It was super cute! Here are a few pictures from that day.

 

 

29 Months old and Easter Fun!

So it's been a while since, I have posted and of course they have changed the blogger website all up! I never got around to posting about Easter weekend this year. This is partly due to our camera getting dropped in a cup of water and breaking, so I didn't get to take any pictures. I guess on the bright side of this I did get to purchase a newer and better one!

Easter weekend was a busy one. Saturday we drove to Meridian to attend Krista's engagement party. I was really nervous about how Mallory would do at this function, being that normally children especially, little children, do not attend these parties! To be honest I probably would have considered leaving her with my parents, but John's sister(the bride) and John's mom wanted Mallory to be there.  I was pretty much nervous for nothing, cause Mallory was so good that unless you really looked for her you wouldn't have even known she was there! At the party they had a 2 person band, one person played drums and the other guy played guitar and sang. Mallory would have sat there all night watching, listening, and dancing to them! The highlight of the night was when, Mallory finally wanted to sit with PaPa and actually have somethinhg to do with him! This is major change and I know John's dad has been waiting for this day to happen for over almost 2 years now! Ever since Mallory has been aware of the differences in people, she didn't want anything to do with John's dad(aka Papa). I always felt terrible about this, but for some reason all men over 40ish except for Pops(aka my dad) Mallory didn't want to be near. I am so thankful that Mallory now shows love to her PaPa!

After a late drive home, we got up Sunday morning and the Easter Bunny made a stop at our house and left Mallory some new puzzles, pj's, and candy in her basket. She loved it! We had a wonderful morning at church and then we came home to let Mallory take a nap before we headed over to my parents for the Easter egg hunt and some yummy dinner, with the Davis family! Since my camera was broken, sadly I didn't get any pictures, however my dad took some. Maybe when I get some time I will be able to look through them and post some.

Mallory is now 29 months old!! It doesn't seem possible that she is almost 2 1/2!! Her little personality is starting to shine more and more! She is still pretty timid with people she doesn't know, but talks non-stop to everyone else! Her speech has also taken off and her sentences amaze me every day! She has been using the word frustrated for a while now, but one day we were in a shoe store and she proceeds to tell me that her shoes were very frustrated. After a little chuckle, and proceedig to tell her your shoes can't be frustrated, this older lady's is laughing and grinning at us the whole time.  Later that same day, we were in the bathroom at the local chick-fi-la and after changing her diaper, I decided to use the bathroom myself. As I am going, Mallory decides to look down at what I am doing and out loud say "Mommy I see your booty"! The next thing I hear is some laughing coming from the other lady in the bathroom. I guess I better get use to getting embarrassed in public!!

Here are some other facts about Mallory:
- She eats more meat now than she ever has as long as there is a sauce to go with it! Her favorite is still Chicken or deli turkey and Ham.
- She still loves to read!! She will actually sit for 30 to 45 minutes and read books with me! Some of her favorites are Brown Bear Brown Bear, Curious George, Richard Scarry's Best Read-it-yourself Book Ever, and a book about trains. The Richard Scarry book is 188 pages and 2 times we have sat down and read the entire book!! I can promise you she didn't get this love for reading from me! Ha!
- She has really started playing with her baby dolls lately. I will catch her telling me she is feeding them, they are napping and just yesterday she put one in her high chair and started to pretend feeding her a hot dog! A nursery helper at church told me during church that morning, Mallory told them the baby doll had pooped and that she had to change her diaper! They thought that was pretty funny and cute!
- She is constantly asking me to go into another store when we are out shopping and also would eat at every restaurant if she could! We have had a few fits from Mommy telling her we were eating at home! We don't even eat out every week!
- She knows her some the shapes now. She can point out circles, squares and triangles! She can even sorta draw a circle.
- She can count to 10 pretty good.
- She is getting better with her colors, but usually gets some of them wrong unless it's pink!
- She gets really upset if we do not listen to her Kid music in the car! Her favorite songs are: The wheels on the bus, row row your boat, This little light of mine, Jesus Loves me, Skip to my Lou, Shake Shake Shake, Yankee Doodle, and the ABC's. She knows the words to all of them! She really loves to sing her ABC's!
- She will eat ketchup plain just like her daddy did when he was little!
- She still loves puzzles.
- She recently had ear infection that infected her eye. After a doctor visit, some medicine and eye drops we are much better!
- She weighs 30 pounds.
- Mallory's favorite cartoons are Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Jake and the Neverland pirates. She begs to watch them all day, but is only allowed to watch them in the morning when Mommy is getting ready.
- She still takes great naps! Recently she has been sleeping 3 hours on some days, but sually it's only 2ish.
- She is wearing 2T clothing, but some 3T in PJ's. Her shoe size is an 8.
- She still loves to wear hair bows and will ask to wear one if she doesn't have one on.
- Mallory is still sleeping in her crib and appears to still love it, so I have made no effort to change it into a toddler bed yet! No climbing out yet thank goodness!
- Mallory was doing pretty good with going potty on the big girl potty, until we moved. The doctor told me to just wait a little while to try again. This whole process make me very nervous!! One day in the near future we will venture down this road again!!

Well thats about all I can think about right now. Stay tuned for some updates about our New Sunday School Class, some sewing projects, and a shower next weekend for Krista in Cordova, Al.  Enjoy the recent pictures!

Mallory has a new ride!!!

For a while now, I have been wanting to get Mallory a battery powered riding toy of some sort. Now, that we have moved and have so much room, I thought it was the perfect time! She was always so cute when she got to ride Cousin Ethan's Car, so I knew she would love having one of her own. I ended up buying this really cute purple and pink 4-wheeler and she loves it! Here is a picture of her riding it last night right before we had some stormy weather.

A Minnie Mouse Party

Well I have been really busy lately and have neglected to post since October!! We have a lot that has happened, so I will try and play catch up!

Back in November on the 13th we had Mallory's 2nd birthday party. My parents were leaving for a Biblical Tour in Turkey, so we had to have the party a little early.

Mallory had lots of fun opening gifts and eating some of her Minnie Mouse cake! She got so many gifts that at one point she lost interest in opening them. John's family and Nanny made the trip down here for the afternoon, which was so nice of them. Mallory's favorite gifts were the School Bus Aunt KK (aka Aunt Krista) gave her and the pink kitchen sink she got from Nanna, Pops, Granna, and Papa. She loves to pretend to cook and wash her hands!

At Mallory's 2 year old check up she weighed 26.11 pounds and was 33 in tall. The Doctor joked with me that she was finally now in the normal weight range! I guess all that Cheese she eats is finally paying off!! After seeing the doctor, she sent us to get Mallory's finger pricked to check her blood work. This was a first, and I wasn't to thrilled to see her go through this, but I knew shots were much worse! Once they called her name back there, the tech was trying to talk to her and the first thing Mallory does is poke her bottom lip out as far as she could. It was pretty funny and had the techs in the room laughing. Next the tech pricked her finger and we all kept waiting for Mallory to cry, but to our surprise it never came! Mallory is officially stronger than her mother when it comes to pain!!! Mallory just wanted to get the band aid on! As soon as we got back to the waiting room, the others in there commented to me that they kept waiting to here her cry too and couldn't believe what a big girl she was!! I was one proud MaMa!! Hoping she continues to get John's pain tolerance and not mine!!

Mallory is now talking up a storm, can sing row row row your boat ,and the wheels on the bus. She now knows what a sucker is and likes them. To be honest I wasn't too excited about that, but I guess it's about time!

She loves the play ground and every time she sees one she wants to stop and play. I can't believe Mallory is finally 2! I mean it seems like yesterday she was born. I just love seeing her blossom and learn. Her giggles make my heart smile, her hugs and kisses are priceless and can turn a bad day into a great one! She recently told me she loved me and this was hands down one of the best moments of being a mom so far! Praying one day that she will understand that there is a God who loves her even more than I can! Praying I am the motherly example God wants me to be!

Enjoy the pictures from her 2nd Birthday party! Stay tuned for a fun Thanksgiving at Aunt KK's in Jackson.