Accomplishments

I've been working REALLY hard to stay in my bed all night. Sometimes, I get a reward from the "Toy Store" (i.e. The Dollar Store) One time, I got to play in this AWESOME Dora blow-up castle! (Thank you cousin Karina!)





Hey "Boo Bear!" (that's our nickname for Kiley!)
I had a blast!! I can't wait to sleep more nights in my bed and get more toys!

Kiley's making progress in the crawling and getting into things department! :) Here she is standing all by herself in her crib!! Mommy had to lower the crib mattress after that! CRAZY KILEY!




Kiley's first time pulling up!
Mommy caught Kiley "in the act!"



Congratulations Kiley! See? I can do it too!!

AND.... OH MY GOODNESS!! Guess what I did this week?
I went poopy in the potty!
YES..it's TRUE!!

It's been a long hard road!!

Mallory,
WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!!
Love, Mommy and Daddy

The Days After Christmas

Not until after Christmas did we finally have time to make a gingerbread house!! :) GG and Grandma came over to babysit me and Kiley for mommy's birthday. They helped me put the final touches on the gingerbread house. Isn't it gorgeous? I think so!




The final product!

Mommy and Daddy went on a date night with Uncle and April to Kanki! Kiley and I had our usual milk and pepperoni for din din!! Thank you GG and Grandma for playing with us!



Uncle Tim and McLaren, Jez and Greer all came down for mommy's birthday too! We all went to Sweet Tomatoes! I tried Ziti! It wasn't so bad! Uncle Rod, Aunt Laura, Trey, Andre and Luke were there too! The whole family...except Papa, he had to work and we missed him. Then we all went to Trey's house to play and get tickled! Happy Birthday Mommy!



A couple days later Grandma and Grandpa came back into town and paid us a visit!! :) Grandma and I played my new favorite game, "Don't Make Me Laugh Jr."! Here is Grandma wearing a clown nose, (it's part of the game!)



Kiley's new game she likes to play is, "Laugh at Boz when He's running Back from Retrieving a Thrown Toy" game!


Level 1, 2 & 3

She also likes to play with the sunshine!



She's so cute!!

See you next week! Love you!

Christmas 2008

Christmas morning I woke up to this......
(Whoa!) (that's exactly what I said)


Santa's footprints with North Pole Snow
(it's doesn't melt...it's magic)
He even ate our oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. (or Boz did.)

Then it was off to stockings and presents galore!! I even got to help Kiley open hers. Pretty soon it was just so routine I hardly even noticed what I got. I'd just open it...say "I've always wanted one of these," throw it down and run to get another present.


Kiley wanted to be opened too!

And the day had just begun...

Next, it was off to Grandma and Granddaddy's house for Christmas #2 and lunch! GG was there! Yay!

4 generations + mommy

Brother Love


Christmas Cowgirl

Next and finally, it was back to home to visit with Grandma and Grandpa Pond! Shew!!




more glorious presents


is Kiley crawling???


why yes....mommy I am.

Oh....the party has just begun.......

Christmas Eve 2008

It's Christmas Eve!
(Well..it's really January 2nd, but oh well!)
(eh, hem....)

It's Christmas Eve and all through the house.....little people are baking goodies for Santa and the spouse!!



Kiley's getting white powdered donuts and Mommy's decorating a cake...





After walks and wrestles the family settles in......for an early Christmas wake!




But not before we celebrate with Mimi, Papa and my cousins!! We ate dinner at the "fab" Golden Corral (the only place we could find open.) Then we came back to my house to open stockings and presents!! :) I got a beautiful princess dress and crown that I HAD to try on right away!! :)



Alright....go to sleep everyone...I think I hear bells!!!!
Seriously......I do.

Mallory's School Christmas Program

My school TOTALLY rocks!! :)
This is my last year in preschool. I'm in the 4 yr. old class and I'll be graduating in August '09!! Then Mommy says I'm going to kindergarten?? :) Oh My!! (Mommy is weeping in the background!)We do so many cool things like learn our letters & numbers, crafts and watch moooooooovies!!

Me and my school friends watching "The Polar Express" on Movie Day!

I had my annual Christmas Program at Clayton First Baptist Child Development Center!

Me and my red shirt

The cute 3 to 12 month olds in Santa outfits!

Here we are singing "It's Christmas Time." I'm playing the jingly bells!

Video of the 3's and 4's playing bells to Silent Night

We're almost ready for Christmas now!!