A Farm and A Pumpkin Patch

Last Friday Mallory and I went with some of our play group friends to Old McDonald's farm. Mallory was NOT interested in any of the animals to pet. I took her in to pet the pigs and all she wanted to do was hang on and shake the fence. They had pony rides too, but when I tried to put her on the pony she stiffened up her legs and made it clear that she was not going to have any part of that. Even if she wasn't crazy about the animals, we had a fun time getting out with our friends. Mallory's favorite parts were the swings and the slides. Give her a slide and she is happy for hours.

After she slid out of this swing, I realized she was in it backwards. Her legs should have been through the holes with the chain behind her. Now we know.

Her friend Troy liked to slide too. They were both very eager to get to the top.

Mal loved this fort! It had this ladder that led up to a big dirt floor to run around on and look over the side. There was a slide on the other side to get down. Some bigger kids were playing on it too. One of the older girls was pretty much climbing over Mallory to get to the top. When I went to help Mal out, I her going "Ya Ya Ya Ya" or something like that. I'm not sure what her word was, but she was letting the other girl know that she did not like being climbed over!

Mallory was very excited about her pumpkin on the ride home.

But the excitement wore off very quickly!

Later that night, I went out with Monica while Matthew and Mallory headed to the local Pumpkin Patch with his mom and aunt. I think Mal had a lot of fun running around in all of the pumpkins. We took her to the same one last year. If you want to see how much she's changed since then, here's that post.

Bye!

I'm Still Here

I'm afraid I've turned into one of "those bloggers". You know, the kind that makes you wonder if they gave up on blogging because its been that long since they posted anything. I don't want to get too bad of a reputation in the blogging world so here I go...

September was actually a pretty busy month for us. Mallory and I celebrated Labor Day at Chick-Fil-A in our Tech gear with the rest of the country to get free sandwiches. It was fun seeing everyone dressed up when we were there and it was really fun to eat for that cheap!

Later that week we started school! It has gone great so far. Mallory is excited to go each day and we can tell she's picking up lots of new things too. Things are going really well in my class too.

The first day, her teacher had to peel her off of me to get her in the room. Within seconds she found this VeggieTales book and was done with me.

As soon as our first day was over we hit the road and headed north. Mallory got to spend the whole weekend in Ft. Worth with Anita, Clay, Nathan, & Abby. She had a GREAT time with her cousins! Here she is laughing at some of Abby's silliness in the car. I don't think she missed me too much.

While Mallory was in Ft. Worth, I hitched a ride to Lubbock with my parents. When we got to town my parents dropped me off at Shannon's for the weekend. It was just like all the times they had taken me to my friends houses when I was growing up. Shannon and I had a great time. She showed me around Lubbock so I could see all of the things that had changed. It was amazing! We spent lots of time eating and laughing at old times before going to the Tech v. Rice game. If you knew us "back then", you should be thankful we never got around to scanning the pictures we looked at that weekend.
These were the only pictures we took the whole weekend. She took me to the bakery, Cake, for cupcakes. I have been craving them ever since.

Since we got back from our trip, we've been busy with showers, school, a visit from my parents, colds, birthdays, stomach bugs, and creative ways to play with the slide.