Mallory's first day of school

We all survived the first day. She drew a picture of our family-me, her, and daddy-no brothers. Says a lot about how she feels about them doesn't it? Today when I picked her up sh told me they "got to play in the teacher's backyard.". Isn't that just adroable!?!

We had left over lasagna tonight. I put extra motzarella and Parmesan on mine. Before Titus was in his chair good, Mallory ask why he didn't put "Pappa John cheese" on his. I guess she is more familiar with Pappa John's pizza than Parmesan cheese.

Mallory also emptied the salt shaker today on Jackson's green beans at lunch. So, at dinner I took the opportunity to explain that cheese isn't like salt. You can never have too much cheese.

Crazy girl

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Mallory just spent 15 minutes in time out. I know that is long for a four year old but this little turkey deserved a lot more. It all started with her bringing me the canister of brown sugar open. I asked her how it got opened and she said it just opened by itself. Then she tried to say the brothers did it. When I told I knew she did it, she said "did you see me open it?" I wanted to laugh. I wanted to beat her so she got time out. Started at four minutes. She argued with me about where to sit and got another minute. I set the timer on my phone. The little turkey kept getting up to watch tv. I told her every time she got up she'd get another minute. We were now at six. So what does she do but get right back up and stand in front of the tv. Then she turned around and smiled at me!!! She did this over and over until we got to fifteen minutes! Little monster is just doing her part to prepare me for 7th graders. :)

I just love this picture

These are 18 month shorts, but they are hand-me-downs from JJ so they fit kinda long on my littlest man.

Chatterboxes

The boys have been sayin so many new words and phrases lately. James saw Jackson sitting on Mallory's little desk and told him, "ge dow". Of course when he grabbed Jackson by his diaper and pulled him off it really got the point across. Jackson said luv you yesterday. I'm gonna miss being with them to see all the cuteness. I'm not gonna miss the fits and fights and crying for no reason...of course I won't miss it. I'll have to deal with 7th graders doing the same garbage!

Bible school

Mallory was old enough this year to go to Bible school at my parents' church. They have it in the evenings so she is staying with them all week. In other words, one last relaxing week before school starts back. I've always said the boys are the easy part of having twins. It's their big sister that gives me grief. It's so "quiet" without my Mallory. Of course, I realize quiet is a relative term these days. With two 17 month old boys and a puppy, I'm the only weirdo that would call this craziness quiet. Oh well, as long as I'm happy in my alternate universe, right?

We did get Mallory a spot reserved in the preschool we wanted today. Now we just have to get her 4 year old shots. I'm not looking forward to that. Maybe her daddy will take her?

Our trip to Longview

We decided to take the Honda even though it was a tight fit. I was afraid to stress out my old van by driving all that way. We drove up on Friday night after Titus got off, so the kids slept most of the way. They didn't really rest, but they slept and that ws good enough for me. It rained so hard yesterday morning! We did time it pretty good gettin to the wedding, right in between down pours. It was a very pretty wedding and it was really good to see so many of the Cavels at one time. Usually Titus drags all over the place to visit this one or that one, but we didn't have to do that this time. The kids were ready for a nap pretty early into the reception so we decided to take the boys back to the hotel for a nap. On a side note...don't stay at La Quinta in Longview if you have more than one baby, they only hav one crib. At least we found out before we left home and took the play pen. Anyway, we got ready to leave and the bottom fell out. Titus made three trips out to the car to shuttle the kids and got SOAKED. We got to the hotel with little adventure. He and Mallory changed and went shopping so me and the boys could get a nap. When we woke up, we went to Papacita's. Not myfavorite Mexican food, but one that I miss. We had dinner with Thomas and Shauna. Our kids are always so good when we go out. Strangers even come up to us and compliment their behavior. But not last night. They had stored up all their bad behaviors for that one meal! It was awful!!! I'm sure it wasn't that bad for those around us. It was probably what you would expect to see and hear from a table with five small children, but since we are so used to them being so good it was very painful. We did get to visit a little in between cleaning up and getting on to the kids.
Today we went to visit friends at our old church Hope Community. We got there just in time for the Spanish service. They have the English service at 9:30. Oh well. I wouldn't have been able to get us all up and out by then. We did get to visit with a few friends and then headed to The Butchershop for lunch with Aunt Denise. It was so good to see her. Again all the kids were getting sleepy so we packed up and headed home. To my surprise all three were asleep before we made it to Kilgore. It was wonderful! We are almost home and they've been really good all squished up in the backseat for over four hours. They are wathing Jon and Kate Plus Eight on DVD because Mallory gets to choose. I don't know why that is still her favorite show. She asks why it doesn't come on TV any more. I guess I'll have to explain about divorce when she starts to school so I'll tell her about them splitting up soon. Now we are headed to Mom's so Mallory can go to Bible school at their church this week. I think I'm more excited than anyone else.