Piano recital
I had this plan to take a picture of Mallory playing at her first piano recital this evening. She wanted me to sit on the bench with her and I figured I could use the front-facing camera on my phone to get a shot of her rocking out on Batter Up or Mary Had a Little Lamb.
So… crawling in from the work Christmas party
I went up to say goodnight to Irene and she told me that the evening had been uneventful but that Mallory had been sad that she wouldn’t say goodnight to me. I neglected to warn her that I wouldn’t be home before her bedtime.
Mallory’s first piano recital coming up
She’s got two songs: Batter up and Mary Had a Little Lamb. Today’s lesson was devoted to preparing for Friday’s recital. Including the proper way to approach the bench, leave the bench and bow afterwards.
Ran the kid ragged today
Playdate in the morning. Choir practice at noon. Tree climbing and general horsing around after. Two hours at Brewer Pool, swimming lengths. Straight off to the Muppet Movie (Miss Piggy is her favourite, she says) and then straight back home for a bit of a TV wind down, then bed.
Might this be the end of co-sleeping?
Since Mallory just up and decided to sleep by herself in her own room (November 19) we’ve had one hybrid night, where she came into my room at about 2am, one fallback night where she decided she wanted to sleep in my bed, one night where we had a guest staying over and Mallory and I shared her bed, and one night where we briefly discussed who should come to whose room before we each fell asleep where we were.
Skating and choir today
Mallory and I spent a couple of hours going around and around Brewer Arena, today. On skates, that is. Irene and Mallory went skating yesterday and they had so much fun Mallory wanted a repeat today.
Mallory is sleeping on her own tonight
Second night in a row. I don’t want to jinx it, but it looks as though this whole sleeping on her own thing might take. Because I have said it before.
I took 536 photos this weekend
Archiving Mallory’s artwork from the last little while.
Mallory plays ‘Sailing’
Not the Christopher Cross version. Note to self: iPhone videos work better in horizontal mode. Note also to self: say something about those bloody cops in UC Davis. Will they get fired after getting videoed doing something awful?
Do, do re mi fa so
Mallory had her piano lesson this evening. She’s quite impressive, I think. But then I would say that. She’s very good at the sequences of notes and moving her fingers around the keyboard. Even with both hands. But she is missing rhythm. It’s not even just a bit off. It’s massive.
Mallory read bedtime stories to me tonight
That was pretty exciting. For some reason Mallory picked out two much younger books for stories tonight. I figure it’s because she’s bored with her usual favourites. They were a learn to read book and Dr. Seuss’s Hop on Pop. I told her “I bet you could read them to me.” And she did.
Mallory playing piano
Mallory’s first loose tooth is in the house
Well, actually it’s in her mouth, still. But I’m trying to be… uh… hip. She was tired this morning, sleeping in to 7:10. We crawled downstairs and after starting in on her fruit, she complained to Irene that she was tired and wanted to go back to bed. This never happens so we immediately suspected life-shortening illness. But Irene suggested she lie down on the nearby couch.
That whole gain an hour of sleep thing? Not for kids
Whoever thought of that as an upside for changing the clocks in fall did not have a young child. I carefully set the clock in our room back an hour before bed so that I could still observe the iron rule without having to explain the whole time change thing. Fat lot of good it did.
Halloween: better than Christmas
Genuine excitement today as Mallory and I bounded home from daycare to gird for Halloween. Oh the candy. But first, there was so much to do. The candles, the candy, the costume, the meetups, the tombstones.
