Always Wear A Helmet

These are old pictures from after Christmas when the weather was so nice we could be outside. Mallory is riding her new bike. We of course had the conversation as to why we should always wear our helmet...

 This is Mallory playing dress up with her jammies still on....intently watching Strawberry Shortcake...she sat like that for 40 minutes!!

 Mallory and I had an impromptu date night. We went grocery shopping....which I very rarely take her with me...for obvious reasons. She did great so I treated her to dinner at Burger King...which she also has never been too.

 You can tell we don't go out to eat often as she was not only super pumped that she got a toy but even more excited that the ketchup was in a little cup to dip in....

 Yes, this was her reaction to dipping in the sauce...She did it and then yelled, "Nailed it!" There was only one other person there and the ladies behind the counter sure got a kick out of her.

 And she got a cookie....she says, "best day ever!" Pretty sad that she gets so excited just to go to Burger King but if that's all it takes....

 Mallory being Mallory...the poor guy in there with us.....he enjoyed it right?

 Mallory loves princesses....can you tell?????

 Then she turned into a chef....

 A little bossy chef....

 She loved it....

 We had "blue milk", bread with carrots, soup/chocolate milk/corn soup, and both Mick and I got put into time out for being bad.....

 Then I got out her tent....funny how an old toy can be so much fun again!

 She would pop up and yell, "SURPRISE!"

 You can't tell but this is Mick inside (yes that's funny all in itself) and Mallory is standing on his back. Quite the entertainment...

 She's something else...

 And here is the reason why we wear helmets.....

 All day...every day....even when you aren't riding a bike....

 She received quite the goose-egg at school today. She was chasing after a ball and so was another child and they bumped heads....

 Looks like to me that the other child's head may be a bit harder than Mallory's...

I said...."Did you cry?" She said, "Yes! It hurt..." I asked if the other child cried and she said "nope". This is right after bath (hence the crazy hair).

 I told her I wanted to take a picture since it left a mark. 

She looked in the mirror and says, "Yep, left a mark mom."