Top 10 List

Top 10 signs your child spends a lot of time at sporting events:

1. When the buzzer sounds she tells you to stand up and put your hand over your heart
2. Yells "Get 'em, Get 'em" when running down the field
3. She asks where her ticket is
4. She claps to the fight song and knows to stand up
5. She asks to wear team colors on game days
6. She wants to know whats for lunch at the tailgate
7. She cheers for the band
8. When watching on TV, she asks which color team you want to win
9. She brings her own pom pons
10. She wants to go to the next game when she gets home from the last one

Our Valentine

We didn't have much planned for the day but it was fun to see Ally so excited about Valentines Day. She had a party at school and brought monkey valentines with mini tattoos for her friends and came home with quite the collection of goodies. Karl made us a great dinner and Ally showed us all her cards in the bag she made. We had a few deliveries come to the house so after she opened her present from us, she dug right into the boxes from the Grandparents. Earlier in the week she got a giant box of goodies from Great Grandma Marilyn with pounds of candy in it so she quickly figured out these other boxes needed to be opened asap. She loved the big stuffed gorilla from Grandma Sharon and her princess pjs from Grandma Julie, plus all the candy too. She loved that many of the packages were loaded with M&Ms which are her "potty candies". She was very excited about going potty a lot so she could eat them all. She is almost fully potty trained but we just stick with what works so its important to always have M&Ms on hand.

Opening the big box earlier in the week.

Dumping out her goodies from school- a lot of repeats but she liked them allOpening her cards from mom & dad

Showing off her new purple running shoes from mom & dadPrincess jammies from Grandma JulieGorilla she decided to name Stinky Pete

Funny Things Ally Says

Time for another posting about the funny things Allyson says. This week she received a giant Valentine's Day package from Great Grandma Marilyn and Grandpa Jack. It was full of all kinds of goodies so on Friday I let her have a little package of Skittles rather than her usual fruit snacks on the way home from school. Not sure if she ever had them before so here was our conversation on the ride home.

Me: Ally, are those good? What color is your favorite? (expecting her to say yellow because she always does)
Ally: I like the red ones
Me: Red? Because they taste like cherries?
Ally: No, they match my dress.

No argument from me, she was right!

Happy Birthday Daddy

Yesterday was Karl's birthday and we just had a low-key celebration at home after work. He cooked his own seafood feast for dinner and Ally and I picked out a special cheesecake birthday cake and got him a few small gifts. You will be able to see the evidence of Ally's little meeting with the concrete step over the weekend in the photos but don't worry- she is totally fine and it looks better every day. Happy Birthday Daddy, we love you!

Miss America 2030?

I let Ally stay up a little later to watch some of the Miss America pageant last weekend. She was very excited to watch the pretty girls and even dressed herself up for the event. Watching the pageant has always been one of my favorite traditions I had with my mom and hopefully Ally will enjoy it too. Although I am not involved with the program like I used to be, I will still always be a supporter of the largest scholarship source for women in the country. I didn't let Ally stay up to the end but it was exciting to see Miss Wisconsin win. We are not pushing her into Toddlers & Tiaras or anything but when she turns 18 and decides she has the talent to earn some college scholarships, we certainly wont prevent her from trying! If you ask her now what her talent is going to be she says basketball so sort of ironic she is wearing a jersey and crown at the same time. That's our girl!