Oh, Little Mallory

Mallory is our hardest bedtime case. She likes to get up anywhere from two to ten times after being put to bed to "tell you something". We have discovered that giving her a few books to look at in bed with her little lamp on at bedtime helps her out. She reads the books and turns the light off and goes to bed. That is... until the past two nights. She has started back to her old ways. So tonight after the second time out of bed I told her she was going to get a spanking if she got out of bed again. I asked her if she understood what was going to happen if she got out of bed again. She told me, "Yes, I understand, but I can't promise that" Well at least she knows herself and is letting me know what to expect out of her?!?

Yesterday, we took a trip to the post office. Not my favorite place. It is pretty much a nightmare to go to the post office with the kids. They end up running around, climbing on things, and there is always a line! When I went yesterday I thought this should be easier because I only had two little sweet ones instead of three or five. Ha! Mallory was "watching" Rachel for me. They started by playing chase around the post office. Then they spotted some beanie baby bears that had stamps on them. Mallory got them down and started playing with them and gave Rachel two too. I saw this and told her to put them back. Next thing I saw when I looked up was Mallory putting the bears into the "out of town" slot. Before I could say "NO" she closed the door and the bears were mailed! I was half laughing and half upset (because she didn't obey me). She was in disbelief that the bears were gone. She got nervous and said "I didn't know they would get sucked up" So I made her tell the guy at the desk what she did and say she was sorry. Of course no harm done, but it was a good lesson about the post office, and a good laugh!