There's a Monster Under My Bed

This is a line I'm sure I'll probably hear from Mallory at some point in time but there's a couple reasons why I title today's blog "There's a Monster under my Bed."

First is the obvious, it's close to Halloween time, but really it has nothing to do with Halloween.

Today on the ride home from Mrs Carole's I had on Tales2Go, which if you haven't heard me talking about this before, it's an iPhone app that has a ton of children's books in audio format, so the books are read through the speakers. The first book that came up was the story "Alicia and the Little Monster" which is a cute story about a little girl and the monster under her bed. That got me thinking about the "monster" under the bed this weekend....

We went to Ben's parents in Sikeston, MO this past weekend. We always bring our dog Tucker and then they have Schultz, a Schnauzer and then Gertie, Ben's brother's Black Lab, so we have a house full of critters. Thankfully, for the most part, they are all well behaved and have been around each other so much it's no big deal.

Saturday night Ben is finishing up watching the Mizzou game in the living room and I go into the guest bedroom where Mallory is in her pack and play snoozing away for like 2 hours now at this point. I had downloaded a book on my iphone, so I just left the lights off, crawled in bed and continued reading on my iPhone.

I thought I had heard a dog come into the room, but normally Tucker comes back there with me anyway, so I was entrenched into my book and really didn't pay it a lot of attention. Then a few minutes later I hear something moving around under the bed. I thought, oh that's just Tucker scratching around the edge of the bed making a "nest" as he likes to do. Then I heard it again, and I turned on the light and Tucker did not appear to be in the room. I looked towards the bed but didn't get down on all 4's to look, so I went in the living room to see if Tucker was in there....he was so it wasn't Tucker. So I told Ben there was something under the bed and he grabbed the flashlight.

So once Ben got down on all four's with the flashlight he found a black lab's butt in his face! Gertie, who never comes in that room nor strays too far from Micah or his room, had wiggled her way under the bed and had gotten stuck. Ben's mom had those plastic storage containers under the bed, so she had found the only spot she could wiggle in, but she couldn't wiggle her but backwards and there was no where else to go forward. She never wimpered or made a sound other than rattling of paper under the bed....so I guess I was expecting a mouse or something....not Gertie! Thankfully Mallory continued to sleep through all of this without a peep.

So, perhaps there really are monsters under the bed, LOL!

Other than the dog incident, it was a typical weekend in Sikeston....which includes a trip to the Carter's outlet store and the outlet mall! So, now I think Mallory should be well clothed through the 9-12 month period!

Mallory wasn't exactly her normal charming little self, she was crabby to say the least. I think it was primarily because she wouldn't nap longer than about 30 minutes at a time. She normally naps much longer than that. But, when she was happy she was her normal little self! I was worried she might be teething or have problems with her ears, but Mrs Carole said today she was her typical good self. Oh well, I'll chalk it up to crappy naps = crabby baby.

Also, since we left early for Sikeston on Friday, I didn't get to weigh her until tonight, up to 15 lb 9 oz!

Here's quite a few pictures from the weekend or that I took since my last post. We took her Halloween outfit so they could see her all dressed up and took some pictures in front of the fall scene at the church.