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The Trouble With 2!

10 troubles with a 2 year old today: (that's from wake-up until nap time!)

1.When he woke up, he refused to get his diaper changed because that would mean he would have to take off his Mickey Mouse footed pjs.

2. Once said pjs were  off to change diaper, 2 year old insisted they went back on for the 2nd day in a row.

3. A struggle between 2 year old , mom, and grandma to get get Thomas shirt and pants on instead of the pjs. This struggles lasted through breakfast, promises of going in the car with mommy, bribes of snacks , and threats of being left at home until finally Grandma won the battle!

4. At breakfast 2 year old wants chocolate milk and tries to help mommy prepare it. While reaching to stick spoon in cup to mix it, cup spills entire contents onto unclothed 2 year old and mommy. Gotta love chocolate brown shoes.

5. Forget trying to get the coat on after 1st try since it is a little warmer today and give 2 year old small treat so he will get into the car seat.

6. Go through bank drive through and receive one orange pumpkin lollipop 2 year old wants immediately which he eats and becomes totally sticky and cries because the mommy left the wipes at home.

7. 2 year old complains he is sticky so we go to bathroom at Kohl's to wash hands with paper towel which breaks into pieces that stick to sticky hands causing another eruption from 2 year old.

8. While shopping with Mommy for more footed pjs, 2 year old finds geo trax train with old man figure in it which he promptly calls "Ho Ho". Hold  train and when Mommy isn't paying attention, open train so Mommy will definitely buy it.

9. While at Giant, 2 year old is excited by trick-or-treat candy in cart. Continues to try to open it until we decide on goldfish for the car "after we buy it" which he repeated throughout the store.

10. 2 year old wants jello jiggler with his lunch which he fashionably adds to his hair, while changing his mind and wanting soup like mommy is having. And we all know what happens when you feed a 2 year old soup, he spills it and doesn't like to be wet so he wants his pants off which will mean we get to go back to number one and start over after nap. 

The joys of 2!

9 pictures since Haley has turned 9!

                     Make a Wish!

Here are the girls at the High School Musical 3 Party! We got to pick our seats before the crowd was let in! We toured the theater and saw it from behind the scenes!

On Haley's real birthday she selected Friendly's for her birthday dinner with a special song from the waitresses and a Halloween Friendz!

Opening presents from family

Celebrating Halloween with dance friends and our own little Frankenstein!

Pumpkin Patch

A beautiful day to head a little bit south to Doylestown to join a few other homeschool families for a little history, a little science, and a bunch of fun at Hellerick's Farm! Marty took the day off to join us- Fall is our favorite time of year and today was a perfect way to celebrate the season!

The kids were excited and were chanting "Today is pumpkin day!" before we left. It was a great way to get the little dude in the car. He loves pumpkins!!! (but just not the noisy tractor pulling the hay wagon!) So rather than trying to explain myself, I'll let the pictures do the talking! (click to see bigger photos!)

The wheels on the bus...

You know how it goes!

 Sing along with me:

The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round

'round and 'round

'round and 'round

The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round all through the town.

The cheese twists on the bus go bumpity bump

                       

bumpity bump

bumpity bump

The cheese twists on the bus go crunchity crunch all the way to my belly!

Thanks Brady! I'm sure your new version will make millions!

Busy, busy at the McGuires

We have been enjoying the warmed temperatures and sunny days around here. Inside the house and out and about the past few days- we all have enjoyed October so far!

Marty: Has been working extra hard with new members to his team at work. He also stepped into role as "nurse" to a sick kid on Saturday and took Brady and Hanna to the Fish Hatchery and Burger King today!

Shel: Took the kids to see Disney on Ice on Thursday night and survived! Has been sorting through tons of clothes for consignment and Good Will. Ripped wall paper down from the dining room which will become "Marty's" space. Sorted through tons of Marty things and very carefully disposed of things at his approval! Wrapped and tied one too many cords and nicely put them in a expedit drawer labeled "every cord known to mankind", and even got a chance to sneak out for a scrapbook class at Memory Lane in Quakertown!

Haley: Has been reading tons of books lately and has been working on a big Egypt project for school, started with a sore throat on Friday which turned into a fever and throwing up on Saturday and has started to feel more like herself on Sunday afternoon.  She even created some driveway art this evening.

Hanna: Has been zooming through her Math and Reading assignments. She has become quite the computer whiz asking to go on my fast apple first thing in the morning! She loves the disney fairies site and has created quite a few screen names that keep getting forwarded to my mailbox. She has been a big helper taking care of Brady lately and had a fun day out with Daddy   today!

Brady: Has increased his curiosity level ten fold. Sometimes it is sweet to catch him in the act

but usually it just means a mess. He loved seeing Mickey Mouse but had to leave his signature in the bathroom there by "toiletpapering". He enjoys the water fountains and handicap accessible door button at swim class, pushing on both items the 60 minutes we are there! He also enjoys the cleaning process of Daddy's room, needing his own sponge to dip in Mommy's water, which of course led to wet socks and shirt that needed to be removed. 

 Loved feeding the fish and his french fries of course, giving us a nice long nap this afternoon!

24 things about me

Thanks to my cousin Shannon, you can find out a few things about me:

If you opened it, you have to do it. Then, send it back to the person who sent it to you, as well as the rest of your friends!

1. Two Names You Go By:

  Michelle and Shel

 

 2. Two things you are wearing right now:

T-shirt and capris! (yea it's 70 today!)

 

3. Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:

My house decluttered and a day alone in it :)

 

4. Two People Who Will Fill This Out (And The first To Send It Back):

    Maybe Kim and/or Molly

 

5. Two Things You Did Last Night:

  Saw Mickey Mouse at Disney on Ice and read Twilight

      

6. Two Things You Ate Yesterday:

   Cheerios and Turkey wrap from Arby's

 

7. Two People You Last Talked To:

     Moms at swimming class and the kids

 

8 Two Things You're Doing Tomorrow:

 Going to Memory Lane with Steph for a scrapbook class and cleaning out "Marty's area"

 

9. Two Longest Car Rides:

    any show with Kim and the kids! (Just joking;)) and anywhere with an unconsolable crying baby!

                        

10. Your Two Favorite Holidays:

      Christmas and Valentine's Day

11.  Favorite Vacations:

       Bethany Beach, DE, Hawaii, Disney with the kids

 12.  Two Favorite Beverages:

         Cafe mochas and diet coke

Daddy, you told me to put it in my belly!

Dinner is always a trying time at our house. I guess it started all those years ago with the fear of food allergies with Haley so we bent over backwards to get something into her belly. Fast forward to the present picky toddler...Brady. He was really a decent eater up until he turned 2. He then realized he had control over what went into his mouth. We now see a lot of randomness to what he will eat. Most days he loves tomatoes and fruit but on occasion you get the fist in the mouth look, meaning not on your life! Tonight he decided ham was in and so were carrots with french onion dip. And cereal bars, (like Heidi Klum says) are out!  Daddy thought he'd capitalize on this and push the ham. "C'mon Brady, put it in your belly like Daddy!"  So this is what we got:

 

You can just guess what is in his hands, literally.

This kid is such a ham, it isn't funny. No pun intended!

He is in love with Halloween decorations this year, especially pumpkins! He stands at the front door wanting to see the neighbors' lights and blow ups. And speaking of pumpkins...today he got to play with one of his favorite pumpkins! His almost birthday buddy- Maggie!

Both were so happy to play together and by each other. It is so cute to watch them talk to each other and so funny to hear them "parent" the other one. And I bet you can guess how lunch went! Let's put it this way, Maggie is in, Mommy is out!

And now for the word of the day: Displacement

After correcting Haley's lesson 20 test series today, I realized we may have gotten carried away this weekend with the organizing of her room. I wanted to crack up but knew that maybe we should have reviewed the vocab a little more before the test! You have gotta admit it- somedays we all "displace" things like a brain for instance!!

Here is the final look at the 2 new rooms...although Hanna has been having more fun "displacing" the things I worked so hard to place!

Hanna's new space!

Hanna has been dreaming of the day she will have her own room again! (She had this and never slept in her room by herself. She ended up in our bed until she started to sleep in Haley's room on the floor. So she graduated to the bottom bunk in Haley's room and was happy as a clam.) Over the past year, we have felt some growing pains and knew the situation wasn't going to last much longer. So Marty's office area got moved to our never used dining room and finally, Hanna now has a space of her own! We still need to close in the loft with walls, but I don't think she minds it for now!

Last night was the first night the girls slept in her new room together and today, she helpedme organize her stand in closet and her other special items. Hopefully, this means she may have a vested interest in keeping it clean. (fat chance, I sure!)

Movie night tonight!

Brady had a fever outta no where this afternoon and was down and out but has perked up a bit with some tylenol. While we were eating dinner, we saw these beautiful hot air balloons floating by our house. 

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Yeah! Gotta love cheap lattes!

Dunkin' Donuts: $0.99 Lattes every weekday afternoon through November 11, 2008

From Dunkin' Donuts:

Get to Dunkin' and reward yourself with an authentic latte for only 99¢.* That's right--weekdays from 2-5 p.m. indulge in your favorite flavors like Mocha and Caramel. And for a limited time, sip up a spicy Pumpkin Latte. It's everything you demand of a latte without the hassle or high price. Offer ends 11/11/08.

A week in the life

I have started a great project this week- "A week in the life"- it is a visual and written account of what your everyday life looks like. What a normal day looks like right now. Ali Edwards set the challenge up on her blog. She is a great inspiration to the scrapbook world- love her simplistic view of what scrapbooking really is. She taught this as a class a few years ago and I never could attend so I thought this would be the perfect time to try! I have been having a blast taking pictures of our everyday musings, especially seeing how much fun life is through a 2 year old's eyes. He totally cracks me up all day long- and that is a good thing since his curiousness is getting him into a lot of trouble!!!
In this first picture you can see that he did not want his shirt on anymore. It was dry, without spills, and it was his froggie shirt but he decided it was not necessary for dinner! The face is actually a shiver from eating the pudding- the ham had everyone at the table laughing!

This evidence is of his morning act- I suddenly heard "Uh oh- I fix it!" and looked his way to find Daddy's dvd door to his computer in his hands! Wow! He and I will be dead meat! I got it back as best as I could but it will never be the same.

And of course we have the famous "roll the toilet paper roll trick" to add to his morning fun. Maybe this is an early attempt at toilet papering- I guess it is a good thing I get it really cheap at CVS with my extra care bucks!!! Just a few of his antics I caught on film today- can't wait to share these with his future wife! And if it wasn't bad enough to deal with a 2 year old off the wall, the girls must have had something in their cheerios,too! I tried to get a group shot of the 3 of them to mirror an image I took  about 2 years ago and this is what I got- little man is no where to be found and the bigs are wrestling and giggling! Just my luck.


With that being said, this scrapbook is definitely going to be anything but ordinary!