Glasses (or Glassushes)

I wish I could figure out how to turn this photo.....

Meg loves glasses, or glassushes as she calls them. As you can see, she thinks she is really cool when she's got a pair of sunglasses on. Thankfully, I found her a couple of pairs in the dollar bin of our local Target, so when they break, fall or are otherwise destroyed, I won't be too upset. Although she might be. In this picture, I had her try on her Easter dress. I bought it last year at Target on clearance for $4.98 and wanted to make sure that it fit. It was a 24 month dress, but she's been growing so fast that I wanted to make sure that it wasn't too tight before Easter morning. That would just be my luck, wouldn't it? Anyway, I put her dress, headband and shoes on her (I do think she needs new white dress shoes though....) and she grabbed my sunglasses of my dresser and put them on and she thought she was so cool! I took her to show Michael and of course, we just oohed and ahhed over her which she just ate right up. AND...I finally got her to wear a headband! She's been a baldy since birth and she is finally getting some hair. Now I was one of those women who dreamed of playing with her daughter's hair since we found out we were having a girl. God has a sense of humor though, and gave me a girl who was follicularly challanged for the first year and a half of her life. Now, we have enough hair for a headband and I really get a little thrill from seeing a pretty headband in her gorgeous blond hair. Just wait until we can do a ponytail- I might just pass out!

Buzz & Hoodie

Meg's most recent favorite movie has been Toy Story 1 & 2. She's always asking for "Buzz" and "Hoodie".  Michael and I love it too and Michael asked for the Buzz and Woody dolls for himself. Meglet comandeered them! We were shopping at BJ's this past weekend and while looking at spring dresses for her, we ran across a 2 pack of Toy Story p.j.'s. There was only one set and they happened to be 2T. And even better, it was on clearance- 2 pairs for 6 dollars! (Anyone who knows me can tell you that I like to buy good clothes for Meg, but don't want to spend a lot of money!) One was Woodie's outfit (really cute!) and the other was Buzz's outfit. When we put them on for the first time last night, we asked her who she looked like and she said "Buzz!" So here are some pictures of Meg in her Buzz Lightyear jammies, along with her buddies, Buzz and "Hoodie".

Family Fun

We had a family birthday party for Michael's great aunt this past Saturday. She turned 70 and honestly, looks closer to 50! Meg had a great time playing with all her cousins and running laps around the hall!

She was certainly having fun!

Bowling with Daddy

Throwing the ball with her cousins

All the kids! Starting from the left, Logan, Gabe, Julian, Autumn and Meaghan

We had a great time and Meg loved spending all the time with the other kids. I really think spending time with other kids that is something she needs and doesn't get enough of. I think that maybe in the fall or winter we'll start her in preschool just to get some of that socialization.

Plus, check out how big Meg is! Autumn, who is sitting next to her on the fireplace is 2 1/2. At the time of this picture, Meg is 21 months old. And here I thought it was just me thinking she was so tall!

Play Doh

While Meg and I were at Walmart on Sunday, I saw a huge display of Play Doh. When I was a kid, I loved the smell of Play Doh. The age range on the container said 2 and up, but Meg is almost there (3 months to go!) and I figured that since it was non toxic and I was going to be closely supervising, that it would be okay. As you can see from the photo below, she did the first thing that any kid does- taste it.

After the first taste, she made a funny face and I explained that it was for playing not eating. It didn't take much coaxing to get her to play with it.

You can see the little monkey I made her right underneath the comb.

One last taste?

I made her a little monkey out of play doh and we made a "bed" for her monkey. She lovingly cradled the little play doh monkey in her hand and told me "monkey need ba ba's" so I had to make her monkey a bottle as well. As she's feeding the monkey a bottle, she says "Awww...monkey's cute" and "monkey's nice". I knew she was done when she put Little Monkey in it's bed and said "night night, monkey." and got down from the table. She's so cute!

My little shutterbug

We took this camera,  my smaller camera,  with us to Sesame Street Live. It's a perfectly good camera, except it has a pretty slow shutter speed, so catching the adorable little smiles of a lightening fast toddler was a little difficult. Michael got me a Nikon D60 last year and I've been loving it ever since. As I said, we had taken it with us to Sesame Street Live since it was smaller and my purse was already full of snacks, diapers, wipes and sippy cups, in addition to all the other junk that I keep in there. (And anyone who knows me knows that it really is full of tons of stuff!) This weekend, Meg was going through my purse and found my little camera. She and I took pictures of each other, all the while, she's yelling "Cheese" at the top of her toddler lungs! I think we may have to look into getting her one of those Fisher Price Kid tough camera in a few years, since it looks like she's going to be a shutter bug like Mama!

Plus, isn't the T-shirt cute? My little Irish lassie needed a shirt for St. Patrick's Day!

A dose of cuteness

This is the face that she gave me when I told her for the fiftieth time that the dog food dishes are not an all you can eat snack bar!

On a side note....Look at all that hair!

She discovered her comb and brush this weekend and enjoyed styling my hair too. Needless to say, there will be no photos of that hair style. It somewhat resembled Bride of Frankenstein meets Flock of Seagulls. But she liked it. We had a fun weekend though. She and I went to the mall of her to play on at the indoor playground (since we are blanketed by about 2 feet of snow) and instead of playing, she ran laps around the mall. We both got our exercise!