So Grown Up!

Megan is looking so grown up in an actual hair do today.  I had to take a picture because she is definitely not dumb enough to let me trick her into this again.  At least not for a month or two.  And I'm probably not dumb enough to do it again because she HATES getting her hair done and is so wiggly that I'm guessing it took me longer to do her hair than the actual amount of time she'll leave it in.

And yes, she stands that close to the TV when I do her hair.  Because that's the best way to get it done.  Although I should mention that during this hair do we wandered from the hall to the bathroom to her bedroom to the family room.  The TV just happened to be our final stop.

Yeah for Fresh Snow!

Chapter 3

If our life was a novel, I feel like we've had two chapters so far.

• Chapter 1:  Being married.  Living in Provo and going to school.
• Chapter 2:  Living in the Frost's basement.  Having Megan.  A super busy daddy working and going to school at the U.

And now we're moving on to the next chapter.  It is stressful around our house at the moment trying to get the next chapter rolling along with Christmas, but we're excited.

• Chapter 3:   Bought a house in Layton.  Baby #2 arrives May 2013.  Patrick graduates from school and continues working at the state.  Alisha works two days a week to try to get hours for her CPA.

Well glad to get that off my chest to the blogging world.  :)  Unfortunately I have no relevant pictures to add to this post.  Partially because I am bad at taking pictures lately and partially because I am not completely sure about the location of our camera.  Probably still in a box somewhere.  Gosh I am slow at unpacking.  But a post is no good without pictures, so here are some pics from Halloween.  That way this post is a two for one.  Halloween and general life update!

Nasty pumpkin guts.  Megan didn't like them much.

Mom and Megan the bumblebee and pumpkins.  And of course baby.

Dad and Megan and pumpkins.

 The fam and pumpkins.

Great pic of these two.  Love their candy eating faces.  Best buds Megan the bumblebee and Nathaniel the pirate.

And the cute girls.  Pictures are practically impossible with toddlers!

A Terrible Two Year Old! :)

Megan is two now.  It happened over a month ago, but things have been a little crazy around here and I have not updated the blog in forever.  But I love my terrible two year old and wanted to do a little update on her and her birthday celebrations.

It was still fairly warm so we celebrated with the Frost's at a park in Kaysville and went to a corn maze with the Clayson's to combo celebrate Patrick and Megan's birthdays.  I need to steal pics from my mom for the party at Cornbelly's, but here are pics from the party with the Frost's.

Talking Talking

Megan is getting better and better at talking.  I wanted to record some of the cute things she says lately.  She makes me laugh.  She is getting a larger vocabulary everyday, but her pronunciation is still not great so she still requires mommy ears a lot of the time.  But it'll come.  I think I must mumble or talk really unclear and that's why she can't pronounce anything.  But I'm sure with time she'll get better.

Here are some of the things I hear everyday...

• I ask her if she's ready for breakfast or lunch and she holds up her pointer finger and says "not quite"
• "Scary" (while putting her hand over her heart) and "skip" while she's watching a show
• "Two mellows" after she uses the potty (mellows=marshmallows)
• "Tank" for thank-you
• "Mommy, doin'?"
• "Meggy do" or "Meggy help"
• "Need booties!" - snow boots are her new favorite shoes
• While typing at the computer, "I need check e-mail."
• "Mommy save me!"  "Save me Jenna!" - this is her little imagination because her cousin Jenna is never around when she says this but she pretends Jenna is chasing her and I have to save her
• "Sshhh, qui" - for ssh be quiet when she wants us to whisper
• "No talk!" - not my favorite thing.  She says it to be rude.  The other day at dinner she told grandpa no talk so I said she needed to try to be nice.  So in the cutest voice she could muster she said "Grandpa no talk."
• And probably her favorite subject to talk about at the moment is The Lion King ("Lie King").  I hear about it all day.
• "Scary Lie.  Skip!" - I have to skip every scene that has Scar or the hyenas in it
• "Baby lie, cute." - in her sweetest voice
• "Ti pumba" - for Timon and Pumba and then she just starts laughing
• "Ti pumba ta ta" for Hakuna Matata
• "Sing Lie" and then she yells "Aahhh" trying to imitate the song at the very beginning of the movie

She's a doll.  But also becoming very two.

The other day she spit on me because I wouldn't give her any marshmallows for just sitting on the potty rather than actually going to the bathroom on the potty.  After she spit on me I told her she couldn't be by mommy again until she said sorry.  So I put her in her room and told her to come out when she would say sorry.  It took an hour and a half for her to say sorry!  And she made her best attempts to get out of  it.  About every 10 minutes she would come out of her room and in her sweetest, happiest voice say, "Mommy, came back!  Play Meggy."  I would ask her if she had something to say to me and then she would scream "No!" and run back in her room and throw a fit for another 10 minutes and try it all again.  She didn't say sorry until I sat on the floor with beads to make a necklace.  I cheated a little.  I knew she wouldn't want to miss out on the fun and I was sick of waiting for her to say sorry!  I wanted to get on with the day!

And some pictures for good measure.