Mischievous Masterpiece

 The other night I caught Macyn in the act of scribbling all over the wall in her bedroom. I knew this day would come, but I just wasn't too prepared for it yet! The funny thing is, when I went into her room I said, "Macyn, did you color on the wall?" and she responds, "Yeah, I hiding!"

It just amazes me how simple their minds are. The only comeback she had was that she was hiding and coloring on the wall. So it makes me think she knew what she was doing was wrong - why else would she hide behind her chair and do it?

Oh, and when she told me she was hiding, she had a big grin on her face. What a mischievous little girl we have!

Little Mommy

She's growing up so fast!

Sunday Best

Today for church we had to dig into the closet and found a black dress that suprisingly fit (18 mo) and some tights that barely fit. She was pretty excited about her dress - what girl wouldn't love a little black dress? :)

This post is more for myself to remember some of those things that Macyn does which are pretty funny. Since she is learning more and more words everyday, here is what she has picked up on.

Macyn spilled tea on DH's shorts. So he went to go change and Macyn walked in on him and exclaimed, "Whoaaaaaaaahhhh Daddy!"

The other night it was super quiet in her room. Just as I was about to get up to go check on her (since its usually a bad sign when shes quiet that long), I heard a really loud giggle. I go in to find.....she buried herself under her stuffed animal pile. It was pretty funny. She said with much enthusiasm, "I hiding!" and now she will randomly go into her room and you can hear her yelling, "Mommy, hiding!" 

This morning Buddy had some poo poo stuck to his butt. So we said, "Buddy has yuckies on his butt." And that began the nickname of "yucky butt." She still called Buddy, "yucky butt." 12+ hours later. I really hope this isn't one of those things that she remembers.

One other story was, we asked her if she wanted to look outside at birds. She proceeds to grab Josh's phone and sit on the couch. She kept saying, "birds? birds?" Take a guess as to what she wanted....Angry Birds.

She is too dang smart, but its funny with what she comes up with!

It's beginning to look alot like...fall?

Since it has been chilly the past few days, and the fact that stores are starting to put out Christmas stuff already, I really wanted to put up the Christmas tree. Ha! I decided to make a compromise - put up a tree but only with fall decor instead. This also allowed me to see how Macyn does this year with a tree. She did pretty well decorating it with me and she is quite proud of it.  She will point at it and say, "eck-or-ate-ing" mommy? me?" I had all the supplies in the house already so it was a cheap project. I had the orange lights from college, same goes for the leaf garland. The ornaments were the brown ones from our tree last year. Macyn got a little bit frustrated with trying to figure out the hooks on the ornaments, but she was okay with you helping her. 

Later on in the night she pointed to the ornaments and said, "ball?" She then proceeded to get out her golf clubs and hit them like golf balls.

I knew there was a reason why we bought plastic ones.

Chalkboard Touch up

Since Macyn's birthday is coming up (can't you tell its sneaking up on me all a sudden? haha) we bought her a play kitchen from Ikea when we went to MN a few weeks ago. The only thing it doesn't have was a fridge to go along with it. So my dad was going to build her one. Turns out we found one on a rummage sale instead and bought that! It actually matches pretty dang well. The only downfall was the outside has a chalkboard on it and it was pretty dinged/scratched up. We decided to hit up Menards and buy some chalkboard paint. Its the weirdest thing ever - pretty much you paint it, and its a chalkboard! It even feels like a chalkboard too. (please forgive my bad picture of the paint - darn auto focus!) They had dry erase board paint too, but it was double the price. So if anyone ever needs a chalkboard or anything, I am willing to let you have some paint! So it turned out pretty well, except where the painters tape didn't cover so well. We had some paint bleed under it. Anyways, here are the before and after pictures. It turned out pretty well!

Before

After

Cupcake Tower

This past fall at rummages, I didn't have too much luck. But I did find some things - such as this (brand new, in package) $1 cupcake tower. I thought I would re-purpose it for Macyn's birthday coming up. We will be doing a Minnie Mouse party with pink and zebra print. Since its already black, its a good start. I will not be using the stand it is on and will be substituting it for canned goods wrapped in zebra print fabric. On the bases themselves, I have made pink circles that will cover up the holes. I have looked into make one completely from scratch, but this is way more cost efficient and way less effort. I hope to make zebra printed and pink polka dot cupcake wrappers as well. I have an idea of how it will look in the end, let's just hope it turns out!