Hobbits

My kids are hobbits. When they use and know the terms "First Breakfast" and "Second Breakfast" and "Breakfast Lunch," they are hobbits. I told my husband these terms, and he sent me the above picture.

Gwyn Turned 2!

Yes, this sleeping beauty turned 2 this month! (In the above picture, she was waiting on the bed for someone to snuggle with and fell asleep waiting.) Her birthday was April 3, but we didn't have her party until last weekend. It was just family, but for us that is a lot of people! We had 4 grandparents, one great-grandma, my 2 brothers, 2 uncles, 1 aunt, 4 great-aunts, 2 second cousins, and the 5 of us.

Here a a few pictures from the party. 

Kevin worked most of the day on this home-made cake. (Not even cake mix from a box!) One wind was vanilla, and the other was chocolate.)

Colin led everyone in singing. Of course Gwyn was scared, so I had to be by her side.

Eating leftover cake the next evening.

 She is 36 inches tall, and weighs about 33 lbs. She is talking up a storm, and regularly uses 2-3 words together. One of my favorites is when she turns around and puts her hands out and says "Back!" to let us know she will be back. She also loves books, (Current favorites are The Nose Book and Hand Hand Fingers Thumb) brothers whom she calls Bubby and Colin even though Kevin wants her to use his name, running around the house making us cheer her on, walks, milk, playing with friends at school, and basically trying to do anything her brothers are doing. She is getting quite bossy, and sometimes pushes at school, but that is because she is trying to wrestle. I have told her brothers that she is too young and doesn't know she can't wrestle other kids at school, but they love playing with her. She drinks from normal cups, walks up and down stairs without railings, jumps, draws, and takes care of her baby. She says "rock baby" when she rocks it to sleep. She also loves for us all to sing to her when she gets put down for bed. We all have specific songs we sing. The boys sing the songs they made up for her. She doesn't get to hear us all sing every night, but that doesn't stop her from asking! She likes purses, bracelets, and lots and lots of snuggles.

 Here are two pictures of her from when she turned 1. Her hair is so much longer now!

More Funny Pictures

Until I get Gwyn's birthday post up (She has been 2 for a few weeks now, but we just had the party.) here are a few more pictures of the kids with funny faces. I know there are a lot, but I was laughing so hard while posting them, and could hold back.

Those Strange Kids

Here is one picture of the boys sleeping. They sleep in the same bunk almost every night. I had to get at least one picture.

Gwyn's new thing is driving. She gets upset and cries when we don't let her drive.

McKerr Weekend April 2013

We have had so many of these, I am not linking any of the other posts. You should just know by now.

This past weekend all the McGuire's headed to Kansas City for the Brew to Brew run on Sunday. Steve and Kevin ran the relay race with fellow UMR runners, and ended up winning! Yea! It was a 44 mile race from Boulevard Brewery to Freestate Brewery. It even crossed a river, requiring runners to use a ferry to cross.

Back to the weekend. We arrived on Friday evening, with Gwyn riding in the car sitting like this. Really?

The boys were excited to sleep in Hannah's room.Unlike last time, Hannah did not kiss the boys. Super G slept in Olive's room, and it pretty much turned into them passing things back and forth while talking.

Most of the weekend was dominated with parks and games, and with Gwyn worrying every time we got in the car asking "Olive? Hannah?" We took all the kids to Deanna Rose Farmstead Saturday morning. I knew we would like it since Megan blogs about it so much. Even though it was crazy windy, it was great. Gwyn did not like the goats at first, but recovered with daddy holding her.  There was even fishing, horse-back riding, and an intense, confusing potato sack race.

While the guys were racing Megan and I took the kids to an awesome park with a lake, trails, a couple playgrounds, and even a small town for the kids to play in. Afterwards we even got to go to Pizza Shoppe! My favorite pizza place! I don't get to go since Kevin can't stand it.

And now for the games: insert a slow clap for the Kerr's. They were great. The first was Cards Against Humanity. (If you need a gift for me, I will take the game and the expansion packs!) It is Apples To Apples for horrible people. Perfect for us. The second was a card game called Wizard. It is a step up from a game we call Up Down (because neither Kevin nor I can remember the real name). It is now Kevin's favorite game and we are trying to find it here in St. Louis.

I have no idea how it happened, but we did not get a picture with all 5 kids. But it would have been adorable if we did, since this was the first McKerr weekend in a while without vomit!

Gwyn's First Haircut

One day after her 2nd birthday, Gwyn finally got a haircut! I have been telling Kevin that she needed the ends trimmed, but he was never ready. So after a few weeks, he chose a date and I didn't let him back down. (I think he was the most worked up.)

We had the boys both get haircuts first. Colin did a great job showing her how to sit still. When it came to her time, she would only sit if she could hold my hand and the bag of chocolate daddy brought. Once she saw how easy it was, she relaxed. In the end, she only had about 1 inch cut off, but it looks much healthier!

Let's Play Catch-Up

I am finally back to blogging.  Yes, I am going to blame the Kerr's for taking out camera charger. Because of them we hardly have any pictures from our McWeekend with them. (Okay, I guess it is my fault for not blogging.) Here are somethings that have happened in the past month or so.

I closed my elbow in a car door. It hurt really bad.

We had the Kerr's over near the end of January. While in town, we took them to the City Museum. I was excited about finally going since we have been talking it up for years. But every time they visit it is either too cold, raining, or 90 degrees out. It was about 50 for the latest visit, which was perfect! Even Gwyn was climbing, and she went through every tube outside, including the really tall one. (That girl wants to do everything, so why should I have said no?) Of course, our camera died, and I couldn't find the charger the night before, but only because I didn't look in the Kerr's luggage. That night we had Jess and Bryan over as well for some Olympics. It was epic. And hilarious. We don't have many pictures from the trip, but the Kerr's do.  Here is their take on the weekend, along with the few shots we got.

Evil Kevin made an appearance!

Final scores.

Kevin took the boys to the Cross Country National Championships in Forest Park. I think it would have been more fun if Kevin (son) didn't throw things at the runners when they ran by. My husband was embarrassed and enraged.

 Evil Kevin was around for a few weeks.

 But normal Kevin is back.

We did not have snowmageddon, but we did get snow. (It took Kevin about 2.5 hours to drive home the first day.) I stayed home with the kids enjoying the new fireplace, making sure it was roaring by the time Kevin got home. For the first time, ee even got to use the sled the boys got for Christmas in 2011! They loved it. And we found the the hill in our front yard works wonderful until we can all head out to the bigger hill in our neighborhood. We went sledding about as often as possible, and the boys spent even more time just playing in the snow. Gwyn? Well, she got all geared up and then stood and cried. Then she cried for being left out of sledding, and then cried from the sledding. It was lose-lose. But she seemed to enjoy getting her boots on and watching the boys play.

Just a family watching America's Test Kitchen. 

One of our weekly attempts at getting laundry done.