Trick-or-Treat

Tonight was Trick-or-Treat, and of course we got madeline all dolled up for the occassion! Dorothy a.k.a Madeline even brought her pink puppy dog along for the ride. Before we left I pulled out my brown vest to wear. I guess I hadn't worn it since last fall, because I found a ticket to the Indiana game and a pink pacifier! It kind of made me sad. My Madeline is 2 years old. Last year at this time she was still taking a night-time bottle and a pacifier. Still a little bit of a baby, and now I have a big girl. Please, let's put time on pause, or at least slow it down a little bit.

Trick-or-treating went over really well this year. Madeline really got the hang of it, and by the time we pulled up to the 3rd house she was giggling her evil little laugh the whole way up to the door. Can't wait to see what next year will be like, though it can take as long as it wants to get here ;)

Ticket and paci. Where did my little girl go?

All bundled up ready to go...by the end of the night she was in a polar fleece!

Running to the first house. Success!

A Day in the Life of the Birthday Girl

What did this Birthday girl do on her big day?!?!

Stand up to meet crazy, singing, camera yielding mommy in the morning!

Decide I am NOT ready to wake up and fall back down, in attempts to escape crazy mommy.

Find my new tea set and play desserts, on my new table!

And LOVE them :)

Head to school, come home and take a nap.

Wake up, get dressed for tap class, and watch my new Tinkerbell Movie, which had me very serious!

Head outside to play for a bit before tap.

Have LOT'S of FUN!

Head to the club for dinner with Daddy and mommy.
Stop to say "hi" to some of the spooky monsters!

This little guy scared the bejesus out of me when he moved!

Madeline enjoyed her big dinner, and proceeded to run around the club with Food and Beverage Manager, Lisa. :) All in all a good day, and a GREAT 2nd Birthday.

Happy 2nd Birthday Madeline Grace

Happy 2nd Birthday to my beautiful daughter who every day makes my life happier, brighter and more full of love than I could have ever imagined. Looking forward to celebrating many more birthdays with you. Though maybe we could slow them down a bit, this is all happening way too fast. :)

2nd Birthday Party!

This weekend we had Madeline's 2nd birthday party. Oh my, do I really have a two-year-old?!? It's crazy how fast time is flying. Madeline and her friends had a great time on Saturday enjoying the fabulous weather and goodies! We had guests ranging from a butterfly to a tiger! The guest of honor went as Dorothy, since we already had Toto, it was an easy selection. More photos to come later, but here is a preview. (Photos courtesy of Aunt Sarah and Uncle Mark, since I couldn't get any of Madeline in her costume!)

Mmmm, fully enjoying her cupcake! Who wouldn't?

The Itsy Bitsy Spider...

...Pumpkin!

Since Madeline's big Birthday bash is this weekend, I decided that it would be a good idea to get a jump on some of the decorations! After nap we got to work on Madeline's very own pumpkin. Madeline had fun helping me put all of the pieces on Mr. Pumpkin, though I do think she decided it was a girl. She loves it! This morning she woke up and ran to the kitchen table with "OHHHHHH!" and then promptly followed it up with "Hiiii, Hiiii!" and a wave of course.

Getting ready!

Giving the pumpkin a hug, after all "we are going to be friends, right?"

Now what am I supposed to do with this stuff again?

Ohhhh, I get it!

Half way there! Three more legs to put on Miss. Spider Pumpkin.

Clearly Madeline and Miss. Spider Pumpkin had some very important things to discus after assembly.

The finished product, pretty cute right?

BOO!

Photoshoot: 2 Years Old!

Yesterday we all went to the Alumni Gardens at the Hintz Family Alumni Center, where mommy used to work, on campus at Penn State. We met a photographer there to get some good shots of Madeline at 2 years-old, and of our family. Since I am usually the one taking most of the photos, we don't have a lot of the three of us together. It was a gorgeous, sunny, fall day. We got lots of photos around the gardens and the pond with the duckies! Madeline was in heaven. I can't wait to see how they turned out. Of course I had to grab a few of my own photos before we left!

"Sitting Pretty"

"Strolling"

Hayride at Harner Farm!

I realized that I never had a chance to post the photos from our field trip with Madeline's daycare last week! We had a gorgeous sunny fall day for our hayride and even got to pick a pumpkin and sample some apples! Madeline had a blast, and mommy had fun taking all of the photos she could!

Madeline's amazing teachers!

Waiting for the hayride to start!

Mommy, no more photos...

On the hayride.

Hmmm, do I really want to eat this?

I'll give it a go...

One of the spooky things on our hayride.

Pumpkins!

Madeline found hers!

Noah and Madeline eating their apples.

Getting one for mommy.

Someone was working hard!

Saying "hi" to the smelly goats!

Pumpkin Picking

On Sunday we headed to pick some of our pumpkins out! It was 70 degrees and sunny, a perfect day for the patch...so we headed out to see what we could find. Madeline had a blast, as always, and picked out several of her own pumpkins!

Ready to get started!

Helping daddy pull the wagon.

CHEESE!

Cutest pumpkin of the patch wouldn't you say?

I can get it....I can get it...

Our three pumpkins, Poppa, Momma, and baby. :)

Well, we tried.

Being silly with daddy.

Smiles :)

Saying hi to the scary monster.