Mikaela's Finished BIG Girl room!!!!!

Here are the completed pics of Mikaela's Big Girl room makeover. I am so excited she got her room. She helped Mommy paint her stripes pick out her duvet cover and rug. She keeps saying "I love it!", "It's Beautiful Momma"

Molly's Completed room pics will be posted very soon. We have a few thing to complete in there. Touch up the paint

Crib Skirt

Shades

and putting the mound of baby clothes away

So keep checking the babymandm blog

Once Molly is here all pictures will be on the main famliy blog and will No longer be called Menards Cubed

halloween and room progress

Here are some of MiKay's room progress and some other Pics of her. Her finished room will be posted this weekend

Mikaela is getting a big girl room

Well instead of Miss Molly getting a whole new room Mikaela is getting a room makeover. We decided to pass on the vintage furniture to the baby's room and got MiKay new furniture to help her with the transition of not being the baby in the family anymore. MiKay will get her stripes changes to multi colors to match her fairy sheets. Along with a whole new window treatment. We will extend her toddler bed to a full length twin get her new bedding to go with her fairy sheets and brand new white bureaus. I cannot wait until it is done. Mikay and I once a week work on her stripes. I am having her help me paint them to take ownership of the change. Every time we finish a set of stripes she tells me she "Likes it" she has the cutest little voice.

Update on MiKay: she is starting to sing songs on her own alot more. A,B,C's, twinkle twinkle, certain songs on the radio, She likes to pretend she is Diego and runs around saying "Animal in trouble c'mon mommy animal in trouble". She grabs my hand and drags me to the play room or outside to save what ever animal is in trouble. So cute! What an imagination! She likes to make mommy and daddy sleep and then wakes us to give us breakfast( a pancake and Juice)

She is very active and very chatty. Oh yes and very much a 2 year old girl!!!

STORY LAND!!!!!

OK We just got back from North Conway N.H. WOW! It was great weather, good food and MiKay had a blast. She was so good! Poor thing, Matt and I tuckered her out. Our room was small we did lots of driving, walking and eating. We even got to do a little hiking. Mikaela went on every ride except 4 that had a height requirement. Mommy had restrictions too. We even stopped to climb the Sterling Cascade which you see above. Yes, Pregnant mommy and MiKay climbed this with Daddy. It was great. Sad to be back but it was just enough for myself and MiKay. We might even go back next year but we'll have a better idea on where to go and what to do. FYI for you New Englanders. Clark's trading Post not for Toddlers. It's something to said you saw but not realy worth the drive IMO. The Bear Show was cool but that was it. Enjoy the pics and be sure to check out the baby blog later this week.

she roasted her first marshmallow

Mikaela got to roast her first marshmallow. She thought it was great to roast them on her own. She did very well distancing herself from the fire too. She didn't like to est them but loved giving everyone a marshmallow to put on their stick and helping them hold them over the fire.

P.S. She also got stung by a wasp this week and we are happy to say not allergic. ( bee or wasp stings.) That was the last allergy concern we had left for her. My dad was allergic so you never know. She handled it very well no complaints unless you touched her arm. Now when she sees a bee or hornet she says eewwww sting eee ow ee ow. SO cute!

Strawberry Picking for MiKay

Mikaela and I went strawberry picking. It was a MOMS Club outing but we missed it due to swimming lessons. So MiKay and I went later that morning. She spent the entire time running after other little kids but once she figured out she could eat the berries she picked she got the hang of it. We were both a mess by the time we finished. To our surprise there were other moms there dress in their good clothes what were they thinking. All they did was complain on the hay ride back that their feet hurt from their high heeled sandals and they were strawberry stained. MiKay and I looked like we fell off he hay truck but we had a blast diggin the dirt looking for red berries.

She did AWESOME looking for only the red red berries. As you can see from out bucket we got 5.5 lbs of strawberries @ $1.99 a pound . Yes people, a pound!! Some place are $5.49 per quart.

Grandpa John you need to come down to go strawberry picking with us before the season is over. They are the cheaping strawberry picking farm around and the strawberries taste awesome!

Mudroom project in progress

Check it out Matty is on a role.. I am helping a little, what little I can do. Matty finally tiled the floor. I was going to do it until we read that there was lye in the cement or grout. I did end up helping with the grouting process. I did wear gloves. Wow what a job! It was harder because we bought textured porcelain tiles and the grout was in the groves pretty good. Matty did a wonderful job meticulously laying the tiles. It looks great now that the room is primes and tiled. Check out the stairs and the tile job