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Monday

"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is."

(Thanks Mansour family for the skirt, shoes & accessories! So cute.)

Friday

Feel the beat from the tambourine...ooh yeah!

Sienna is now 3 years old...just kidding. I just needed to make fun of myself for not blogging for a whole month. Things have been super busy so this is not a full update, but hopefully entertaining enough for the meantime. Some of you may have seen one of these video's on Facebook (I just started typing Facepage. I might be losing my mind a little) but here it is again with another video of (Dig it?) my Dancing Queen...

This one is her singing Mamma Mia in her bed. I am listening through the baby monitor...

Obviously, Sienna is a ABBA/Mamma Mia fan. Feel free to judge my parenting.

Monday

Where do we LIVE?

Even our Ohio, Rochester & Massachusetts family must be impressed - we are getting some REAL snow. Crazy up-to-your-waist kind of snow. This past weekend we had 35" of snow. And we are apparently getting 10"-20" again tomorrow. Did we move to a Dakota? (It's cold in the Dakota's, right? I am basing my information on when I watched the movie, Fargo. The people in the movie looked pretty cold.) Check it out!

The snow is almost as tall as Sienna...

The sun is finally coming out. (Yes, the house looks different - Daniel was in the middle of re-painting until we moved to Fargo.)

My sad, buried, 4 Runner...

Daddy & Sienna next to my sad, buried 4 Runner...

Stay tuned - Our next snowstorm is scheduled to arrive in less that 24 hrs!

Friday

So cute!

Check out these shoes that the North Carolina De May's sent Sienna for her birthday!

I love them and wish they had them in my size.

Thursday

So, I have a 2 year old...

Yes, Sienna is now two. She will tell you that she is two and then hold out all of her fingers. It doesn't make sense but I haven't really corrected her because I think it is cute. We decided to throw her a party the day before her birthday with her little friends. After inviting her friends, siblings and parents to the celebration, we had a total of 46 people RSVP to the party. That was waaaay to many for the size of our house, but what can you do? Hope for the best? So we did. But then there was a Birthday Miracle - The morning of the party, it started to snow...

And most of the people who were planning on coming started to cancel. Now just to be clear, we love the people that we invited to the party. I just never expected that many people would be available to come and I was concerned about fitting about 50 people in my living room. So as it turned out, the snow ended up a good thing. The Young's, Adkins, Hunts, Jessie, Ladson, Dave & Kerry risked their lives for birthday cupcakes and it all worked out.

Sienna's Tinker Bell Party...

Our friend Jenny makes amazing cakes, so we asked her to make a cake for the party. She did, but the roads by her house were too slippery so she wasn't able to make the cake. Not a problem, though - we had already made extra cupcakes.

Barely awake after her nap, but ready for her party!

Time for her cupcake! She sat there wondering why everyone is staring at her and singing. People singing the birthday song to you is awkward no matter how old you are.

Yay - the singing is over!

Can I eat the cupcake now?

Of course, a Tinker Bell party does not complete a Meagher/Wright birthday celebration... The next morning (Sienna's actual birthday) we headed out to IHOP for brunch (she ordered chocolate milk from the server before we were barely seated) and then we went to Grandma and Pop Pop's house for a nap, dinner and, of course, the birthday blanket.

[MISSING FOOTAGE - my camera died before the birthday blanket. Anyone have pics to share? Email me and then I will update this blog!]

The next Monday, Jenny stopped by with the cake that never made it to the party. Is this amazing or what? A Tinker Bell cake!!!!!

Sienna checking out the cake. I think she was a little confused because it didn't look like what she thought cake looked like. But it was a delicious cinnamon cake with vanilla frosting. It was sooo good. (Thank you, Aunt Jenny and Uncle Bobby!)

Parental Advisory

For Christmas, Grandma and Pop-Pop gave Sienna a Raffi CD. I loved Raffi as a child, so I was excited to play the CD for Sienna. The very first day we put the CD on in the car, there was a request from the back seat to hear Track 7 "again Mommy?" I was surprised that she was listening to the actual lyrics and was understanding what the words were, but I knew why she liked the song. She knew a lot of the words in the song and it was silly. If you are not familiar, welcome to the Sienna's current favorite tune, "AikenDrum"...

There was a man lived in the moon, in the moon, in the moon. There
was a man lived in the moon and his name was Aikendrum.

And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle. He played upon a ladle and
his name was Aikendrum.

And his hair was made of spaghetti spaghetti spaghetti. His hair was
made of spaghetti and his name was Aikendrum.

And his eyes were made of meatballs meatbalss meatballs. His eyes
were made of meatballs and his name was Aikendrum.

And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle. He played upon a ladle and
his name was Aikendrum.

And his nose was made of cheese cheese cheese. His nose was made of
cheese and his name was Aikendrum.

And his mouth was made of pizza pizza pizza. His mouth was made of
pizza and his name was Aikendrum.

And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle. He played upon a ladel and
his name was Aikendrum.

There was a man lived in the moon, in the moon, in the moon. There
was a man lived in the moon and his name was Aikendrum.

Ok, it's cute, right? She loves pizza, cheese and spaghetti so I understood the facination with Mr. Aikendrum. I was fine with it until we had to listen to this (and ONLY this) every time we got in the car. The whole song is 1 minute and 15 seconds so technically, you could listen to it nearly 50 times in an hour.

I hadn't heard about this song until now, and I wondered if it was based on a folk tale or story. I decided to "google" Aikendrum. This is when the Parent Advisory warning comes into effect. This is was my result from my google search. (I'm serious - don't let your children see this.)

Ready?

Eek! Isn't that the worst? Ok, so that you don't have nightmares for a week, here is a picture of Sienna playing Bee-Bee-Boo! (Peek-a-Boo)

For some reason, this picture is a little creepy. I think I am done blogging for today.

Wednesday

Hanging out...

We have been hanging out at home recently. Mostly because it is COLD out. And windy. With snow all over the place from December's snowstorm. Plus, it's COLD out. Did I mention that already? Fortunately, the new kitchen is a big hit.

"Microwave-ing" her "wa wa" (translation: wa-wa = water)

Making a nice warm pot of lemon coffee.

Checking out the warm Wa-Wa.

Cutting an apple to go with her side of lemon and pizza.

Apparently it is sunny at this fine dining establishment. (By the way, someone should clean up the messy fireplace. It's bad for business...)

In addition to Sienna's recent culinary interests, she is also pursuing photography. In case you did not know, in order to take a photo, you must follow this specific process:

1. Put on your purple shoes (usually on the wrong foot).

2. Put on your silver necklace.

3. Tell Mommy to "Mile!" (the "S" is silent?) or say "Cheese!" and take the photo.

4. Take off the silver necklace.

5. Take off the purple shoes.

6. Repeat.

After a long day of cooking and taking photographs, she needs some well-deserved pampering at Salon A'la Daddio. Here are Daniel's most recent looks for her: