Where's Shannon?

Shannon has gotten really into hiding, sneaking, and surprising us lately. She likes to say "boo!"

Our curtains in the family room have become the venue for a nightly game, "Where's Shannon?"

(Be sure to turn your volume up so you can hear her giggling/answering while she's hiding!)

Busy, busy

It's time to catch up on a month's worth of posts that I just haven't seem able to find time for. Make sure you work your way all the way down to the post about Mike and Hanna's wedding, and we'll all be caught up!

Our DC Friends

On this episode of Shannon's Travels...

We finally made our way down to DC to visit Monica, Steve and Addie at their new house. Ever since our fun weekend at the beach, we've talked about how it was our turn to come visit them in DC. And this weekend, it happened!

We left bright and early on Saturday morning but pointed our car to Baltimore. Notre Dame was playing Navy at the Ravens stadium and Chris' friends found him a ticket. Since it was right on the way, Shannon and I dropped him off before driving the rest of the way to DC.

While Daddy was in Baltimore watching the game, we spent the afternoon with fellow one-year old Addie (who celebrated her big birthday on Monday) doing all sorts of fun one-year old things, like...


Going to the playground

Running away from Mommies and Daddies

Picking up mulch, trying to eat mulch, finding new mulch...

Chris took the train down after cheering the Irish on to victory. Hanging out at the house, we...

Giggled about Addie's new Barbie Jeep as the girls climbed all over it...

Added to Addie's birthday loot

Necklaces!

Ate yummy food all weekend and then had a post-dinner dance party (oops, didn't get pics of either!)

Took a bath

Had a naked baby-fest in Addie's room (rats, no pics on my camera of this either!)

And then shared some jammie kisses.

The plus side to waiting so long to visit DC is that we also got to visit Marty in his new apartment down there. Shannon and Percy reunite!

Another fun weekend, but we're certainly looking forward to a relaxing weekend at home next week!

Grammy and Gramps Visit

This weekend we weren't travelling, but we were busy hosting. My parents came for a long weekend in early November.

While Mommy, Daddy and Grampers were stuck working, Shannon and Grammy got to spend long days play, play, playing the day away. And having photo shoots...

On Saturday morning, we all got to go to the zoo. It was a rainy, overcast day but we decided to give it a whirl anyway. And we were so glad we did! The animals were incredibly active because of the weather. We almost got sprayed by the elephants who were splish-splash-taking-a-bath less than 10 feet away!

After church on Sunday, Shannon showed off her driving skills in the driveway.

Thanks, Gramps!

Thanks for coming, we had fun!

Halloween

Mooo!

Miss Shannon trick or treated as a cow this year. (In McGee culture, 2008 is the year of the cow. :)We completed her outfit with some cowbells (from a race Chris ran earlier this fall) and her mooing cow flashlight gifted to her at her birthday by Marty.

What really pulled the whole costume together was Shannon's latest trick: knowing that a cow say moo. (Although we do miss her old answer/pronunciation to the same question... cows that say Moe.)

What happened to the Phanatic costume idea, you ask?

As World Series fever was sweeping through the city, we got the brilliant idea to make Shannon a little Phanatic (the Phillies' mascot). Unfortunately, we couldn't find green fur and the fabric spray paint suggestion from a nice lady at Joann Fabrics just didn't do the trick. So here's the costume as it stands today.

Gonna finish it and maybe we'll show it off at Opening Day 2009!