The McMahon Family

This week of pictures, Patrick managed to first get himself ‘accidentally’ kicked into the wall by his brother and cousin, causing a huge gash in his forehead (fortunately appeared much worse than it really was with all the blood covering his entire face when it happened), then get the door knob ‘accidentally’ closed into his cheek (again by his brother) causing an almost black eye. sigh.

Mac came down with a bad case of allergy/respiratory bug/possibly pre-asthma stuff this week.  He was up all night Monday coughing horribly and by the end of the night had a very hard time breathing.  So to make a long story short, Daddy took him to the doctor to make sure it wasn’t asthma and he ended up with orders to stay home, drink lots of fluids, rest and to nebulize.

Woof Woof went with him. Love it!

So Daddy took day one and Mommy took day two.  Doesn’t sound like a problem, except day two was picture day at school. I did not want to have to mess with make up day and since he didn’t have anything contagious, I asked his teacher if I could bring him in for the picture time, then head home to rest.  She said that was fine, so we headed in.  I waited in his classroom while the class was gone and did I strike gold!

In the hallway. I rang the little bell and got in trouble from Mac. “We aren’t supposed to touch those, Mom!”

Couldn’t agree more!

This was a bulletin board of all that God created. While I understand God didn’t make the plane directly, the other animals are adorable! And this is my ‘non art’ boy. Took him years to draw a person or animal, but look at him now! Love the green (brown to him) monkey! And don’t those little hand prints just melt your heart? 🙂

This next drawing isn’t by Mac, but a fellow classmate. However, I was confused/amused with what was between the people’s legs and just had to share!  Where do you think she was going with that?

So after I enjoyed myself in his classroom and hallway for a half hour, we headed home for more treatments and rest.

I finally won!

We attended our fourth Sweet Corn Festival last night.  After enjoying our baby ears of corn (didn’t quite grow too big this year!), we set out for the MTD bus and helicopter.

They took away my corn face cut out thing that I threw a fit about last year! But as we were walking around looking for it, we ran into an ear of corn.  So I figured, if my boys can’t be an ear of corn, they could get a pic with one.

It took a little bit of threatening persuasion, but Mac finally smiled nicely for me amidst the hundreds of people.  Then on our way to the inflatables, Mac wanted to try his hand at the hammer and earned these great prizes…yeah, they’re great…

They were given the choice of playing on the inflatables or getting the prizes.  They chose the prizes.  I can’t decide which would have been better…standing around while they did the inflatables or bringing home these little guys.  Oh well.  My boys had fun and went home happy, so I guess it was a win.  Sweet Corn Festival 2012

Is it sinful to be so proud of your children?  Cause that’s where I am.

I tried to teach Mac to tie shoes when he turned five.  It just didn’t work.  I told Shannon, it would have to be his job because Mac and I just frustrated each other when I tried to teach him.  So I gave up for awhile.  He went all through kindergarten not knowing how.  Tonight, I told him that he needs to learn this year.  So he picked up one of my old shoes and said “show me again.”  I showed him once and look what he did:

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Patrick has memory verses this year.  Look what he did this week!

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Look at the sixth name up from the bottom!