Turkey Day '09

For the past several years, we have spent Thanksgiving with good family friends, the Jacobsens. This year, being Jack's first shot at real turkey, was an extra-special event!

Vegetables will be served at Thanksgiving? Yuck! I thought it was all just going to be turkey!

Scott (who was very jealsous of Jack's sweater-vest) explaining the finer points of how the turkeys were cooked and, more importantly, that there were two barbequed turkeys this year!

Two turkeys?!

Oh man, that's a lot of turkey...

OK- I think I can do it! Those turkeys don't stand a chance!

After all the turkey-feasting, Jack sat down to eat some sweet potatoes, but decided it would be way more fun to just squeeze them between his fingers.




Walking off all that food.









Ready for bed with Grammy

Who Does Number Two Work For?

Amy is going to kill me for posting this because it's wrong on so many levels... but it's darn funny- I don't care who you are! What a face! He needs a stick to bite on.

Zobbler-Fest 2009

Up until now Jack has only received zobblers... but last night he retaliated BIG TIME while Amy and he were on Skype with Gramma Jean, Gramps and Auntie T.C.! Turn the volume up and you can hear him get in some good ones!

Santa Claus is Coming To Town

It's officially Christmas Time in the McGuire house. Jack has made his first visit to the Big Guy. We anticipated him fearing Old St. Nick but instead he LOVED Santa. (This is better than our dog Luigi did - he was terrified of Santa). Jack's Christmas wish list included a flame thrower - or that's what Ryan claims anyway. Funny how Ryan asks for one each year and never receives it. Maybe he is trying to go through Jack now...

Here is Santa's Little Helper!

Never say "NO!" to Jack

Video of one of Jack's first temper tantrums. Amy took away a plastic bag so he wouldn't suffocate himself- well that's just no fun at all!

After we made fun of him for a while and after he took a bath, we caught him doing some serious posing in his Hugh Hefner Edition bathrobe. This is male modeling at its finest!

"Be a tiger stalking something in the jungle. That's it! That's it!"

"Now be tall like a giraffe! Yes! Yes!"

"You're an animal! A hungry beast of an animal! Yes!"

Now play possum. You're dead! Dead! Yes!!!"



"You and your wild dog have just spotted prey on the horizon. Yes! Yes!"




"Now be pouty. Very pouty. That's it! Yes!"



"Show me sexy! YES! YES!"

After all the modeling, Jack finally went to bed sporting his new designer Sponge Bog Square Pants Christmas pajamas and winter hat. Ladies beware!

Piggy Flu Strikes the McGuires :(

Oh no!! Jack visited the Dr. today with a high fever, runny nose, cough and general yucky feeling. Dr. said he has the flu and most likely it is the H1N1 version. Luckily for us, it doesn't seem to be a very strong case. He just needs tylenol, rest and fluids and hopefully he should be back to his smiley self shortly. Now mommy feels pretty crappy too so we are going to take a couple of days and get ourselves better:)
- Oink Oink from the McGuires

More Halloween

Some more highlights from Halloween. These are some good pictures that the Phillips family took:

Claire and Susie trick-or-treating us.

Our little Hulk.

Susie and Claire again- cool costumes!


Mr. Incredible's guest appearance- fresh after an intense workout.




Mr. Incredible loved that the ladies kept checking out his butt... until he realized they were taking pictures of his Incredible Wedgie!

Ann's zombie-brains appetizer demonstrating what can happen in a freak pizza-cutter and knife accident. Mmmmmmm- delicious!

Mama Wins!!!!

Ok - I understand that this may not have meaning yet but let me warn you right now

"I DON'T CARE...I WON!!"

The Marathon

Jack's Godmother, Ann Phillips, ran her first full marathon (26.2 miles!) today. Up to this point she had only run around 20 miles at one time, but she finished the other 6.2 with energy to spare! She completed the course in 4 hours and 45 minutes. Can you even imagine???

If you recall from an earlier post, she was raising money for cancer research and it turns out she was the highest fundraiser there with over $5,500 in sponsorships! Congratulations, Ann!

Unfortunately, Amy had to fly to Atlanta for work and was uable to make the race, but Jack and I caught up with Ann several times during the event. Here she is just after finishing her sixth mile, which she ran in memory of Jack's great-grandfather, Ward Lawler. Still looking strong!

Jack was waiting for her at the finish line. He wanted to show off his killer "I'm an Ann Fan" shirt that his dad made last-minute at 6:00 A.M. Looks totally professional, huh?

Sorry- the smudge in the middle of all these pictures is leftover squash on the lense from the "airplane" contest (see previous post) last night. I didn't notice until I downloaded everything!

Best "Airplane" Contest

The author of this particular post shall remain anonymous in a valiant effort to prevent any bias being spread to the reader. Amy and Ryan have been having a friendly argument about who has the best feeding technique (i.e. airplane) for Jack. Below is an example of each technique. Please leave us your feedback. We want you to be the judge.

Okay, so here is Amy's (lame) attempt at an airplane. In reality, it is some sort of a Jetsons-wannabe-hybrid-spaceship-"airplane". Watch it fizzle.

Now, here is Ryan's (awesome) airplane. Notice proper RPM noise as the plane climbs and then you will hear the pitch change as the plane crests the apex. Bonus points are clearly in order for firing (sweet) machine guns into the target to open a hole large enough to drop the payload.

We appreciate your feedback in helping to settle our friendly dispute.

Ryan and Amy -or- Amy and Ryan

Parent-Teacher Conference

While she was pregnant, Amy and I always joked about how awful future parent-teacher conferences would be. We could only imagine what Little Jack would say to the teacher and then inform her that he'd heard that "remarkable" thing at home! We just thought it would be a little while longer before it actually happened...

The other day Amy picked him up from the daycare he goes to once a week. One of the ladies was acting like she wanted to say something to Amy and finally, very awkwardly, asked her, "Does Daddy burp in front of Jack a lot?"

What the heck!? I mean, yeah, I do- but come on!

After what I can only imagine was a pretty entertaining game of Twenty Questions Amy finally figured out that the woman was referring to Jack's growling. If you've been reading this blog regularly, then you already know he does that from time to time... actually a lot. Just watch the videos. So all this time the daycare has been thinking Jack's been trying to imitate Dad's burping! That's my boy!!

Anyway, Amy calmly explained that we read a lot of dinosaur books to Jack and he just likes to make those noises. So far his head hasn't spun around 360 degrees like on The Exorcist (although he does spit up green goo when he eats peas...) so we still think he's fine. Clearly, however, this is a sneak-peek into our future of things to come. Can't wait!

Water: Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

Jack has always enjoyed drinking water from his sippy cup, "Tommy Tippy", but last night he took it to a whole new level. For some reason he thought it was totally hilarious and then started laughing in a strange new way. I think we might have a weirdo on our hands... he must get it from his (grand)mother(s).

Happy Halloween!

Wow - Jack turned 7 months and had his first Halloween all in one day! We had a great time partying it up with the Phillips family: God-Weasel, God Momma, Susie, Claire and Nana (Ann's mom). Here are some pictures from our big day.

The Incredible Hulk and Kitty Cat Claire

Trick-or-Treating our very first house (Uncle Chester and Jerry across the street) If you look carefully you can see the Miss Susie Chiquita Banana herself.

Our great neighbors Chester and Jerry posing with the little Hulk who can't take his eyes off all that candy!

Mr. Incredible made an appearance and showed Susie his amazing strength. Even Luigi was impressed.

Mr. Incredible getting ready to take Jack to bed - mommy thinks he really is incredible!

"The Grillfather" better known as Godfather to the Phillips Family - cooking up some wicked roasted leg-of-zombie. Ryan told Susie (who is only four!) that the night before, a zombie had dug itself up in our backyard, but that he had killed it with a shovel and hacked-off one of its legs. He then informed her that was what we were having for dinner and showed her the roast spinning on the BBQ's rotisserie. Later, when Susie pointed out there was a hole in the center of her meat (from the skewer), Ryan told her that was where the zombie's leg bone had been. Way to go, Godfather! Susie will be a vegetarian for sure now!

Jerry, Chester and Jack.

Mommy ate too much Halloween candy at work :(

At the McGuire house we don't just carve pumpkins like normal people. Every year Ryan creates a pumpkin scene. The scene usually involves some sort of torture of mini pumpkins. There was the crazy chef cooking them up, then the evil Dr. Drill dentist performing root canals on them, and also the mini pumpkin guillotine slicing them in half. Well, 2009 was the year the mini pumpkins enacted their revenge on those giant pumpkins!

Walking the big pumpkins up to the Sacrificial Ramp of Death.

Roll - Roll - Roll - Roll !!!!!!!!!!

Death by Punji Sticks.

Wow - are we disturbed or what???