Dad and Lynn Quick Visit

Dad and Lynn stopped by briefly yesterday before Lynn flew back to Ruidoso. I actually started this post a month ago and totally forgot what I was going to write. But, doesn't everyone look great!

Daddy's Underwear

So, now Morgan and I are both sick... again. I'm so bummed because we are missing a play date at Robin's house, our aerobics class and Zoey was also supposed to come over tonight. Being sick sure does put us off our schedule! I thought that he was just teething at first. Right now he has his 2 front teeth on the top and the 2 front teeth on the bottom. We can see the next top 2 teeth coming in and his bottom gums are swollen. Poor baby!

I couldn't resist posting this. I've been half-way mothering and half-way laying in bed this morning. All moms should know that something is going on when the house is quiet. And, I should point out that this dresser is 3 inches from the bed where I was laying. Mr. Morgan pulled out every single pair of Daddy's underwear! Now you all know that Dan wears boxers. Oh well, I couldn't NOT share this!

Still... not sleeping... or eating.

Ok, so I decided to take a few shots since he's not sleeping... or eating. I can see the teeth coming in next to his existing top two teeth. Currently he has 2 on top and 2 on bottom. This is the first time I've ever let him play in a diaper without pants or shorts... odd huh? The camera battery died after a few minutes. So, here are the fruits of my 3 minutes of labor. That's too bad that the camera died. I was planning to take a picture of my puffed up eye from Becky's cat. I'm not a cat girl.

Morgan, Boy Wonder, Won't Sleep

Morgan (I guess) is teething. I'm going to deduct that from the fact that I'm operating on about 2 hours of sleep from last night. Now, it's nap time at 10:30am and he won't sleep. Here's a video of him. He keeps repeating Aaat-ohhh!, Aaat-ohhh!, Ahht - Ooooh! Maybe he's saying ut-oh? We have a playgroup in an hour. So, this kiddo better go down! I can't believe that he isn't tired. He's living on no sleep and I hauled him to the grocery this morning and then over to Wendy's house to see her new baby.



Tina came yesterday and Morgan walked about 5 steps to her. Tina and I sat down on the ground about 5 feet apart from each other and Morgan walked independently back and forth to each of us. It was so cool! But, he's not walking on a regular basis. So, when do you count the first steps? It seems that some of the things with babies come on so gradually. I always thought that they just got up and walked one day. It's not like that. And, that concept spreads throughout all sorts of things. For example, he's not all the way on real people food. He still eats a lot of pureed foods. Sometimes I think that I hear him say a word. But, who knows? The words we think that we hear are dog (favorite), ball, balloon, mama, dada. He also does the touchdown symbol. We stole that from AJ. He loves to clap his hands and can high five you.

Tonight he is going over to Wyatt's house while Dan and celebrate Bethanie's big 3-0!!! woo hoo!

Seeing More in Morgan Every Day

This morning was one of those mornings that I feel so blessed to be a mom. Morgan loves to dance to music. And, by dancing I mean pretty much bounce all over the place. He had his little toddler praise CD in this morning and he was bouncing all over the place and just laughing his little head off. I of course, being such an emotional mom, started crying as I watched him. It was just the most beautiful sight to me. It also made cleaning up the kitchen much more fun than it should be.

Becky and I took the kiddos to the gym and met a new mom that I met this past Sunday at church. Jennifer has a little 6 month old son named Jonathan. She only lives a couple of streets over from Becky and a few down from me. We took all three babies in the indoor pool for about an hour. He SCREAMED HIS HEAD off when I took him out. Ohhh... he was maaaad to get out of the pool. Yep, he is for sure a little water baby. Becky and I put Zoey and Morgan on the ledge of the pool and grabbed their hands pulling them in the water. Morgan would just dunk under and come up smiling and laughing. He never choked on water. I dunked him under over and over and over again. I have no idea how he knows how to not suck in the water. This must be a talent inherited from his grandfather and myself. We were both swimmers.

This past Saturday I went to the Fun Run for little Caden. On July 26, 2007 his family discovered that a knot on Caden’s head was thought to be a bone tumor. After further testing, he was diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma. Tumors were located in his left adrenal gland, abdomen, liver spine, sternum, bone marrow, and two in his skull. His family is now responsible for an $18K deductible and $45,000 for Caden’s stem cell transplant, which was deemed an “Out of Network” procedure by their insurance company. To learn more you can visit www.projectcaden.com. I'm wearing the run t-shirt in the pics below.

The pics below are from Saturday afternoon. It was Natalie's 1st birthday party! What a blast! The Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train came to their house. Morgan was a little scared. But, he had a great time. He also walked a few steps for the first time! He walked right over to Matt Kerper. My mom and a whole bunch of my friends were able to see it too. He just did it right in front of everyone. He hasn't repeated it since then. But, I have noticed that he is walking (with a hand) much steadier now.

Kick'n It 80s Style

Morgan spent the night at GG's this past Friday and we went to Ginger's birthday party. She went ALL out. The Hummer limo was huge! I bet that we could have fit 15 people in there easily. She rented out the roller skating rink and had a DJ and Blue Goose cater. Ginger even had 3 fortune teller women in a section draped off with special "Merlin" fabric. It was a blast.

Here's a shot of a few of the girls. I don't know if you can tell. But, I have crimped and ratted hair. My jeans are all ripped up and I am wearing a Motley Crue t-shirt, blue eye shadow, lots of black eyeliner and a bandana around my leg. I'm an 80's metal chick. Ha! Dan spent forever ripping up old junkie jeans.

GG Has Her Own Fan Club

My mom is also known as GG to Mr. Morgan. She took this photo to show off her own fan club. Ha!

My New Dream Bathroom

I especially like the song that they play with this video clip. Can you imagine having this kind of money? Mary, this is even better than "Penguin Money". For those of you that don't know what that means... my sister said she aspires to be "Penguin Rich". She figures that if anyone has made it to a point where they can have a penguin habitat in their home... they've made it. I think that this bathroom give the term a run for it's money.

Oh, and you can't tell. We are really into our fish lately.

Our Fish Aquarium

Dan and I got rid of our aquatic turtles and started a cichlid tank about 10 months ago. Here are some pictures for everyone's viewing pleasure!


This button is for www.dallasfishbox.com. This is the site where I learn everything. I'm still surprised that we haven'e killed everyone off!