First Day of School!

School is here and Morgan handled it like a champ! Here he is with his lunchbox and curious George. He has a huge lunch cooler with two ice packs. It's a little heavy for him. So, he has to drag it. Morgan had fish sticks, vegetables and strawberries for his first school lunch. It was almost like he's been waiting for this day. He made a mad dash for the door.
Then, my sweet child actually pushed me out of the way to get into the classroom. He's in the tulip class with Mrs. Michelle and Mrs. Dee.
No tears. Morgan was so thrilled to go to school.
Benjamin is in his classroom this year. He was sad. His mom, Melissa, did a great job. Jennifer and I watched him for a little bit while she hung back out of sight.

The first day of school flew by! I thought that I would have tons of time and get a bunch of projects done. I ended up spending the entire time grocery shopping, working on bills and budget spreadsheets. It was an amazing experience to grocery shop without a child! Where did the time go? I'll have to postpone breaking down the aquarium and cleaning everything out until his next day on Friday. Fun!

Happy 18 Months!

Morgan turned 18 months old yesterday. Today is the first day of his MDO program. I've been up since 5am. My sweet little baby is going to school today! Here are 18 precious things about Morgan in honor of achieving 18 months.

1. It's so precious that you are a man's man. Morgan makes a bee-line for any man in the room. It's almost like you can see that he wants to be just like them and imitate them. He's going to be Dan's perfect little golfing and hunting sidekick.
2. You're still sucking that thumb.
3. You will tell us, "night night" if you are super tired. You are getting to be such a great little communicator.
4. You are a lover... such a sweet sweet soul. You love to hug your friends and stuffed animals. Yesterday we bought your Elmo costume for Halloween and you hugged and hugged it. (It has a giant stuffed Elmo head on it.)
5. You want to figure things out so badly. It's precious watching your frustration when you can't make something do something you want it to do. You'll get there baby! Your mind is just working faster than your strength and your dexterity.
6. You're fast! You can get to an open toilet in about half a second! How did you go from an immobile blob to speedy Gonzales?
7. You are opinionated. You can rarely be tricked into eating something if you don't like a food.
8. You have such a good memory! I'm already amazed at how quickly you pick up and remember things.
9. You want to be like Mom. How cute you are! I guess that my black calculator does look like my phone. You held it up to your ear and babbled into it for almost our entire grocery shopping trip yesterday.
10. You dance on command. Now, that's just cute!
11. You aren't shy. I can take you anywhere and you are ready to be the life of the party.
12. Water baby! I had to turn my face away to keep from laughing in your face when you threw a fit in the bathtub when the water drained out. You laid your entire naked body face down to try to get the last bit.
13. You are such a great little discoverer. Now you are figuring things out and running to either come show me or grab my hand and bring me to whatever you want to show me.
14. I heard you snore the other day. It was ever so quiet. I love listening to you breathe.
15. You are getting to be more flexible. We were able to go until 12:30 for your nap yesterday. You just switched to one nap a day! Freedom!
16. Your teeth are adorable. You have four on top, two on bottom and molars coming in. The next bottom 2 incisors are also starting to make an appearance.
17. You are a sweet kisser. I can ask for a kiss and you pucker up your mouth and make the smoochy kissing sound.
18. You are my little pal. I love spending time with you!

Good luck on your first day of school today baby!

Long Time, No Blog!

I know that I haven’t written in a while. I think that sometimes when I have so much that has to be written that I put it off to do all at once. We were gone for 2 weeks in Colorado and I have a million photos and videos to sift through! I promise that I plan to get right on that next week.

Morgan starts his Mother's Day Out program next week. I am soooooo excited! He will attend twice a week. Last night Dan and I went to meet the teacher night. He has 3 teachers in his room, a music teacher and a gross motor skills teacher. Their schedule is packed with lots of things in about 15 minute incriments. Toddlers have such short attention spans!

My friend Amy sent me one of those forwards that has a bunch of questions. You read your friends answers and then answer back with your own. One of the questions was, when was the last time that you cried. I feel like I’m always crying when I hear moving music. Nichole Nordeman has several songs that I love to cry to. Sometimes you just need a few tears to put things in perspective. I love her song Legacy. I feel exactly the way the song describes. I want to leave my own legacy. I guess that I look at Morgan as my legacy, and look forward to pouring everything into him. Check out the video.



Her song Holy makes me bawl.

Did I mention that I also cry at a particular IAMS dog food commercial.

Christi & Tommy in Town

Christi and I have know each other for over half of our lives! Wow! I just realized that a lot of my friends have been friends for over half of my life. That means I'm officially getting old. The four of us went to Mimi's for breakfast this morning. Tommy is going to be 10 on Wednesday. I remember when he was born. He's huge now! I just kept looking at Tommy thinking that someday my sweet tiny Morgan is also going to be a big guy. Boo hoo! Morgan had his first gummy worm. The waiter brought a little breakfast dessert of worms 'n dirt... mmm yummy. I thought that Morgan would have a hard time eating a gummy worm. Nope, he chowed down on it.

I look very tired and worn out here. But, it's the only picture I took of the two of us.

After lunch we took the kiddos to Petland. Christi bought this cute little pocket beagle and
Tommy named her Molly. I didn't even know that beagles came in a "pocket" version!

Neighborhood Nuisance

I love our neighborhood. It's so family friendly. We have a few families on the next block over that are ALWAYS out in their front yards. We call them the super families because they are always doing stuff with their kiddos. We saw a flyer on our mailbox when we returned from Caley's Sip 'n See. They have a neighborhood band called Neighborhood Nuisance and they were holding a concert in the culdesac. How fun! So, Dan and I walked about 8 houses over to check it out. Morgan immediatly started dancing in his little car. They had the street blocked and the kiddos were running all over the place. One kid behind us yelled, "you rock dad!". It was a great little event to wear Mr. Morgan out before bedtime.