Spring Fever

I have spring fever bad and can't wait for the sun to shine all the time and the weather to warm up!!! It feels like this has been the LONGEST winter ever!! I am excited to get Morgan outside and helping us garden. For now we are stuck inside entertaining ourselves. Morgan is now obsessed with trying to put Dada's shoes on!! She gets mad if she can't get her foot in, I had to help her a little but the picture turned out perfect.

She is getting to be a little young lady....

This last Sunday we also got to babysit Maggie for the day, we had her from 730-430 and they got to play all day. It was also a huge reality check on what it would be like w/ 2 toddlers at the same tired and I have to say that I was TIRED at the end of the day. They were really cute together and really would interact, at one point they were babbling back and forth to each other!!

We only managed 45 minutes for a nap, at the same time and then they just didn't want to sleep. Needless to say they were very tired and cranky at the end of the day. It was fun to let them have all that time to play as that was the longest that they were together since they were born!!

Thank goodness Tyson was here to help there was no way I could of done it on my own!!

Maggie's Birthday

Maggie, Morgan's cousin had her first birthday on March 12th, man the girls are getting fast big!! Morgan had a good time and was fast asleep before we even got on the main street to home, she is still getting used to "big" crowds and really gets shy fast!!

Here is a picture of her playing with Maggie and Gabriel

Maggie was her normal entertaining self and she is very outgoing

Here she is eating her cake!!

It was a great day and I remember everything about the day she was born. Morgan and Maggie are very lucky to have each other and I know that they will be best friends!!

Teething Time

So for those who don't know Morgan started teething really early and got 8 teeth-four on top and four on the bottom starting at 6 months, then nothing for months, well this month her molars are coming in, poor girl is getting 3 right now, two on top, one on each side and one on the bottom!! These last two weeks have been hard, as she has been in pain!!

When Morgan teethes she also gets a runny nose!! Since her nose has been running so much and draining to the back of her throat she has an awful phlemy cough!! They are finally starting to break thru so I know that we are almost thru it, I just feel so bad for her!! Here is a picture of her drooling at her best!!

She has also decided to start trying to walk. We were at Maggie's 1st birthday party (Morgan's cousin) and she just decided right then and there to try to take some steps. She is getting braver and braver every day so I am thinking anyday now she will be running everywhere!!!

Here is a video of her walking:

Here she is standing, saying "look no hands"

She has started talking more as well and she says Dada, Mama, Hi, Abbie (one of the dogs) Owie and I am thinking Molly (the cat). I am not sure where she learned Owie, but everytime she would have a big cough she would say it!!!

Here is video of her saying Abbie:

March

Just another update for everyone, Morgan is doing good, February has been a tough month as she had strep throat, then 2 weeks later she got the flu (a lot of kids in daycare were out the same week) we had about 3-4 days of vomiting and diarrhea. Now this last week because of the diarrhea she got really constipated and got a hemorrhoid!!! For the past few days we have having to give her suppositories and a laxative in her milk!!! Hopefully this is just temporary and she won't have digestive issues for the rest of her life!!! I know that she is a trooper though because between the flu and the constipation, she has been her normal self!!

We are also day 2 on no bottle!!! Morgan has done great so far transitioning to a sippy cup only and has only had a few little meltdowns, but other than that, I think we are going to be bottle free!!

She continues to play with Abbie as you can see on this picture, she must think Abbie is her personal playground!!

We think she might be saying "abbie" but we are not sure, it sounds like abbie sometimes and other times it sounds like "baby" but if she is saying Abbie I think she has expressed who her favorite in the house is!!

This weekend we decided to go ahead and flip her car seat around. Our pediatrician was saying that it is not required but best to wait till they are 2 because of injury rates and I really tried to see if we could wait till then, but she was miserable in my car turned backwards. She would cry the whole way home from daycare so I decided that we needed to go ahead and flip her. The smile on her face was priceless when we took her in the car for the first time. Every time I would turn around and look at her, she would just giggle!!

As you can see she agrees with this decision!!!

This coming week we have another milestone coming up, on March 12th, Morgan's cousin Maggie will be turning 1!!! It is very exciting for us all and to have our kids so close together is a blessing!! Here is a pic of Morgan and Maggie when Maggie was not even 24 hours old

I will post more later this week after the birthday celebration and will have an updated photo of the girls together!!