Overdue Update

It has been a long time since I have had any time to update our blog and now I finally found some time to get on and update all of you!

We have had a very busy couple of months!! In September we went to Hood River, OR to meet up with Tyson's family, it was great to be able to see everyone again. The last time we had meet up was two years ago and three of us girls were pregnant, it was so neat to get together and have the three kids play, especially since they are so close in age, Morgan was born in January and Maggie and Asher were born in March. Here is a picture of them together:

We stayed in the huge house and got to go and do some really neat sightseeing, Aunt Patty, Cousin Jamie, Asher, Morgan and I went and visited a Lavender field, it was really neat to see, I only wish the Lavender was blooming at the time so we could of seen the color. Morgan and Asher had a great time too:

Here is the whole gang, we can't wait till the next Pechanec/Pusateri/Price reunion!!!

Summer Fun

Wow this summer has gone by fast!!!! Morgan is learning something new everyday and you can see her just soaking up what you are teaching her!!! So far she can say Dada, Mommy, Abbie, Puppy, Hi, Bye, Uh-Oh (a favorite), Ball (sounds like Baa) and she is trying to say Shoes (it sounds like shzzz) and Purple (sounds like Ppple). She loves books and will bring them to you over and over, although she won't let you read them, she likes the pictures. This summer we have been having fun w/ water as you can see from the pictures

She loved the hose, and really liked it when Dada put his foot out for her to try and get wet!!!

We went and got her a little kiddie pool and she loves it!!! It is nice to have this when it is so hot outside but too hot to not have something to cool you down!

I can say that she LOVES water and I am hoping to start swimming classes with her coming up and I know that she will really enjoy it!!

The Zoo

It has been forever since I uploaded anything but I have been just trying to spend all my time with Morgan instead of updating web stuff...so now I have time to update!! We took Morgan to the zoo for the first time, Tyson and I went along with Jamie (tyson's sister) and Morgan's cousin Maggie, we had a blast!! I have to say I was hesitent that Morgan wouldn't even understand the concept of animals but she LOVED it!!!

Here she is staring at a bird:

Maggie having fun:

She really liked the birds that were in lower cages so she could see them, she didn't want to leave each site, we had to pick her up to the next site for her to see, she loves animals. The best expression I saw was the giraffe's she was amazed by them!!

once we got to the giraffe's one of them came and stood right in front of us the whole time we were there, here is another pic

as you can see from the next pic she wasn't happy that I turned her around for a mommy and daughter pic as she couldn't see the giraffe!!

the penquins were also a hit, she loved watching them swim up and down in the water:

I think we all had a great time and I will defiantly bring Morgan back, it is NOT the MN Zoo by any means, but it does the job for now...we ended the day with love as we started the zoo with love, with Morgan giving Maggie kisses.

2 Weeks

So most of you know I lost my voice 3 weeks ago, and now it is BACK!!! I have my full voice ( still not the same but I will take it) on the 3 week mark that I lost it!! I have never had anything as crazy happen to me like this before and you can't even imagine how FRUSTRATING it is, I couldn't just pick up the phone and call someone as they would think I was creepy!!! Anyways my point is that I took an LOA from work as I couldn't do 3/4 of my job and I got to spend the last 2 weeks as a temporary stay at home mom. I have to say that I absolutely loved being able to do this but know that it isn't going to happen as a full time situation. I got to really bond more with Morgan during this time and it is wonderful. She has become really attached to me and I can see her learning something new everyday. Also during this time I got some great pictures that I wanted to share with everyone, she is getting so big it is hard to remember what she was like when she was so little.

Everyday she tries to do something new and I have to say that she has no fear, if she can climb it she will, if she can stand on it she will, I have more fear than she does!! The other day Tyson had her in the bonus room and she climbed up the exersaucer and got in it, legs all in the right spots and everything, you have to understand the exersaucer comes up to her chest, how she got in it I don't know, but she has no fear

As you can see from this pic, she took her rocking horse and climbed up the recliner

Morgan vocabulary is growing as well, she can say Dada, Hi, Abbie, Puppy, Mommy (that is her current favorite, it is Mommy everything) and I think she is trying to say Bowl, she knows what a ball is if I tell her to go and get the ball, but she doesn't say it, we are trying to teach her to say Abbie No, as Abbie is always in her way, but she hasn't started that. She will shake her head yes and no, which helps a lot because even though she can't talk at least I can ask her and she can say yes or no with her head. She is slowly starting the "tantrum" stage and you would think the world is coming to an end, she will fall to the floor and hang her head down crying...it is hard to not giggle as it is so sad!! She is really into getting on my lap with a book and having me read it to her, then she will go and get another book and again I read that, over and over, she is very consistent!!

She also is infatuated with going outside and loves it, our front yard is a bit steep and she hasn't learned how to slow down her walking without falling so we have to keep a close eye on her but she loves just being outside!

We look forward to a TON of camping this summer and watching our little girl grow. Here is a picture of where she was a year ago just to put in perspective on how much she has grown! It is crazy to see how small she was!