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!

Memorial Weekend Camping

So as many of you know that I have been w/o a voice for about two weeks, well prior to loosing my voice we planned on going camping with Don and Heather for Memorial Weekend and I still really wanted to go, it was a different experience with all the whispering I had to do but I think Morgan still had fun!!

She really loved being outside and wandering around, she had quite a few spills but hey she hasn't been walking that long!!

She definitely at her fair share of dirt!! She was all about what she could eat than anything, as you can see from this picture, of course I was the "crazy" mom who kept trying to clean her face, even for it to turn it dirty in seconds!!

She was really into playing with Reagan and Brooks this time around, it was nice they kept each other entertained!!

Here are Morgan and Brooks playing, they are already giving each other the eye, too bad they don't know their parents are wanting them to get married, what fun family activities would be!!

Like I said Morgan did really good on this camping trip, if only she knew to sleep in like normal and not get up when it turned light out would be nice!

Here she is with Dada

Here she is with me giving me kisses, which she loves to do!!

We look to many more camping trips this summer, if only we can teach Morgan to sleep in that would be nice!

Morgan in May

Wow this month has gone by fast!!! Everyday Morgan is getting "older" and what I mean is she is really growing into her personality and it is so weird to think of it happening so fast because it seems like yesterday that a year ago she could just roll over and now she is all over the place!!





We have moved most of her toys upstairs in the bonus room and we are really enjoying that, right after we get home and she has a snack we go upstairs to play and that leaves our living room nice and spacious w/o all the toys, and Morgan seems to enjoy the space to run around in as it doesn't have that much furniture



So far her personality is panning out to what I thought it would be, she is a jokester, an total entertainer, she does things and then looks at us and laughs, she cracks us up multiple times in the day and I love that about her!!

When I say that she is into everything, she is into EVERYTHING, she becomes obsessed with one thing and she is determined to accomplish that task no matter what, the other day she just had to revisit some of her old toys that we have in storage

But I have to say that the best part of her is that she loves to be cuddled and loved and that is the best feeling in the world!!