Dec 1, 2010

Wait, where did November go?



November was the fastest month I think I've ever experienced in my lifetime up to this point.  I can't believe how fast time flies when you have a little one!  Does time go even faster when you have more than one child?

Anyways, on top of purchasing and setting up a Christmas tree, decorating, celebrating my b-day, TWO trips to Lake Powell and Thanksgiving, Morgan is now 10 months old!!

 She is at such a fun age right now!  She points to things, tries to mimic us and thinks she is the funniest girl!  Which she is!

Here's an example of how funny she thinks she is.
On our way to Lake Powell for Thanksgiving.  She was pleasantly content, most of the ride.

It was quite lovely at Lake Powell, but a little chilly.  We were all huddled together under our blankets.  A "spoon train," is what I think it was referred to at one point.

 Brian, a couple of his cousins and Angie thought it would be fun to jump in!  He has no idea what is about to hit him.

 This is him realizing what just hit him.

His dad was the hoser-offer.  Dave seems to be enjoying this immensely.  It just didn't look like a fun experience to me.  And that's why I choose not to participate in the annual Thanksgiving swim.

In her adorable dress her great-grandma and aunts Westenskow gave her.

Admiring the snow fall.  She loves it!


Brian's cousin is a photographer, so he was kind enough to take some awesome pictures for us, luckily he had his nice camera with him!


A special thanks to Jacob, Brian's cousin, for taking these fantastic photos of us.  And a big shout out to all those who put up with the three of us for Thanksgiving!
Thanks!  You're great!



Nov 1, 2010

October

It feels like it's been a long time since I've updated the blog!  
Well, we've had a lot happen since the last post!



We went to the zoo!  Morgan loved the animals!  The first animal we saw was the turkey.  Morgan looked a little confused.  It must be very weird to go from looking at little toys and figurines of animals to seeing a real-life animal up close.  She was amazed at the elephants!


She looks really unhappy in a lot of the pictures, but I swear she loved it!



Really, she loved it!


In addition to Morgan being 9 months old on the 19th, she gained an adorable cousin!  Kenley was born to my brother Travis and his lovely wife Kim at 6 lbs. 12 oz., 19 in. long.  Kenley is so sweet and we're so happy to have this new addition in our family!


The girls had a play-date!  They just happened to be wearing very similar outfits.  Cute!

 

This is Morgan's, "Leave me alone Grandma, I promise I'll be gentle," face.


Precious!



As some of you know, Morgan was a monkey for Halloween.  A couple people, including her Grandpa Stevens, thought she was an E-Walk (sp?).
At first she hated her costume.  Every time I tried it on her, she tried to pull the hat off.  When Friday came, I wanted to take her to dad's and my work in her costume.  I put it on her, and she was perfectly fine!!  And she was so adorable for all her fans!


(See her cute, fuzzy leg warmers? - So cute!)
Happy late Halloween!


Sep 18, 2010

I Can't Believe It!

My baby is 8 months tomorrow!!!  I never really thought anything of it when people told me it goes by fast, but they aren't kiddin'!

Morgan is doing the funniest stuff lately:
  • She waves hello and goodbye
  • She does a very convincing fake laugh
  • She loves rides on our shoulders
  • She smiles crookedly (as you can see above)
  • She rolls across the room to get to her car seat and diaper bag to inspect them from a worm's-eye-view
  • She is learning how to start her own game of peek-a-boo
  • She absolutely LoVeS to go on walks in her stroller
  • She loves children and babies,
  • And so much more!
 This is what she does when she rolls to the corner of the room.  This time she was investigating the magazine basket.

Both of her grandmas bought her one of these in the past week.  She likes it for a little while, then gets cranky, she is still refusing to stand on her feet.

This was after our walk one morning.  She just looked so cute and happy, I had to snap a picture. :)

Her two favorite things to play with:
her doll and a can of diet coke.

The other day she rolled over to the entertainment center and snatched the "easy" button.  She would then roll on her stomach and push down on it with her mouth to make it say, "That was easy."  It really didn't look that easy.

Current things we're working on:
  • getting her to at least stand (of course)
  • getting her to dance when we sing or play music
  • hair is not food (neither are fingers or paper or Kleenexes or anything else she gets her quick little hands on that is not edible)
  • getting her to give us a thumbs up
  • teaching her that throwing her toys just to have us retrieve them is not that fun,
  • and we can't constantly be jumping up and down, laughing and singing to entertain her, we only have so much energy, Morg!
We love Morgan to pieces.  She's got us wrapped around her adorable little finger!