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!

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!

My Silly Girl

Morgan is the cutest, silliest girl!  She has THE FUNNIEST personality.  She is 7 months old!  That means she will be able to start eating baby food meats like "Ham in Ham Gravy" - yum.

Her latest silly quirks are:

• She LOVES to look at herself in the mirror.  She smiles with her mouth wide open and raises her eye brows in excitement and laughs!
• As you may or may not already know, she twirls her hands and feet all at the same time (in perfect circles) when she is very excited or thinking really hard.
• When she thinks there is something to look at on the floor she leans forward trying to peer over the edge of the couch or your lap with her mouth wide open like she's going in for a big bite.
• Sometimes she just gets so excited she pulls your face in, whether it's by your hair or your cheeks and tries to suck on your nose or mouth.  I think it's her way of giving a kiss. :)

Well, she does a whole lot of other adorable stuff, I could go on forever.  She has not started crawling yet and she flat-out refuses to stand on her feet, but maybe this is a blessing - I don't know if I'm physically prepared to chase after her every second!  Better start preparing!

Well you know me, I have plenty of pictures of Morgan ready to be shared!  Here's your monthly dose of Morgan!

 

Morgan in a pillowcase, she didn't like it very much.

We took Morgan to Ikea last Saturday, she loved it!  They have the cutest toys for kids.  We got her this fabric fruit basket filled with pieces of fabric fruit.  She thought she was pretty funny in this photo (that's the basket on her head).

Morgan fell asleep on the couch by Goober.  I started talking pictures and, well, you'll see how the scene evolved.

I had to split them up pretty quickly after that because Goober doesn't understand that Morgan is just playing.