Morgan's Latest Hiding Place

Morgan was playing hide-and-seek today. Every now and again, we would hear her knocking on the door, which meant she had locked herself in her bedroom or our closet. At one point, she had been in her room for a while and was pretty quiet. I went into look for her and didn't see her. Her room is not that big and there isn't anywhere to hide, so my first (and right) guess was to look inside the closed closet. So, I decided to grab the camera to see what she was up to. There she was, sitting on her pack'n'play, reading books (in the dark) to her bunny.

Silly Morgan!

Morgan has a fetish for sunglasses (see picture below from last summer). She also has a magnet on the refrigerator of sunglasses that she likes to "wear" every now and then (see picture #2 below).






Morgan also discovered that she fits perfectly in one of her toy baskets. She worked so hard to get in here and situated just right to have a drink of water, that I couldn't help but take a picture.

Dancing

Morgan got a book from my Grandma Ginos (her great-grandma) for Valentine's Day that plays music. When she first opened the package, she decided to show her appreciation for the gift by doing a little dance. Thank you so much, Grandma! Morgan loves it and we love to read it to her! (Note: she got it on time, I'm just a little bit belated in posting it to our blog)

Lesson Learned...For Mommy!

Morgan always likes to help and most of the time, I try to make a way so she can help. Today, she helped bring in and put away groceries. She has helped me bring them in for a while now, and I usually find a lighter, non-fragile bag for her to carry. Then, she usually wants to play while I put them away.

Today, she decided she wanted to help. I usually bring the groceries into the house and put the bags on the kitchen floor as I put everything away. In the past, this has always worked, but from now on, I can only leave the non-fragile items on the floor.

Big helper, Morgan, decided, while Brian and I weren't looking, to unload one of the bags. You can only imagine what happens next. Well, she tried to pick up the egg carton and bring it to us. Next thing we know, we hear an egg break, and then, and "uh-oh." Morgan, in trying to help, had spilled the eggs and one of them had broken on the kitchen floor. Somehow, all the other eggs managed to stay in the bag, unbroken. She felt so bad. She had a sad look on her face. I didn't get mad at her, I just told her that Mommy needs to put the eggs away and clean up the mess.

But I learned a lesson, and thankfully it only cost us an egg. Morgan (or any toddler, I'm sure) loves to help, but she needs to be CONSTANTLY supervised. Even if I'm just putting a box of cereal away, she can get into something!

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Morgan loves to talk on the phone. Well, she kind of has to love to talk on the phone! Look at her mother! Yes, at such a young age, Morgan has already mastered the skill of multi-tasking. She can talk on her "phone" and play at the same time.
And, for those of you that have actually talked to her on the phone, you know she can be quite the storyteller. So, from what Brian and I can gather from this video, she's doing her rendition of "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" and then talking about her bunny and bananas. Really, it's just the usual nonsense that we can't make out, but she's definitely telling somebody something!

Morgan's First 3-Syllable Word

Well, her first clearly enunciated 3-syllable word. She's been saying words like "med--cine" and "el--phant" for a while, but hasn't quite got the entire word down. On Friday, at the grocery store, we passed by the bananas and she pointed and, clear as can be, said, "Ba-na-na." It's been "bana" or "nan" for the longest time, but she finally got it! So, we caught it on video tonight.

Oh, why she's running away, we don't know. But hey, she said the word!

Cowgirl in Training

Morgan got a giant horse from her aunt Freida for Christmas and absolutely loves to ride on her "Horsey." Today, Brian put a different twist on her usual ride and put the horse, with Morgan on it, on his lap. It was quite the wild ride! I don't know who had more fun...Brian or Morgan! Maybe she should try mutton busting in a couple of years???

Owie!!!

Morgan came home from the babysitter's today with a small cut. I noticed it but didn't think anything because she has bumps and bruises all over the place. For those of you that have seen and/or heard about our New Year's Eve fall, this is NOTHING compared to it!

Anyway, all through dinner and Family Home Evening, she kept showing it to us and telling us all about it and how it was an "owie." By the end of her bath, I was tired of hearing about it, so I asked Brian to get out a band-aid, hoping to make it all better. Boy, was that a mistake!







After we put the band-aid on, Morgan started crying, "owie, owie, owie!" She kept sticking her hand in my face and Brian's face to "kiss it better." We thought the band-aid was supposed to help make it better. I guess we were wrong.



When bedtime came, she couldn't even hold her cup of milk in her right hand. When she was pointing to the duck in her book, she had to use her left hand to point, which was not nearly as successful, but her "owie" hand couldn't even be used to point to a picture. Morgan's "owie" bothered her so much, she couldn't even carry her blanket and bunny to her bed. So, I, mommy, carried her things and tucked her in. It's been over 10 minutes and she's still in her bed saying, "owie, owie..."



Oh, and look how big the band-aid is. You can only imagine how small the actual wound is.


Can we say DRAMA QUEEN???? I wonder who she gets it from?!?!?

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Morgan says "Just Right", very cute!

Every night, if Morgan gets to choose her books to read at bedtime, she picks Old Hat, New Hat. While she doesn't seem to interested in most of the book, she anxiously awaits the ending!

Let It Be Christmas...

It's just not Christmas without baking a few goodies (or shoveling the Colorado snow). Morgan decided to help her mom bake this year (and her dad shovel). I'm not sure what was more fun, watching her "help" shovel or watching her "taste" almost every cookie before putting it on the plate. I think she took the Quality Control to the extreme!
Nevertheless, we ended up with enough untouched cookies to take to some neighbors and Morgan had more than enough to be satisfied.


Here she is helping put cookies on plates when they came out of the oven.



"Mixing" the batter to make the best Christmas cookies!

A true cook must always test the recipe!

Little shovels are for sissies! Morgan wants the real thing to help get the job done!

Here Morgan is helping dad with quality control. Hey, somebody needs to stand on the porch and make sure the snow gets shoveled!