Ballerina Morgan

Another fashion outfit for Morgan - tutu over pj's!

Christmas with Gramma & Papa Larry

After the Nebraska game (around 7PM) we went to see the Galaxy of Lights . It was so pretty, but there were a LOT of cars...guess we weren't the only ones with this GREAT idea! We returned home ready to celebrate. Because Gramma and Papa Larry live in Kansas and we won't see them for Christmas, we celebrated the night after Thanksgiving.

Here are the kids, patiently waiting to rip into those presents. Gramma always goes overboard!

I think Morgan is an expert at this unwrapping thing!

I'm told I'm the devil, guess the eyes hold the truth - hahaha! Morgan was given a doctor's kit and couldn't wait to open it up and start examining everyone.

Look how they light up, how cool! Dad, you have no bugs in your ears - you're healthy.

Kolton is excited about his gift - a DS game.

Papa Larry, or Santa's substitute.

Kolton's other gift - now we just need to look into lessons.

Morgan also got a shopping cart (notice Daddy in the background putting it together) and a bucket full of pretend food. I think she's enjoying a donut.

Kaden's other gift was a Nerf Ironman - automatic gun...it shoots 10 darts from a magazine in quick succession. It sounds like a pack of firecrackers going off!

Gramma and Papa Larry's turn to open gifts.

Dad is enjoying his turn on Kolt's guitar - taking a break from putting the shopping cart together.

Morgan patiently waited about 2 hours for her shopping cart, she was such a good girl! She didn't hesitate filling it up and pushing it around.

When we went in to check on Morgan around 11PM this is how we found her - sleeping with her doctor kit. Jamie couldn't pry those out of her hands!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is all about family and this year we were blessed to have them with us. Jamie's mom and stepdad came from Kansas for the week and my sister and her family came up from Birmingham for the day. The kids played all day and we all just ate and enjoyed each others' company. Thanks for joining us, family!

Kids' Table - Morgan actually ate!

Thanksgiving meal at the Adult Table

Aunt Mimi loving on Ella-Bella (aka Ella Katherine).

Kelsey, Ella, and Morgan passing time with play-dough.

The boys were playing with the frisbee and got it stuck on the roof, so here they are trying to get it down with the balls.

Monkeys

After the walk, Morgan decided she wanted to watch a movie on the laptop. So I laid on the bed to put one on, and she climbed on my back. Then I proceeded to attack her with kisses...can you see her resisting the ambush?

Another Pretty Day

Wednesday before Thanksgiving was such a BEAUTIFUL day that we went on a walk after Morgan's nap up to the clubhouse/playground. Kaden was hoping to do some fishing, but I accidentally picked up Kolton's fishing rod that had no lure instead of Kaden's...oops!

Bag Lady

Morgan has decided that grocery bags are articles of clothing, too. Tear small holes in the bottom sides of the bags (at the seams) and put the arms through the bag handles - and you have an outfit! I know one day these will all be blackmail material!

Thursday Fun

Thursday is our day off from the gym and our day to just hang out or go somewhere and have fun. Today was no different. By 8AM Morgan had already changed her jammies about 3 times (all other changes consisted of jammies, also), gone through and worn several of her dress-up clothes (mostly worn over her pj's), painted, and colored in her coloring book. She then told me she wanted to go on a walk, so that meant "Mom, go take a shower." About 9AM I walked out of the bathroom dressed, but wearing my slipper socks in hopes that she'd forgotten about the walk and would allow me to just lazilly lounge around the house and be a bum. No such luck! As soon as I walked out into the living room Morgan said, "Ready for walk, Mom?" I said yes and got her coat on and after we were all ready to go she says, "Yay! We go to real park?" I asked her, "Oh, did you want to take a walk to the park and play?" She started jumping up and down saying , "YES, YES, YES!" I informed her that in order to play at the park she had to change out of her jammies and into clothes...and she agreed! So we took the coat off and changed into clothes and off we went. What a beautiful (a little chilly) cloudless day!


Look at that static electricity - poor little girl has her mama's hair!

Morgan insisted on "Take YOU picture, Mom" - and she actually got a pretty good one!

Here she's posing in these two - she told me where to stand and told me how she would pose!

Home, Jammies, Home!

After almost two hours, we made it home and she immediately wanted to change back into pj's. She came running in to me saying, "I have a baby in my tummy, Mom"! We had a conversation the other day about how she was in my tummy...guess she remembered and decided to role play!