8 More Weeks...

Today we went in for my 31 week doctors appointment. All is good! We always have a family outing to my doctors appointments. I am so lucky to have such a caring husband and daughter to go along with me. I always tell Bryan he doesn't have to go because they are pretty uneventful but he refuses to miss one. Such a great daddy! I think Morgan enjoys the visits too. She is just happy we aren't visiting her doctor. She gets very quiet and has a huge smile every time we get to listen to the baby's heart beat. So cute! My doctor told me today that she is fine with us traveling for Thanksgiving so we will head to El Campo to be with my family but after that we won't stray far from home, just in case our baby decides to come early. My c-section is scheduled for Monday, January 11th at 12:00 p.m. Unless there are any signs of early labor or a reason to move the date, this is when our baby boy will arrive. I know these next 8 weeks are going to fly by with the holidays and all. We can't wait!!

21 Months

Morgan is now 21 months old. She is getting so close to turning 2. She is a ball of energy and keeps us on our toes. Morgan amazes us every day with all the new words she says and everything that she can understand. She is even starting to put a couple words together. She loves for people to read to her. Her favorite books right now are mostly animal related. Old Mac Donald is a favorite. She randomly says “EIEIO, moo moo here…” She also likes her Eight Silly Monkey book. From that book she has learned to hold her head and says “Mama…No More” from the story that reads Mama called the doctor and doctor said “No more monkeys jumping on the bed.” So cute. Morgan likes when we sing the ABC song. She says A, B, C when she is ready for us to sing. We have been working on counting for a while now but she really hasn’t caught on yet. When we count she says 2 and puts up 2 fingers. I guess she is ready to be 2!

I have been home with her full time now for about a month. We are enjoying our extra time together. We have started going to the MAC (Mansfield Activity Center) at least once a week and she loves it. Every day when we are getting ready to go bye bye she says MAC? She would go everyday if she could. They have lots for toddlers to do (bounce house, balls, mats…) Very good place for toddlers to run around and have fun. She still goes to her babysitter's once a week. April has been very nice to let me continue to bring her to play. Morgan loves everyone there and I didn’t want to take that fun time away from her. This also gives me a day to get some stuff done. We try our best to have something planned each day. Morgan and I both like to get out of the house and do fun things…we can’t stay home all the time. I am blessed to have a few friends that also stay at home that we can meet up with and I have joined an Early Childhood PTA group that also has lots of activities for us to do.

One funny thing Morgan is doing right now is telling everyone that her name is Emma. Emma is a friend of hers. We were at one of her friend’s birthday party this past weekend and a mom was calling her daughter Emma and Morgan turned around and said “huh??” She does answer to Morgan too, but I am starting to get a little concerned. Are we going to have to rename her?? I think she is doing the Emma thing to be silly?!?

I really think Morgan is starting to get excited and understand that she is going to have a baby brother. She kisses my stomach and says Baby Bubba. I was doing laundry the other day and she found some onesies for baby and Morgan said Bubba. I think she is going to be wonderful with him.

We are moving Morgan into her twin bed next week. I will keep you all posted on how that transition goes. We are hoping for the best. We have been putting this day off for a few months now because she is such a great sleeper and we don’t want the new bed to throw her routine off. It might, but hopefully after a little time she will love it as much as she does her crib.

We look forward to each new day with Morgan. She is such a blessing and we love her so much.

Morgan's 2nd Halloween

Morgan had a Happy 2nd Halloween. As expected, we didn't get her bumble bee costume back on her. Honestly, we didn't even try. She was so unhappy the day she had it on for pictures that every time we talked about the costume or she saw it she would get upset. It just wasn't worth the fight. We just wanted her to have a fun evening. We planned all along to let her wear one of her halloween t-shirts with jeans but at the last minute I was talking to Betsey, our sweet neighbor and she asked if we/Morgan wanted to borrow her daughter's cheerleading outfit that she wore a few years ago. We took her up on the offer and Morgan didn't mind it at all, I think she actulally liked it. Thank you so much, Betsey!! Maybe this is a sign that she will be a little cheerleader one day?!? Our neighborhood had a block party so we took Morgan to play with all the neighborhood kids around 4:30. They had a bounce house and lots of other fun games. Morgan LOVES bounce houses so that is where she spent the majority of her time. She was jumping, falling, rolling and just having a ball! Around 6:30 all the kids left the party and went trick or treating. Morgan loved that too. She didn't really like the idea of putting her treats in her pumpkin...she wanted to eat everything as soon as she got it. :) After trick or treating we went back to party and had dinner, let Morgan jump a little more and then she was ready to call it a night. She had a GREAT, HAPPY Halloween and so did we.