4 Years Old

I haven't posted in quite sometime. A lot has happened and there have been many changes.

Morgan is a big four year old now. This girl has gotten so big and is so smart. She starts preschool in August and we are both very excited. I am happy to get to take her with me everyday and I'm hoping she does well.

Morgan weighs 33 pounds and is 40 inches tall.

The Terrible Two's (For Real!) and the Not So Terrible Two's

Miss M turned two at the beginning of the summer. She didn't start acting so terrible right away. It took her a couple of months. Well, now that we are almost 4 months into being two, she has decided to debut what people refer to as "The Terrible Twos". Wow is what I have to say about it!! She has thrown fits that I didn't know kids could throw. She likes to throw screaming, kicking fits. The ones where you want to walk away and say that's not MY kid!! She whines and cries a lot, over silly things. Like the fact that Grammy walked out the door after asking over and over for hugs and kisses. Morgan refuses and then starts screaming/crying because Grammy left and she didn't get to give her a hug and kiss!! She doesn't want something until you take it away, then she decides, that yes, as a matter of fact she does want it. Until you give it back. Then, she doesn't want it anymore. Oh my!! Her sleeping right now is TERRIBLE!! I have finally just given up. We have tried so many things and nothing seems to work. She was going to sleep by herself with out crying, just reading books, and is now back to crying/screaming for mommy. I did break her from me laying in the floor while holding her hand through the crib bars and from taking a cup of milk before bed. But is still very much a struggle. But what I feel like I have given up on is the middle of the night. I still never know what she is going to do. Sometimes she will sleep all night, sometimes she will wake up once, and sometimes she will wake up 3 times. I have tried to break her many times, I even stopped giving her milk in the middle of the night. But I needed sleep, she needed sleep and so did my husband. So we decided she would start out in her bed but if she woke up in the middle of the night I would put her in bed with us. She usually goes right back to sleep and would most likely sleep the rest of the night. IF she asked for milk we would give it to her. Of course, now that we have made that decision, when I go to get her in the middle of the night and head to our bed, she starts crying because she wants me to rock her. I can't win for losing. I feel like a complete failure in this area of parenting. I have said it before and I say it again. I have never seen a child hate sleep as much as she does. Now that I have told you how "terrible" she has been acting lately let me tell you how sweet and funny she can be also.
She absolutely melts my heart when she randomly tells me she loves me! Or when I tell her I love her and she says it back to me. She will also say that she is sorry for something, it might not even be her fault, but she will tell you anyway. Sometimes I will say oh I'm sorry and she'll say oh it wasn't you mommy, it was me. I'm sorry. So sweet and so funny! She also says a lot of funny random things.

Scary Monsters and Silly Sayings

M is a big two year old now and talking our ears off! Lol! She talks all the time and you never know what's going to come out of her mouth. She is very clear with her speech and pretty accurate with her musings. She still says the t sound for the f and y sound for l's. I love to hear her say "tip tops", for flip flops. So stinkin cute! When she doesn't know someone she will ask "what it doing?". I am trying to work with her on this by telling her we say who is that instead of using the word it. She is also becoming very independent. She wants to do everything "myself mommy!!". She loves to say just about anything you say but don't want her to say. If I call Cory a dork she inevitably repeats it right after me. She had picked up all my sighs and growls when I am frustrated. I didn't really notice I did that until she came along. I couldn't figure out where she had heard growling in frustration and then I heard myself do it one day! Oops!!

She is cutting her two year molars and as usual she is not sleeping again. That's what she does when she cuts teeth, she doesn't sleep! I'm so glad she decided to do it during the summer. Praying they come through quickly before school starts again. 

The other night I had all the lights off except the living room light. She headed to her room and quickly returned saying there was a scary monster in there! I told her there was not and she continued to tell me there was. She then headed to the kitchen and returned telling me the same thing. I'm not sure where this came from. We don't let her watch scary things. She never been scared of the dark and I am really hoping this is not the start of it. I was terrified for a long time and I really don't want her to have to go through that. 

Back to School................Already!

I don't know how the summer flies by so quickly. It seems as though it gets shorter and shorter each year. Maybe it's because I am an adult and  now I have a child or maybe it really is getting shorter. Whatever the reason, summer is over and it is time to go back to school.
Aug. 10
We are starting our school year out with a bang! Morgan and I both have strep! We went to Urgent Care today (paid $100 for the visit. Ugh!!!) and sure enough, that's what is. Morgan and I have now had strep twice this year. I am looking at the good side of things. I start school Wednesday so at least I didn't have to use any days and hopefully I got my sickness for the school year out of the way! I usually don't get sick that often. Thankfully neither do Morgan or Cory.
Aug 13
It is the first day of school and I am home missing it. Instead of getting better I got worse. Thankfully Morgan is way better and I am getting there. I should not have been given the medicine the Urgent Care doctor gave me. I was told it is usually only given when you are allergic to amoxicillin. It's like putting a band-aid on a gushing wound. No wonder I wasn't getting any better. I finally went back to the doctor yesterday because I was getting way worse. They swabbed me and gave me the right medicine. I am much better today. Thank goodness because I was pretty miserable! A little annoyed with the Urgent Care because I know if she had given me the right medicine I would be at work today. On a good note I am home with Morgan on my birthday. At least one good thing came out of all of this.

Happy Birthday America!

This year for 4th of July we headed to Little Rock, AR to celebrate. My hubby has always wanted to go to the mountains for vaca but we just haven't made it that way yet. So this year he improvised with climbing Pinnacle Mountain. It's nothing compared to the real mountains we would like to visit but it was nice to do something different than what we usually do for the 4th and it was nice to be outside enjoying some fresh air and nature.

Morgan did so well and wanted to walk the whole time. There was a few times that there were too many rocks and we had to pick her up and hold her. She asked about everything on the way and once we saw some lizards scurrying around she was excited to look for more. 

She wasn't too happy to hold our hands but there were some parts that were just too big for little girls. 

The next day, 4th of July, we went back to Pinnacle Mountain but went to an easier trail. It was way nothing compared to what we had done the day before. Course, Morgan wanted to be held the whole time on this trail. Not sure what the deal was but I kept in mind that she is only two. She still did super good and I think really enjoyed both trips to the mountain. 

That night we went to the River Market to Pops on the River to walk around and watch fireworks. There were tons and tons of people but it was fun to check out the vendors and the food. They also had a little kiddie zone that Morgan got to do some free fun things. 

4th of July 2014

The bridge was gorgeous lit all with red, white and blue! 

It was neat because we got to listen to the Arkansas Orchestra which was pretty amazing. The whole evening was pretty wonderful and no other 4th of July in the past has compared to it. I am so glad that we were able and my husband was willing to stray from the usual plans to go make memories of our own as a family! Happy 4th of July ya'll!!

2nd Birthday Party

Morgan's birthday party was a big flop. For me anyway. For Morgan, I think it was ok. April is just not a good month to have an outside birthday party, and after this party, I vowed never to do one outside again. We'll see if that happens. (I tend to change my mind..........ALOT!) The date that I originally had her party scheduled for most people said they would be able to come, but they were calling for major thunderstorms, hail, strong winds, and possible tornadoes. I knew we couldn't have it outside and my two back up plans were booked, so I changed the date. I actually changed the date several times trying to make it possible for people to come. The problem is we don't have many friends where we live yet and Morgan doesn't really have any here either because she isn't in school yet. But trying to get a date that everybody could come to was next to impossible. Well actually I guess it was impossible because nobody showed up to the party. It ended up being us, my mom, my in-laws, and a friend of mine that I work with and her little boy. 8 people!!!! I was not happy. Not only had I spent time and a lot of money on her party, but it was MY little girls party and nobody was coming. I wasn't mad at our friends because they all had valid excuses, I was just mad at the situation. I had to keep reminding myself that Morgan didn't care or even understand that no one was there and as long as she had fun, that's all that mattered.

Thankfully on party day it did not rain, but it ended up being hot and windy. I did her party at the city park under a pavilion. The only problem with this pavilion is that it is first come first serve. If someone is there you can't make them leave, and if someone comes you can't make them leave. When I got there to set up a party was just ending and they were about to leave. I thought I was lucky. But as I set up for the party, another party arrived, and then another party arrived. Ugh! Well at least there was room for all three parties. And nobody was coming to ours anyway so what did I care?! Thankfully I had brought tacks to pin the tablecloths down, it was so windy everything was blowing away. I bought three bunches of balloons and a huge Minnie which were suppose to be centerpieces for the tables, HA!! That didn't happen. They were s twisted and mess up they ended up to the side on the ground. Morgan was so excited about the Minnie balloon and it popped before the party even started. I had tons of food for 8 people to eat. Let's just say, we ate hot dogs for a week after that.

Morgan is big into Minnie Mouse right now so I did a pink and black Minnie Mouse theme. It was so cute and I loved the way it turned out. If only people would have been there to see it. I didn't even get good pictures of the decor. I got one picture of the food table and didn't notice until late that the tablecloth had blown up and you really can't see that much in the picture. I didn't get a picture of the cute Minnie Mouse head centerpieces I worked so darn hard on. But I did get a picture of the birthday girl blowing her candles out and I did get a picture of the Minnie Mouse cupcakes, and when Morgan saw them she yelled "hey, it's Minnie!". Made me happy!

Morgan had a good birthday because she got to play at the park with a new friend and she got blow out the candles again! She it what matters and as long as she is happy, I am happy. Hopefully next year more people will show up and hopefully the weather will cooperate.

Ice Painting

Summer is here and we are full force into summer fun! I wanted to do a ton of new summer activities but somehow we haven't done that many so far. One thing we have done is ice painting. Super easy and Morgan really liked playing with it. Just pour water into ice trays and then add your food colors of choice. Freeze and then paint. We just did it on the sidewalk outside, but you could also use white construction paper also.