Visitor's from the West

Our friends John and Sara came to visit in late April and it provided us with a TON of pictures because John is great at capturing the action. They were in RI to check out apartments and two months later as I type this, they are again staying with us because they're waiting to move into their apartment on Thursday.

So...Welcome Back!!

They were able to capture several ellusive moments that we love:

Nacho's "bunny sit"

Morgan doing his exercises on the Pilates reformer

Like a good workout partner, handing Daddy the straps.

An action shot of Morgan throwing sticks into the stream

Slam dunking (the rim is already bent from his power)

Saturday, we enjoyed a very sunny day at the playground

Checking out the bigger kids

Sunday we went to a nature trail for a little hike.

We hopped some rocks to get out into the water.

As one might expect we wore Morgan out with all the hiking.

But he was able to walk out with Mom.

The best for last...lifting a leg to break wind

Smell ya later!!

Asleep at the Wheel

I probably elude to this in someway or another on occassion, but honestly where does the time go? I'll tell you where it doesn't go...to sleep. Ugh, I wish.

If one were sleeping or hiding under a desk for instance...

Then you'd may have missed the 5 minutes that Morgan's mom sported blond hair...blond, you say?

(Morgan likes to say "cheese")

Oops! Five minutes is up!!! Just like Cinderella, our blond beauty is back to her natural shade.

As I indicated in a previous post, we've collected a series of pictures with Morgan arranging his toys.

His blocks

His cars

His playdoh containers

Well that's a wrap on this post! In the meantime, look to the sky, you just may see someone you know in orbit...

Egg Madness

A big round of applause for all of you that hung in there for this delayed easter post. :)

We begin in kitchen...being that it was our first time setting up egg coloring, we had to figure out what we were doing.

Lisa stayed with us for the week, so while we prepared the color cups, she explained to Morgan how to make designs on the eggs.

After designing a few...

It was time to drop the eggs in for coloring...

And then bring them out!

Then we designed some more...

The finished product:

For me the coolest part about the entire eggs event is that Morgan now eats hard boiled eggs and his favorite part??? The yolk! YUCK! But hey, if he likes dry yolk, I'm inclined to think that the possibilities are endless.

Morgan also received some magic color gel finger paints, which he enjoyed quite a bit.

Today's pictures were brought to you courtesy of Lisa's camera and our camera. Stay tuned...

Prelude

Before I get to the Easter post. I'm going to get some pictures of LAST summer out to the masses, so as not to confuse these pictures with what's to come this year.

While we were in Buffalo after our Chicago trip I was looking at the pictures on my inlaws computer and came across this collection. I copied them and brought them back to RI, but completely forgot that I did so and only rediscovered these last weekend (about 2 months later)...my how the time flies.

There is a great wooden playground near our house.

Morgan is still a little too small for it, but we manage.

Just when you thought Peanuts wasn't new anymore...a Joe Cool sighting.

Later on, presumably after a nap, out in the backyard (not our house in the background). Two evil parents take on their child with a game of monkey in middle.

Not to point any fingers, but note where Daddy is standing and the direction that Morgan is encountering the ball from. Seriously, there were 3 other people on the side the ball is coming from, so it could have been anyone, I'm just saying...it wasn't me!

Kudos to Grandpa Ed for capturing this shot!

Easter will be the next post. I don't think I'll find any other pics before then.

The New Do

Do you have one of those mornings where you just want your sleep? And it doesn't matter if hairdryer is running, the lights and TV are on and someone intentionally uncovers you, maybe even pokes you a few times...

Morgan has this thing for lining things up. You'll see this more in subsequent posts. My favorite part about this alphabet puzzle is that he can actually reassemble it all too. It's also pretty funny that Morgan uses the word actually now too. "Actually, it's red Daddy"

Peek-a-boo!

At the end of February, our friend helped Morgan get his shaggy locks trimmed up.

WAY UP!!

In March, we all got out town for a bit, driving to Buffalo to leave Morgan with my in-laws, while we flew on to Chicago. So if you'll please excuse the following sidestep from Morgan News to check in with Mom and Dad.

A lot of teasing can occur on the platform while you're waiting for a train to come...A LOT.

The absolute coolest thing about Chicago is The Bean. It completely blew me away.

Here is our reflection in The Bean, as taken by future doubledecker bus tour guide and my best man, Shamus, with a great shot of Chicago behind us.

Next up on the blog...Easter and eggs!

Settling Back In

After being out of the routine and normalcy of home by spending Xmas in western NY for 9 days, we returned to RI. Honestly, the transition couldn't have been smoother. Morgan didn't appear to have any lingering effects from the spoiling that comes with staying at the grandparents (wink wink)...so we thought.

Missy and I have been communicating better than ever, such that rather than a seven year itch, we're really hitting our stride. Unfortunately, one day we were talking in another room and I realized it was really quiet in the house, so I peeked out to find Morgan decorating the hallway wall with his crayons.

The Face of Mischief

Making an effort to clean up

Kids are enthralled with hideaways. I finally concocted a decent fort in our living room that could sustain the four of us passing through it.

Organizing the new roost

Telling tales of past forts...

Popping out to say Hi

Morgan sleeps pretty well during the night and through his naps. Sometimes he falls out of bed though...lucky for us he can put himself back in bed...barely.

Finally, every woman knows that at the end of the day you have to take your make up off. Of course in doing so, it's important to keep your hair out of your face. Morgan completely understands this...





And just like that we're into February's pictures. You see? Everyone will be up to speed before we know it!

Xmas in NY - Part 2

I've had feedback for more pictures, so you'll be happy to know that I have 8 planned for this post and the next...

On to Buffalo, where we all visited Grandpa at work, which went better than expected because it was a slow day, so they let him go home with us. However, there were a few straggling tasks to complete, so Morgan had to get behind the wheel.

Of course, Morgan took to it like a pro and we were out of there in no time...

Pallets on the move!

Unfortunately over the break we found out Morgan needs glasses...

...luckily Mr. Potato head wears the same prescription :)

On New Year's Eve, the sky's opened up and DUMPED a wealth of snow for us to enjoy! We brought all of our winter gear with us, so we were prepared to get out in it.

Some of us more than others. (I think monkey was cold)

So Mommy buried Daddy...

And Morgan warmed up monkey inside with Lisa.