Acrobatics, Floods and Sunshine

When I first saw this picture on the camera, I didn't think much of it, but it's the context that makes it fun...

That goofball! Honestly where does he get it from?

Now that we're months removed from the floods, I'll post our pics from the madness...the exact opposite of instant gratification. :(

Here we are on the bridge at the waterfall by our house.

This was my favorite one.

You see the yellow lines here? That's the top of the fence at the little league field!

After a few days, Morgan was feeling sun deprived and sought an 'up close and personal' moment with a light source at his level.





Ohhhhhh, bask in those artificial rays!

Once sunlight returned, it was out to the porch for snacks!

See you in another 200 years floods!

Lazy Days

I don't know how these pics all came to be, but it's pretty clear what the sentiment of the household was during this period.

Morgan and Monkey catching a break

Nacho taking over the Elmo couch

...And Morgan reciprocating by taking over Nacho's bed.

Somehow, I end up facedown on the bed, during which, Nacho pins my head and Morgan pins my body. Quite a wrecking crew! Er...I mean, isn't this a cute snuggling picture??

Lastly, Mom and Morgan zonked out in Morgan's bed.

Sometimes there aren't enough hours in the day...TO REST!!

Blocks and St. Pat's

I know, I know another picture of some block arrangement that Morgan made...but the story on this one isn't about the blocks so much as it is about him. If you look closely, you can see that Morgan is standing to the right of the white shelves. I was going to take a picture for Mom, to show her all of Morgan's hard work while she was out, but Morgan insisted that there be a pic of just the blocks first, then he would accompany it.

This was very serious.

We had no shortage of Guinness swag from the bar. Morgan got one item for every pint he drank, if you're counting along, that's 4 pints. He's no slouch.

Rockin' the tats!

Flex it baby!






Fun with Dad...

...and fun with Mom!

Play hard, crash hard.

At the point the above picture was taken, we were only hours away from a stomach bug that would tear through all of us over the course of the next 4 days, beginning with Morgan vomitting at 3am. I must have misplaced those pictures...




A leprachun!

Lastly, Morgan wearing my medal (everyone gets one) from the St. Pats 5k that I ran. I also wore that hat during the race, which undoubtly enhanced my time rather than damaged it.

Chrysalis

The most important meal of the day? Breakfast! It's also the only meal that Morgan will stay at the table to eat, start to finish.

Here is a picture from when Morgan was a wee little lad. This outfit had cocoon-like powers.

And here's our beautiful butterfly!!

Who is that masked man?

A smile pose with the playdoh collage.

What a masterpiece!?!?

Ice Skating

Some junk mailer sent Missy return address labels. It's kind of annoying because they never spell her first name correctly, so she rejects them. Morgan is a direct benefactor of this situation.

We had an opportunity to go ice skating and thought it would be great to get Morgan some exposure, since kids are generally fearless. Despite Morgan's 'enlarged hand syndrome', he maintained good spirits.

Here, we've just informed Morgan that we misplaced his hand shrinking medicine. So understandably, he is no longer excited about going out among strangers.

Eventually, we recovered the medicine and Morgan's hands returned to a tiny state, but he was still a little self conscious, so he stayed close to Mom.

Finally, Morgan braved the ice on his own...notice how his 'skates' look a lot like regular shoes...that's a no-no. Off the ice my friend!

Unfortunately, no amount of hugs can make up for not putting skates on, sorry partner. There's always next year!

Valentine's + snuggling

Here's a nice Sunday morning, which is Mom's day to sleep in. It also happened to be Valentine's day, so I had Morgan build some block hearts with me for Mom to wake up to!

Oh that silly Mom...

I'm not sure where the following pics came from, they were spliced in the middle of February pics, but we were not in Buffalo in February...Lisa and Morgan doing some cuddling on the couch.

Oh no! This cuddling has turned a tickle attack!

Then, not long after Morgan escapes the clutches of Lisa, as he attempts to recover, Nacho immediately seizes the opportunity to seduce him.

Nacho's boldness paid off as Morgan leans in for a big one.

That my friends is a Valentine's blog with some love!

Early February Around the House

It's really never too early to have kids start pulling their weight. So if Morgan is willing to put some time in with the vacuum, we're not going to say no.

Get it good buddy!

I put some serious effort into some of these track builds, but Morgan can be pretty ruthless with his tear down and rebuild schedule. Observe all the lifts and weaving, I kid you not, this wasn't complete more than 10 minutes and he wanted to build a new one, so I had to take a picture.

I believe that Morgan contructed this mostly on his own, I was pretty impressed! It's spread out and allows for two train operators to be driving and not crash (too often).

Rest assured that as I write this in April, the snow is far behind us. Believe me, as much as people can curse snow, I'm thinking 10 out of 10 people would have taken all that rain that RI received recently in the form of snow.

Thank goodness we live on a street with no traffic, because Morgan constantly gravitates to it!!

Don't get me wrong, I get that he wants to go up the hill, but there are stairs further up the driveway...






Look! There they are in the background! I told you, I told you!!
Morgan has retracted his hands 'turtle-style' to brush off the driveway wall with his sleeve.

Now he's got the snow brush to clean off...THE STAIRS!!! Come on! Clearly he knows where they are...STAY OUT OF THE STREET!!