Letter to Morgan - 2 Years

Dear Morgan,

Today is your 2nd birthday. I can’t help but reminisce about the day you were born and the first time I set eyes on you - a tiny baby with the most beautiful blue eyes and the longest eyelashes I’d ever seen. Little did we know just how much you would change our lives.

Since that day 2 years ago, you have grown into a smart and busy little girl. You talk in 2-3 word sentences and have quite a large vocabulary of words. Some of your favorite words are: Rabbit, Cat, Apple Juice, No, Mama, Daddy, Ball, Milk (Bilk), Water (Wawa), Blanket (Banky). Some of your favorite phrases are: No Cat No, I Eat, Oh Rabbit, and Hi Daddy Hi (my favorite). When you tell us you love us, you say "I Be". It melts our hearts every time we hear it.

You love to read, sing, and eat. We read several of your books every night before bedtime. Your favorite right now is the animal book. You love to make the animal sounds and tell me the names of the animals. You will sing to me and Daddy and have us clap along with you, but you scold us if we try to sing along. You will eat most things, but you're not too keen on corn, mac-n-cheese or any pasta really. Your favorite food is fruit and you insist on having your cookies right after dinner, which consists of 3 Nilla Wafers. We find it very funny that you will not say the word Cookie, you just say Pease (please) instead. You are no longer using your highchair and are now sitting at the dinner table. You also use your spoon to eat and are drinking from a cup. Only a year ago I was weaning you off the bottle!

You dislike taking a bath and you don’t like to be told no - you get very upset when you can’t have your way. You don’t like to share your toys very much, especially with the cats; hence the reason why one of your favorite phrases is “no cat no”.

In the last 2 years it’s been amazing watching you grow from a tiny baby to a little girl with a personality all her own. You’ve been such a blessing to us, Punkin’. Words cannot express how much you are loved and adored. You are a beautiful little girl inside and out and I’m so thankful that God has brought you into our lives. We love you so much.

Happy Birthday!

Love,
Mommy & Daddy

Birthday Girl

Morgan had a good birthday today. She got to wear one of her new shirts to daycare, play with her stuffed cat, eat cupcakes at daycare, and have pizza for dinner. What a great day!


Playing with Cat this morning


Giving Cat a kiss


Happy Girl!

Morgan's 2nd Birthday Party

We had a small get-together at our house to celebrate Morgan's 2nd birthday. She woke up with a low grade fever and wasn't feeling well the entire day, but she was a trooper and still managed to entertain her many adoring fans. She removed her clothes after getting sick and she refused to put on anything else, hence the reason for the "diaper baby" pictures.




Danny, Debbi, & Lisa








Sick Birthday Girl


This was the first time that Morgan opened her own gifts, she loved tearing the wrapping paper!


Showing everyone where the "Cat" was on the wrapping paper.


Loved her new slippers! Now maybe she'll stop stealing Mommy's slippers!


Aunt Debbi put 5 pounds of tissue paper in this princess bag! Morgan had fun pulling each and every piece of paper out.


Morgan was excited to find a card amongst all of the tissue paper.






Loving on Aidan


More love for Aidan






Blowing out the candle. Happy Birthday Morgan!

Mighty Big Shoes

Morgan LOVES shoes! She wants to put everyone's shoes on and if anyone takes their shoes off, she insists that they put them back on. This particular night, we had just finished her bath and I made the mistake of not putting my shoes away. This gave her the opportunity to put them on (backwards) and walk around the living room. Silly girl!

Little Miss Pouty

I thought Morgan looked extra cute in this outfit, but she was not in the mood to have her picture taken, so I got this look instead of a smile.

Peggy's Goodbye

We had one last dinner with Peggy before she left for England and she also came by the house before she left to give Morgan some extra long hugs and kisses. We'll see you next year Pegs! We love you!


We miss you already!


I hope you didn't want your drink back Peggy :)