Easter 2012

It’s only been a few weeks since our last update, but it feels like ages have elapsed.

Morgan is now a very independent little girl that is three going on thirteen, complete with attitude.

The other day I said, “Morgan, could you please go put on some pants?”.

She turned and said, “Maybe” long pause, “Maybe Not”.

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She has to brush her teeth by herself (we still have a turn, but she’s quite insistent that it is her job), she has had us change all the doorknobs in the house so she can more readily open them (we agreed, as this allows her easier access to the bathroom at night), and she’s quite the little helper in the kitchen (Beth and her make all sorts of wonderful creations).

She is also 100% certain about the things she likes and wants.

Grandma asked her what she wants for her birthday and she said, “cake, outside”.  When we followed up and asked what kind of cake, she said, “a kitty cat cake”.

Morgan is now counting to 3, can spot many letters of the alphabet, and knows most of the animals (and their sounds) in her books.

She can now carry on a pretty complicated conversation, but still signs many of her basic words.  I asked her to say thank you to Grandma the other day and she didn’t do it.  I said, “Morgan, how do you say thank you”.  Without skipping a beat she turned and said, “with my hands”.

Her imagination is starting to kick in big time.  Every night we sing a little song that we invent each night.  She directs me to what I’m supposed to sing about and then I try and rhyme something together (sometimes even successfully).  Lately she’s been mixing and matching all sorts of weird things and then starts laughing before I even begin, because she knows it’s just silly.

Morgan is also an engineer in training.  We have these bath ducks that have little LED’s in them that blink away when they contact water.  Her green duck ran “out of juice”.  Morgan asked me to help her open her blue duck (which I did) and then she proceeded to “get the guts” from the blue duck and put them into the green duck so that it works again.  Fricking cool!

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Charlotte is now baby running around the house.  She can say “momma” and “dadda” and we are pretty sure “bath”.

She has her sister’s infatuation with the fountain, and just loves the water.  She is [knock on wood] sleeping better but seems to be having a heck of a time with her teeth still.

She just howls when we brush her teeth, but we think that might not be a pained sound but just a “I don’t like this” sound.

Charlotte is such a loving girl.  She snuggles into all her stuffed animals and if you pick her up she’ll just curl right into your arm and neck.

She’s even started giving little kisses.  Wet kisses.  If you ask her to if you can give her a kiss she’ll swoop right in and either pucker her lips or give you the crown of her head to kiss.  You never know which one you’ll get until your lips press against soft wet lips or a your teeth break against her hard head.

And now she’s trained her sister to do the same trick.  *sigh*

Charlotte is also REALLY big into piecing things together.  She loves her toy blocks and stacks them from one tower to another.  She loves putting the blocks away into containers.  Today she was sitting in the recycling and was finding the old milk lids and placing them on the old milk containers.  That’s tough stuff to do.

And today when we did our Easter Egg Hunt, I found that any place that Charlotte had found an egg, she had gone back and placed a rock from the fountain in it’s place.   Adorable.

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We’ve been doing a ton of work around the house and the girls have been busy doing their best to destroy it.

Beth and the girls are putting in a garden this year (this will hopefully be our first year without deer).

 

We’ve had a good Easter this year, with the girls being mostly good almost tolerable.

Happy Easter 2012!

 

 

Here are some shots from March, my Dad’s birthday, and Easter:

 

 

 

Easter Sunday

On Easter Sunday we went to one of the local parks and had a little ride on the playground equipment. We then headed up to the Walkey’s to see their latest addition: Joey, a 25 year old quarter horse.

Morgan had her first tea time with her cousins (she was really confused with the very real looking fake strawberry).

We headed back for ham and scalloped potatoes.

Pictures available here.

Easter Bunny Missing Ear

Morgan went and sat on the Easter Bunny’s knee today. She made the exact same face as the one with Santa. Basically, who the heck are you and when can I go back to playing.

We then went to the pool for a great afternoon of swimming and jacuzzi time.

Pictures available here.

Easter with Karsten

Last night we had a wonderful evening with Karsten. Morgan did minimal damage to the house but ended up eating him out of house and home.

Pictures available for download here.