So, I never ever thought I would read people's blogs, let alone join the blogging world. But I did it. I am weak. All of your influences took me over and it just seemed so cool, he he he! Or I felt bad because I am awful about keeping in touch with people (emails, phone calls, letters, telegrams, morris code, smoke signals, all of it) so I figured this might be a good way to keep such folks informed and give others a chance to get to know me, since I am too shy to ever strike up a conversation. Most likely it is a combination of the two.
My life is not that glamorous, so we will see if I can find enough to write about. Erica just got a job 4 days a week working at Onalaska in their special ed preschool and Melia starts Centralia College on Monday, so between Mom and I we have Madison and Isabell in the mornings along with Peyton, of course. It has proved to be quite a challenge with just Madison and Peyton but I am hopeful it will get better, although I don't know where this hope comes from. Peyton is just into everthing these days. I spends most waking hours pulling him off of chairs, tables, stairs, couches, etc. I swear he is constantly finding stuff he is not supposed to be in. Not too many words yet, unless uh-oh and tickle tickle count, which makes communicating with him a little bit harder. It has to get better though, right?
We took him to Fort Borst Park the other day to see the ducks and try to feed them, which was an experience. Even after showing him what to do, every piece of bread we gave him went straight into his mouth. Apparently the ducks didn't deserve it as much as he did. That is a picture of him at the top shoving his mouth full. Oh well, it was so darn cute, we will try again later. He is a ball to take to parks becuase he is so fearless. There is no taking him down slides, he just throws himself down head first. Again, a ball to watch, but also slightly frightning for a mother to have a son with no fear.
Tomorrow, Saturday the 20th, Dad is having a "Turf and Sweat" Day (his name not mine). Basically, if you help him outside finish up some of his projects you get a steak, so that is what Nate and Jesse will be doing most of the day while I watch the kids (Erica and Melia are working), but if anyone else is hungry... :) he he he! I really hate working outside, I would much rather clean inside or do the cooking and baking, which I am sure is what I will do!
Ok, well that was pretty long and informative for my first post. Hopefully, I and my page will improve, just give me some time!
This was the weekend we were to go over to Ellensburg and finally see the newest member of the Morgan family, Blake. He is Jesse's nephew, son of Casey and Liz. His baby blessing was taking place on Sunday and we knew we were going to go, but we decided we didn't want to just drive over in the morning, cause wow that would be early, so we made a loop starting Saturday by going up to Seattle and staying with another one of Jesse's brothers Nathan and his wife Raya. We always love staying with them because of all the sisters in law, and there are a lot, I am probably closest with her and Jesse is really clos with Nathan. Plus they have a daughter that isn't too much older than Peyton and she is really nice to him. She is actually the one that inspired him to walk so we were hoping the same thing would happen with the talking but no luck. Unfortunately, we didn't leave Ony as early as we would have liked and we didn't get to do too much Sat. but we did go out to dinner (mexican) then out for ice cream (Cold Stone, yum!) and back to the house for some Office viewing. They are huge fans and put us to shame, but it is fun to watch with someone else.
The next morning was all about early rising and lots of driving. We had to be up and out by 8 o'clock which meant waking up P. He was suprisingly good in the car but had a minor melt down at church, tradeoffs. Luckily, Jesse's cousin was also having his baby, Addison a tiny little girl, blessed that day. A little 2 for 1 action. That was neat for Jesse to be in two circles in one day, though.
After, we went to local park and the kids got to run themselves ragged while we had a nice little meal. Everyone elses kids crashed out and took naps but ours, can't stop him. Worked out well though since he slept the entire way home, yay! Three hours, what a joy! It was nice to be able and hang out and visist with everyone, it has been a long time since we have seen some of his family, and we hadn't been able to see the babies yet. Peyton's cousins had fun trying to play with him at the playground, taking him down slides and stuff. He wasn't going for it, we had to let them know he is just too independent for that, just let him throw himself down head first. Good weekend, got some quality time with the car, always love that!
