Change Clothes

The silver lining in the fact that Morgan spits up all the time is that we get to try on lots of new outfits.



How can you not smile when you see this one?

















Morgan got some new decorations for her walls.












Here is a dress and buffalo that her uncle Jared sent from Calgary. Red looks good on her. I think she may be scared of the buffalo.

Good Times

Morgan had a visit from her French boyfriend, Francis. They were born two days apart, and as you can see they like each other. We've been having fun running the roads, enjoying the nice weather, and visiting. All this activity can wear a girl out, and Morgan finally slept through the night last night for the first time in a few weeks. We were spoiled when she first came home from the hospital because she slept through the night early on, but we're making up for lost time now. A growing girl has to eat!

Camera Happy

We have an apple tree in our back yard that we haven't paid much attention to until it started to blossom in the past week or so. It is so pretty.



















Morgan and her mom on Mother's Day

5 Months Old

Morgan is now 5 months old











Daddy's girl












Emily and William visited this week from the Island. Morgan was good about sharing her toys.







I was spoiled with flowers for my first Mother's Day.

What Fun the Good Weather Brings

Cool dude with her cool shades - ready to roll with her peeps and overindulge in milk.
















Sun hats


















and pretty outfits.


















She tried cereal for the first time. The look on her face is priceless.

May Flowers

The months seem to be flying by on the calendar, and here we are in May. It's great to get out and enjoy the good weather. Morgan went swimming for the first time yesterday. We started off in the big pool which is cooler, then went into the warm pool. She liked it for a little while, but she didn't LOVE it, and after 15 minutes we were out of there.


This isn't a good shot, but I had to take a picture of Morgan in her Bjorn. She hated it for the longest time, but persistence won out, and now she likes it.















Extreme close-up.


























We pulled a pop-in on Suzanne, Wayne and Eric in their beautiful new house the other day. It was great to see Suzanne one last time before she heads back to work.

I went to my book club meeting last night to discuss The Birth House by Ami McKay. Here is an excerpt that we discussed that I thought was worth sharing, especially with Mother's Day coming up: "It's a disgusting mess we come through to be born, the sticky-wet of blood and afterbirth, mother wailing, child crying... the helpless soft spot at the top of its head pulsing, waiting to be kissed. Our parents and teachers say it's a miracle, but it's not. It's going to happen no matter what, there's no choice in the matter. To my mind, a miracle is something that could go one way or another. The fact that something happens, when by all rights it shouldn't, is what makes us take notice, it's what saints are made of, it takes the breath away. How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead... that's the miracle."