Well that was quite the holiday season. For some reason Santa "accidentally" left his entire toy bag in our living room and we have only now managed to rediscover the floor. Morgan has now claimed toy space in pretty much every room of the house: kitchen and grill in the basement, dollhouse and tea set in her bedroom, train table in the living room, play dough on the porch, and everything else in the family room. And of course panda pillow pet has the prime location on her bed. Simon's in there somewhere but since he still lacks a bit of the motor skills necessary, Morgan has graciously offered to play with all of his toys until he's ready. All in all quite the successful holiday... and quite appetizing and silly thanks to Uncle Scotty cooking it up in the kitchen and keeping Morgan entertained on the side. Morgan may have to make her first airplane trip out to Washington state.
So now things are settling back down a bit. After a lovely 10 week leave I'm back at work which also means Pat is back at work answering to some pretty demanding bosses. Of course I get daily reports from one of the aforementioned co-bosses and I hear he's doing an excellent job so far. Simon is smiling like crazy and also appears to be quite ticklish. We've also begun scouting basketball teams as it is already very apparent that he is going to be a bit on the tall side. And as I can accurately report, he seems to have another one of his father's traits in snoring... loudly. Thank god for those dimples though.
We've got one more quiet week before things start picking up for us again. This weekend Morgan and I start yoga classes together. Morgan's been practicing by doing her downward dog in the bathtub. She's quite good. She's also got her play school classes starting back up again next week so I expect more museum-caliber artwork to start coming my way again soon. Simon also has a busy schedule planned of tummy time, naps, and looking cute.
And I almost forgot some big time news... well, big news for us I guess (and yes, I do realize something's a bit off when this is what most excites us nowdays). We have a little girl who is growing up. Morgan spent about 90% of the weekend in big girl underpants and using the big girl potty all by herself. On Saturday she decided she wanted to give it a go, mainly for the M&M reward she gets afterwards. We had a few slip-ups here and there but overall she was doing really well with it. By Sunday she wasn't even waiting for us - we caught her quite a few times just sitting on the potty by herself without telling us beforehand. And that was when she left the door open - seems she's already got the privacy thing down pat. Now we just need to work on getting her to pull her underpants down first before actually sitting down and doing her business but that's really just a minor detail...
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