stars in our eyes

sooooo sunday afternoon i caught hadley trying to hoist herself over the side of her crib using her crib bumper. what the what? i figured i had at least eight more years before she would be ready to move into a big girl bed. come hell or high water, girlfriend is staying put until she is at least two years old {i hope}.

 i removed the bumper. things are looking much more institutionalized around here.

 

in the evening, we joined my parents for mojitos, margaritas and dinner at jack allen's. 

hadley kept watch for the first star of the night.

 

she is ob-sessed with the moon, the stars, planes, birds...anything hanging from the sky. this shirt was MADE for her.

 

 

the obsession has carried over into our bedtime routine. every night she says goodnight to the moon from our back porch and we read one {or all} of her three favorite books.

 goodnight moon - on the night you were born - little owl's night

all of which give her plenty of opportunities to point out the moon.



gymnastics + zoo

big events happening this weekend for the youngest of the morgans!

 

on thursday, a friend posted in our online moms group that there were a few openings left in her daughter's friday morning gymnastics class.  it was like a sign from god. I had been researching first dance/gymnastic class options for the past week. the price for this class was far more reasonable than anything else i had seen.

 

needless to say, I went a little "dance moms" and hightailed it over to ymca to get on the list before it filled up. after we got signed up, there were only two spots left!

it's pretty cut-throat around here {joking}.

from there, were went to go find hadley's first leotard {obviously}.

i think this is more of a dance leotard, but there was fringe involved so i couldn't not.

 

the anticipation.

 

 

i absolutely love this age for girls. they are so sweet and {try to be} kind and forgiving of one another. there's no real drama yet and they are just figuring out the world together. if there's a disagreement, it's immediately forgotten. i think it is so important to protect that mentality through example.

per usual, the highlight of the morning was bubbles.



saturday i had to drop off a highchair rental at the austin zoo. we made a day of it. hadley's first zoo trip!

the drop off was at 2 pm which meant no nap {despite my best my best efforts}. we only got an hour and a half in with the monkeys, tigers, and lemurs before hadley could not handle life anymore and we headed home. nevertheless, it was a super cute adventure with lilly + family.

 

 

 

confessional thursday {2.25.16}

 



I confess that i subbed in for bunco last night and 90% of the ladies there were pregnant. like super cute pregnant. all of that baby talk started to give me the fever.

 

maybe it was the wine though.

 

it was definitely the wine. at the moment, things are wonderful in our home. we've got our groove and i'm not ready to shake that up. i mean, it's 8:15 am and i still have a sleeping baby.

i'm not sure what went down between these two kids at bedtime last night, but hadley is still sound asleep.

 

i confess that i am praying {i don't typically pray for this sort of thing} that hadley doesn't hate wearing this darling bonnet i ordered for her to use this summer.



besides the fact that i have ordered both of her swimsuits to match, i am so worried about protecting her perfect, fair skin in the harsh texas sun. this should provide a lot of coverage and i'm hoping she won't mind the brim. it's not floppy and in-yo-face like a bucket hat. fingers crossed. 

 

i confess that i spied on hadley for a good 15 minutes yesterday while she stared out of the dining room window.

she was pointing out all the things:

"weeeeee-ing" {swing}

"buddy" {the neighbor's dog, copper}

"dada" {our neighbor, not her dad}

"plane"

"truck"

"tree"

those tip-toes

 

she seemed a little embarrassed when she caught me watching.

 

i confess that i had grand plans for organization this week. the purchase of this ottoman was my only step in the right direction.

the tv console in the playroom left a lot of wires exposed for little hands to grab. this ottoman takes care of that and gives me storage for seasonal {and annoying} toys that i don't want to see {or hear} e'ryday.

can i please get a little credit for finding a ottoman with PERFECT dimensions?

thank you.

 

 



mondays at the morgans

after a beautiful sunday filled with church {with uma}, torchy's tacos and a million rides for hadley on the "weeeee-weeeee" I knew that was Monday was going to be tough.

 

i really wanted to give monday my all. i made the poignant decision to a schedule a small date at my house at 10 am. monday playdates force me to get the house in decent shape. otherwise, i will put it off until 30 minutes before jon gets home. it's what i like to call the #5oclockhustle. plus, i'm all for group caffeine consumption.
 

monkey see monkey do.

 

 

note: i've been a fan of old navy's toddler skinny jeans since we borrowed a pair last fall. our new white skinnies did not disappoint. the fit, the length, the weight- all on point for spring. also, the parrot shirt is the softest material on the planet.

 

i won't lie. i not only allowed this to happen, i encouraged it. i needed to finish my first cup of coffee and it was a $1 set of 200 straws from h-e-b. go for it kids.

 

these 2 weirdos have an obsession with frolicking in hadley's crib together.

 

 

 

sweet emery made a more normal friend.

smart.

big things on a saturday

these are 5 major happenings from yesterday, listed in order of importance:

 

1. hadley wore her first real ponytail today and she is now 13 years old.

 

2. as you can tell from the previous photo, the contractor has resumed work on our fence {praise hands}. fingers-crossed that it is complete by sun-down.

{but still, that ponytail! right??}

 

3. we attended an event for jon's organization this morning and hadley got to hear senator watson give a speech on healthcare in austin. when the senator's speech was over, hadley clapped more enthusiastically than anyone else in the room.

 

HEM meets MLK

 

4. after listening to the senator, jon treated us girls to lunch at avenue b grocery in central austin.



 



lunch was delicious and hadley had a big time playing around the picnic tables.

she would have been perfectly content to carry around that one chip the entire time and pick rusty bottle caps up off the ground. unfortunately, i had to divert her from the bottle caps at least 10 times because...tetanus or something.

 

jon's general feeling about the bottle cap situation.

 

breakfast + airplanes

friday morning at monument cafe, i was actually able to finish my eggs benedict. hadley was beyond entertained for at least 5 minutes sitting in her first booster seat. she celebrated by licking the tabletop {woof}.

we then headed to the picnic area of the georgetown municipal airport to watch 100 tiny planes take to the texas skies.

 

and then took 100 photos of hadley being sooo serious about the plane-watching. she looks just like her dad in said photos.

 

 

things got a little "lighter" post diaper change. mad love for grandad and uma.

before I go, can we please take a moment to appreciate this lilly p. bow?

the tipsy bunny