easter 2016

sadly, jon woke up at 2 am on easter sunday with a blistering fever so it was just hadley and i for her easter basket reveal. she got 2 monogramed swimsuits {rashguard style, we are the fairest of the fair}, a puddle jumper, sunblock, a brush and a new cup.  she is totally set for summer.

am i the only mom with a sippy cup addiction? i feel like i'm always in search of the "perfect cup." spoiler alert: they don't exist. they all leak {if dropped hard enough} and they all require major disassembly before entering the dishwasher.

pretttttyyy sure hadley's favorite surprise was the $2 neon hairbrush.

she totally turned on the charm for easter. it gave me all the feely feels. love her.

we hustled to get some mac and cheese made for my mom's brunch and get ready for church. i was proud of myself. even flying solo, i somehow ended up with enough time for pre-church photos.

hadley did so well in church! she had 7 family members to entertain her and make trips with her to the lobby for coffee cake. the best part- she totally lit up when they played "amazing grace" at the end of the service. i know she recognizes the song because i often sing it during difficult diaper changes {i mean, that's probably when i need the most grace}.

we then headed over to parents' house for an incredible brunch spread {my mac and cheese got a few compliments too}. i could tell hadley was starting to get pretty tired, but her uma saved the day with a bubble gun and an "easter egg hunt."

basically, we would throw all 6 easter eggs out onto the grass and hadley would gather them one by one and put them in her basket. all for her captivated audience.

when she was done picking up all of the eggs, she would clap and blow kisses to all of her adoring fans.

i love that she got some good quality time in with her uncle evan, auntie maddie, and uncle grant.

there is a lot of adoration happening here.

the big kids.

and i tried to get one pic of hadley and i before naptime.

you can't win them all.

happy easter!

confessional thursday {3.24.16}

i confess that i have looked at hadley's professional easter pics at least 100 times {i'm most definitely not exaggerating}. for one, kim did an amazing job of picking up on my little girl's personality in a short, easy 15 minute session. you can just see how tickled she was to hang out with a real bunny and chick.

secondly, i'm in awe of how much she looks like jon and like me in these photos. procreation is weird {and cute}.

i confess that hadley climbed out of her crib on her own yesterday morning and i am soooo not prepared for the next step. hell, i'm not even sure what the next step is. pretend it didn't happen and try to keep her in her crib for the next 6 months? move her to a toddler bed that she'll grow out of in a year? go ahead and buy her a big girl bed and come up with some to keep her from falling out?

basically, i've been pinteresting my life away since the ordeal and i have come up with the perfect solution from restoration hardware. wah-lah!

 except it's $3g and 1000% out of the realm of possibility.

with the help of my friends, i've been able to track down a couple of local guys who could build a replica for a much more reasonable price. stay tuned. jon still thinks i'm crazy for even entertaining the idea.

i confess that while i am so proud of the strides hadley has made towards potty-training, we typically call it quits for the day around 6 pm and switch to guns {diapers} for the night.

after dinner, we are both tired and all the potty enthusiasm is just gone. i'm sure i'm breaking all of the bootcamp rules, but i am so darn proud of my big girl and i don't want to push her too much on this.

i confess i am tired of the merry-go-round of allergies/illness/whatever that seems to be affecting our entire family. for the past month, it feels like there is always someone in our house battling some sort of yuck. today was the first day i can remember where we all felt "well."

we made the most of it.

i confess that i can hardly wait until friday when my brother evan and his girlfriend maddie arrive from kansas so we begin the easter festivities. we practiced our egg-hunting skills at playgroup last week and we are ready for the big day.

i confess that i scored this sweet chick mask from the egg hunt. hadley has been obessed with it. i wore it when i went in to pluck her from her crib post-nap.

it didn't go well.

confessional thursday {3.10.16}

i confess that since hadley's birth, i have lost or broken at least $500 worth of sunglasses. i cringe even typing out that dollar amount. pre-baby, i lovvvvved to invest in nice sunglasses because they would get a lot of use {sensitive blue eyes} and i would take really good care of them.

fast forward to 5-month-old hadley chewing and then chucking my designer glasses from her rear-facing carseat. my sunnies quickly became toys and soothers. they would get tossed in the diaper bag to make love with my car keys and come out all scratched up. or i would just lose them all together.

slowly but surely each member of my ray-ban arsenal met it's demise. as of monday, i was finally sunglass-less.

 

as a quick fix, i stopped in charming charlies and found this $5 pair to fit the bill.

 

last night i showed jon and he proceeded to tell me that they look better than any pair he's ever seen me wear {and he's totally a sunglass junkie too!}. needless to say, i'll be shopping the clearance rack from now on. bonus: they don't have those fancy-schmancy nose grippers that always mess up your hair.

{speaking of hair} i confess that sometimes i legitimately feel bad that hadley is destined to inherit my bedhead.

she already has to be a morning bather, otherwise she looks disheveled and frankly a little homeless by noon. just like me, i don't think she'll ever get to be one of those "get up and go girls." between the two of us, it takes us almost 2 hours from wake-up to get presentable and out the door.

i confess that yesterday my heart melted instantly when i came home to my mom, hadley and this little masterpiece.

my mom watched Hadley so i could get my hair done {oh hey there blonde} and meet my brother for coffee. i am 150% grateful that i don't have to worry even for a second when i leave her with her "uma." my mom knows hadley quirks almost as well as i do and i know she will be taken care of completely.

i confess that i am genuinely jealous of hadley's wardrobe. i seriously wish they made have her clothes in adult sizes.

case in point.

if you haven't looked before, check out www.burtsbeesbaby.com. i'm obsessed with their summer line. everything looks super soft and the pricing is really reasonable. plus it seems as though everything kind of coordinates which ignites a beautiful, ocd fire in my soul.

the racerback detailing kills me. fyi- they are currently running 20% off friends and fam sale {FRIENDS20}. treat yo self, i mean your kid.

a bust of a tuesday

today did not go at all as i had planned. originally, hadley was supposed to have her first dental appointment at 8:30, but her dentist was put on bed rest the day before - probably better after the trauma yesterday at the doctor ;). and then i was going to take hadley to see zootopia, her first movie in the theater! however, we awoke to rain, thunder, hail, and a tornado warning. needless to say, we stayed in for the morning.

 

by noon, hadley was stir crazy and driving me nuts so we decided to head to h-e-b to get our weekly grocery session out of the way.

hadley got her first coloring book {since apparently the doctor thinks she already knows how to color} with "magic" markers that only show up the special frozen paper.

 

precious cargo. not to be tacky, but bota's cab sav is basically my favorite wine ever.

also the cheapest.

 

if you're a mom, i'm sure you know the struggle of deciding whether to load up the kid or the groceries first. if you load up the groceries first, you can keep the baby with you while you take the cart back to the corral and they are never left unattended. however, if you load the kid first, you know they are safe from other cars in the parking lot.

 

i have finally found a solution and another reason I LOVE having a truck.

 i can load up, keep an eye on her the entire time, and she thinks it's a game.

 

on the way home, we stopped at the liquor store so i could pick up some vodka for my beloved moscow mules. we are having company over for dinner this week and potty training coming up so it was entirely necessary.

 

hadley was sooooo wiggly in there and she wanted to grab every glass bottle off the shelf. at the check out counter, i made some dumb joke about sweating more than i did when i was underage in a liquor store. it was not well-received {insert eye roll}. for the record, i'm 100% positive i never tried to buy alcohol in a liquor store with a fake id....wayyyyyy too chicken for that.

 

mule shrine.



 

post-nap, granddad stopped by for a visit and taught hadley how to use a clicky pen.

{insert another eye roll}

 

 

big monday @ the docs

i thought hadley's 18-month well check was at 9 am yesterday morning. it was actually at 9:45. we ended up arriving riiiiight at 9:45...if you were wondering about my {non-existent} time management skillz.

hadley was crazy clingy the entire time. i don't really blame her. she basically gets poked and prodded every time we go. she doesn't have great memories there despite her amazing doctor. i'm really hoping we can steer clear until her 2 year appointment. maybe by then all of the scary memories will have faded away.

hadley weighed in at 23 lbs and 7 oz today and her height came to 31 inches. this puts her in the 23% percentile all around. except for her head. that's in the 90%.

dr. fran was very impressed with her vocabulary, about twice as many words as she expects from an 18 month old. however, hadley only knows 2 phrases {'no mama' and 'i don't know'}. i guess most kids her age have a few more phrases in their pocket? the doctor did not seem too concerned though, especially since 'i don't know' is a full sentence. idk what to make of it all.

i did get a little nervous when dr. fran pulled out the crayons to test hadley's motor skills. i readily admitted that I have never really let hadley color on anything. she's still deep in the teething phase. the few times i have given her crayons at restaurants, she has just tried to eat them.

 

alas, she drew two lines on the exam table paper and promptly put the crayon in her mouth. box checked.

 

 

to reward her for being brave during her shot {last one until she's 4 years old, holla!}, we made a quick stop at starbucks for treats. hadley = pumpkin bread. mama = frappucino.

 

we then proceeded to wal-mart where i spent 30 minutes overthinking plastic egg fillers for next week's easter party with her play group. want to know what fits into an easter egg? 

a choking hazard. all the choking hazards. 

i landed on these rubber ducks. my logic is that they will obviously only be used at bath time so close supervision is already  required. god, i need more sleep, or something.

after naptime time hadley was running the slightest post-shot fever so we went for a walk in the most fabulous, cool spring weather.



note the wild hair and toothbrushes. big into dental hygiene around here. 

and in case you were wondering if the morgan household was still dealing with allergies...