Wordless Wednesday

Culinary Delights with Lily Eilonwy!

Wow Mom!!  Look What I DID!!

This happened one morning when I was a bit distracted.  I had started feeding Lilian her breakfast cereal and bananas, but got called away to do something else in the middle of it. 

I thought that I'd put the bowl far enough away to be out of her reach, but I guess not.  I forget sometimes that our kids have monkey arms!  She quietly sat in her high chair in the middle of the kitchen and scooped the tasty goo into her mouth. . . or there-abouts.  As you can see here, she's also gotten it up her nose!  Gives a new meaning to the phrase, "A little stuffed up!"

How can you be upset about something that looks like so much fun?  However disgusting this appears, she was having a blast!  And the delight with which she plastered herself with banana sludge was simply adorable.  The other kids laughed so hard and so long it only increased her happiness.  I really think she loves doing things to make her sisters laugh.  

Just a close up to illustrate the slimey-ness we're dealing with!  It was straight into the tub with this one!
If it had been summertime, I'd have just wheeled her outside and hosed the baby, bowl and high-chair off with the hose.   She had managed to coat the BOTTOM of her tray with the sticky stuff too!  That's talent right there! 

Thank goodness for vinyl high chair seat covers, and dishwasher-safe trays!

Silly Mommy!  When will you ever learn?  But seriously. . . what a cutie!

Big Mouth, Big Claws!

Lily is getting so big now.  She's about seven months old, and is branching out into new foods.  She's very excited about this, as you can plainly see.  

In these pictures, she is holding an entire vanilla wafer in her mouth and grinning ear to ear.  She's so thrilled to have something to sink her gums into that she started smiling too much and could hardly gum the cookie.

Kurt is brandishing his "Santa Claws" for us here.  Of course, he thinks it's a name for some kind of animal with big claws.  He'll have plenty of time to figure it out before next Christmas.

She's been working hard trying to cut her teeth in and is very close to finally having chompers.

Here's Kurt showing his skill at engulfing an entire cookie, just like "Lillan," which is how he says her name.  I'm sure he's thinking "This is easy!  Give me a challenge here!"

The picture I've been working on . . .

So I've been trying to get this picture to shrink a bit and fade a bit and slide it right behind and to the left of the header on this page, but I have failed.  So, I just decided to put it on here and have done with it.  

At our house, the Muppets are a favorite.  Especially old-school-in-the-hey-day kind of Muppets.  Since my blog is named Morgen Morgans, (even though it's not actually a Swedish phrase) I have always thought it could be something the Chef here might say.  So. . .

"Morgen Morgans! 

Frog leegs foor sooper! Bork Bork!

Kom und geet eeta!"

yeah, that's all. *smile*

Lizzy laughter!

So, just a moment ago, I was kind of half-way listening to Lizzy tell me something.  She asked if I'd like to try making rock candy again, and said "Did you know that rock candy used to be used as medicine?"  

   I said I didn't know that.  Then I jokingly asked her, "How do you know so much, smarty-pants?"

Without even missing a beat, she said, "I don't read.  I watch TV."   

Hurray!!!

Something Monumental just happened in my life and I'm bursting to tell everyone about it!!!  I finally found Nina Hollier again and have started catching up with her!!  Nina is from Surrey, England.  I'm from Fruitland, Idaho.  We met while she was spending a year in America as an exchange student at my high school.   And we've been best friends ever since.  We've probably only seen each other three times in the last fifteen years though.  I pretty much lost track of her after we moved to Connecticut.  But I'm such a miserable letter writer anyway, I had almost no hope of getting back in touch with her.   

Enter Facebook.  I had been on for about a month before I realized that I should look for her there.  I searched and her profile came up.  You know how when you do that, most of the time there are about five hundred other people with the same name, all over the globe?  Well, there was only one hit for her name and I about did a back-flip for joy when it came up!!  I can't believe how excited I am!  It is fantastic to be able to connect with my best friend again after so long and being so far away.   Doesn't she look great!?  I love her so much!!

Halloween Hauntings and Huntings!

Good Grief!  It's been a long time since I have made a new post!!  

Now, we'll remedy that problem.  So much has been going on, it's crazy really how much I need to add to this blog.  But we'll start small again, and give you a glimpse of our Halloween. 

 

Alicia was a Vampiress.  We bought about fifteen dollars worth of teeth (that didn't work, fit, or look right) for her before we found the ten-cent ones that we had been hoping to get to start with.  Brynne was a cute little devil, which is accurate in soooooo many ways.  Lizzy was all geared up to be a good witch, like Kiki of "Kiki's Delivery Service," but then switched at the last minute to a fairy princess, with a unicorn stick-pony, that she bought with her own birthday money.  Good thing our dress-up box overflows with fairy attire!  Kurt wore the Superman costume he did last year, with one notable difference:  this year it actually fit him.  I had to re-do the S-shield because it had been through the dryer one too many times, and the iron-on had melted together a bit.  The felt I used to over-lay it looked really great, and I was happy with it. Don't tell anyone, but the cape he wore was lifted from his sister's Snow White costume!  Lily, who is not pictured, was dressed as a little pink kitten.  The majority of her costume featured a pink binky with pipe-cleaner kitty whiskers.  It was really cute!! 

This was our party at Aunt Amy's house with the Morgan cousins all decked out.  We had a ton of fun playing games and eating a yucky lunch of Mummy Burgers, Witch's warts, Skeleton fingers, Witch's hair, and Bubbling Bat's blood.

We love dressing up and decorating for Halloween.  Ty had a blast draping cobwebs all over our front porch and hanging a gigantic fake spider right in the center of it all.  You can see it reflected in the front window here. Someday he wants to be able to cover the entire front of the house from the chimney on down with a web and just have an enormous spider leg coming over the top of the roof. Very Creepy!  Kurt would look outside and tell me almost everyday how worried he was that the "pider" was going to eat him.  He loved it!  

That night we canvassed the neighborhood for two and a half hours.  I got to take the kids out this year, which I've never done before.  I realized at the hour-mark that it wasn't about them any more, and I was living out my childhood fantasy of having the chance to trick-or-treat at an almost endless line-up of doors.  It's pretty sad when your kids start whining that they don't want any more candy and their bags are too heavy, that their feet hurt and they want to go home.  Lizzy was sure that we were lost forever and that Daddy would miss us really bad!  

I have to believe that if they lived in the country and had to climb in and out of a suburban, driving miles between each homestead, collecting a pitifully small amount of Halloween loot each year, they would think differently.  My children's suffering was worth it!  We (They) got about twelve pounds of goodies--only one of which was apples.  (which everyone knows just don't count!)

My mom, who understands me completely, sent us each a gummy Creepy Crawler as our grandma treats.  These three massive gummy candies were the only ones left to take a picture of the day after they arrived.  Lizzy got the most disgusting one:  the cockroach!  *shudder*  She had no problem eating it, even though it was larger than her hand.  EWWW!  Kurt had a centipede, which was over five inches long.  I wish I had a picture of the gooey mess he made of himself as he ate it!  I'm sure you can imagine.  Sometimes there aren't enough wet-wipes in the world. . .