Science before bed...

There was a rainstorm, tonight, and Morgan was asking all kinds of questions..."What makes the thunder make noise?"..."What makes the lightning in the clouds?"..."What happens to the rain clouds after they drop all their rain?"  Greg and I were doing our best to answer all her questions, as she was nodding her head and saying, "Oh, OK, uh huh..."  It's funny how she asks so many complicated questions, just as we're trying to wind her down for bed...

Krinkles

I wasn't feeling too well and Morgan wasn't cooperating with putting on a Pull-Up, and I asked her to be still and she said, "when you make that face, it makes 'krinkles' in your forehead like THIS" and proceeded to try and scrunch her forehead.  I said, "do you mean wrinkles?" and she said, "yeah, it rhymes with sprinkles!"  Then, she started singing a song about "wrinkles and sprinkles".  I'm glad she was amused. ;)

What is that smell?

I was in the kitchen making dinner and Morgan walked up and said, "Ewwww, something smells bad!" and I said, "what smells bad" and she said, "what you're cooking!"  (It was red bell peppers and broccoli...)

Windy Day

It's windy today and Morgan was playing in the back yard and I was talking to her at the door and she said, "Mommy, you better go inside so you don't blow away!" :)

We just can't help saying it...

We've heard and read that you shouldn't call your child "smart", for various reasons, but apparently, we can't help ourselves.  Morgan was doing all kinds of things, this morning...writing the number 10 in a counting workbook, making these bracelets out of beads and pipecleaners (Greg showed her how, but she made them really fast and all by herself, when he wasn't even in the room.)  We were Ooohing and Aaahing over her creation.  She went over to the table to play with dominoes, and she began talking, as if we were talking, saying, "Oh my goooooooodness! You are smart!"

She does listen to me!

I have been taking boxes of old clothes, toys and shoes to donation stations, lately, and explaining to Morgan that we were passing along our things to those who don't have any.  This morning, she found a pair of teeny tiny baby shoes that I missed while cleaning, and she said, "Mommy, we need to take these!"  I said, "To where?" and she said, "to the babies who don't have any!"  *sniff*

Big Girl Bed

Yesterday, Morgan was over at my parents' house and she climbed out of her crib, onto the adjoining bed.  So, we picked her up and took her bed shopping.  We got a Queen bed (since we hope it last her for years to come.

She slept pretty well in it (only waking at 5:00 and around 6:45am).  She did say, though, that she didn't want the new bed, because Dolly wouldn't stay on her eye.  See, in her crib, she liked to sleep wedged up against one side and she would prop Dolly over her eyes.  Now, there's nothing to wedge up against and she's having to adjust.