MM's Ninth Month

We can hardly believe how fast time is going by...is our little princess really almost 1 year?! She is growing up so fast is learning so many things. We had her 9 month check-up and she is right on track for her age! Here are her stats:

28.3 inches long (69%) ~and~ 19 pounds 12 ounces (63%)

At 9 months:
We celebrated our first Mother's Day and it couldn't have been more special! We went to pick out some flowers for the pots and vegetables to plant in the garden. The day was beautiful and filled with lots of family time. Morgan watched as Brad and I did the planting, but seemed to enjoy the outdoors. She and Brad also picked out a new pair of shoes for me...black and white ballet flats with jewels...absolutely love them! Morgan also came home from daycare with a special Mother's Day card she hand made for me...brought tears to my eyes.

5/19/2011 was certainly a day to remember ~ Morgan crawled for the first time! I was lucky enough to be home the day she started the child proofing of our house :) There is no stopping this little one now! She giggles as you crawl behind her and she tries to go faster as you tell her "I am going to get you!" Too stinking cute!

Now that it has finally started to warm up outside, daycare has been making many trips to the Ankeny Splash Park and Morgan loves to splash in the water! She seems to really enjoy being outdoors. Daycare also heads to the park often for picnics and playing on the playground equipment. Morgan loves the swings! Jenny snapped this photo of her unconventional swinging style...guess whatever works ;)

I did a little home photo shoot of little M to get some pictures of her for the blog and this is what I ended up with...look at this face...I can just see the attitude we have in store come the teen years...yikes ;)

We celebrated Brad's first Father's Day! We is such an amazing husband and father! I just love seeing Morgan and him together and just smile at what a wonderful family we have. I see the future of the two of them and she will be daddy's little girl...following him as they head out to the driving range or out to do yard work. He is so sweet with her and you can just tell that she adores him. For Father's Day we went on our very first family picnic to Hawkeye Park in Ankeny...I know I know, why in the world would you go to a park with that name...turns out the park name must have been a mistake...the park is actually really nice and peaceful. ;) We sat on a blanket by the fishing pond under a shade tree and ate chicken salads, fruit, and for dessert, graham crackers with frosting. Morgan picked out a new baseball hat and golf shorts as gifts for DaDa.

Another picture from a day at daycare...this was lunch time...I sent with mixed vegetables and turkey dinner baby food for lunch...guess we chalk this one up to a dislike. Jenny said she cried the entire time she had to eat it. Jenny finally gave in and gave her something else she would eat.

Morgan is such a big girl! (6/26/2011) We went to the grocery store and she rode in the shopping cart for the very first time! She really enjoyed being able to sit-up on her own and look all around. We only had one crying fit when she threw her head back and hit it on the metal cart. We now put her changing pad behind her head to prevent that incident from happening again. Before we know it, she'll won't want to even be in the cart...oh boy!