Morgan Turns 5!!!!!

On Friday our Morgan Aaron turned 5! It's hard to believe how fast time goes by! She wasn't in her best spirits as she didn't feel good. The pink eye she had last weekend that I thought was gone returned. She also complained on Thursday that her left ear was hurting. I wonder if she can feel the tube that is floating around in there? Most of the day was rainy & yuck so we stayed home and played. Papa Russell and Nonny Martha were in town and they treated us to the movie Rio and some popcorn & soda pop and then supper at Cracker Barrel.

I'm posting several pictures but I must say they aren't her best. Her hair is fixed like she wore it to school on Wednesday and touched up for story hour on Thursday. Luckily at 5 life is free and easy.

donut & candle

trying hard to smile nice but just couldn't get it done!

time for gifts

learning laptop

DSi game

big sis trying out the new game, first of course!

another doll

this time Lalaloopsy

opening her gift from Shelby

not sure about the used basket

& looking at the homemade card

big sis also gave her a Target GC

(this look explains how she was feeling & the

reason behind her refusal to talk to anyone who

called to wish her a Happy Birthday)

flowers from Papa & Nonny Moe

I'm 5 and I'll dress how I want to!

time for cupcakes!

with her bad lungs it took her a couple

blows to get all five candles out

It would have been fun to go to school on her birthday but they were off for the Good Friday holiday. She is taking Oreos to school Monday for her birthday treat. Now she just has to be patient until May 21st for her party with family. Happy #5 sasafras!

Unfortunately for you, we do not have a dog!

I didn't think to blog about this until this morning because I really didn't find too much humor in it until then. I also wanted Shelby to have this some day when her own children cause her grief. I was talking to one of Shelby's BSF leaders this morning at out leaders meeting. She was saying how they missed her on Monday night (she was home with pink eye) and that they always notice when she's gone. That led me to tell her about last night. I made chicken parmesan for supper with tortellini on the side. The chicken was from Schwan's which is very good (and expensive) I might add. Shelby has a problem with sauce. The only sauce she will eat is on a pizza and I truly think the kind of pizza sauce will determine if she likes a certain brand of pizza. I use Prego spaghetti sauce. It doesn't get much sweeter than that. I for one do not like tomatoes so I do not like sauce that tastes like them. Shelby ate the tortellini, about 3 pieces of garlic bread and 10 carrots before we took those things off the table and away from her. She was going to eat this chicken! Nate and Morgan went upstairs and I was washing the dishes. Nate had reheated the chicken and Shelby was still at the table trying to figure out a way to eat it. She claimed she really had to go potty. (It never helps when they think you are a complete idiot). Been there before. She goes to the bathroom and spits out the chicken. I told her she could wet her pants since she still needed a bath and clean pj's. A bit later I look and she is bent over backwards on her chair. I keep washing dishes. Then it sounds like she said something, but no, nothing. Soon the chicken is gone. Nate comes down and she tries to give him a high five (for eating the chicken) but struggles because she has a fist full of chewed up chicken. That would be the sound I heard when I thought she was talking. I give her a small scolding for wasting the expensive chicken but at this point am rather tired of dealing with it. I finish up with the dishes and head over by the table to straighten up. By her chair I see 1 piece of chicken. My eyes wander over to the other side of the table (where Morgan sits) and what do I see??? Several pieces of chicken! I know for a fact that Morgan ate her chicken and all she dropped was 1 tortellini. That explained the back bend on the chair. She was throwing her chicken over to Morgan's side of the table! I've quickly gone from tired to just plain mad and told her to pick it up. She could dust the dirt and hair off of it but she was going to eat it! I said, "Unfortunately for you, we do not have a dog to eat that before I find it"! The crazy thing is she ate that chicken with no complaint or problem. Maybe I need to roll all of her food on the floor before putting it on her plate. She didn't seem to mind at all!

Toothless Shelby!

Shelby pulled out her first loose tooth today! She has been saying for awhile that is was wiggly. On Sunday I took them to Subway for lunch and it started to bleed while she was eating her ham and cheese. She ate an apple in the afternoon but in it stayed. She would wiggle it a little but wouldn't let anyone near her to help. Another first, yesterday she woke up with pinkeye. The good mother I am I sent her to school as we've never had it before so I really didn't know if it was that or maybe something as a result of rolling around in the grass the night before. She was fine when she went to bed. I got a call from the school around 12:30 and I picked her up. We saw the doctor in the afternoon and got some meds. She had to wait 24 hours before going back to school so she was home today. I told her she needed to make it her goal to get that tooth out. She didn't want to lose the tooth at home because she thought she would get a special necklace if she lost it at school. I had mentioned that to the nurse on the phone yesterday. She is the one who gives these necklaces out. She said she could bring in the tooth and still get the necklace. So it looks like the tooth fairy doesn't have to make an appearance until tomorrow night. She was getting pretty impatient as she is one of the few left her age to loose one. I told her since she was almost a year old before she got a tooth, it would be awhile before she lost one. Now the wait is on until the next one.

St. Patty's Puppy Love

The week of St. Patrick's Day, Shelby's class wrote notes to their friends in the class. She brought one home from Mya. I read it and said to Shelby that was nice of Mya to write to you. She had no comment and did not offer any details about whom she may have written her note to. One night the following week, I checked my phone and I had a text from her classmate Quentin's mom. The text had a picture of the note Shelby wrote to Quentin. She said she thought I'd like to see it and that Shelby sure had a way with words! I replied that I was honestly a little afraid of what I would read. Here is the note and below are the words as it is kind of hard to read.Quentin,

I like you because your sweet. I like you because your smart, funny and because your cute! Your my hart-shaped cake. Your fun, playfull, and nice. Your lucky to know me!

Shelby

She thinks he's the best and was thrilled to have a play date with him yesterday. He's a good kid and he is smart and a better choice of a friend than the girls in her class she hangs around with most. So as long as I can control her puppy love, I'm happy she has a friend like him.

Basketball Roundup

Poor weather postponed mine & Nate's departure for Florida so we were able to see Shelby's final basketball game. Her team started the 8 weeks out doing great, but finished not so great. They won their first 4 games and lost the last 4. She had fun learning the basics of the sport but she sure doesn't like to lose! Here a few final pictures.

taking a shot in warm-ups

waiting for a rebound

water break (notice crossed legs)

not enjoying the whipping her team was getting!

The Bucks!