Adopting Morgan

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2012-01-03T18:07:00.001-06:00

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Merry Christmas 2011

2011-12-25T22:38:00.000-06:00

My Brother being the hulk!!

Morgan had a BLAST!!!!!

Morgan was looking at these pics with me and said 'that one hurt a little!!'

Morgan's present to me.....awwwww LOVE IT!!!!

Joshy LOVED his sweatshirt!!

Had to put this picture in here because as i was going to take the picure he threw the pjs AT me!!! They are mid-air.

Christmas Day - Morgan and I were crawling around the grass (ON DECEMBER 25th!!!) being kitties

When we got home tonight we found we left one present here.....and of course had to open it!!

The Santa Dilema

2011-12-03T20:11:00.001-06:00

Soooooo I have a Santa dilema. The problem is I don't want to lie to my boy and I wasn't really into Santa and the whole story when i was little. My parent never took us to see Santa and I don't recall ever even thinking about it or wanting to do it. The biggest thing for me is that I don't want to tell my child something true when it's not. BUT every Christmas kid event there is a santa and that's perfectly fine....but then you get the questions....I don't want to say oh it's all fake, when some families really do the santa thing BIG!!! Because I'm so torn I've researched others' opinions and how they dealt with it....there is the 'camp' that says it's good for the imagination and it provides mystical fun and believing in the magic of Christmas.....but there are those out there like me.

Yesterday when I was researching I found one persons opinion that fit pretty well with me and how I feel about things.
" I remember my reaction to finding out that Santa wasn't real. What upset me the most about this revelation wasn't losing my fantasy about Santa. It was realizing that my parents had told me something that was completely WRONG about something that was so IMPORTANT to me. I stopped seeing my parents as a source of unerring wisdom! And THAT is the child's fantasy that I want to foster in my own children. So, to that end, when my DC ask me about Santa, I say it is a wonderful, famous Christmastime STORY. I tell them the STORY of Santa is about a wonderful man who gives to others without expecting anything in return. He isn't even there when the presents are open, so he doesn't even receive thanks and gratitude. I tell them that I love the story of Santa because he follows the example of Christ: giving to others and loving everyone because that is what God wants us all to do. But, when my DC ask if Santa is real, I tell them that I love the story, but I don't think he's real. Then I ask them if THEY think he's real...and so far, they've always said YES!! (Of course they would say the same thing about Dora, Winnie the Pooh, and Nate the Great.) This way, my DC get to enjoy their Santa fantasy, and when they finally realize that he is just a nice story, they will think "Wow, Mommy was right after all!". Lolli, Brian (6) Katherine (3) PS For safety reasons, I have stressed that a big part of the sory is that NOBODY ever sees Santa. So if they see a man dressed as him, that is simply somebody who loves the story of Santa, too. But he is still an ordinary person, so they should never leave with him without me or Daddy."

Not entirely, but that is close to my feelings on the subject.

This may seem like a stupid thing to waste my time worrying about or thinking about but I do and that's me - and I thought I would share and see if there is anyone out there that had thoughts about this subject too.

And of course Morgan sees Santa everywhere; but I'm not willing to outright lie to him.

So with all that rigamarole we saw Santa twice on Saturday; once for a pancake breakfast and once at a book store event. And I went about it along the lines of the comment above.....it's about the spirit of giving and some people believe. He asked me if I believed and I said I don't think so and he said 'well I do' - and I told him that was perfectly fine.

So there you have it....my ramblings on and on and my waffling back and forth about whether or not to post this - Thanks for following this......if that's even possible!!!!

So here are our pictures from yesterday - the last picture is actually the author of a pretty cool book and he read the book to the kids.

Starting to Set up Christmas

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And a pic of Zep for good measure!!!

Severs Corn Maze (but we didn't do the Maze!!)

2011-10-23T22:04:00.000-05:00

Our Weekend with Zep

2011-10-23T21:32:00.000-05:00

Marcel and C's Adoption Day today - Remembering Morgan and Mine!!!

2011-09-30T07:37:00.000-05:00

I'm so excited for it to be made official!!

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Happy 5th Birthday Morgan!!!!

2011-09-10T23:13:00.000-05:00

Labor Day Camping with Lucy and Stacy

2011-09-06T20:03:00.003-05:00

Off to a shaky start.....good thing they turned it around!!!

Morgan was so NOT feeling well the first night. He would lay down every chance he got....and was coughing.....Poor guy!!

Relaxing in the tire swing!

CATERPILLARS - the theme of the weekend

(I labeled that pic before I realizing that you can't even see the Catepillars - they are in their hands)

They biked and scooted all weekend!!! It was AWESOME!!

Stacy's family visited us on our first night and brought us pizza - PERFECT!!! Thank you!!!!

Another mini rest

Lucy's grandma was there to help lucy rollerkate!!

Morgan musta felt they needed some assistance!!!

Hiding from the smoke

Lucy did this awesome show....Morgan joined in and they sang and danced....I will get a video up in the next few days!

This was actually 'the queen' getting Morgan off her pedestal!!!

Lucy was being such a good friend/doctor to Morgan - she took care of him and he definitely played it up.

Asleep all bundled up in his comforter - I was just hoping he would wake up feeling better and he actually did - YEaH!!!

He doesn't look like he feels better....but he really did

Playing a little Football with some big boys

OMG Lucy LOVED the plums from my parents - she wanted more and more - she was tooooo cute!!

A little tart

Digging a hole

We built lego houses for out caterpillars

These were called super bubbles or something like that...the was soooo sticky

Doing a little acting

Big rock and roll...that's what he said he was doing....Must of learned that at the BTR concert!!

Boy oh boy were there dogs and BIKES - like TONS!!!!

Trying out an itch reliever weed my mom pointed out when she dropped off some necessities (we were camping just down the road from their house)

A critter I found on our tent - someone said it was a cicada

bye

There was a little caterpillar trauma that these kiddos worked through and came out speaking to each other. Morgan accidentally killed his caterpillars by performing a spit experiment (lets just say he spit on them a few too many times :-( ) Lucy was heart broken and Morgan was so sad and felt so bad - it was a devastating half an hour.

But besides that I think we all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. Beautiful weather and PERFECT sleeping weather.

My sweet sweet boy

2011-09-05T20:35:00.000-05:00

My little baby boy will be 5 years old on Saturday!!! I can't believe it.....where did the time go? He started his new school last week and I think he likes it. Of course momma can't really aford it...but that's besides the point.

Our weekend camping pictures will be coming soon along with a bunch of other pictures and hopefully some words!! Bear with me as I slowly get back on the blogging horse.

Swimming lessons a few weeks ago

2011-08-28T10:30:00.000-05:00

I need to get caught up on my very neglected blog!!! I was the one who wasn't going to let 'facebook' happen to me.....but I did!!! We've had a busy summer - we've been happy....stressed out......whiney......excited......sad......incredible adorable!!!! I will be writing more and putting TONS of pics up as the days go by. Morgan's starting a new preschool and I"m a bit nervous about it.... He'll be 5 on the tenth of September......Life keeps moving.........

My BOY!!!! He took this picture of himself with my phone in the mirror mode

2011-05-15T18:17:00.001-05:00

Happy Mother's Day

2011-05-09T07:05:00.000-05:00

Lucy's Birthday Part Two

2011-05-08T23:09:00.000-05:00

Happy Happy Happy Sixth Birthday Lucy!!!!!

2011-05-07T21:50:00.000-05:00

Four Years Ago Today

2011-04-17T10:42:00.000-05:00

Four years ago I found out that Morgan didn't pass court; this was a very sad day for me.

I found out ten days later that he passed court and I would be traveling May 11th or 12th. I remember being soooooooo excited that I couldn't stand it. I wasn't supposed to know if he passed for at least another day I think. Four years ago I was sooooo sad today and today....well I am sitting in my living room with my boy and his cousin and we are watching Jimmy Neutron getting ready to go to Grandma's. May how things have changed.....I cannot believe that my boy is 4 and a half - CAN'T believe it!!!! These last four years have been quite the ride!!! I'm learning, I'm growing, I'm changing right along with my beautiful boy Morgan Weldemikael.

Odd how today these boys (Morgan and Cousin) are driving me NUTS!!!!

I'm going to try to get a get-together together for his Forever Family Day.

Here's comes some sap!!!

I did not know I could love one little person sooooo much. I didn't know I could love him more then when I first met him. I did not know how much his hurts would hurt me. I did not know everything about being a mom - okay still don't!!!! I honestly cannot imagine my life without my little peanut (my sister's nickname for him since he came home). I don't care how big he gets, he will always be our little peanut!

Letter to Morgan before I got my travel date.

I will be back at least by our Forever Family Day!

Oconomowoc - Camp in - February 18th - Feb 19th 2011

2011-03-27T15:29:00.000-05:00

A serious start to our travel.....Not sure why....

Morgan's checking out what there is to do in Wisconsin.

Oconomowoc was our first stop on our mini vacation with Stacy and Lucy.

We arrive and the kids start right in playing and the adults start right in talking and catching up.

Bad timing for Morgan's slight weeze - We had to use the neb the whole time we were gone.

His friends were kind enough to wait for the neb treatment to be done so they could all continue chasing around.

Cute as always

Down time before bedtime.

Also a little dance off to end the night.

Morning starts off right away with play play play. The kids had a BLAST!!!

Our chef extraordinaire made us pancakes!

It's ironic that Lucy was the only one looking.

These two were having a ball playing with the dinosaurs!!

Preparing for a haircut to be performed by Chef Extraordinaire turned Barber!!!

Thank you DIANE!!

Playing at the mini park by their house

At a second hand store that we walked to. It was truly an awesome sight to see all of the mom's reading the books' the kids picked out - just ploped down on some for sale sofas.

We had more friends show up and we headed off to a park that was a little further away then the other.

It was dramatically colder on this second park trip so we didn't last as long.

Time for costumes!! Diane's basement was the source of many surprises.

Is Lucy too cool or what!?!?!?

Who's that wigged man!?!?!?

Awwww

Back the 'playland' aka Diane's basement

The talent competition was started off by a song.

Another song

Morgan did a little dance!!!

Then prizes were awarded and it was time to move on to our next stop.

Diane, We had a blast and cannot wait to come next year...if we are invited!!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the fun!!!!

Morgan's Preschool Play - February 17th, 2011

2011-03-26T23:06:00.000-05:00

Morgan's Preschool class did a play based on this book.

Getting in costume

On the program cover....awwwwww

Once it came time for the play to start and everyone was heading up on stage, Morgan hurt his foot on the way up and never made it any farther than this step. Sat there with his pouty face and I was way across the room - poor boy

Morgan with his favorite teacher Anna.

So.....Hi my name is Melanie.....and My son is Morgan.....in case you forgot who we were!!!

2011-03-04T22:35:00.000-06:00

It's been a snowy winter - starting with the blizzard on my birthday and most recently the blizzard that happened while we were in Wisconson (that post will come very shorty)