Michaela Mary Jane Morgan

Our third baby girl was born over 6 months ago on October 5, 2009. It's been a pretty busy 6 months! Here's how she's changed:

1 day old

1 month old

2 months old

3 months old


4 months old

5 months old

6 months old
The best words to describe Michaela are happy and patient! She is always full of smiles for anyone and patiently waits for her mama when she is taking care of her sisters. People always comment on what a happy, joyful baby she is, and the next comment is usually how much hair she has (although it is only on top of her head, and after a second glance, it usually is lovingly referred to as a "toupee" or comb-over!"

Michaela is adored by her sisters and doted on immensely. Her Daddy can never go by without swooping her up and placing many, many kisses on her head. She has many nicknames, Kayla Janey, Janey girl, baby Janey, Miss MaKay, MJ, MaKaystinator (Daddy's), carnividon (Daddy's) and so on.

At age 6 months, she can sit up and play. No interest in solid foods yet, but loves mama's milk! She can blow raspberries and make all sorts of noises. She has also noticed Taylor the cat in the last couple of weeks and seems very entranced. We greatly look forward to the next half of our baby girl's first year, and hope that it doesn't go by as fast as the first 6 months!

We love you, baby girl!!

Loving This Homeschool Blog!

Haven't posted in quite awhile (to be exact almost 3 months), but we had our third baby girl the day after my last post on October 5!! Needless to say, with 3 young girls, life is busy! But I had to make a quick post to up my chances of this great giveaway on this blog. Check it out:

http://www.hsclassroom.net

Melina Likes to Organize

Just one incidence of many things Melina likes to organize. I was in the kitchen cooking dinner when I stepped away and saw these shapes and car organized very nicely on the step from the kitchen into our sun room.

Countdown for Baby Begins...

Official "due date" was Oct. 2. We probably have 1-2 more weeks to go, however. We are very anxious to meet you, baby girl!!

39 weeks 40 weeks "due date"

Art

I'm getting antsy for fall weather so the girls painted fall trees this week, taken from one of my favorite blogs
In the last couple of weeks, Isabelle came down with a fever that lasted about a day, and a few days later Melina got it. I used this activity to reinforce good handwashing techniques, since I'm a little paranoid with illness and having a new baby in the house. Can't find the link to the blog I used for this activity, so basically I sprinkled cinnamon on Isabelle's wet hands to represent the germs and then she washed. Melina did it too, but the pictures aren't exactly G-rated since she didn't have any clothes on.
And, since we had the cinnamon out, we used a few more spices and did this craft:

Isabelle's Halloween Costume

Isabelle wants to be Laura Ingalls from "Little House on the Prairie" for Halloween. We had a dress made for her, and on the day it arrived, it was like Christmas--she was so excited. Here she is all dressed up. And, she went to the grocery store with me all dressed up too--I so admire her confidence! What a fantastic little girl!

Ladybug Farm

Isabelle earned this ladybug farm recently. Here she is setting it up: