Hey Shorty, It's Your Birthday!

My baby turns 6 today!

This year I went with a turtle theme because they have tortoises at Zaharis and you can buy baby tortoises for $40.  Morgan REALLY wanted one.

Dane got one.

But I said no.

I know, I'm mean.

But to show her I really love her lots we got her as many turtle things as we could.

I made her a turtle cake.

And decorated all festive like. 

She liked it.

A lot.

And she liked her new turtle friend "Fluffy".  I told her he's way easier to cuddle than a live tortoise. :)

Morgan is one of the funniest, spunkiest, most confident little girls I know.  She makes me smile every day.

The other day I was recounting stories of Olivia when she was a baby.  I had tons of them.

Morgan kept saying, "Tell one about me.  What did I do?"

I felt horrible because I could hardly think of anything.  Morgan was a baby at the hardest time in my life and my brain simply didn't store a lot of her baby-hood.  I do remember she was an amazingly good baby, she drooled a lot, she would never take a bottle (just mama), and she always made me smile.

There are plenty of things I remember about her now.  Like her uncanny ability to make up the perfect names for animals (Livy will even ask her to name things she gets because her names are always so cute).

She also makes up words and just incorporates them into her daily language.  We have to know how to speak Morgan around here.  For example, about 2 years ago, when she was either 3 or just barely 4 she told me she needed to go "Flickey".

"Flickey?  What's that?" I asked.

"That's when you have to go pee AND poop."  She had fully created the word, had a definition for it, and used it like we all knew it.  And she still uses it…well, we all use it now.

Just yesterday she created another word.  When I picked her up from gymnastics she exhaled all tired like and said,

"Whew. Well that was just piff!"

"Piff?" I asked again, "What's piff?"

"You know, when something's really hard or tiring."

Oh well of course, silly me.  Who hasn't had a day that was just piff?

She continues to be obsessed with animals.  She's gone from wanting to be an animal when she grows up to wanting to train them or own a pet store.  The latest thing she's told me she wants to do is teach animals how to swim…most especially "mouses".

She's smart, logical…very logical, straightforward, happy, and goofy.  Not many people really know Morgan because she doesn't open up for just anyone.  She's quite selective.  But once you're in her inner circle she is very loyal.

We sure love this girl and I feel very lucky to be her mom.