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Happy Halloween From Our House to Yours!!!

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Little Miss Cutie goes to school!!

Today was a BIG day for my "Little Miss Cutie." Today Morgan started a special needs Pre-K class at Coal Mtn Elementary. After about a month of testing we finally got her qualified under emotional needs. It is a great program. They teach at a 4 year old level so she will be learning to read also! I was hesitant at first, but I went and observed and was so impressed that I couldn't wait to get her in!

Here is a picture of Morgan in her "Little Miss Cutie" shirt and big girl backpack all ready for her first day at big girl school.

Morgan has been having a hard time the last three weeks. She is increasingly struggling with controling her emotions. The fleeting visits with her mom have been getting harder and harder on her. Now, she knows where she is going before she gets there and starts saying that she doesn't want to go. It is heartbreaking to have to make her go knowing that she is going to end up crying the entire time that she is there.

Morgan had a great day today after three long torturous weeks of emotional breakdowns. She got a great report from her school and she even answered detailed questions about her day, which she has never done before. She had me cracking up!

Everyone give it up for my Cutie! I am so proud of her!

Trunk-or-Treat

Saturday our church had their annual Fall Festival and this year they added Trunk-or-Treat to it. The whole event started off with a magician from Never Grow Up Magic. He was great and the kids loved him. Chey even got to help out with one of the tricks.

The kids loved him and he was pretty funny. I would recommend him to anyone having an event with children. Here is Chey & Morgie waiting in line for the magician to make them a balloon animal. Too cute!!

After the magician it was time for games and bucket decorating. They gave each child a bucket to decorate so that every child there would have one. I didn't get alot of pictures during games because all of the kids spent most of their time on this hill, sliding and scooting down it.

Then it was time for dinner. And then finally time for costumes and some Trunk-or-Treating. I know alot of my fellow bloggers have already revealed their kids Halloween costumes but I held out. And anyone who knows Morgan knows that this was really the only option.

Here is Miss Minnie Mouse!!!!

I mean was there really anything else. How stinkin' cute is she???? She had men taking pictures of her with their cell phones! So, once we got our costume on we went in search of Cheyenne & Israel aka Sleeping Beauty & Dracula! Maybe I am sick but this next picture is my favorite of the whole night. Izzy would put his arms up and growl at the girls and they would run sreaking at the tops of the their lungs. I laughed so hard all night long, it never got old!

This is the best picture that I got of Izzy all night long. The cutest Dracula I ever saw!!!

Here is Chey & Morgie. Are they cute or what?!?!

Let the Trunk-or-Treating begin!!!!

These were 2 of the best ones. The one above had lots of scary stuff in it even though you can't see it and someone in the backseat dressed up trying to scare the kids. They took it all in. The one below is our Pastor.

I am pretty sure that Morgan has never been Trick-or-Treating because she had no clue what to do. I was so proud of Chey, she stepped up and lead her around telling her patiently what to do all night long. She is growing up too fast!!!

Ah, it was a great night. I had never went to a Trunk-or-Treat before, but it was great and the kids had so much fun. It was a great afternoon. Before it was over Morgan was begging to go home. She said,"I want to go home. It's past my bedtime. I want to go to SleepyTown!" Yes Mam, I say.

I leave you with one more picture of my Little Minnie cause she is too stinkin' cute to resist! Oh, and check out that full bucket of candy!!!

Happy Trunk-or-Treat!!!!

Fall Fun Part 2

Slight delay in the plan to finish up last weekends Fall Fun post, and that delay is called Strep. Yuck! Morgan has had strep this week and it just hasn't been pretty. I am Lysol'd out! Here is last Sunday's part of our Fall Fun post. Last Sunday we went to Ellijay to get apples and went by Burt's. I persuaded everyone to go. Hee hee! I love me some pumpkin farmin'. Look at all those pumpkins!!!!

Some are as big as Morgan.

Here is the family photo op that I MADE everyone participate in.

Since it was like 80 something degrees outside and everyone was miserable I decided to let Morgan take a little dip in the creek at Burt's.

Of course I couldn't let her get in by herself......I mean she might fall right????? And that water did look very appealing.... So, for safety reasons only of course, I joined her....

Stay tuned for our trip to the Cumming Fair.....which we happened upon none other than the Party of Five gang while there.

I LOVE Fall!

This last weekend Morgan & I had a fun filled fall weekend (except that it was still Summer temps!). On Saturday my sister's company picnic was at Stone Mountain Park. Me and Morgan went with them. I was excited because I knew that it this was the month of the Pumpkin Festival too! I love anything and everything about the Fall....I love pumpkins, harvest time, crisp weather, turning leaves....well maybe everything cause I hate haunted houses! Anyway, we had a great time. This is a picture of me and Morgan as you go into Crossroads.

And this was a hoot! The biggest pumpkin tree ever! This is Morgie saying,

Good Golly Miss Molly, Look at that Pumpkin!!!

Morgan got caught trying to hyst this pumpkin....

So, her & Molly ended up in the Crossroads Jail!!!!

After we bailed them out we got a ton more pictures and stayed to enjoy the laser show, which I am sure that Morgan has never seen. She loved it. When you ask her what we saw on Stone Mtn she says "A Movie!"

This is just one last cute pic from the day!

We had a fun filled Sunday too! But I can't fit it all in one post so stay tuned for the rest of the weekends adventures!

Cookie Anyone???

A couple of months ago when Madison left it was a really bad time for all of us. Morgan didn't take all of the changes very well either. I have been bereft at something that will work to tame her. She pretty much loves time-out, she actually puts herself there when she gets upset to calm down! Taking away toys only works every once in a while. At school, even the loss of afternoon treats doesn't seem to bother her at all. I had asked the therapist about a rewards chart and she basically told me that I was nuts that Morgan was too young to understand that, in a very demeaning tone I might add! Well, I decided last week that I was at my wits ends and was going to try just a simple chart and see how it went. Very simply if Morgan is good at school and when she gets home ( this means no throw down tantrums basically) she gets to pick a sticker out of a big book and put it on the chart. After 5 stickers she gets a reward. The first reward was making Mickey Mouse cookies. Let me tell you something girls.....Morgan understands this chart!

Every night it is the highlight of her evening to go to the chart and talk about how we have been that day and then pick out her own sticker. She LOVES it! And she knows what she is working for too. Last night she got her 5th sticker so tonight she got to make her cookies. She was so excited. I just got the kind that you tear off and bake, but they had Mickey Mouse confetti on them and she was thrilled.

The finished product.

Needless to say she loved them. Since I had the camera I couldn't resist taking these next few. Morgan has begun to be very loving. At least once every five minutes she runs to you and hugs and kisses you and tells you that she loves you. When she can't get to you this is what you get....

The start of a big kiss.....

Followed by a BIG hug!!

But she saves the best part for last (as if it could get better, right??). Then she says,

"I sure do love you Mommy!"

Oh my sweet baby, my cup runneth over,

I love you too!!!!