Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

I am SOOOO behind blogging. I have to play catch-up after Christmas with both posting and reading all of my buddies blogs too! Here are just a few pictures until then.

This is Morgan at her school party. She was Vixon, I'm thinking that that wasn't unintentional either....... But at least she was a really cute one!




These are Morgan two new BFF's. Teddy and Snoopy, both given to her by my friends at work. She takes them EVERYwhere!!!!

And one last one..........

From our house to yours,

God Bless & Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Our last CASA Christmas party

Saturday was our last CASA Christmas party. It is always fun. They have lunch, crafts, and Santa for the kids. The kids love it and have so much fun. This is Morgan before we left to go.

I love her little candy cane dress. She has been waiting for a while to get to wear it.

Here is Morgan with her BFF dor the day, her case worker Casi. Casi had a baby this year too. So, Miss Audrey was in on all the fun this year!

Miss Casi and her two best girls! (Caron notice Bitty's clothes???)

Morgan even got to hold Audrey. All she has talked about since then is being a big sister......

Morgan and Bitty Baby seeing Santa. Morgan was too busy checking out that big stocking to look at Santa!

Our resource worker Gabby dressed up as an elf. It was great, what a good sport.

Morgan with her CASA worker, Ms Harriet.

And last but not least my good friends in the foster parent world, Brian & Ashley. They had Madison for a short while after me before she went to her family. They have really been through it this year and I admire them so much. They currently have the 2 sisters that you see below. They are adorable!

It was a great day and the kids had a blast!

Oops I did it AGAIN!!!!!!

Well ladies, she has went and did it again! That is cut her hair. Can you believe it??? The second time in 11 months. Her hair had just kinda got "normal" again from the January incident. She did it exactly the same way she did then. I still can't quite figure out how in a classroom of 9 kids with no less than 2 adults my child managed to do this, Mama isn't exactly happy about the supervision going on. I don't have any before pictures because I took her as soon as I picked her up to try to get it fixed. Luckily I had gotten her Christmas pictures and Santa pictures done a few days before. Praise the LORD! Here are her pictures immediatly following her haircut.

I know that you think not so bad right......

Your still thinking not so bad I know. You can somewhat faintly tell on your right side that there is that one piece of hair that comes to the bottom of her ear......well alot of her hair is that length... You just can't see it really good.

Fortunately it doesn't look so bad if it is even partially up or just fixed.

And with her hair up on the cut side.

None of these pictures do the justice that you can only see in person. I cried this time too. I didn't cry the first time. I just keep thinking that I hope that she has a decent hair cut by the time that she turns 10!!!!!!!! I'm thinking that it just isn't going to happen though because she is so proud of the fact that she cut it......makes me mad just thinking about hearing her laugh about it. I mean seriously......SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!! My only satisfaction was that Santa called me and told me to tell Morgan that she wouldn't be getting a doll fixer hair for Christmas.....ha ha ha!

Disclaimer......I just want all of you girlies to know that Morgan's hair is and has ALWAYS been a BIG problem at school. Like she is OCD about it. For real, like I am soooo not kidding. So, that coupled with the fact that we are having some problems with her class is what you can attribute the unaccustomed frustration in this blog.

Tag, your it!

I have been tagged to post the 4th picture in my 4th personal folder.

Ahhhh, it's my little t-baller at her very first practice with her friend Grace.

Ok, so now I am going to tag Ang, Caron, and Misty..... TAG, your it!!!!

The Jolly 'Ole Guy Himself

The Sunday before Thanksgiving I had an appointment at the mall to have Morgan's Christmas pictures made(thankfully early this year....the reason why will have a blog devoted entirely to it). I decided to go ahead and let her see Santa while we were there, hoping that we would beat the crowds. We finished with her pictures and headed over to the area where Santa was to see that we were about 10 minutes early for his arrival. Morgan was so excited as he made his way over.

I tried to take a few pictures while we walked through the line. This is just a cute one.

Morgan remembered this book from last year. She liked playing with it again.

Now, it is about our turn and Morgan is giddy with excitement. This is the first picture that I took.

This next picture I am a little worried by........I just keep wondering what she told him to get this reaction. I am guessing that it had something to do with a certain request for a CAR!!!!

They talked some more and the whole time Santa seems to be very entertained by her. It really was the cutest thing ever!

After a few more minutes they stop for the money shot.

He puts her down and asks her if she would like to try his jingle bells.

Then he tells her goodbye and asks if he can have a hug.....

What he didn't expect was the kiss on the cheek that she squeezed in!!!! How priceless is this picture?!?! He looked over at me and was laughing very jolly. For the second year in a row he said, "Perfect, she is absolutely precious."

We had so much fun. I think that I have more fun doing this stuff than Morgan does sometimes. I could truly head up the "I Believe" campaign!!!!! Santa ROCKS!

Birthday Party & Tree Lighting

Saturday we had a busy, busy day. We started out at Livi Lou's 2nd birthday party. It was a gymnastic party. The kids had so much fun and I got to see The Royal Family! I just have to say that those 2 boys are even cuter in person than they are on the 'ole blog, I know hard to believe!

Here is the birthday girl and Morgie.

Morgan doing her warm-ups.

The girls doing one of the games.

I don't know what was going on when I took this picture, but I just love it! Doesn't she look like such a little gym rat?!?!?!

The birthday girl, Olivia. Happy Birthday to the BIG 3 year old! What a cutie pie!

Morgan on the balance beam during free time.

Daddy & Zach on the slide!

After the party we all went home for some rest and then we got back out and took the kiddo's to the Christmas Tree Lighting at The Avenues of Forsyth. It was cold as crud and sprinkled one time, but I am so glad that we went ahead and decided to go. Morgan looked like a little eskimo!

Here are the girls with their umbrella's the one time that it sprinkled a little. They loved it!

Our first sighting of Santa. He had the nights honor of lighting the tree!

The tree was beautiful after it Santa did his job.

A pic of all the kids before we left. Aren't they cute!!

And the girls.....they were too busy eating their suckers to take a picture, but still cute! Monkey see, monkey do!

A busy but good weekend. The kids loved seeing Santa and the big tree. This weekend is just as busy....I can tell that the holidays are coming!!!!

Spoiled Rotten

Morgan had her last visit with her mom two Fridays ago. It was a mess. I had decided to take that day off and stay for the whole visit so that Morgan would know that I was there and be able to see me if she needed to. Good thing because she came to find me about 6 times over the course of the visit to make sure that I was still there. It was supposed to be a 4 hour visit. I was really happy about that (NOT!!!!). She was an hour late which was good because it took me that long to get Morgan to get off of me and have something to do with her parent aide and case worker. I felt sooo sorry for her. I don't think that I will ever forget the look on her face when I told her where we were going that morning. The case worker said that her mom was ignoring her and that she played with the parent aide the whole time. On top of everything else, her mother somehow managed to get high sometime during the visit. It was horrible! Luckily my mom came to sit with me while I waited after she got off from work. We literally ran out of there with our baby when it was over. I felt so sorry for her that I would have given her anything that weekend. The following pictures are evidence of just that!

This would be Morgan showing Nana her 2 new goldfish (Dori & Shamu) while telling Papa about them on the phone.




The 2 fish. This is love people. Everyone that knows me knows of my aversion to fish.... All I have to say is it was that or a cat.....

Somehow the child managed to end up with both! Below is a pic of Morgie and Libby.

Thankfully it isn't real. It is one of those FurReal pets. She loves this thing. She takes it almost everywhere with her and tucks it into all of her coats to keep it warm. Too sweet!

So, it has been a VERY rough week and a half around our house. Morgan is struggling. I think that we are beginning to see signs of her leveling off again. I hope so. I can't wait till the day that she feels safe in her world and realizes that this is her "new normal" with no visits and no DFCS! Oh how I long for the day......

I just had to throw this last pic in because she is too cute for words!

I still have at least one more post to catch up on from Livi's party this weekend and the Tree Lighting at the Avenues so stay tuned!