POD-185: Matching

Morgan is really into matching colors these days and while we're working on growing out her bangs these days (or "fringe" as some might say) she loves to pick out her barrettes in the morning. We've had to set limits on how many she is allowed, but this particular day she managed to find one to match each stripe in her dress. How can you say no to that? It was incredibly hard to capture (especially in the morning rush), but you get the idea:)

POD-182: Gone with the Grass

This was a particularly dreary week followed by a particularly dreary, wet, long weekend, but finally Sunday afternoon there was enough of a break in the rain that I scratched my plan to finish painting Morgan's room and headed outside to tackle the trimming of our beautiful 7 foot grass in the back.

POD-181: Kabouter Morgan

A sure sign of fall in Belgium are Kabouters (gnomes) and paddestoelen (mushrooms). This was the theme of the week in Morgan's class and they ended the week with a kabouter party and came home with painted cheeks and cool hats. The kids were searching for kabouters hidden in the playground and found a pancake griddle. Naturally, the party ended with Belgian style pancakes topped with sugar. I wasn't allowed to wash those cute cheeks all weekend.

POD-180: Dopido

Morgan working on some projects on the workbooks she brings home from school. Give her some things to tape or glue and she's having a great time.

POD-169: Color Week

It was color week at Morgan's school and can you guess what I dressed her in for "red" day? She was very excited to wear her buckeye garb.







After school she wanted to color and cut paper and was humming a little song she learned that day about her "rode neus, rode neus." I made the mistake of believing her when she told me I could wash it off at the end of the day and got in huge trouble. Luckily Tuedsay was yellow day...

POD-168: Milkshakes

POD-167: Ice Cream

Morgan goes to her friends' house Wednesday afternoons and they're always up so something fun when I pick her up. Its a good thing the calories really don't count in these because I think I had about 10 ice cream cones and sundaes.

POD-166: Fun from home

Morgan and I went to the post office to pick up a nice surprise of two packages from home today! Morgan is trying on her new pjs and boots with a new stack of cute outfits behind her. Thanks Grammie and Grandpa.

POD-162: Rainboots and Umbrella

Morgan was excited for her first rainy day walk to school with her boots and umbrella. I'm sure the charm will wear off quickly.

POD-160: Brood Automaat

We buy bread from a vending machine. And, it is the best bread you've ever eaten. If we're lucky we buy it straight from the guy filling it up from his truck. The shopping cart was just for fun this time.

POD-159: Alas

I've finally found the refrigerated pizza dough after almost 2 years in Belgium. Trust me, I've tried to make my own dough and never found anything I've liked let alone been worth the time-goodness ratio. Add in some fresh mozzarella, garden fresh zucchini and whatever else was in my reach at the time and we made ourselves a nice pizza.

POD-152: Fake Grumpies

POD-151: Play-Doh Monkey

Morgan's new monkey she got for her birthday from her good friends Ryan and Brenna. She was quite impressed I got the play-doh coming out the tongue. Go mommy!

POD-147: Spaghetti

I gave Morgan a few choices for dinner.
*Slurp* she says with her hands around her mouth.
Morgan, what do you want to eat?
*Slurp*
Do you want soup?
*Slurp*
Spaghetti
*Huge grin...slurp*
Spaghetti it is.

POD-144: Train in Turnhout

The real one wasn't running this day and it was a bit rainy, but Morgan and I still had a bit of fun in the park. She met a little girl with her grandpa in this little part of the park we'd never found before. They were having a great time together making me sand-food until grandpa said it was time to leave.



I know the month of August has mostly come and gone with almost no pictures, but I'm trying to get back on track so bear with me even if there are more snapshots than anything.

POD-143: Dress Two

Today I happened on the dresses I was looking for with Morgan last weekend. There was a store that still had some nice summer dresses on sale and they were all so cute it was hard to choose.

POD-129: Pizza Night

Morgan style.

I got busted bringing home Morgan's birthday present this weekend so she got it a bit early. Most of you know I have a bit of a toy obsession and I've been eying these kitchen sets for a long time. It was actually supposed to be her Christmas present last year, but she had so many new things I ended up putting it off a bit. So now she's going to be birthday spoiled...or am I spoiling myself, hmmm.

POD-127: Fun with Friends

Morgan was a lucky girl this weekend. Ryan and Brenna were over playing with us most of the weekend while mom and dad were doing some sightseeing with family in town. We did our best to stay cool in the heat and had a great time in Morgan's new pool.

POD-126: Mini ice cream cones

Cute and delicious. And, they leave a bigger mustache than you would imagine. I had to clean the tea set and my shirt before getting this little girl a napkin followed by a washcloth.

POD-125: Pineapple and Peas

I love coming home these days to Morgan shouting, "Mommy, do you want to plaaaay with me?" This was Wednesday's fun activity...alternating filling the pineapple rings with peas or carrots.