Tastes Like Blue

Another update from the Deans:

Chillin' in the pool, Morgan loves the water. Doesn't this make you want to go swimming.

Morgan's pre-school had a field trip to DelGrosso's. Here Morgan is practicing her poses with her bud Russell. How can you look at this photo and not think of Melissa? I think Morgan is going to give me a lot of trouble some day, so I'm going to enjoy her as much as possible while she likes me and not boys.

Speaking of liking me, Morgan still says she wants to marry me. I find it cute in an awkward little way, but Morgan is a perfect example of why every father needs a little girl.
Tonight Melissa and Morgan were talking about me and Melissa said "He's all used up, he's mine!" and Morgan sighed and said "I know! Dad, can you help me find a guy?" I writing this down so later I'll have proof that she gave me permission to pick one out for her.

Here is another photo of the duo at DelGrosso's.

There are probably a thousand bike trails around State College, and we finally went on our first family bike ride. This of course is while we were on the trail, much later than when we thought the golf course cat path was the bike trail.

Another classic photo of Mikayla. She is now spinning and rolling all over, and for some reason we are trying to get her to crawl, I'm sure we'll regret it once she does.

Morgan loves to borrow Melissa's phone and take pictures. Most often they are blurry photos of the back of our heads, the TV, or her toys, but here you can see a photo of her favorite subject--her "up and down" shoes.

A couple short stories we have saved up for you:

Morgan has been getting pretty inventive lately. She has already designed a gun that doesn't shoot but cleans the house, a gun that does chores, and yesterday's invention was a blanket with Cinderella on it, but when your baby spits up on it the picture turns into Mickey Mouse, and when the baby is on it's tummy it turns into Tigger.

Morgan is also into this abstract sense of colors. For example, I got my new free t-shirt from LymaBean a while ago, it's blue with a gray logo on the front. After I got it in the mail and put it on Morgan came to me and smelled it and said "Dad your shirt stinks, it smells like gray!" Also, yesterday Morgan got my Wegman's Blue Freeze sports drink out of the fridge. After taking a sip she said "That tastes like blue, blue from a rainbow."

Morgan has also been obsessed with American Girl dolls lately. She wants one so badly that she said she is going to save up her money to buy one, they are about $100. Last week she worked hard on her chores and on Saturday Melissa and I agreed to pay her $5. Morgan seemed pretty dissapointed by this so I asked her "What did you expect, a hundred dollars?" and she just replied "Well, yeah!" Last night Melissa and Morgan went to Barnes and Noble and saw that they had a drawing for an American Girl doll that was on display in a glass case. After Melissa filled out the form for the drawing she gave it to Morgan and said "Turn around and put this in the box" and then proceeded to put her pen away in her purse. When she looked back up she saw that Morgan had slid the form into the glass display case. Melissa somehow managed to get it out and told Morgan that she had to put it in the box with everyone else's forms, and Morgan said "But if I put it in there then I won't win because other people will put theirs on top of mine."