slow melt minis

breakfast is the most important meal of the day:

this little tiny of mine considers slow melt mini popsicles

a staple in her life.

any time we open the freezer,

she hauls "hinney" over to the kitchen.

& on her way over she is always

excitedly talking jibberish.

her little voices elevates & declines

over & over again

in dialogue i wish i understood.

she loves slow melt mini popsicles!

& she never has just one...

she always has two.

{yes, these photos were taken this morning... before 10 a.m.}

honestly,

she always has a good breakfast before i cave into

her tantrum to have a slow melt mini.

who doesn't love a good popsicle in the summer anyway?

especially when it taste so yummy.

seventeen

your birthday is a special time:

i don't remember exactly what my thoughts were the day morgan was born.

but

i do remember that she was really small.

i remember looking at her through the lined hospital glass.

i remember my mom coming home from the hospital, but without my baby sister.

i remember calling the hospital with my mom from a pay phone in the parking lot of babies r' us, right after my mom had bought me a cabbage patch baby.

we were calling to see if morgan was strong enough to be released from the hospital.

that particular time, the answer was no. i was devastated.

&

then july 27th, just eight days after her arrival

{which seemed like an eternity to a seven year old},

morgan grace

came home to be an eddy.

{preview of some of morgan's senior photos done by none other than shutterfreek photography}

i could go on & on about all the many memories i have of my baby sister.

but, maybe i will share those on a different day.

she is one of my most favorite people.

i will always cherish the many nights that we stayed up late playing "genus world record" & that she slept with me faithfully every night of my life growing up.

happy birthday favorite sister.

you are beautiful inside & out.

i love you.

to celebrate the gift of "you" to the world.

dump trucks & booties

frog, snails & puppy dog tails...:

my mom & sister got our

nameless baby boy a cute outfit

the day we found out he was a he.

cute dump trucks...

are dump trucks cute? i think so.

& this weekend,

my sister-in-law,

{whom i love & has the most beautiful children},

brought these little booties for him.

so cute.

i know i "only" have 137 days left,

but i am getting so excited to meet our boy.

i love looking at all the images

from our ultrasound at

new mexico Sonographics

here is his profile.

post script:

boy names are hard!

i can not find a name i like.

thats what boys are made of...

or so i've heard.

rocks

from there to here, & here to there {dr. seuss}:

i find rocks in our mcphee home everywhere.

my little tiny nora g has always had a fascination with rocks

so its no surprise that i find rocks in

her room, her crib, the bathroom,

in the toy closet,

under the couch & the entertainment center,

in eye level cupboards...

i find rocks everywhere

&

it always make me

laugh.

on this particular day,

i found these four rocks while tidying up our family room.

each in a different spot.

when i decided to photograph them,

little tiny nora g had to remind me that those rocks belong to her.

this is what my girl looks like post piggies in her hair.

so cute.

love, love, love my little tiny.

funny things are everywhere.

queen N

this little tiny girl rules the roost:

on any given day,

this is what we do at granma's house.

nora grayce thinks she is the queen.

& maybe she is....

she knows where the yummy treats are in the pantry.

in fact, its the first place she runs to when we arrive.

& she knows just where the treats go when she has suckered

granma, or granpa, or auntie mogen, or uncle sam {& on occasion myself}

into giving her what she wants.

her treats go right to her table.

yumMA!

she always ends up at the piano & in the backyard,

occasionally in the laundry room,

up & down the stairs,

in & out of the pantry,

& most often found digging through her toys

looking for mr. & mrs. 'taetoe' head.

{pounding on the piano}

{helping granma do laundry}

{running outside... pretty sure its her favorite thing to do}

my mom started a joke with mr. & mrs. potato head,

by putting them as her profile picture on facebook.

so we came up with the brilliant idea to take photos of them doing

the things that my parents can be found doing...

my dad tending his garden

{which he prides himself in, especially the corn & the lettuce}

& my mom admiring her gerber daises.

thumbs up for another monday!

here, there, & most everywhere.

pool time

summa time, summa time, summa time:

my little tiny loves the pool.

heck! i love the pool.

we go at least three times a week.

i think nora enjoys herself a tad more when

mr. mcphee joins us.

maybe because he is a kid at heart.

i adore that about my husband.

it keeps him young.

if nora isn't in the pool

{or running around it, or sitting in the chairs},

then she is usually in her swing.

there is a story about her swing & the set that it hangs from

but,

that will have to wait for another day.

we love the summa time.

my first skirt

i like making a piece of fabric into something she can wear:

i bought the pattern for this skirt off etsy

& bought the fabric very soon afterwards.

when the fabric arrived i pressed each yard

& then i cut each piece with very precise precision.

& sewed my heart out.

but

to my dismay,

each ruffle & panel & seam & cut

seemed to be off.

oh well.

i still love this skirt.

i am definetly proud of myself.

& my little tiny looks adorable in it.

i guess nora wasn't up for a mini photo shoot.

it was impossible for her to sit still.

the beauty of a seventeen month old...sa what!?

yes, seventeen sweet months old.

because she is perfect in everything.

raining men

a brand new baby... :

BOY!

we had our 20 week ultrasound today.

it was awesome.

its amazing to me that we are able to see

our little baby boy.

he didn't cooperate at first

& i was sure that we weren't going to find out if he was a he or she.

but, he is a he.

& we couldn't be more excited to be adding

a baby boy to our mcphee family.

to fill our hearts & lives with joy.

sleepin IN

sleeping like a baby:

cousins, Jack & Jane, & aunt Cho

arrived from their across the world journey.

bringing a much anticipated reunion.

i guess nora had TOO much fun last night.

because

my little tiny nora g

is still sleeping.

its 9:20 in the morning

&

she went to bed at 8:30 last night.

{yes, another terrible photo taken with my cell phone}

love this girl to pieces.