Jul 04
SATURDAY On Saturday, the 23rd of June, Marcus, Pookie, and I flew to Jacksonville, Florida for a Morgan family reunion at the beach. Why Jacksonville? Because that’s where my siblings and I grew up, and once every few years my parents rent a condo at the beach and some of us get together for a …
Jul 01
We just returned last night from a week-long trip to Jacksonville Beach, Florida. We are still exhausted, and at least one of us is sunburned. So it may be a couple more days before we start posting about it. For now, here is a teaser pic of Emrick on the beach.
Jun 23
Sometimes, after we get Emrick bathed and jammied, he gets a few extra minutes to play and blow off steam before bed. If he’s not quite ready for “sleepy time”, he spends those few minutes running around the house, screaming and laughing and nearly colliding with walls. But if he’s ripe for bed, then that …
Jun 16
Today, Emrick is 1.75 years old. In three months he will be two! About this time two years ago, I was entering my last trimester of pregnancy. We had not yet met Emrick, except on ultrasound, so I had no idea that we was going to have a mess of dark, spiky hair; and I …
Jun 15
We took Emrick to a pet store the other day so that he could see the real-life version of some of the animals on his flash cards. He has seen dogs and cats in person, but not much else. The first thing we showed him, and by far the thing that drew the most perplexed …
Jun 14
Emrick has a set of flash cards that I bought for him quite a while ago. Only in the last few months, however, have we really been using them with him. But thanks to these flash cards, Emrick can now identify a dog, a clock, a car, and lots of other things by name. Many …
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