Snorkie-isms

My darling Snorkie is quite a chatter-box these days...

in his OWN way, of course!

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Noticing a stinkie "behind",

Lovey asked him the other night when he was going

to use the potty instead of his diaper...

He turned to his dad and replied:

"Not Tonight!"...

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Snorkie discovered the joy of Bingo on our vacation...

He regularly informs me in the morning:

"This is a good day for Bingo!"...

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At around noon everyday he gets upset

if we haven't had "Narnsch"...

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Lately, his favorite expression is "O my, gosh"...

only it comes out as "O me darsh"...

with something of the Irish about it : )

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Scooter has a book that shows the insides of a

Bengal Tiger in layered pages,

and Snorkie is fascinated by it...

Asking about the "stuff" inside, daddy told him

that they were the tigers organs...

"Oh, Morgans...I see", he says...

He refuses to say it any other way...

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Usually, if I look sweetly at him and say:

"I Love you so much, Snorkie",

He will look back and say:

"I wuv You too, mommy"...

One night while taking a bath, I inhaled deeply

and he said: "I wuv You too!"...

I wasn't even going to say it, but I loved it anyway!

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The next morning, Snorkie heard me leave my room,

He called, "you can come in mommy"... ugh.

I went in, snuggled a little and rubbed his little back.

Looking sweetly at him, I said,

"I Love you Soooooo much, snorkie."

Looking deeply into my eyes,

with his cutest morning voice,

he replied: "I love............

TO PICK MY NOSE.

Ok, I almost fell off the bed with that one...

the kid just cracks me up!

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Happy day everyone & God Bless!

Further Developements...

This Photo of Seeker Man, Scooter, Tilly & Snorkie

was taken on Thanksgiving Day 2006.

I love to see the way the little ones

have so much love and enthusiasm for

their big brother.

They have all been very excited about the

prospect of a new baby brother or sister.

Unfortunately,

that won't be as soon as we had hoped.

Our new baby was not meant to join us

here in this life,

we look forward to meeting her someday...

along with our other baby girl that we

lost to miscarriage about six years ago.

I am doing alright physically...

emotionally is a little tough.

But I look up at those smiling faces

in that photograph at the top of the post,

and just CAN'T feel sorry for myself.

God's Plan ALWAYS trumps My Plan,

and He has been SO Gracious to me that I can

only hand myself over to Him to do His Will.

The kids are doing OK, but we are all sad.

We look forward with the hope that

we will go on to have another baby

(or babies?)

if God wishes us do do so.

Pray for Us, Please.

A Dream Come True!

Saturday, October 12, 1996

The day my dreams came true!

Yes, Lovey and I were married on

Columbus Day...

and it has truely been a

Voyage of Discovery!

We met in August of 1995

when I was teaching a summer art program

that his son was attending.

He was the first one there and the last to leave.

It took us about an hour and a half to finally

leave that Friday when the class ended...

He DID ask for my number!!!

I was on cloud nine.

We went out to dinner shortly thereafter...

(The Chinese Place we went to is Still our

favorite restaurant...

we go there every New Years Eve)...

We became nearly inseparable.

I met his family in early November,

He met mine the next week at an early

Thanksgiving celebration...

He proposed on Thanksgiving Weekend...

Got down on one knee and everything!

What a guy!

I knew he was the man for me

because we spent so much time

talking about our Faith...

God has Always been at the Center

of our relationship.

He is sweet, kind, helpful, romantic...

AND a Great Daddy...

It doesn't get any better than that.

Four years after we were married,

Lovey entered the Roman Catholic Church.

He is dedicated and strong...

and he is my

Knight (of Columbus) in Shining Armor!

I smiled so much that day...that when I woke up in the morning

my cheeks and neck were sore!...Can you tell???

Today, I'm a bit heavier...

and his hair is a bit grey-er...

But I love him more today than I did

the day we were married...

and I didn't realize back then

That it was even Possible!

PS. I didn't get this post up yesterday,

because we were walking in the

Philadelphia Columbus Day Parade.

We handed out Hundreds of Rosary Beads

and accompanied a beautiful statue of

The Blessed Virgin Mary.

What a Day!

There's No Place Like Home

We've been home for almost a week

from our first REAL family vacation in five years,

And I'm just getting around to posting about it!

Friday, September 19th we loaded up and

headed south to

Chincoteague Virginia.

Lovey works for an Architechtural Engineering firm

that designed the Education Center on the

Assateague Island National Wildlife Refuge.

He actually did the fire alarm, security and

power distribtion work,

so we

Oooh'd and Ahhh'd

over all the cool stuff

that was mounted on the walls...

that NO ONE else ever notices...

UNLESS there is an Emergency, of course.

The Education Center is designed with

ALL GREEN TECHNOLOGY,

so it is pretty cool.

The displays were awesome, too.

Very Interactive.

I liked the one where they told us how important

Tidal Areas are both for

Providing Shelfish,

and also cleaning impurities out of the water

by being

FILTERED THROUGH THE SHELLFISH!!!

Not sure if the meant people to notice that little problem.

On the Island:

we saw the "Wild Ponies" of Assateague,

drove on the beach, watched the wild surf,

learned about sea creatures on display...

those that were alive and not so much,

hiked out to the "Pony Viewing Area",

saw special boxes built as "squirrel house" for

the endangered squirrels that live on the island,

and took lots of photos of the birds of the island...

none of which I can access right now : (

We also took a ride up to the beach after dinner

and allowed the children to get out and see

How Many STARS you can see on a clear night

with NO light pollution.

Saturday, we noticed that our hotel had a cute pony

in the "back yard".

Snorkie kept showing Daddy the "Wild Pony"

...He just didn't get it!

(we got it on tape though!)

We hiked to the Light House,

drove back to the beach,

let the girls have a pony ride on ponies

that were"veterans" of the yearly

"Pony Swim"

(I'm bad at linking...but look it up, it's worth it).

We packed up and headed FURTHER SOUTH

to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Wonderful friends of ours have a condo down there,

and they let us "borrow" it for a week!

We "hung out", went to the Ripley's Aquarium,

"Mini Golfed" with Giant Dinosaurs,

Played at the beach for two days...

collecting shells and digging big holes,

Watched movies, played "Clue"

and discovered that Snorkie LOVES to

"draw numbers" for BINGO using the "tumbler".

He even likes to match up the numbers

with the board used to

keep track of the numbers already called!

We also attended:

Dolly Parton's

DIXIE STAMPEDE!!!

It was really silly and really fun and we had

food left over for DAYS

We came home again in one straight shot on

Friday the 26th...getting home around 9:30pm.

WHEW!!!!!

Luckily, there is a washer & dryer in the condo,

so I didn't have to come home with

suitcases filled with dirty clothes!

We had a Grand time,

and I am SO glad to be back in my

OWN BED!!!