Saturday, January 24, 2009

11 1/2 Month Update

It's hard to believe Megan is going to 1 two weeks from tomorrow. We're officially in denial. Megan turning 1? It can't be! Time sure does go by faster now! She's getting so big too, well size wise she's not big, but age wise!


She's into everything. She walks fast but no running yet. She steps up and down holding onto the wall or our hands. She can crawl up onto the couch when we place a little step stool next to it. And she LOVES the couch! :-) She enjoys opening and closing doors and cabinet doors. And chasing the cats around is still one of her favorite things.

In the last couple weeks she's really grasped putting things in other things. She puts the balls in her roll and roar dino (actually I forget the name of that toy... but it's something like that), she'll feed me and Russ cheerios or give us sips out of her straw cup! She'll try to put things back too, like she'll put the mail back in the mailbox on her laugh and learn house. It's pretty neat!

She's been totally off bottles for the last couple weeks. She's still nursing, so bottles weren't hard to give up at all. She drinks expressed breast milk out of a straw cup when I'm at work.

She still has 7 teeth, although I'm pretty sure that 8th one is coming in anyday now. (But then again I think I said that 2 weeks ago too...).

She's dancing now too! hehe! Sooo cute. I really really need to get a video of it to post. She has the Fisher Price Laugh and Learn Home and it has 4 buttons with different songs on it. She loves to play a song and then dance a little and as soon as the dance is done she pushes it again! She'll bounce up and down, sway her arms side to side or clap her hands.


We're very excited that my parents are coming in less than 2 weeks (they'll be here for Megan's birthday) and then Jason is coming to visit a couple weeks later! Yay! Lots of fun ahead in the next month!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

New Walking Video

Here's is Megan walking around the house on Sunday night, to give you an idea of how she's walking now.


Also here's Megan enjoying some spaghetti with fake meat (i.e. soy crumbles) sauce - yum! She loves both meat and soy :-)


And here's just another cute pic of her walking

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

We had a wonderful holiday! We celebrated Christmas in Austin with Russ's parents the Saturday before Christmas. Here are Russ and Megan having fun:


Megan got some blocks from her Gramby and Granddaddy and preceded to taste every block :-)


Then on Sunday morning we celebrated Christmas as a family. Here's our tree when we woke up that morning



Megan loves her fisher price learning house! She likes her tunnel a lot too but I think the cats like it more ;-)



Then on Christmas Eve we flew to NY to spend Christmas with my side of the family. We had a a later flight and a layover in Chicago, so we knew there was a chance we'd spend Christmas in Chicago. We were delayed but everything worked out and we got to Albany at 1:17am on Christmas morning.

Here's us on Christmas

Here's Megan's cousin Cameron on Christmas - isn't he cute!


We had snow in NY! Yay! We took Megan out in the snow and did a little sledding on a ramp my Dad made


Lately Megan's favorite thing to do is pickup and carry things around while she walks. Here's her drum she got from Grandma and Grandpa that she LOVES to carry around!



On Saturday Cameron was baptized and then we went to Amy and Vic's to celebrate! Here's Megan and Cameron playing in parallel i.e. not playing together, more like Megan trying to play with whatever Cameron is playing with :-)



I just love her sweater dress :-)


We got back from NY on the 30th. We've been enjoying the rest of Russ's winter break! Megan is walking so much now, she's all over the house and getting quicker every day!