- She's talking up a storm these days. She's getting really good at 2 word phrases and she kinda works them out aloud. She starting saying "Bye Gymbo" a month ago when she would leave Gymboree class, and then yesterday when we were leaving the mall she said "Bye. Mall. Bye Gymbo. Bye Mall." so cute! And then I heard her say "Bye Dada" too yesterday. She also likes to say "Move Dada" or "Move Mama" when we're in her way. She tries to repeat almost any word we give her and does pretty well with new ones.
- She still loves to say Pie, if you ask her her favorite food she'll tell you pie. If you ask her what she's cooking when she's making something in her play kitchen she'll tell you pie. Although this week she's been cooking eggs a lot too... If it's a dessert food she doesn't have a name for she calls it Pie! She also loves and knows the words for cookies and cake and after she asks for Pie and we tell her there isn't any she'll move onto asking for those!
- She's still in her crib, she loves to climb stuff but won't even try to climb out of her crib. So we're not in any hurry to move her, too many others things going on here :-)
- She's still happily in diapers, and we're pretty happy we're not potty training yet either! She does know when she's going to poop because she tells us before she poops. Although she often blames it on Elmo. The conversation goes something like this, Megan: "Poopy", Me: "Megan, do you have a poopy?", Megan: "No, Elmo", Me: "Elmo has a poopy", Megan: "Uh-huh". But regardless on knowing when she's going to poop she in another phase of hating diaper changes, so she'll tell you she going to poop, tell you when she has pooped but then she'll hide from diaper changes and / or cry when we take her to change them.
- Megan loves to play hide n seek with Nemo or other stuffed animals. She'll go to the couch and cover her eyes while I hide him and then go look for him. She has the biggest grin come over her face when she finds him, it's adorable!
- Loves the movie
Finding Nemo , I put it on a couple times to save my sanity when Ryan came along and I turned her into a TV / Nemo monster! We had to clear out the top drawer of the entertainment center from DVDs because Megan would open it saying "Nemo" grab any DVD and open the doors to where the DVD player is and try and put the DVD in the player. She'd get pretty far too! We had to go through a Nemo cleanse (i.e. we hid it and didn't let her see it for a while) and now she's back to normal. She still requests Nemo occasionally but is easily distracted. She does watch Sesame Street a couple times a week, usually on mornings when I'm trying to get us out of the house. She loves the Elmo's World part and is pretty interested in the rest. She'll sit at her little table or on the couch and just watch - Megan loves coloring, she likes crayons and markers and will try desperately to get her hands on a pen. She also loves her play kitchen, she takes food out of her fridge puts in a bowl and stirs it. She'll put the bowl in the fridge or microwave to cook it and then take it out and say "yum"
- We have to keep the front door locked now because Megan can open doors, and will go to the front door and say "park" and try and open it. If it's open she'll just go on outside, yikes! She loves the park down the street and the big twisty slide. She also tries to climb up the ladder structures that are for older, taller kids.
- She's getting more and more interested in Ryan everyday. She loves to give him paci's, push the swing, bounce the bouncy seat. She calls him "Ra Ra", and will give him kisses at night on her own and say "awwww" sometimes when she sees him. When I get her up in the morning she asks about Dada and Ra Ra. At the dinner table sometimes Megan will go around and name all the people in her family, "Dada, Mama, Ra Ra and Meegan"
- She still loves to read. Now she likes longer books with more words on the pages. Her current favs are Stellaluna and Mommy Breastfeeds My Baby Brother
Ryan 2 months
- Ryan loves to smile when he's awake. Mostly he smiles when we smile at him. He loves it when I laugh, but it has to be a real laugh, I can't fake him! He also loves when Russ makes funny faces does silly things with him
- He still hasn't really taken to a pacifier, Megan never did so we aren't surprised. He seems to like the pacifier most from Megan. She LOVES giving it to him but never seems to leave it with him long before she pulls it away, maybe that's why he always seems interested in it because she constantly teases him with it!
- From 1 month until 2 months he was pretty colicky at night from about 7-10pm. Starting on the day he turned one month he would just cry / scream during those hours. Nursing would help for a couple minutes and then back to crying, moving, walking, bouncing all helped a little but he would soon be back to screaming. It was awful! After trying lots and lots of different things we found putting him in the swing and turning the hair dryer on to be the best solution. He would almost immediately calm down and soon fall asleep. Sometimes we swaddled him in addition to swing + hairdryer. But right around when he turned 2 months it started happening less and less and now we've had several good nights in a row, yay!
- Ryan still HATES his carseat. I can count on a total crying screaming fest at least for some part of each car ride. It seems like he doesn't get as worked up as he used to so that's good and he is limiting it more to when we're at lights or stuck in traffic and usually calms down when we're on the highway or moving.
- Is rolling over, belly to back. He doesn't do it every time but he's definitely rolling. Sometimes he gets really frustrated still when he can't remember or his tactics aren't working on the particular surface
- He likes to face out while we walk around, he's starting to take in more sights and sounds around him. And he's more interested in his bouncy seat bar that has lights and sounds and his activity mat with the toys dangling down.
- Ryan decided about 2 weeks ago that he wasn't going to take a bottle anymore. Sigh... we haven't been the greatest about giving him one consistently so I'm sure that's why. Russ is home on Christmas break now so we're going to try and nab his bottle refusal in the butt before I head back to work on 1/7
- Ryan loves baths but only if he gets to take them in the big tub! He loves floating on his back, I get in with him and he just loves floating in the water. If he's having a bad crying night we'll just get him in the bath with one of us and he calms right down.
- He's a pretty good sleeper, most nights he'll take a good 4-5 hour stretch from 10-3, wake up to eat and then he's back asleep until 6ish. Last week he slept for a 7 hr stretch which was amazing for me!
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