- Megan is definitely on a word explosion, somedays it seems like she says almost a dozen new words! Still mostly just 2 word phrases, but she's making new phrases too and putting words together and picking up on stuff we didn't realize she was. The other day she picked up a cup of milk that had been out a while and said "yucky. New cup"
- Speaking of yucky food... Megan says "yucky" when something isn't the color / shape... she expects it. Like if there is a brown spot on fruit, or a blackened spot on a chicken nugget...
- Her beloved Elmo and Nemo stuffed animals have gotten the boot from her crib the last couple days, she says "Out" or "Away" if we try and put them in. It might have to do with the bad dreams about the "guy" in Nemo. Megan calls the scuba diver who captures Nemo "the guy" and several times when she wakes up upset and I ask her what's the matter she said "Guy. Nemo. Boat". We always talk about it and she seems ok. The bad dreams have been going on for weeks but finally this week Nemo and Elmo (who seems innocent, I wonder why he got dragged into this) got the boot.
- She loves to run, as in just running down the street, sometimes at night she says she's running for "Lu Lu Car" (Lora, her nanny's car) - how cute!
- She can sort of ride her tricycle, if she has a push or is going slightly downhill she can peddle it, but straightaways without any momentum are still too hard
- We bought a potty chair which Megan was excited about, she likes to sit on it with her clothes on, but not naked. And a book "Even Firefighters go to the Potty" just to start introducing the idea of the potty, so far she loves her new book and likes to sit on her potty, or put snuggly, bunny... on the potty.
- Can take off her pants by herself and can almost take off her shirts (usually she needs help getting the first arm out)
- Has been doing a lot of dancing lately. She loves Daddy's ipod, she learned how to say ipod pretty quickly and knows which button to press to replay the song, right now she likes Miley Cyrus, the Bee Gees and Jessica Simpson. She requests "Miley" a lot... Russ introduced her to Miley's Party in the USA... We all dance around the kitchen while making dinner, even Ryan seems to like it!
- She loves carousels and rides, here's Megan at Kiddie Acres on the planes, her favorite ride!
Ryan 3 Months
- He has almost mastered head control, he likes to sit up assisted and be held in a sitting position or held up high in Super-Ryan style :) He'll sit in his bebe pod chair too (with one of us next to him for spotting!). Megan likes to sit in the bebe pod chair too, so we take turns and Megan even gets out voluntarily and says "Ra Ra turn"
- On the baby carrier front we've moved to the ring sling mostly now, since Ryan can sit up in it. He doesn't fall asleep in it this way (like he almost always used to do in the Moby wrap), but he likes looking at everything.
- We got some new bottles to try and he likes the Breastflow bottle a lot better than the Dr. Brown's bottles we had been using. He tried the new bottle only twice on Friday so we're hopeful that next week he'll do even better with it! Yay for bottle progress!
- He's drooling, sucking and gum chomping all.the.time!!! I remember Megan doing the same thing at this age and being convinced it was teething, but then she didn't get a tooth until ~6 months.
- His sleep has been a little worse, he still will take a nice long stretch (5-6 hrs) some nights but it seems to be happening less. I'm sure that's just because of me going back to work, so hopefully he'll start getting better again soon!
- He enjoys his mobile and play gym now, swings his hands at roughly at toys. His closed fist hand batting is somewhat accurate too and he seems to be pretty focused at it
- He's much better in his carseat. It seems the scream fests are of a lesser degree and less frequent too. I'd say about 50% of the time and he'll calm down to a quiet cry / fuss when we move (and start up again when we stop)
- Rolls belly to back all the time now and still seems to really like tummy time
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