5 months and 25 months

Megan 2 years, 1 month
My apologies for putting 25 months in the title, the 2 years, 1 month and 5 months seemed too wordy... but in general we don't refer to her age in months anymore :-)

Megan is quite the talker lately, lots of sentences and new words any time she hears them. She loves to say things like "Daddy hold Ra Ra, Mommy hold Megan". And her new favorite word is ok, said like "ok ok", to her it just means yes but it sounds so funny when you ask her something you know she really wants to do and she says "ok ok". She's gotten really good with using "I", like for example "I see airplane", "I see baby squirrel".

Speaking of baby squirrels :-) We have two in our yard and they are sooo cute! Megan of course LOVED them and they were pretty friendly. No mommy squirrel was in sight though, so we're a little worried they might not survive long :-( Here's a pic


Back to Megan... :-) She's had on again off again interest in her potty. She brings up poopy diapers a lot even when she doesn't have one. A couple times a week she'll ask to sit on her potty and a couple times she's had a dribble of pee in it, mostly she just sits on it (well she's up and down a lot, she won't just sit there, even if I'm reading her a book). We're not in a hurry at all to potty train... so this is all fine with us! :-) She does LOVE her potty books though!

We've been really enjoying the beautiful weather: sunny and 70s! Megan has been riding her bike, running around, playing in her sand table... We walk down the street to the neighborhood park a lot and there's a little pond down there too with ducks. Megan is into collecting rocks and throwing them into the pond.

Last weekend she took a big interest in her clothing, to the point where she wore a dress two days in a row :-) And on the third day she got quite upset when I explained it was dirty and needed to be washed so she couldn't wear it. Since then she's had a strong opinion on what she's wearing! I give her 2-3 choices usually but this is the first time she's had an strong opinion about it!

Megan has also getting more proficient in putting on her own clothes, she put on her shirt on Tuesday all by herself and she was so excited she ran to find me and show me! It was on backwards but I didn't have the heart to tell her so she wore it backwards all day :-) She also puts her own socks and shoes on but usually on the wrong feet. She can get her pants on her legs but hasn't figured out how to pull them up over her diaper yet.


Ryan - 5 months
Well he'll be 5 months on Monday but we're flying to Albany that day so there won't be a blog then :-)

Last weekend we got a rocking chair off craigslist for Ryan's room - yay! We read to Megan in the glider in her room before naps and at bedtime still and we couldn't see moving it anytime soon. So we got something of CL for Ryan's room for the time being. We moved Ryan's swing in there too and he naps and sleeps there at night. So we finally have our bedroom back - yay! It's very nice to get ready for bed and not have to worry about waking Ryan up! He sleeps in his swing at night for 3 - 7 hr stretches at night. On nights of the days I work he'll sleep about 3 hrs before he wakes up and I move him into our room but on nights I'm home during the day he'll sleep around 7hrs, which is GREAT!

He's jumping (see the video in our last post). He loves the jumperoo and I just think it's so cute watching him jump!

He's almost rolling back to belly, he's seems really close. Poor little guy gets really frustrated too! He just needs to figure that one arm out and he'll be good!

He's really into his sister, gives her BIG smiles and even laughs at her sometimes. He loves watching her laugh, talk and dance.

He's really good when we're out. He'll let people he doesn't know hold him and even smile for them, he's good in the stroller when we're outside, and seems to be generally in a good / mellow mood when we're out, yay!