Fun at the park!

Megan LOVES the slide. Did I say "loves"? I mean adores, begs, enjoys AND loves the slide.

She is such a sassy one...

Could she BE any cuter? No, I didn't think so, either.

Boy the swings are fun!

Megan & Irish

Megan LOVES Irish...always has. Oh, she loves Dakota, too, but by FAR Irish is her favorite. (And Dakota doesn't mind since it means she doesn't get bothered as much!)

She was laying his pillow on Thanksgiving..giving me the perfect photo opportunity.



Our girl & her dog

Some Christmas Pics

...that did NOT make the cut this year.

Oops, that ornament fell off when she was standing by the tree

I do love this pic, but it didn't make the cut...

This week's pics

For whatever reason, Megan loves to put on big shoes. Here she is modeling a pair of dad's.

One night this week, DH was watching Heroes in the bedroom. Megan just HAD to have dad read bedtime stories.

Megan LOVES to drink "mom's coke" or "dad's coke" (which can be mt dew or diet coke). In fact one day this week she asked "mom's coke. green straw. please." as she was describing the coke can (that was empty) that she wanted.

Megan's school had a trike-a-thon this week. Here's Megan getting ready to start riding. (You can see her in the red sweater on her pink/purple/white bike.)

Coloring. Oh man. That's all we do now days. For HOURS!!!!
Notice her wrist full of bracelets...which she LOVES (only on her left wrist, of course)!!!

Megan also loves to wear her necklaces. Her favorite way is to wear them this way...silly girl!

Potty Training Days 2 & 3

She's doing amazing!!!

The afternoon of Day 1, she didn't have any accidents at all. Then yesterday we had only 2 accidents ALL DAY (one of them was #2). Today (Day 3), she had 2. The most exciting part is we went to the store two times and she did not have an accident at all! She wouldn't go in the public restroom...it was sensory overload...the loud flush of the toilets in the other stalls, the loud hand dryer, etc. But, she did sit on the potty in both places (when we first go there and right before we went home). I did use a pull up while we were out (aka special panties), but she didn't go in those either!!! Just a little bit ago, DH saw her acting like she needed to #2, so he asked her, she said "yes", then she went!! YEAH!!! Huge celebrations at our house!!!!

She is still not telling us when she has to go, but we're setting the timer for every 45-60 minutes and take her. She's sort of indifferent on whether she gets a sticker right now, and that's fine.

Potty Training...

Today is the day. We started this morning when we got up. By 9am I was ready to quit. SERIOUSLY! We had 6 accidents by 8:30am. UGH. But, she's gotten the hang of it now...we go every 10-15 minutes and she pretty much goes every time. She's not telling me when she has to go yet, but it will come. We've only been doing it for 6 hrs.

And in those 6 hrs we've had 11 accidents and 6 successes. Not bad for the first day!!! We'll see what the afternoon brings!!!

First School Program

Megan's school had a Thanksgiving program last night.

Here is her performance.

Zoo trip with Friends

On Thursday, my friend, Stacey, called me to see if we wanted to go to the zoo. It was a GORGEOUS day, we didn't have anything pressing to do...so we went! Unfortunately, my camera battery was shot right after I got there (I forgot to check it when I left)...Stacey has all the good pics, but I did get a measly 4 pics before it completely called it quits...

Megan having fun on the slide in the children's area

The girls (Megan & Bethany) looking at the ducks.

Note worthy Skills

Since it's been a while since I updated the blog on things Megan does, I thought I'd post a list of things I can remember:

• She climbs on our beds by herself. It scares the crap out of me when she's on the bed without one of us close as she's scooted over to the edge and sat back, not realizing she was so close to the edge. So, the rule is if she's on our bed, she has to sit by the "sheep" (a stuffed lamb that is on our bed...we got it from the hospital when Ian died).
  
• Heck, she climbs on everything right now. She loves to climb on the chairs at the table, and frequently likes to stand up on them.
  
• She is so verbal now. I love to listen to her as she walking around the house...she'll say "b-c-d-e" or "8-9-10" or just babble. LOVE IT! Oh and she has said pretty hard words like dinosaur.
  
• She is making requests (aka DEMANDS). For example, one today was "Mom. Down. Please. Ok." She ends every request with "Ok." Well, actually she says "ok" all the time (guess what word mom uses all the time???) Or another request sounds like this "ga-git-it. please. ok." (go get it, please, okay). Of course the tone is more demand than request, but we are working on that. Oh, another popular one is "Mom. Sit. Couch. Okay." Too cute!
• Whenever Megan is something "too", she holds up 2 fingers. Oh, the complications of the English language!
• She is always counting. We went to the store this morning and she was counting the stripes on the ground as we were crossing the street. Of course, it comes in handy when we're sitting in line waiting and she's bored. Then we count to 20 or sometimes 30 to help pass the time. Love the counting!!!
• She has really gotten into coloring. I attribute this to school as frequently they color first thing in the morning while they are waiting for everyone to come. She can color for a good 30 minutes, she's not just counting the colors or taking them out of the bowl and putting them back in like she used to. She, of course, loves to color Elmo!
• Speaking of Elmo..she is ALWAYS asking for "steekers" (aka stickers). And course, it's ALWAYS Elmo ones...who cares about anything else!
• She's also very much into blocks, towers, puzzles and books. I've pulled out a few "new" books that she's enjoying.
• She loves music. She's beginning to tell us the only songs she wants to listen to: Six Little Ducks; Jesus Loves Me; Wheels on the Bus (aka "Bus"). Occasionally, If you're happy & you know it, Clap your hands.
• She loves to talk on the phone...which could be a play phone, a remote, a dog toy. Just about anything will do! And she typically talking to "ta-tee" (aunt Katie), Nana or Grandmom, but sometimes "Ash" (cousin Ashley).
  
• She knows her name, my name and daddy's name.
• She loves to read clocks (digital ones, of course). If the clock showed 11:30, she used to say "one, one, dot, three, zero", but she's started say "eleven, dot, three, zero". Pretty impressive, I think!
• She loves to help with cokes (aka getting us a coke or putting more in the frig)...she says "coats", though...but sometimes says "cokes. frig." Oh and when the cans are empty, she loves to pretend she's drinking from it, AFTER she takes the tab off and puts it in the can. We're not sure where she came up with pulling the tabs off, but she does it on every can!

That's the best I can think of right now about our smart, beautiful princess! She's one smart cookie, that's for sure!!!

The Fairy Princess

We had a beautiful little girl dressed up like a fairy princess last night

She's wasn't really crazy about her wand, though.

We walked down to the neighborhood church (Grandmom & Papaw's church) and Megan got to sit on a horse for the first time.
She loved it.

We only stopped at 2 houses, played a few games at the church party then came home and handed out candy.