Sick little girl

Megan has strep throat. I have no idea where she contracted it, but one really never knows where germs originate! She's acting mostly normal, but there are points you can tell she's not feeling her best (like when she is not eating some of her favorite foods). But, she's on the road to recovery now. I'm just glad we figured it out before the weekend...

Megan abilities

Just quickly to update all the things that Megan can do. She truly is brilliant...and we realize we have our hands FULL with this girl!!!

• She counts to 50 without much help...actually I think I heard her and DH count to 56 the other night.
• She sings through her alphabet without batting an eye. She loves to call Nana or Grandma & Papaw to do "b-c"s (as she calls them).
• She can recognize at least 25 words. She spells several. Some of the ones she knows include: duck, mom, dad, nana, Megan, dog, cat, car, water, vine, boy, girl, God (which causes her break out in song: "God is so good"), go, stop are the ones that come to mind right now. She loves to take her alphabet puzzle and "do words". She literally can spend an hour "doing words". She loves the challenge!
• Speaking of puzzles, she has "graduated" to jigsaw puzzles. It didn't take her long to figure them out, either! Maybe 3 days?
  
• She loves to sing "Jesus Loves Me"...as seen in the previous video. She also loves to sing "Father Abraham", "In the Lords Army" (aka "sticks"), "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", "Circle, Triangle, Rectangle & Square" to name a few.
  
• She has quite the memory. About 2 weeks after we had been home from our family visit, she told me Uncle Keith was being silly and Megan cried. And she was right! It was a day she had not enough sleep and was extra sensitive and she did cry over nothing. Of course, crying over any hint of a laugh when she is tired is not all that uncommon, and thankfully it has gotten so much better! She's finally realizing not all laughs/giggles are at her (especially when she doesn't want them).
• She desperately want to ride her bike. Yes, she has a big girl bike. The neighbor girl outgrew hers and they kindly gave it to Megan. Surprisingly, it does fit her, but we have not gotten training wheels nor have we gotten a helmet (both will be birthday presents). We've had to hide it in the garage or every time she goes out here, she wants to ride it. Right now.
• Sleep...well, that's a whole other post. She had been doing so well, but then when we were in SD it got bad. In fact, since we've been back all sorts of things have been bad...including her social anxiety at school & church. She's been crying at both for some reason. She's loved both of those things for some time, I'm not really sure why she doesn't right now. We are looking into some options to potentially address both of these issues which I think are very much connected.
• She does not mind going in time out. In fact, after she gets out of time out (usually for hitting, which does a lot when she's tired), Elm0 typically has to go into timeout. Often she wants ME to put him in timeout and I typically refuse. I tell her that if she thinks he needs to go in timeout, then she needs to put them there. And so she does...she moves the chair to the right spot, puts him on the chair, bends down and tells him he's in timeout for hitting, then she walks away. Of course, then she forgets he's in timeout. But, the whole thing is just hilarious! Its really hard not to laugh!!!
• Speaking of Elm0, he has to do everything she does...even down to going on the potty to go potty. And I think a few times we've had to get paper for Elm0, too. It really gets too much sometimes, but she is definitely getting into imagine play. Finally.
• Her favorite phrase right now is "okie, dokie, M"...yes, she calls herself "M". We have no idea where she came up with that one...we don't call her that! She's so funny!!!

Well, that's the best I can do right now...

Singing

Here is our precious one of singing her favorite songs.

Let it SNOW!!!

I'm not kidding when I say that we got over a FOOT of snow yesterday! Yes, in ONE day!!!! It was a beautiful falling snow, and it wasn't horribly cold out as it hovered right at 32 all day. Megan & I spent about an hour outside playing in the snow. I did wonder, though if we had moved our house to South Dakota! One friend suggested it looked like Narnia outside..I would have to agree!

We made snowmen (okay, I MADE snowmen while Megan walked around in the snow!)

She had fun standing by the snowmen, though.

You can see here, in the pic I took last night before bedtime, that the deck is completely covered and the snow almost comes up to Irish's chest. Today, in fact, DH had to shovel some snow in the backyard so that Dakota could walk somewhere besides right beside the house! Despite those difficulties, the dogs are LOVING eating the snow!

A fun trip!

Megan & I went to visit family this weekend...here are some of the pics we took...

NanaLin & Grandpa Steve with Megan
(yes, Elmo goes everywhere)

Grandmom V & Papaw with Megan
(Papaw had surgery on his shoulder the day before)

Playing in the snow with Nana
It snowed 7 inches over the weekend!

Play dough with Nana and cousins Ash & Brady

Cousin Brookie and Megan with me

Megan said she needed "put gloves on & clean"

Silly stickers with Nana

What is it about Big Bird?

For whatever reason Megan is completely FASCINATED by Big Bird...specifically this BB instrument that comes from her medical kit. She's slept with it...talks to it (of course!)...loves on it...it's really the craziest thing!

Doesn't look at that intriguing, if you ask me.

I love this pic of her...she's actually smiling (actually, I think she is saying "Big Bird! What's he DO-ing?")

Giving loves to BB...

This girl cracks me up!