Little Girl in a Big Chair!

I have a memory of a tv show that had an adult woman dressed as a little girl sitting in an oversized wooden rocking chair. I think it was on Sesame Street or something but these pictures reminded me of it. She's just hanging out watching tv in dad's chair!

Megan got so many cute outfits at our baby shower and she is now starting to fit into a lot of them. Everything up to this point has pretty much just been one piece outfits and jammie type of stuff. Now she's got several pairs of big girl jeans. I think she is so cute every time I dress her in one of the outfits that I have to take a picture of her. Soooo I have a lot of pictures like the ones below. The vest outfit came from Uncle Gary in Minnesota.

She looks thrilled in this one. She's probably sick of these kind of pictures.


Grandpa and Grandma T sent this onesie to Megan....

Happy New Year!!

I thought December went fast, now we are almost half way through January. Time is flying, probably because I will have to go back to work at the end of February. I'm already getting very anxious about it. I will try to enjoy the time I have left full time with Megan though.

Anyway, I recently got together with my friend Billie Jo and her son Jaxon to exchange Christmas presents. While I was there she showed me a toy of Jaxon's that he doesn't particularly care for. It's the new style of the 'Johnny Jump Up'. She asked if I wanted to borrow it for Megan. I said sure! Anything to entertain her! She seems to really enjoy it for a little while anyway. Here are some pictures:




Last night we decided to take Megan swimming for the first time. We weren't sure what she'd think of it or how long she would last but she seemed like she really liked it. And of course she looked so cute in her big girl swimsuit! We played in the water for about an hour. We didn't dunk her in the water or intentionally get her face wet but when it did get splashed or something, she was surprised and then she was fun. No crying or anything. She did a really good job. I can't wait to take her again and start her in lessons. She can't start that until she's 6 months old though. Eventually she decided she had had enough and we got her all dry and cozy back in her jammies and carseat and she crashed right away. It took a lot out of her! We invited Kathy and Lesly to go along so they got to share in the fun too.

We had Karen, Vern, Isabeau, Rylan and Josh's parents over for breakfast on Christmas morning. It was a lot of fun to watch the kids open their presents.


The day after Christmas we went to Josh's aunt Darlene's house for dinner. Here is a picture of the whole family.

Well, December seemed to come and go pretty quickly. We had a lot of family visiting, Josh's sister and family from Nome, Alaska and my sister from Phoenix. It was fun to be able to share Megan's first Christmas with all of them. Of course she really didn't know what was going on, but she still got some presents to open. Toys were on her wish list this year and we were grateful for everything that she got. She's starting to get more alert and aware and toys are becoming more interesting to her. They are at least something to look at, especially the ones with lights and sounds.

She is starting to mimic us now. Josh will stick his tongue out at her and after awhile she will do it back to him. It's pretty cute, especially when she starts cooing and interacting. Maybe all of the new activity is tiring her out because she is becoming a much better sleeper. She will on average sleep about 6 hours a night. It has gradually led to an earlier bedtime too. It used to be about 2:00 a.m. before she would go to sleep, now we are at about 11:00 p.m. It has been a real sanity saver. Mommy isn't nearly as tired anymore.

Here are some pictures of our December:


Our Christmas Photo

Daddy and Megan cutting down our tree.


Megan meeting Aunt Stacy for the first time.


For some reason Megan's changing table is her 'happiest place on earth'. She's also definitely a morning girl so she is always happy and giggly when she wakes up.


Checking out her new toys from Santa.


Of course Sampson and Gracie got a stocking from Santa too. It didn't take them long to figure out they had a treat inside. Okay so Gracie won and found it first. She takes after mom.

Well, it's time for Megan to go to bed, I'll post more pictures later.