Megan is 8 Months Old TODAY!

We can't believe time is going so quickly. Megan is getting so big and before we know it, we'll be planning her first birthday party. This last month she has really started to move around. She crawls a little bit but mostly she scoots, rolls or pushes herself across the floor. We really need to think about baby proofing our house because she has already started to get into things that she shouldn't. She is no longer safe by herself! Just in the last few days she has gotten her first tooth. It has just broken through barely enough to feel it. She however has been feeling it for awhile and has been a grumpy pants. I feel so bad because there is little I can do to comfort her. Motrin and Tylenol have become good friends.

In the last month we've also been working on her being able to go to sleep by herself without being rocked or nursed to sleep. Some nights she goes down pretty easy and others she really tests our willpower to not go in there and soothe her. We've always known she has a good set of lungs but I think she thinks we forgot. She has got one loud scream!

She is really just the love of our lives and even through the grumpy times one smile from her brightens our day. Here are pictures from the last month.

Trip with Dad to the park



Karen's family made it down from Alaska for the summer and we all gathered at Grandma and Darlene's for dinner.


Cousins, Rylan and Megan. Rylan was really bummed over Christmas because they actually got to come down for it but he caught a bug right before they arrived and couldn't hold Megan. He made sure that wasn't going to happen on this trip!


Lesly's birthday party at the Forest Grove pool.


Lesly took Megan to Show & Tell in her kindergarten class. She was so proud of her 'little baby cousin Megan'!


Hamming it up at mom's group.



We went on a garden tour today and got to visit 8 gardens in the Tigard-Tualatin area. It was a lot of fun and gave us a lot of ideas for our own yard. Aunt Terri's house was one that everyone got to tour. I think hers was the very best!

Megan got to meet her very first horse "Sweetie" at one of the homes.

Megan is definitely a water baby. We've lowered the temperature in the hot tub so that she can be in it. She loves floating around and kicking her legs. I just can't get enough of her cute little bathing suit either!

A few weeks ago we went to the zoo with Aunt Kathy, Lesly and River. It was Megan's first trip. This picture isn't perfect but you can see a HUGE polar bear right in front of the window. Megan probably just thought it was a big dog. She also liked to see the fish swimming in the sea lion tank.