Megan is 3 months old!

We got these great pictures taken on her 3 month birthday! Everytime I look at them I laugh because she is so cute! She is definitely loved!

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.

Megan had her first road trip this weekend. My parents bought a house in LaPine and we made our first visit this weekend to help move them in. She was a real trooper in the car, sleeping pretty much the whole way there and back.

We had her 2 month well child check today. She has a cold and happened to be running a fever today as well so they couldn't give her her 2 month shots. We'll have to go back next week once she is feeling better. She has grown so much. She is 13 lbs 8 ounces and 22.9 inches long. The nurse was amazed at how big she is getting.

House in LaPine:


While we were in LaPine the little girl needed a bath so she got one in the kitchen sink. It's so hard being a little baby!



I think I'm going to be posting a lot of bath pics because I think she is so freaking cute when she's all wet and chubby!

Okay, one last picture. Our friends Jay and Alia had their second baby on December 1st. His name is Henley and he was born at 8 lbs 12 ounces. Megan was 8 lbs 13 ounces so we were really excited to compare their size to see how much Megan has grown. Here is one of the pictures. Henley's big brother Campbell snuck into the picture too.

Megan is 8 Weeks old today!!

Megan with Santa!

Here are some better bathtime pictures. She doesn't look nearly so terrorized.

The last 6 weeks have gone by pretty fast. Even though we have had a stint of what seemed to be colic (also seems to be going away....knock on wood). Megan is getting so big. We have friends that just had a baby one ounce less than Megan at birth. We can't wait to see him so that we can see just how MUCH she has grown. She had her first real smile on 11/26. She was set in Great Grandpa Wyland's lap and she just smiled. The next day she woke up a really happy girl and was smiling at her mom like she knew how to do it all along. Now we can usually get one or two out of her on command.

We took her to see Santa today and we got a really good picture of her. We bought a CD thinking that we'd be able to take the picture to get more copies of it and post it on here but I think we got jipped. It doesn't seem to be it's intention at all. Just a way for you to spend more money on personalized mugs, etc. So...if I ever get around to it, I'll scan the picture and post it here. In the meantime, here is our Santa baby.....

Bathtime at 3:00 in the morning because someone didn't want to sleep.

Always missing a sock.

Megan is officially one month old. I weighed her last night and she is 11 pounds. She is just starting to outgrow her newborn clothes but still swims in the next size up. She definitely is keeping us busy....and awake. She has crying episodes in the middle of the night and I think I've chalked it up to her just fighting sleep. Sometimes it's gas but I think she already just doesn't want to miss anything and tries really hard to just NOT fall asleep. I wonder what it's going to be like when she is 4 and really doesn't want to miss any excitement. We'll see. But no matter how tired she makes me at night or how frustrated I get, when we wake up in the morning and I see her face for the first time I forget all of that and I just remember how much I love her again!

Pictures from Grandma's House

Mommy and Megan - One Month Old!

Grandpa and Teresa's Visit