Play Date with Natalie and Jace

Of course I can never just pick out one or two pictures so here are a bunch. Sheila heard about a place in McMinnville called The Church on the Hill. It has a gigantic indoor play structure for 'big kids' and a 'tot lot' for kiddos Megan's age. It was pretty neat. She had a great time and was soooo tired when we left! I think we need one of these little houses for our back yard.

Megan really liked the slide, she would scootch her butt down until she would finally go and land in my arms. Pretty cute.

Josh's hunting trip

Josh went elk hunting with Jay last week. Unfortunately they didn't get anything but it looks like they had fun trying.

The suffering of camp food.....



Rugged manliness...

Megan is Walking!

For all of you that guessed 13 months - you were right!

She's not completely walking everywhere, she still depends on her crawling skills but she's practicing a lot. It's pretty funny. Sometime she'll start walking by herself and then look at us to see if we're looking, in which case we have to clap and say "Yeah! You're such a big girl!" And she grins really big. I would say about seven is the most steps she's taken and lots of stuff in between.

No pictures, just an update....

Josh left for elk hunting on Thursday so that means the girls are on their own. Just in time for teething. I'm not sure what's going on but Megan was really mad today at pretty much everything. She barely slept, so that meant I barely slept last night. I've never seen her so mad. She screamed when she was colicy and first born but add 1 year old attitude and will into the equation and you have one tough little girl to deal with. I feel so bad for her because I don't know what to do for her except Motrin/Tylenol/Anbesol.

Josh called tonight to check in. I was sort of hoping that he wouldn't because I knew I wouldn't have much good news to tell him when he asked, "How was Megan today?" I don't want him to feel bad or helpless but I'm sure he did a little. And since Josh is gone that means that Grandma and Grandpa are going to be watching her while I work. I hope she is good for them!

Poor little girl!

Pumpkin Guts

So, I thought I had a great plan. Instead of taking Megan trick or treating which she wouldn't understand anyway, I thought we'd open up a pumpkin and let her play in all of the guts and she'd have a grand old time. Well, she didn't really want anything to do with it. We got her naked, plopped her by the pumpkin and tried to get her interested. I'm not sure if she was scared or if the guts were too cold or what but she didn't enjoy it as you can tell in one of the last pictures. She was done after about 5 minutes and then it was bathtime.

Halloween Party!

Megan and I went to the mom's group Halloween Party. Princess Megan got to see all of her little friends all dressed up. They were so cute!


Princess Megan looks like a glowing angel thanks to our flash!

Jace the little Lion

Natalie the Bumblebee

Keaton the Sherriff!

They probably all wondered what the heck was going on but they all did really well. Afterwards we invaded Red Robin, about 7 moms and babies!

Just Mom and Dad this time!

So tonight, Megan's real birthday, we took her to Chuck E. Cheese. She had so much fun and she is in love with Chuck! I think Chuck was in love with her too though because 'he' (who I'm sure was a she) kept coming back to her wherever she was. She got to ride on anything she was big enough to ride and played a couple of games. And of course she had some pizza. She started to hide her food and tell us she was done. We think she was just way too excited to eat and wanted to get back out there.

It was another relatively long day. We went to JCPenney last night to get her 1 year pictures taken. We requested a specific photographer because he did such a good job with her at her 9 month pictures but for some reason he didn't do it. We weren't happy with what we got so long story short, we rescheduled for tonight. So we went back in and got MUCH better pictures this time. So if you need a good photographer, his name is Rob at the Washington Square JCPenney!

So Chuck E. Cheese was after all of that and she was still a sweet angel. We've turned her carseat around in my car and I think she thinks it's pretty cool. It's nice looking in my rear view mirror and being able to see her little face back there now. She crashed in the car on the way home and she's in bed now.

We just love her so much. We were really blessed when we got her! Happy Birthday our sweet angel. Your mommy and daddy love you more than you will ever know!

Happy Birthday Megan!

Well, the birthday weekend is over. She doesn't actually turn one until tomorrow but we got her birthday parties all out of the way this weekend. We had one at my parents' house for all of my family and friends on that side of town on Saturday and one at our house on Sunday for all of our friends and family our side of town. Megan was such a good girl through all of the festivities. She was pretty cute with her cake. She didn't eat a whole lot of it, I think she got too much icing at first and was overwhelmed a bit. She didn't really care to open her presents. She was more interested in the paper of course.

Crashed out. She was so good all day long and then when it was over....it was over. She was out like a light!

So then Sunday came along and it was time for a whole new party! She probably started to wonder if this was going to be an everyday thing!

Josh got into decorating her cupcakes. He did most of them and they turned out really cute!

And while we were busy trying to get ready, Megan got into everything including this ribbon she pulled off the counter.

Here's her Sunday cake!

Lesly and Megan, Princesses.

Here's Henley trying out the zebra. That is by far the most popular gift! I know Aunt Tami is proud!

Cake Time! She ate a lot more on Sunday than she did on Saturday. I scraped a bit of the icing away so that she could actually get some cake. She piled it in. Mommy's girl.

Daddy helped with presents this time. She got a lot of books and games.

And from Grandma Schwartz......Her first $50 bill!

When the party was over, I had to be the one to rock her. I wanted to cuddle with my little baby who isn't all that little anymore! She crashed again. Two BIG days for a little girl!

Thank you to everyone that came to her parties. She is really very lucky to have all of her friends and family love her so much! We sure do!