Happy 2nd Birthday Miss Megan!

Megan had a great 2nd birthday party with some family and her dear friend Elmo!  We celebrated a week early so all of our local family could make it and so that Elli could be here before going back to Texas.  We ate tacos (decided by Megan) and ice cream cake and sang the Happy Birthday song and blew out candles and opened presents and played with toys and had lots of fun with family.  It was a great experience for us to finally get to be by family for Megan's birthday celebration (much different than Megan's first birthday in Alaska where she celebrated with the moose and bears)! 

Summer with Sissy 2010

Megan and Elli had fun spending time this summer together going to the park, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the beach and just spending lots of lazy summer days together.  Megan also got to spend time with her Grandpa Roger & Grandma Sharon and cousin Matt (from Arizona) as well as her Grandma Nancy (from California).  Megan loves spending time outside and her favorite thing to do is play in the garden in our yard.  She is so excited for the vegetables to grow.  Meanwhile she just loves to dig in the dirt!  There are many 2-bath days!

The many funny faces of Megan!

Happy Spring!

Megan is having fun now that spring is here and we don't have to put on so many layers to go outside!  She got to do her first trip to the zoo with mom and dad.  We took her to the Minnesota Zoo to see the newborn baby barn animals exhibit, and we saw all the other zoo animals too.  Megan really liked this sleeping tiger and talked about the leopard and the camel a lot too!  I think Megan enjoyed her Easter baskets themselves more that what was even in her basket!  She loves to climb into her Easter basket buckets and practice balancing!  She is a silly girl.

Cold Winter Days

Megan loves spending time outside in the snow, and she still loves her blue sled from Alaska.  She is pulled around our yard through the snow by many of us including her cousin Tyler (photo).  When the weather is a bit too cold to play outside, Megan's creativity and imagination keep us laughing with the things she comes up with!  It's so funny to see what an 18 month old can think of!  She has a fun personality and she spends lots of time laughing and loving life.  She has been working on her colors (she can pick out 11 colors) and she loves her alphabet puzzle (she can identify all the letters...if I say "M" is for...then she will say "MOON"! but she won't tell me that it is an M!)

I'm gonna be a big sister!

Megan is turning 18 months old and she is proud to make her big announcement that she is going to be a big sister!  She walks around the house and says "Big Sister"!  She understands that there will be a new baby coming to our house this fall, and she is so excited.  She is excited about the idea of helping with the diapers, feeding the new baby and holding it.  Megan is cutting lots of teeth at once as she is turning 18 months (as you can see her own baby drool in the pictures!)

Christmas 2009

Elli and Megan had fun spending time together for Christmas this year.  Megan thinks her big sister is the best, and Elli loves playing with her little sissy!