1st Birthday

Today Megan is 1 year old. We are so excited.

She will no longer be taking a bottle of formula, instead, starting today she will get a sippy cup of milk with her meals. She will continue to get a bottle in the evening, with milk, for as long as she needs it.

This morning, instead of just Will getting her up we both went. When you are the one who gets her up in the morning she is so happy to get up that you get lots of kisses. Today we got to share in the happy kisses.

For breakfast we put Megan in her highchair and tried to get her to drink her milk while she was eating. This didn't go well - she didn't want to drink anything, she just wanted to eat everything. For lunch we will show her the sign for milk and give it to her before she goes into her highchair - like we did with the bottle - to see if this helps.

After breakfast we started opening gifts. She opened the gift from Will's parents first - 2 outfits and a card. Next she opened the card from David & Lisa.

Then we moved on to gifts from mommy & daddy. She opened the little people horse stable and played with it for a couple of minutes and then we moved on to opening the little people barn. Daddy was helping her up to this point so we switched so I could give her some too. I helped her open her Princess carriage and then a bunch of farm animals. It was time to take a break - she was done.

She did a good job helping with the paper - but of course she doesn't understand that there are toys there - she just pulled on the paper. We will be doing another round of gifts from mommy/daddy after lunch. Before her nap she was playing in my lap and I noticed a tooth on the top left of her mouth. I can't feel it but you can see it.

She just got up from her morning nap and is playing with the barn.

For lunch we tried to give her the sippy cup before she got in the highchair - she did eat a little bit more this way but still didn't get a whole lot of milk. We took the regulator out of the sippy cup so that the milk flowed freely and that helped a little bit. She ate and ate for lunch - peas, peaches and a container of fruit. After lunch she finished opening her presents for the day.

This time she got a princess castle, a dollhouse lots of accessories and a car -- all little people. She also got a giant ball toy (difficult to describe)which she loved. We sat her on the table so she could play with it and see it better. Daddy told her this was not something that she would do again. She clapped for this toy when the music would play.

For dinner she drank more milk - still without the regulator. So she did better with each meal. She still doesn't want to drink anything from the sippy cup when it is not meal time. We are trying to teach her to drink at other times, but it is a work in progress. She ate a lot of food for dinner as well. She had more peaches, peas, a bowl of cereal and a container of apples/cherries. There is more room in the tummy when she doesn't get 4-5 ounces of formula before she eats.

After dinner Megan had a webcam with her granny before laying down for a couple of hours.

She ate 6 oz of milk in her bottle tonight - that is more than she has eaten this time of day for several weeks. Some days she eats so much for dinner that she doesn't take this bottle at all. Maybe in a couple of days when she drinks more milk throughout the day she will not need as much now.

It has been a great day for Megan. She had an awesome birthday!