A week's worth of updates

In my last update I said that Megan went to the church nursery for the first time. By Tuesday afternoon she had the sniffles - thank you very much church people who take their sick kids to church. We didn't take Megan yesterday BECAUSE she had the sniffles still. Come on people!

We have a few toys that we put in Megan's crib for her to play with when she wakes up from her naps. Recently I added a tamborine. She loves that thing and actually uses it correctly - because she loves to clap all her toys. It is very cute to watch regardless.

Attached to the end of the crib is a fish tank. When you kick/hit it lights/music/bubbles are activated. At night we flip it over the end of the crib so that if she wakes up early she doesn't start kicking it and playing loud music (we want to sleep afterall). Well one day this week she put one foot through each slat at the end of the crib and started kicking the back of the fish tank trying to get it to come on. Very smart little one. She likes to lift up the fish tank by putting her feet on it and lifting it up and letting it drop - it makes a very loud sound and she loves it. On Saturday she was going to town doing this to the fish tank and managed to lift it so high that she flipped it over backwards. Amazing.

This past week Megan starting eating a couple of new foods. She experienced Spaghetti O's - she treated them pretty much like any other new food. She ate them, got a "I am pondering this" look on her face, refused a second bite for about 30 seconds and then she was good to go and gobbled them up. We also introduced cereal/fruit bars as an alternate snack. That one didn't need any pondering at all - just ate it and asked for more.

Megan loves to play patty-cake with mommy. Yesterday for the first time she "cheated" and tried to go straight to her favorite part - "throw 'em in the pan". It was really cute - she loves that part and laughs and laughs when we sing the song.

Church Nursery

Yesterday Megan went into the church nursery for the first time. We visited a new church and put her in the nursery.

The lady was holding her when we got back and she said she did fine - no idea what that actually means. I had to get over the fact that once a week for 1.5 hours she might get held.

As suspected she missed her morning nap because of church - I guess this is something we will have to get used to.

Feeding herself & up on her knees

Yesterday Megan fed herself 3 pieces of cereal. She got very close with several other pieces throughout the day but eventually needed help with them.

Two days ago Megan starting getting up on her knees and hands in the living room - as opposed to just doing it in her crib. She doesn't stay up there long but at least she is expanding her locations now.

We officially have a 3rd tooth

I noticed this morning that the tooth on the top finally broke through - that explains the rough night we had 2 nights ago.

No more bottle

On Megan's birthday we dropped the bottle and changed to the sippy cup, except for the final bottle of the day. We continued to give her a bottle with milk in it just before bed - at first it was the only way she was getting any milk.

After implementing a snack time every day, and therefore pushing her dinner later into the evening she stopped drinking much from her bottle - maybe 3-5 swallows. So 4 days ago we stopped giving her the evening bottle. We offer her the sippy cup before we start our nighttime routine in case she is thirsty.

This morning I pulled all of the bottles from the kitchen to store for Sam - there is no going back now.

We have a big girl. :-)

Pajamas with ease

So, last night I tried the new approach and put Megan in her pajamas immediately after dinner - no issues whatsoever. So, maybe she has been over tired when we have been doing it.

Getting dressed for bed

For the last few days Megan has pitched a fit when we go to put her in her pajamas. We have had to correct her and let her know that it wasn't okay to pitch a fit.

Well, tonight was the mother of all fits. I was trying something a little different to see if we could avoid the fit - with her sitting up on the couch I put her legs in her outfit and then pulled the top part up behind her. As soon as I tried to put her arm in the sleeve she started her fit and before I could say anything she leaned forward and BIT my hand. Yes, that is what I said - she actually leaned forward and bit the hand I was using to put her arm through the sleeve. I couldn't believe it - I was in shock.

We have been trying to figure out what is causing the fits, if she is too tired by the time we are doing it, if she is hot and doesn't want the pajamas of if she simply doesn't want to go to bed and knows that once the pajamas are on she is going down. So tonight, after we got her dressed, we kept her up and continued to play with her for 10-15 minutes to try to undo the image in her head. Hopefully, if we keep this up, she will stop having an issue.