I found my little Camera!

Finally! I found my small travel camera! And amazingly I found several picture events on it. So I will be uploading a few of those over the next day or so! Yea for cameras!

Where's my camera when I need it?

I mean -- really! For those of you who know our house, we have ridiculous volume of cameras and camera equipment, yet today I missed three adorable pictures. Twice I went for the camera, and Megan got wise and quit. So since they were so cute, I will leave this to your imagination, and then work at doing better this week at capturing a few on camera.

Photo 1: resembles a photo up top in the header, just age Megan forward one year. We went to the craft store yesterday to pick up some goodies, and I got face paint (grease pencil type). So today, for fun, she got a red nose and whiskers. Daddy told her what a cute cat she made, and then for the next two hours, she said little other than "Meow". We went to the store, and she meowed for people admiring her "cuteness." She INSISTED that I redirect the rearview mirror in the car so that she could see herself, and preened and meowed at herself all the way home!

Photo 2: Absolutely hysterical. Chris saw this, and came and got me, and I almost fell over laughing. But some camera issues (wrong lens, etc) took precious time to change, and I missed the photo op. Megan was going potty on her little girl potty. I have included a sample image from the Boon Website of what the potty looks like. Note: this isn't Megan though. This little girl has WAY more hair than Megan!

So Chris went to go check on her, and then came and told me I had to go see. She was perched on her potty, sitting just about like the girl in the ad above. However, she had in her lap a magazine (I think it was a digital photo magazine, not sure -- but definitely one of ours) and she was sitting on the potty reading a magazine! She stayed perched there for a little while just turning pages (really until she caught me trying to get her picture!) before she declared that she was, in fact, "done!" Everyone always says she looks like her Daddy! [grin]

Photo 3: really more of a VIDEO OP that I missed. Megan and were watching women's gymnastics tonight. Since she has been going to gymnastics now once a week, she was very interested. She would watch and even once told me that was her on screen. Then she said she couldn't do that until she got "older." In the middle of this, there was a funny gymnastics commercial that came on for 24-HOUR FITNESS -- I couldn't link the video directly, but if you click on the link here it is the "24 fitness TV 3" link at the bottom right. Basically it is a play on the gymnastics finish where you throw your hands in the air.

As soon as she saw the commercial, Megan began hopping and throwing her hands in the air like a little gymnast. For some added effect, she did a few sit bounces on the couch, and then threw in a few "ta-da!"s for flair. I was laughing again. But here there wasn't much of a chance to get the video camera out.

Megan's new BIG GIRL room

We finally got Megan's new "BIG GIRL" room all set up, with her
new big girl set of furniture and everything. So thanks to our friend
Dave as well, for helping pick up and move this furniture to our
place (since I, of course, just can't help with any of that!)

We are still deciding how to decorate the walls, but this is a view of
Megan's new room from the doorway. We took it with a fisheye
lens to capture the whole room in one shot, but it does sort of give it
the fish bowl shape -- it really is a rectangular room!

McDonald's

Megan has always been an avid singer, and lately her favorites have been "Old McDonald" and "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed". However, the lyrics aren't quite the usual, and Megan will, in fact, correct you if you attempt to sing the version that YOU know. So the animals and sounds don't seem to quite match up.
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First, Old McDonald did NOT have a farm. He ONLY had a duck. But around the duck were all sorts of noises ("moo-moo", "neigh-neigh", occasionally a "hoot-hoot" but almost NEVER is there a "quack-quack"). So the lyrics go something like this:

Old McDonald had a DUCK
E-I-E-I-O
with a neigh-neigh here and a neigh-neigh HERE
E-I-E-I-O
Old McDonald had a DUCK
E-I-E-I-O
with a moo-moo here and a moo-moo HERE
E-I-E-I-O



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We think this is somewhat amusing. Then, the other day on the way home, we were sitting at the light near the highway, and Megan saw McDonalds, where she loves to go play on the indoor playground. She immediately began crying "I want to go to Old McDonalds! -- I want to go to OLD McDonalds!!" Really, it was too funny!

Another Checkup!

We had another checkup this week to see how the twins were doing. They are now at 13 weeks, and really growing! I am starting to be able to feel them kicking occasionally, and I am sure that soon that will be nonstop. It was again nonstop during the sonogram as the kiddos woke up to move around and say "hi!" So far, both look good with good strong heartbeats!

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A busy weekend -- and a new room!

This weekend we had a busy and exciting time. Nana and Papa came to visit and play and, well, mostly work.

In preparation for the twins, Megan will be moving to a new room (formerly the guest room) and leaving the nursery. We decided this was better as Megan would be less jealous about all of the new things for the babies, and that she would be the one getting the new room.

We had planned to do this a little later, but when we had help that would volunteer to paint, we painted (Thanks Papa!). And while the painting was going on, Nana took Megan on her very own special shopping trip. She discovered that Megan has particular taste in clothes (although she didn't want many) but REALLY REALLY likes shoes. For those of you who don't know her shoe collection, let's just say that between how much she likes shoes, and how cute they are (so we buy cute shoes too) our kiddo has a shoe collection superior to parents! And since SHE got to pick these out, she got some shoes with a little sparkle! She also decided to wear a pair her Daddy bought her a few months back (flip flops) that she just learned to walk in without losing her shoes! (butterfly shoes below)

We weren't too bad until we found that Amazon.com sells shoes through their sister enterprise, endless.com and then we were hooked. You can browse by color or size, get free overnight shipping, and free returns if you don't like them or they don't fit -- way better than a trip to the mall with a two-year-old.

So after a full day of painting a pink and green room, a new ceiling fan, and then another trip to Pottery Barn Kids to pick up the matching bedding, Megan's room has officially moved. She is excited, although it took a little extra effort getting her to sleep tonight in the new room.

Room pictures to come later -- by the time it was all set up, it was immediately time for bed!

Here she is after some good play time out back during the whole process! She does in fact have a wine glass in her hand. Of course, since it was MY wine glass, she was enjoying a secret sip or two of Mommy's sparkling grape juice!

Twin Update

Just a quick update! Pictures to follow later since I forgot to scan them in today!

Today, the twins had a check up. Chris and I got to see another sneak peak at the kiddos, and it was great. Both were measuring just as expected, even to the day (11 weeks, 1 day).

Heartrates were quite a bit different -- 186 bpm, and 165 bpm. But if you were watching them, you'd see why. "Baby A" (as the sonogram labels) never would be still for a "picture". Kicking and rolling. In fact, Baby A turned upside down and sideways and kicked and put his arms up and then down the whole time. Quite active. So naturally, 186 bpm.

Baby "B" was sleeping for most of the visit but decide to wake up and turn over towards the end. This may mean a mellow kiddo and a wild one! Or just that one was napping. But it was really amazing -- now not only do they look like babies (with head torso and limbs, but you actually see the TOES, especially when they were kicking!) Itty bitty toes!

11 weeks down, 27 more to go! (38 weeks is full term for twins!)

Some news to share!

So I have been a little bad at updating the blog lately. Apparently, I have a good excuse since I haven't been feeling all that well, and tend to sleep in most of my "free time!"


You see, Megan found out a little while back that she is going to be a BIG SISTER! When you ask her if she wants a brother or a sister, she always answers "BOTH!" And since we do try to spoil her (even when we aren't really trying), Chris and I are at least attempting to comply with Megan's wishes.


We are expecting TWINS!! So it may not be a brother and a sister, but then again, there is a chance. We will find out in a few months. Due date is January 29, 2009!

Megan's new Swingset

Yesterday, Megan got her new swingset! We bought it from a family whose kids had outgrown it, and thought it looked like a great size. Apparently, their huge yard made it look so much smaller than it is in our small yard! But Megan just absolutely loves it and surprised us by climbing the rock wall all by herself! Independent kid that she is! So it is perfectly timed for Independence Day!


The slides (especially the "rocket slide") were a little fast for her, and after a few slides, she decided she'd rather climb for a while. She also enjoys swinging, but generally requires you to push her as she doesn't quite understand how to keep herself going. I guess that is what parents are for, right?



Thanks Grandma!

A visit from three friends (plus two of Mom & Dad's)

This week, Megan got a special treat when her friends, Anna, Mattie and Noah came to visit. It was fun and a little hectic with basically four two-year olds in the house, but everyone had fun, and it was food to visit for at least this brief while!

When it was time for the triplets (and Courtney and Jon!) to go, Megan got sad, and then decided to climb on in and join them!

Sadly, with all the chaos, we didn't get many pictures (who had time to think of the camera) but here is a view of the departure (don't worry, we kept Megan!)