We love having Megan in our home! She is so much fun to watch and is such a happy girl most of the time.
Tinkering: Megan continues to enjoy figuring out how things work. She likes shutting doors and you'd better watch out if you're in the way (especially Matthew). She even tried to shut herself in the clerk's office at church. She has quite the attention span when she is interested in something--it's amazing how long she will sit there doing the same thing over and over again.
Moving: Megan is still our fast little crawler. It seems like any day she could just decide to start walking, and she certainly is moving in that direction. She cruises all the time, moving from one surface to another. She pushes the stools around while she is walking. (We don't have any push toys out so she found her own....) She pushes herself up to standing on small toys on the ground. She is also standing independently for brief periods. She thinks this is VERY exciting!
Peekaboo: Megan really likes playing peekaboo. One variation she does right now is putting the Lego bucket lid in front of her face and then moving it up/down/left/right so we can see her eyes through one of the shapes. She will also put a blanket or the laundry bag over her head and leave it there for a long time. We will keep saying, "Where is Megan? Where is Megan?" and she'll still leave it there. It's pretty interesting that she just doesn't pop out right away. Maybe it means she'll be a patient hide-and-seeker.
Climbing: Megan will climb over the center of our big dining table. Why go around when you can go over?
Pointing: Megan has started pointing. A lot. She'll point at all sorts of things. It's nice because it means that she can actually start to communicate some of her wants and needs to us. For example, the other day, she pointed to a bag of raisins and then pointed to her mouth.
Shaking Head: About a month ago Megan started shaking her head back and forth (think "no"). More recently, she has started shaking it up and down. When she does it, she'll generally just go up and then down one time. She does it randomly--it's not like it is in response to anything we say or do. Maybe she just likes the feel of it.
Here are a few other photo highlights:
Put toys in the bucket, put on the lid, dump everything out, repeat
One thing she has really taken to lately is the baby Legos we have. She stacks them, putting new Legos on the bottom of the stack. She is quite protective of them and will not let Matthew play with the ones she is using.
Moving: Megan is still our fast little crawler. It seems like any day she could just decide to start walking, and she certainly is moving in that direction. She cruises all the time, moving from one surface to another. She pushes the stools around while she is walking. (We don't have any push toys out so she found her own....) She pushes herself up to standing on small toys on the ground. She is also standing independently for brief periods. She thinks this is VERY exciting!
Peekaboo: Megan really likes playing peekaboo. One variation she does right now is putting the Lego bucket lid in front of her face and then moving it up/down/left/right so we can see her eyes through one of the shapes. She will also put a blanket or the laundry bag over her head and leave it there for a long time. We will keep saying, "Where is Megan? Where is Megan?" and she'll still leave it there. It's pretty interesting that she just doesn't pop out right away. Maybe it means she'll be a patient hide-and-seeker.
Climbing: Megan will climb over the center of our big dining table. Why go around when you can go over?
Pointing: Megan has started pointing. A lot. She'll point at all sorts of things. It's nice because it means that she can actually start to communicate some of her wants and needs to us. For example, the other day, she pointed to a bag of raisins and then pointed to her mouth.
Shaking Head: About a month ago Megan started shaking her head back and forth (think "no"). More recently, she has started shaking it up and down. When she does it, she'll generally just go up and then down one time. She does it randomly--it's not like it is in response to anything we say or do. Maybe she just likes the feel of it.
Here are a few other photo highlights:
Funny Megan face--she has a number of funny faces she makes quite a bit. This is one. It's like--oooooh!
Lounging on her couch with a phone. What more could a girl want?
I like fish.
How do these things work?
Cute pictures and update. Nice to read about her progress.
ReplyDeleteIt was so fun to see all the things in this post in real life. She is a very precious little girl.
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