Lots to Tell!

Megan had her 9-month checkup last week. 28 3/4 inches long (90th percentile), 20 pounds (74th percentile), head circumference: 18 (91st percentile).

She's added lots of food this week: Cheerios, Puffs (which are a Gerber finger food), a couple of fruit and veggie combinations, and a Gerber turkey-rice-carrot-pea dinner that actually tasted better than it looked. She's also added another solid food meal (making a total of three) and cut back on the formula. Fun!

We also went to the UCLA baseball game with Aunt Nancy, Cousin Miri and "Cousin" Nathaniel (the son of Nancy's brother-in-law on Matt's side--confusing enough?) ...

... took a nap in the stroller...

... and woke up ...

... and we learned to clap!

Have a great week!

Oh...and Pauley was wiped out from the heat. It was over 100 degrees this weekend!

Happy Mother's Day!

I wish I could express my gratitude adequately today. I am so, so grateful to be a mother on Mother's Day--a dream I never thought I would realize. I am grateful for my mother, who set an amazing example for me to follow. Most of all, I am grateful for Megan, who is the greatest blessing of all.

Here are some pictures from the weekend.

Here is my gift that Megan (and an adult or two, I suspect!) made at daycare. It says, "Mama's Little Love Bug," and the wings are Megan's hand prints.

This weekend, Megan tried on Gram's hat.

She also played with her toys, and demonstrated her skill for dumping them out of the crate.
Megan also played in her Exersaucer...

...played with bubbles after playing with them at Gymboree...

...tried Cheerios for the first time (Score: Megan, one Cheerio eaten. Pauley: eight Cheerios eaten off the floor.) ...

...and had a relaxing Sunday, after going to Mother's Day breakfast with Gram and Uncle Andy, and seeing family at the bris of her cousins Theo and Noah. All in all, a very satisfying weekend.

Mother's Day Show

Megan's daycare had a Mother's Day show yesterday. Despite my daughter's enormous talent for tap dance and opera :-), they had all the infants hang out in the buggy during the musical number. Here's Megan, trying to steal the "Mom" crown from the girl next to her before the song started. (She actually stole the crown a few times, but I couldn't get it on video.):

The next video is of the actual, well, performance. They were supposed to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," but for some reason the CD didn't work, so they played "Stars and Stripes Forever." The toddlers "danced" while the infants just sat and looked cute. We left early, so I missed the talent agents that surely wanted to sign Megan for her stellar performance. :-)

Megan Plays on Daddy's Team! Plus, She May Be Tired, But She Knows Her Name!

Isn't this a cute outfit? Megan plays on Dad's Team!

Plus, here's a video of a sleepy Megan before bed tonight. You will notice that, even though she is tired, she absolutely recognizes her name!

This Weekend, Megan...

...practiced standing up with Daddy...

...had fun playing with bubbles with Pauley...
...and had lots of tummy time. Oh, and she also tried a sippy cup for the first time (you'll see it in the front of this picture). She also got to spend a lot of time with Gram, Aunt Nancy and Cousin Miriam.

And, in case you are wondering, she's still afraid of the baseball toy. :-)

Nine Months Old!

Happy nine-month birthday, little one!

Not-A-Lazy Sunday

I had every intention of making today a relaxing Sunday. The only things we had planned were seeing Gram for breakfast and seeing Cousin Emily and her family in the afternoon. Other than that, we were going to play and nap. Ha!

Megan woke up at 5:30--not unusual. But unlike yesterday, where she napped like a champ, today she only catnapped--about three naps of 30 minutes each. So she was not a happy camper for a lot of the day, and we scrapped the trip to Emily's. (We actually traded it for laps around the mall to try and calm her down.)

There was one funny moment when Megan was upset, though. (Megan, I apologize in advance for documenting this!) We went to Target today, and I bought a Fisher-Price baseball toy that made noises when you hit it--things like "Home Run!" "Safe!" etc. (It's actually a tad lame, but for $9.99 I thought I'd take a chance on a baseball-themed toy.) Anyway, Megan was very tired and crabby by the time we played with it.

She started out pretty happily...Then it freaked her out a little bit. So, not wanting to give up on a baseball-themed toy, I hit the ball again.

Bad decision.And yes, I snapped pictures of her freaking out.

(I'm sorry, honey. But it just made me laugh so hard, because when you were born the UCLA softball coach called to find out if you were right- or left- handed, and there you were today, screaming at a plastic ball that cheered when you hit it. I'm sorry I took pictures. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.)

So I put the baseball toy away...we'll see if it comes out again...

But we also did happy things...

We did go to Target (as I mentioned above), and Megan took her first ride in the basket of the cart!

I totally love the cover you can put over the seat, although I know I put it on really wrong...but it served its purpose. Megan loved riding backwards and getting an "up high" view of the world. She was smiling and giggling the whole time.

We also went to the drive-through car wash. Megan loved watching the machines. Here's my "very artistic" cell-phone-camera shot of her through the mirror on the back of the car seat. (Look at those cute shoes, which my 93-year-old grandmother bought for her.)

We also took a nice walk and played with bubbles. And we had a great brunch with Gram. So even though naps weren't bountiful, we still had a good day. And I still wouldn't trade her for anything in the world (I'm sure you're all breathing a sigh of relief! :-)). I was telling her that today while I was changing her diaper--that one of the happiest days of my life was the day I found out I was pregnant with her. And that another one of the happiest days of my life was the day she was born. And that now, each day is happier than the one before, because she's in it, and that just keeps getting better and better.