Megan at 14 Months

Time for another Megan update.  Our little girl has been in our lives for 14 months now.  Each day is an adventure and always something new.  Here is what she's been up to:

I mentioned last month that Megan was working on her molars.  We now have all four molars plus her top two eye teeth!  That's six new teeth since she turned one year old- Not bad!

Megan is slowly starting to eat better (as long as we mix up her options frequently).  In fact, just recently she has started eating noodles with sauce on them!  Hooray for flavor.  Her favorite veggies are green beans and continues to spit out carrots.  She has really enjoyed the times when I let her feed herself a plate of mashed potatoes or cup of yogurt (which is primarily on bath nights for obvious reasons).  Megan is so cute when we sit down for family dinners because as she sees the table set with food and as we scoot her high chair close to the table, her immediate response is to fold her hands. 

I've made several  trips to Target and the grocery store lately with just Megan.  We had a couple times where she would not sit in the cart so I took her out and she helped push the cart for me from down below.  I just had to make sure we were going in the right direction.  Occasionally, she would stop to look at things like balls and try to put packages of napkins in the cart, but for the most part it was a fun experience.  It also works well for me to simply carry her and let her push from my level too. 

After our first Hoppers softball game, Megan surprised us by blowing us kisses.  She blew kisses the entire way home and even makes the Mmmm-wah! sound when doing them. 

For a long time we had trusted Megan completely on the stairs.  However, recently she is trying to go down the stairs like a big girl.  She will sit at the top of the steps with her arms out waiting for Mommy to hold her hands and help her step.  I liked it when she could go down on her own but I love that she is trying out new things and also knows to wait for our help.  We say "step" for every step down that we take and Megan is so proud of herself when we reach the bottom.

Megan's vocalization continues to get better and better.  She still babbles a lot but is starting to put more syllables with objects.  Her most recent are "dog" and "cat".  While sounding just like "da" and "ca" we know what she is meaning because she uses her pointer finger to point at either a dog or cat as she talks.  A lot of other animals also get called dog and cat for the time being but that will come.  Great-Grandpa Gennrich should be proud because Megan has also just started to say her version of the German "Ach".  Although she is trying to say the "G" sound it is coming out as "Ach".  She's possibly trying to make the "G" sound for the end of "dog"?

Lastly, a few cute Megan stories to close out the month:
In our master closet I have a box of random papers and knick-knacks that are still waiting to find homes.  Megan is aware of this box and often goes straight for it when she needs something new to play with.  Yesterday morning as I was getting dressed for church she came in and started pulling objects out until she got to a Gopher bobble-head figure.  She looked at it, pushed the head several times to watch it bobble and then nodded in approval.  It was as if she was saying, "Yep, this'll do."

One thing that Megan is really liking at home are the couple step stools that we have.  When John is home with her, she will always carry a big white stepper from her nursery into our bedroom so she can try to climb up onto the bed.  She also takes my collapsible kitchen stepper over to John's recliner so she can climb up to be with Daddy.  Today Megan had some stepstool fun at Grandma and Grandpa Lewis' place.  She carried a stepstool from their nursery over to the baby gate at the top of the stairs with hopes to climb over it.  Needless-to-say, Grandma Lewis was quick to put those stools away for now!