Megan at 20 Months

This past Monday our Megan turned 20 months old!  She has been toting her Halloween bucket around everywhere since trick-or-treating.  So to celebrate the big occasion, John gave her an entire bag of peanut butter M&M's.  Of course she shared some with Daddy since those are his favorite!  We really don't give Megan a lot of candy; it's mostly there just so she can play with it.  She's probably hiding it randomly throughout the house so she can eat it in the future for all we know.

This was a rough past month in the bedtime department.  Megan fought me almost every night when I tried to read the bedtime story and had to cry to sleep many nights as well.  Jumping on the bed was much more fun than laying there during the prayers.  But alas, we just started another new month and I know this one will be much better.  Maybe we need to think about getting her in a toddler bed soon!  One thing that does seem to help is when we make sure she gets lots of hugs and kisses from Daddy before bed.

Megan keeps getting better at her talking.  She's saying so many new words this month as well as really perfecting some words she's already learned to say such as cat, book, button and go.  John is happy because this past month Megan has started to say Daddy and now says both Daddy and Mama freely throughout conversations.  Other new words are wash, mess, juice, cheese, poop, put, pot, water, car, stairs, blocks, hot, brr, hat, dirt, stir, pour and whee.  I think the coolest new thing she's saying are the names of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse characters.  She is able to point out Minnie, Daisy, Donald Duck and Pete.  Megan has also started to say the name of one of Grandma Lewis's cats, Coco!  She walked around our house the entire last weekend with her hand out calling for Coco the Tat!  Megan likes to basically narrate her way through life and we are always asking her to say and repeat words as we go through the day.

John and I have also learned that when we are in the other room, we do not want to the phrase "Oh, mess" come out of Megan's mouth.  We heard it twice one night last week and we found a big pile of spilled milk on the couch and then a bracelet of mine that broke with the beads all over the recliner!  Megan also tried to "feed" her baby doll some milk from her cup one night.  Poor baby ended up with an entire head full of milk. 

Yogurt has been Megan's recent food of choice.  After getting us to open up the refrigerator door for her, she quickly is able to spot a little cup and poke her little finger through the top.

 
Megan is really starting to reach high and test her limits.  Lately we've had to lock the water and ice maker on our refrigerator because she is able to push the levers in and get water all over the place.  She also has a recent obsession with closing doors.  By standing on her tippy toes she can pull all of the doors shut behind her after exiting the room.  I'm glad she hasn't learned how to lock them yet!

I'm going to finish this post with a cute picture that Grandma Lewis took on Megan's actual 20 month birthday.  She titled this picture "Whee!"