Megan at 21 Months

21 months already? Megan actually turned 21 months last week so I am behind again but need to get this post in before Christmas! Just three short months until our little girl turns 2!

Megan’s bedtime routine seems to be back to normal – as long as Daddy is there to put her jammies on and give her a hug and kiss she will usually then be very cooperative of what I ask. We still read 2-3 stores that she picks out and then she will snuggle in to bed for prayers. She is very particular about which books we read and has ways to communicate her favorites. For example, “Hot” is “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and wiggling her index finger is “Waddle”, the animated book where you have to move the pages to get the animals to move. Other favorites are “Duck” for a lift the flap book with baby animals, “Barn” for “The Big Red Barn” and “Fish” for “Friendly Floppy Fishy”. Bedtime most nights also includes saying a special prayer for Coco the cat by Megan’s special requests. I think she must dream about her “pets”.

Megan’s big news this week is that she got two new molars! She got her bottom 2-year molars so I’m sure the top two are not too far behind. This brings her total tooth count to 18!

Megan seemed to be battling a runny nose all month which makes considering she had teeth coming in. Just the last few days her cold got worse and she hadn’t been sleeping very well. Megan has hardly ever gotten sick so it’s taken some trial and error to see what will get her better. However, Megan always surprises me because even though she may have a bad runny nose and cold she is always spunky as ever. She just doesn’t seem to know how to slow down.

Megan’s getting so much better at putting words together along with her ever increasing vocabulary. I have kind of lost track of which words are new as we are always picking up new things. However, this past month she started saying her own versions of Alexa and Rachel – kind of like Yay-Yay and Day-Doh. Mickey Mouse was also added to the list.

Speaking of Mickey Mouse, it continues to still be Megan’s favorite show, however, she is getting much better at doing other things while it is one and is not quite so glued to it. I love that she points out characters while the opening song is playing and we always “sing” the last note when they turn on the light bulb. “Doo”! She literally asks us for the show when I come home. She will say “Where Daisy?, Where Minnie?, Where Pete?”

Megan’s taste buds still aren’t taking any adventurous risks no matter how hard we try. And with all the constant distractions in the house, plus Mama not having much energy, we have given her a little freedom over where she eats. We set up a “little kids table” in the living room and she will often eat her meals there. This works especially well for breakfast so she can play and eat at the same time and then run up to Daddy when I leave for work. With eating more freely comes some messier hands so we make sure we always give her a napkin to wipe her messes. She seems to really love her napkins lately since she feels in control of cleaning herself. She’s also very good about throwing them away when she’s done.

Step stools and anything that can be used as one (upside down laundry basket) have been huge this month. They help her get up onto beds and reach light switches. A lot of things like chairs and couches she can get onto by herself. We have a little stepper in her bedroom right underneath the light switch so she can control the light in her room. I think she really appreciates this “power”. Although, last night I had a nightlight/vapor scent thing plugged into an outlet and she tried for the longest time to get that thing to go out by means of the light switch. I ended up just unplugging it because we needed to get her to bed!

The last notable thing this month is that Megan has really started to like us singing in the car to her. I started it one night on the way home from my parents and she hasn’t let up since. We do a variation of “Wheels on the Bus” only using animals and animal noises. Megan is in charge of picking out the animals that are used and often calls out the next ones before the current verse is over. If anyone knows how to make a good elephant noise please let me know because that is the #1 requested sound right now.