Megan at 22 Months

These months are just flying by and in just two short months our little girl will be 2!  These posts are getting harder and harder to do because Megan is mostly just getting better at all the things she knows how to do.  Doing them faster, smoother and with more gusto!

Megan cut tooth #19 last week - her upper left two-year molar.  As far as I know the last one hasn't come in yet.  This last tooth was sure not a fun one.  She was just incredibly clingy on me or John.  She had some bad diarrhea and even a blowout at our Pastor's house - gross!  Megan also had a few rough weeks of sleeping at night and lucky for me it was John who had a better success rate at getting her back down!

Megan is doing great sleeping in her new toddler bed!  It was really just the first few nights that she gave us fuss.  I've noticed that she doesn't exactly sleep quite as long in the morning as she did when she was in the crib but I'm ok with that as long as there's no issues during the night.  When she does get up at the earlier times in the morning she is so much happier than she had been when sleeping in her crib.  Her bed is so fun for her to lay on and do puzzles, read her books and play with her stuffed animals.  Also, since we rearranged her room putting her bed in the back and toys in the front, she has really enjoyed playing in her room and actually asks to go upstairs.  Bonus for me, especially in the morning when I'm getting ready in the bathroom and in general to get her away from the TV. 

Megan is getting to be quite a dancer and getting very good at the Hokey Pokey.  I think the Hokey Pokey is one of her favorite songs right now and she just started really doing some of the actions.  She will put both her right foot and hand in right in time with the music as well as spin around and clap!  It's so much fun now that she knows what to do!  She also bounces and dances whenever some peppy music comes on, including the Hot Dog dance at the end of Mickey Mouse.  During the Mickey opening theme song Megan has been enjoying calling out all of the characters and really singing the "Doo" loudly at the end of it.  We're trying to branch out to several other educational shows as well and my new favorite is Little Einsteins.  Megan enjoys tapping her legs and waving her arms when they are flying around in the rocket.

Megan's vocabulary continues to grow and grow.  I'm impressed with how many animals she recognizes and calls either by name or by the sound they make.  Some new animal names are giraffe and rabbit and she loves when we ask her what the elephant says.  She will almost always throw her hand up in the air and really get into it.  She learned what a frog was this weekend and was hopping all around the room saying "hop, hop, hop".  More and more words keep getting strung together when she's talking.  Her newest is telling us what she wants more of.  "More juice", "More books", "More Duck".  Some other new words are garage, high and away.

We introduced Megan to YouTube when John and I got our new phones.  We've been watching a lot of nursery rhyme and ABC videos.  Maybe soon she can sing along to the ABC song with Alexa!  We also work with Megan on her letters in the bathtub.  We have some foam letters that stick to the side of the tub and practice saying them.  She can repeat about half of them after me but is more than willing to at least try to say most of them.  This might also be the reason she likes to point to some of the words and letters in a couple books we read.

Megan loves to try and get herself ready to go outside.  She feels the most proud when she can get her shoes on by herself.  Sometimes the tongue of the shoe gets underneath her foot but she always makes sure she gets the velcro patted down.  It's still hard getting the coat on but is a pro now at getting it off by herself.

Megan's food addiction right now is frozen GoGurt.  One tube of that is just not enough and boy does she know where that is kept! 

Well, I think this pretty much sums up the big things that are going on right now in Megan's life.  I love that it keeps getting more and more easy to communicate with her and even joke around.  What a sweet little girl we have!