Megan got her 2-year checkup a couple weeks ago and I have her stats below. I thought for sure she had or would have gained more than just a couple pounds over the last half year but we have really noticed her slimming down over the past few months. This was actually one of the first slim-downs we had noticed as she never seemed to have slimmed when she started walking as a lot of people said she would.
Height - 34.5 inches - 70%
Weight - 29 lbs - 80%
Head Circumference - 19 inches - 75%
We are nowhere near potty training Megan yet. Although she is getting better about telling us after she fills her pants. A couple times I put her on her potty without pants on but I think I get a whole 5 seconds before she either wiggles to the edge of the seat or gets bored and starts moving again. Anyways, definitely not before the baby comes and then we'll test her again during the summer months.
Megan can say all of her ABC's pretty well with the exception of W. It comes out more like ticka-ticka. I think maybe we'll start working on the ABC song next! Numbers have a ways to go yet because she really can only say 2 and 8. She recognizes 8 but when she "counts" it's only 2's.
Lately Megan has really become aware of any owies or boo-boos that she gets on her body. She had a little cut on her pinky toe and every time she took off her sock she would start whining until I would give it a kiss. Today she hurt her thumb and I started rubbing her left thumb. Well, I got them mixed up and before I knew it Megan's right thumb was in my mouth for me to kiss and make it better.
Megan has graduated from watching Youtube on my phone and now really likes the puzzle application that I have. I'm really impressed how well she drags the pieces into their spots and then knows which is the back button to go and select another puzzle to work on.
Megan sure likes her big cousin Alexa and remembers fun things they do together. At Megan's birthday party Megan and Alexa went down the slide together over and over and I think they go down the slide together a lot with Grandpa Lewis as well. Now, when Grandma Gennrich takes Megan outside to go down the slide, Megan always points to the tandem slide and says 'Alexa?' She's also done the same thing when we've been out shopping at Target and she thinks that Alexa should be there to ride in the other kid seat of the cart. She is so lucky to have a girl cousin her age that she can spend so much time with.
Some of Megan's favorite things to eat right now are frozen green beans and frozen peas. Forget about cooking them...just give them to her straight from the bag in the freezer. She also is starting to like raw veggies such as carrots and celery. Slowly we are able to get her to eat a little more meat - grilled chicken breast is probably her favorite. I also found out that if we do "cheers" with our food and hers she is more likely to taste what she's given.
Megan has really made her mommy happy lately by starting to have an interest in singing and doing some action songs. Megan has a favorite bedtime song and just recently has started to sing along with it. Of course the main reason she likes it is because it's all about telling animals to hush so she gets to make plenty of animal noises. And she even knows what order the animals go in and is making the next noise before I even sing it. The action song in that book is about ladybugs, so again, we have the animal theme. Tonight Megan surprised me agan by starting to sing Jesus Loves Me! I think this is what Grandma Gennrich sings at naptime so she's heard it plenty of times and Megan sang along with all of the last words of each phrase. Of course it became a lot more fun when we turned on a small fan so she could sing into that!
Megan's vocabulary and speech is coming along great. She's continuing to work on her manners and added a new word this month - please (pea)! She's also starting to put three or more words together. Sometime it's slow and sometimes she will repeat the phrase over and over but she likes the practice. My favorite new phrase that Megan says is - Oh boy! which she pronounces Oh bear! When she gets all excited that she's getting juice or another treat she'll start jumping up and down shouting, "oh bear, oh bear!". Megan now is saying Mama for Grandma, Uncle, as well as two new pets - TC the cat and Abby the dog.
Lately Megan has really become aware of any owies or boo-boos that she gets on her body. She had a little cut on her pinky toe and every time she took off her sock she would start whining until I would give it a kiss. Today she hurt her thumb and I started rubbing her left thumb. Well, I got them mixed up and before I knew it Megan's right thumb was in my mouth for me to kiss and make it better.
Megan has graduated from watching Youtube on my phone and now really likes the puzzle application that I have. I'm really impressed how well she drags the pieces into their spots and then knows which is the back button to go and select another puzzle to work on.
Megan sure likes her big cousin Alexa and remembers fun things they do together. At Megan's birthday party Megan and Alexa went down the slide together over and over and I think they go down the slide together a lot with Grandpa Lewis as well. Now, when Grandma Gennrich takes Megan outside to go down the slide, Megan always points to the tandem slide and says 'Alexa?' She's also done the same thing when we've been out shopping at Target and she thinks that Alexa should be there to ride in the other kid seat of the cart. She is so lucky to have a girl cousin her age that she can spend so much time with.
Some of Megan's favorite things to eat right now are frozen green beans and frozen peas. Forget about cooking them...just give them to her straight from the bag in the freezer. She also is starting to like raw veggies such as carrots and celery. Slowly we are able to get her to eat a little more meat - grilled chicken breast is probably her favorite. I also found out that if we do "cheers" with our food and hers she is more likely to taste what she's given.
Megan has really made her mommy happy lately by starting to have an interest in singing and doing some action songs. Megan has a favorite bedtime song and just recently has started to sing along with it. Of course the main reason she likes it is because it's all about telling animals to hush so she gets to make plenty of animal noises. And she even knows what order the animals go in and is making the next noise before I even sing it. The action song in that book is about ladybugs, so again, we have the animal theme. Tonight Megan surprised me agan by starting to sing Jesus Loves Me! I think this is what Grandma Gennrich sings at naptime so she's heard it plenty of times and Megan sang along with all of the last words of each phrase. Of course it became a lot more fun when we turned on a small fan so she could sing into that!
Megan's vocabulary and speech is coming along great. She's continuing to work on her manners and added a new word this month - please (pea)! She's also starting to put three or more words together. Sometime it's slow and sometimes she will repeat the phrase over and over but she likes the practice. My favorite new phrase that Megan says is - Oh boy! which she pronounces Oh bear! When she gets all excited that she's getting juice or another treat she'll start jumping up and down shouting, "oh bear, oh bear!". Megan now is saying Mama for Grandma, Uncle, as well as two new pets - TC the cat and Abby the dog.
Bedtime still remains hit or miss but is getting better. At least she seems to be sleeping better through the night and most nights she doesn't wake up at all any more. We still have to do a couple tuck-ins most nights.
For some reason Megan has had something against our stairs lately. Maybe she just wants our attention because she is always whining that we carry her up or down which is really old. The way Megan goes up and down playground equipment there is no reason she should be afraid of our set of stairs.
I feel like it's so hard to capture all of the changes happening lately as there are so many of them! I love that she's growing up and soon will be having real conversations instead of me just always guessing what she's trying to communicate. I'm also excited to be able to do more and more projects with Megan as she grows up. Today we tried dying Easter eggs and making cut-out cookies. Both projects went "ok" but these things should keep getting easier as Megan grows up. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Megan's like being 2!
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