Adam always calls me around “nap” time to ask about our morning. I haven’t heard from him yet today, so I am going to e-mail him this little visual of how we spent our morning. After breakfast we played with Play-doh (a WONDERFUL alternative to sugar cookies: Megan LOVES it, and I don’t end up eating two dozen cookies!!!) After Play-doh we went for a walk… After our walk we played with the letters on the refrigerator… Then Megan sang a few songs for me (here we have: “Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So

The other morning, Megan played with her Madame Alexander dolls for the first time in over a year. She lined them all up, and then one by one she held them and taught them about their: “head, shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouth and nose!” followed by a personal demonstration. She sang to every single doll, and I didn’t even think to grab the camera until well after she was done. By the point that I caught her on video, she was just mumbling the words. But I think you get the idea. She l

Adam and I planned on undertaking two large tasks as soon as we got back from Nauvoo. The first was transitioning Megan from crib to bed (we bought her toddler bed a couple months ago and after only 2 nights decided to keep her in her crib…for no real reason). Tonight was the first night in her bed since then, and the transition went off: without a hitch. I imagine that the novelty will wear off soon and she will start to comprehend her new freedom, but so far…so good. The second task is potty traini

Right before Megan turned two years old, she began attempting to recite the alphabet - backwards. A couple of weeks ago, she was sitting on Adam’s lap at the computer, and she typed out the entire thing from Z to A. Now she has it down pat, and it’s almost effortless. Occasionally she gets stuck and has to get back on track, but she has no problem starting with Z and working her way to A. Adam caught this on video this morning: (note: I published the video in “double time” because it was about

I am not sure if I have mentioned before that Megan loves letters…sound familiar to anyone?? I know, I know, I post all the time about Megan’s love of letters. It is so fun the things she can do! I think it is so exciting! So here’s Megan’s newest trick. Not only can Megan read (yes, she can actually READ), but now she is spelling things out. Last week we found this situation: And then this was on the living room carpet this week: I always catch her in the act too late, or am unable to

The long awaited day has arrived. Megan is two today! We are not quite sure how this day is going to turn out. It has been pouring rain all morning AND Miss Megan is exhausted. She decided she didn’t want to go to sleep until after MIDNIGHT last night (she usually goes to bed between 7:30 and 8:00) and then she woke up at 7:15 this morning (she usually gets up between 7:30 and 8:00). You do the math. I think this is the FIRST time Megan has EVER stayed up so late. Luckily I finished her video las

After the stressful incident when I locked myself out of our building (with Megan upstairs alone), I called our property management and got the code to the door’s automatic keypad. We had never thought about getting it before, but after I nearly scaled the building with plans to break a window to enter my apartment; it just made sense to have it. The first time I entered the code, Megan was fascinated. Ever since then, she has wanted to enter it herself. After a few times, she had the 5 digit numbe

Of course as a mom I am often motivated by the sucesses I see in other children. The children that I am most often influenced by, are my own precious neices and nephews. Between our two families, Adam and I have 22 neices and nephews. Each one of them brings something special to the table. I don’t think that either one of our families realizes to what extent I love hearing about what these kids are up to. I’m always asking my mom about her grandkids, and I love getting updat...

So Megan has this alphabet video that she absolutely loves. It’s called “The Pocket Snails” and it’s about a boy named Jake who has 3 snails living in his pocket. When he needs to learn something new, he calls on his three little friends. Adam and I both think the video is actually incredibly annoying. The music is obnoxiously repetitive, and sounds like old school Nintendo music. However, Megan loves it. She loves it so much in fact, that I looked into it and ...