Faces of Megan

Mighty Megan prefers to be held a lot of the time.

That started from birth and hasn't stopped. She's always reaching to be picked up, and asks with a persistent and insistent "Up!  Up!" and who could resist her cute little demand plea?

She does have a determined streak in her.  When she wants to do something, she doesn't like to be told no.  Like sneaking food to the dog from her high chair, for example..

Eventually I predict that determination will work into a beneficial attribute.  Right now, though, it's inconsistent.  She's very quick to say "Hep, hep!" when she wants someone to help her do something -- often before she's tried to do it on her own.  She's learned already that people will do things for her if she asks them to.  Manager in training, perhaps?

She's quite vocal, learning more words every day.  She's very good at picking up what people say and do, and mimicking it.  I'm not sure where she got this one, though -- it's certainly not something I do!

We have to watch Megan carefully, and be careful where we leave the laptops. Megan looks quite at home here, though, in this rare moment where she was able to get to a computer without being on someone's lap.  I have no doubt she'll have more than her share of early exposure to PC's in our household, but so far, it's limited to watching clips of preschool TV shows on the internet, and seeing pictures of herself on daddy's screen saver. 

She's pretty good at identifying the usual body parts.  Here she's demonstrating her skill at identifying her belly button.

When Megan gets determined to do something, that tongue comes out.  My daddy had that same tendency.  Here, she's determined to climb up into mommy's lap in the recliner, but mommy won't put down the camera to help.

Here she's intent on using that spoon.  Even if it is backwards...

She loves being outside, and loves to ready-set-GO!  She often plays keep-away-from-Mommy when mommy wants her to come here.

She has a passion for reading already.  She's even doing well with pointing at items as we count them.

She has an artistic streak to her eating style.  A while back, she balanced toast pieces on end.  The other day, she worked hard to balance a piece of cheese stick on the top of her sippy cup.  She succeeded!

Megan often makes it hard to get good pictures of her.  As soon as she sees the camera, she comes over wanting to see the pictures on the screen.  Every time she sees one of her or Kayla, she identifies it as Kayla, though.  Apparently, she can't distinguish herself from her sister yet in photos.

She's not shy, although she looks it in this shot.  What's really going on here is that she wants to sit on the other side of the chair, and so she's climbing behind Kayla (in pink) to get her to move.  This is just one example of Megan forgetting that she's little, and pushing to get her way.

Megan is quite playful at times.  Of course when she's not she has no problem saying "no!".  Here she's playing a game of peek a boo from behind the chair.  She thinks she's hidden.

She tends to play in her crib for a while before going to bed.  One morning we found all her babies from her bed lined up along the wall, watching her sleep.  (I haven't decided if that one's cute or creepy.)

She brightens every day for me, more than I ever expected.  Life would not be the same if she wasn't with us, an I'm so grateful that she is!  I'm smitten.

She's good at capturing people's hearts.  It's hard to resist a cute little face like this -- who once again, is after the camera!