Happy Birthday Megan!

Well, it's official. I am now the mother of a 2 year old. Where has the time gone? I have greatly enjoyed the past 2 years at home with my girl and will continue to enjoy each day I have with her. Here's a look at the past 2 years on this day.

Newborn






1 year old

2 years old.

I can't help but marvel at how she's changed over the past 2 years. I know I'll probably be saying the same thing every year for the rest of her life.

Just Chillin'

I just had to take a picture of this! She just looks so....... grown-up, I guess. This is one to cheer you up on a bad day. (I did not pose her at all! She did this herself.)

Megan's 2nd Birthday Party

Last weekend, we celebrated Megan's second birthday. Due to weather (ie. SNOW), it wound up being limited to just family (Grandma & Grandpa O, Uncle Nate, Aunt Kristie, Devun & Katie). Megan, of course, didn't care that no one else that was invited couldn't make it. We enjoyed watching her open her presents and playing with them. Here are some pictures.

This is the Leapfrog Fridge Farm. She really enjoys matching up the parts of the animals and hearing the sounds they make.

Grandma & Grandpa gave her a doll house and magnetic writer. She loves to scribble on the writer.




Jason & I decided Megan should have her own Flames Jersey seeing she likes ours so much. This was probably her favourite present of all.

I made a cake for the party this year as we ran out of time to order one. We couldn't help laughing at Megan as she tried to blow out the candles through her nose.

Haircut

Recently, it was time for Megan to get her hair cut again. We took her to a local children's place to get her hair cut. She seemed to enjoy sitting on a chipmunk while getting her hair cut.

She sat really good for the girl cutting her hair and didn't really want to leave once we were done.

New Year's

For New Year's this year, we went out to Canmore and spent a few days enjoying the mountains. Those who were able to, went skiing and snowboarding. Everyone agreed to take New Year's day off from that and just play with the kids in the snow. There was a play area near our "rooms" where we took the kids to play.

It didn't matter to Megan who pushed her in the swing as long as she got to swing.

There were also slides and ride-on characters to be played with. You can be sure that Megan enjoyed playing with it all.

One Big Christmas Post

This year we stayed in Alberta for Christmas. Unfortunately, it didn't start well as on December 23, in the early morning, our van was hit while it sat in front of our house while we slept. Jason discovered the damage when he went outside to get something before church.

This accident means that we were short our primary family vehicle over Christmas. Fortunately, the damage is repairable and covered by insurance at no cost to us.

Later that day, we decided to let Megan open her Christmas gifts from us. She had little problem tearing open the wrapping paper. This is a doll stroller and carseat set that we got her as one of her gifts.




Megan also had no problem making sure the wrapping paper made it into the garbage.

We also gave Megan a baby Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas which she loves to carry around the house and just about everywhere we go.

Megan also received a TJ Bearytales story bear from us. We were going to try to keep this one to open in Drum, but Megan decided otherwise.

Christmas Eve day, the box from Jason's family in Ontario arrived. This meant that Megan got to open gifts again. She didn't seem very impressed as most of these gifts contained clothes and not toys (she needs the clothes anyway). Megan does love the one toy she did receive.

Yes, that's right, the one toy she did receive was a shape-sorting ball that is still available through Tupperware. She's very good at putting the pieces in the right spots.






On December 25, we went to my parents to open gifts there. We came home with more toys for Megan to play with and grow into.

This was one of Megan's gifts, a Dora the Explorer puzzle book. She loves to make the book make sounds when she pushes on the shapes.