Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Backyard Girl

Now that the weather is consistently warm, we have been playing outside more. Meghan constantly wants to play in the backyard. We cleaned out her water table so she could play with her boats and water wheel. Also, it was St. Patrick's Day so Meghan wore her green shirt. Can you tell Meghan is a "Wee bit Irish"?

She also loves to swing. We are working on moving her to a "big girl" swing but she still loves her baby swing. Meghan gets a little sassy when her daddy stops pushing her to pull weeds in the lawn.

Spring Break

For spring break we headed to Missouri so Meghan could visit with her Grandma and Papa.

We didn't expect to have 9 inches of snow while we were there. It really only lasted Monday and Tuesday but we weren't prepared for it so we opted not to make a snowman. Meghan went out into the garage to watch Daddy brush the snow off the car. She lasted about two minutes and then decided it was too cold to be out.

However, the adults needed to get out of the house so we went to Going Bonkers. It is one of those indoor play places with the huge play structure. Meghan had no fear and was all the way to the top in no time. She even convinced Grandma to climb up there with her.

This is how Meghan plays Skee Ball. She cheated and still only got 5 tickets.

This might be the highlight of Meghan's trip. Frannie, Buster, and Abby are Grandma's cats. Meghan couldn't get enough of them. She chased them around and gave them a good squeeze when they would let her.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Crazy Girl

It is a little known secret that Meghan has no fear. The kid will climb and then attempt to jump off of anything. A couple weeks ago we were at a friends for a birthday party. There was a bounce house that you couldn't tear Meghan away from. She discovered that if you took a running start you could summersault down the slide.

Going down feet first wasn't enough fun so Meghan decided to log roll instead.

Finally we have some sunny weather. We were able to get out and take some walks in the evening. Little miss decided pulling the wagon was more fun than riding in it.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Petting Zoo

Meghan went with her friend to a birthday party today. There was a petting zoo and as you can see Meghan enjoyed feeding the goats a bottle.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

"Card Full"

I guess when the memory card in your camera reads "card full" it's time to upload pictures. My card holds over a thousand pictures but it hadn't really been that long since I uploaded. I like to hold onto things, especially memories. For me pictures are treasured memories. I have a consuming fear that I will loose all of my pictures and memories. Maybe this is because our hard drive died a few years ago and took hundreds of pictures with it, including my wedding photographs. Now I have pictures in at least two places. They are stored on my camera until I have uploaded them to the computer and saved them onto our portable hard drive that we keep in a fire safe.

I probably should get started making and printing digital scrapbooks. Sadly, I haven't even started Meghan's baby book. I do have a folder of favorite pictures but that is as far as it has gone. I think I need to set small goals so it doesn't seem like such a duanting task. Maybe then I can actually get it started and eventually finished. It just seems like such a huge project right now.

Back to the present:

As if the four snow days we had last week weren't enough we had another one and a half this week. This really wouldn't be such a big deal if we didn't live in Texas. This picture is actually from last Friday. We got about 8 inches of snow. It was a beautiful powder, perfect for skiing, not so good for building a snowman. Meghan was bummed that she couldn't make a snowman. The snow kept falling apart in her hands.

She couldn't wait to get out in it. Once she got to the edge of the snow she was like the kid at the pool that just touches their toes to the water and then inches in slowly.


It didn't take too long for her to start stomping around, and then running to "the boys house" (our neighbors down the street) to play. She ate quite a bit of snow too. Don't worry, it was clean snow.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Is it spring yet?!?

Isn't Meghan's outfit awesome? She insisted on wearing her "tooth fairy dress". It was a serious fight to get her to put the leggings, socks, and shirt on first. It was 12 degrees this morning. That is too cold for Texas...I want spring!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Children's Museum

Yesterday we went to the Children's Museum with friends. There was a dinosaur exhibit that Meghan loved. I thought she might be scared of the dinosaurs when they roared and moved but she just laughed at them. I tried to get a picture of Meghan and her friend looking at the camera but they were too interested in the dinosaur.

Meghan loved digging for fossils.


In the children's area she played with some tinker toys...

...and milked a cow!