Meighen

We’ve had a good week. The weather’s been crappy but it’s still been good.

I can’t even keep track of all the new words Meg can say. She repeats most of what we say. Right now we’re working on “I love you” and not getting very far although Ben’s making good progress with “Kessel” and “Phaneuf”. The other night she repeated the entire alphabet back to me. Super sweet.

Meg’s been sleeping great this week. A couple nights she slept right through. If she does get up it’s usually close to the alarm to we let her into our bed for another hour of sleep before getting up.

She’s still a super helper. Last weekend she helped me do laundry. She put everything in the dryer from the washing machine. She then put in a dryer sheet and hit the button. Meighen can also help me set the table and make toast. When she gets her hands dirty or wet she’ll run to the stove and wipe them on the dish towel. What a good girl.

Got a few things going on this weekend. We have to go see our banker about investing Meg’s photo shoot money into something she can access later. Ben also wants to get in on some RRSP’s before submitting our taxes this weekend. After the bank, we’ll be hitting the Home Show. Ben got tickets through a friend at work so we’ll go check it out. We’ve been a few times before, it’s nothing super fantastic but its an outing. Since we got a bunch of snow over the last few days hopefully we can take Meg tobogganing … either that or swimming.

Now that the website transfer is done I’ve been able to upload a bunch of clips to the video page here. Many of them are too big so I’ll have to use my mac to compress them before posting. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

A little bit of info from my Pampers e-blast.
“Potbelly Blues – Concerned about your child’s potbelly and arched back? Don’t be. A toddler’s posture does look odd from an adult perspective, but it’s perfectly normal. Your child will have that swayback posture with the protruding tummy into her third year. Then she’ll gradually straighten up, and her belly will tighten.”

I find this useful since we always look at Meggy and her “gros bedin”. Thankfully it’s common and there’s no digestive issues.

As for the cycle being broken, I’m referring to Meg falling asleep with us. This was our routine for many months, bring Meg to our bed with her nighttime bottle, let her fall asleep then move her to her bed. Well about a month or so ago I thought, let’s get her to fall asleep in her bed. It didn’t take long for that to become the norm. I lay with her in her bed till she falls asleep and she stays put most nights. I know a toddler having a queen size bed is a bit ridiculous but man it sure comes in handy.

I’ve said it before and I’ll probably say it a million time more. Meighen is such a good little helper.

Last night while I was making dinner she wanted to play with her sponge painting kit. I gave her just the sponges and let her play on the floor. She took them out of the plastic wrapping, went over to the garbage can, took off the lid, put the plastic in the can, put the lid back on and went about playing. I’m astounded! I knew she loved to clean and tidy up but now she knows what’s garbage and how to get rid of it.

Later on, when the fridge was open Ben asked her to get Dad a wa-wa (her word for water, she knows the difference between milk, juice and water). She went over, grabbed a bottle of water and took it over to him. She’s so eager to help out – what a good girl.

Meg’s been a bit moody lately, nothing we can’t handle, just a bit more irritable than usual. I think I saw why, she’s cutting her back molars. I see the huge bulges forming under her gums. Poor kid. Almost done after these come in. Her eye teeth have all broken through and are almost in place.

What a crazy, gross week. Last weekend Meg had a sniffle and a bit of a cough so we didn’t think much of it. Then Ben and I started feeling it early in the week. On Tuesday, our daycare called saying her boys were up sick overnight and that it was up to us if we wanted to bring Meg in. Ben stayed home with her. Tuesday night Meg started throwing up… everything… so I stayed home with her on Wednesday. Thursday was business as usual till home time, when I starting throwing up. God, what a nasty ride home. I spent the next day and a half in bed trying to recoop. Ben seemed ok, till Friday night when it hit him. So, to make a long, gross story short, we all got the stomach flu and chest colds. So much for a Valentines/Family Day long weekend. Poor Meg, she tried hard to be good but she wanted to play, go out and do her usual weekend stuff. There was no way we were up for anything. We’re all feeling a bit better now so hopefully next weekend will be better.

Meg’s still sprouting new words daily and can almost repeat anything we say. She can say hockey – although she drops the ‘h’ and sounds very French, “ockee” hehe. She’s getting good at stringing words together too. Pretty much anything goes with Mummy – mummy up, mummy juice, mummy shoes, mummy bum. It’s pretty awesome. She’s also getting really good at getting dressed/undressed. She’ll take off any sweater that’s not a pull over. She can undo snaps and zippers and remove coats/sweaters. She can put her boots on (snow boots or rain boots) and can almost take her pants off. While we were sick this weekend she put her own boots on, brought us her mitts and hat, pulled her coat off the rack, got it on with our help but then tried to do the zipper up. What a kid. Very cute but bad timing given how sick we were.

Meighen’s finally figured out how to talk on the phone. For the longest time she’d only listen to Grammy/Mere and smile but now she gets the concept of a conversation. We’ll put the phone to her ear and she’ll babble something, stop and listen for a while, then babble back in response. She waves her hand around like she’s explaining something – we’ll have to get that on tape. Sometimes a real word comes out but it’s usually just babble.

Taking pitty on a poor bored housebound doopy, last night I pulled out her sponge painting kit. I’ve had it forever (before Meg was around). I had to add a bit of water to the paint but Meg had a blast. We’d let her put the paint on the paper then I’d fold it in half to make designs. I’ll have to scan them tonight before sending to Grammy/Mere this week.

Our March break is finally confirmed. Our daycare is taking the week of the 22nd off so we’ll be heading north to do the great “grandparent” tour. We’ll probably go up on the Saturday and head back the Friday. Three nights with Mere and three nights with Grammy. Since we’re getting an amazing tax refund this year (that’s what you get for shelling out 12K in daycare a year) we’re planning a weekend stateside to do some shopping. That may fall over Easter weekend, we’re not too sure just yet. Ben and I went through the process of getting our Enhanced Drivers License a few weeks back in anticipation of upcoming vacations. We’re also hoping to do a week in Florida with next year’s refund for our 10th anniversary.

That’s about it for now, with all the sickies not much has been going on.

My friend at work took her daughter to the Bunch Dance Series party last weekend at the Guvernment nightclub. The group rented out the club and made it a dance party for kids. All ages were there but it was better suited for 5 and under. It looks and sounds like a lot of fun. There’s dancing, lights, glowsticks, arts and crafts, a snow room and much more. If I knew about it I would have loved to go with Meighen. But now that I do know, I’ll keep my eye open for upcoming events.

Meg’s been sleeping awesome this past week. While it’s been nice having her fall asleep in our bed with us I’ve decided it’s time to have her fall asleep in her room. She’s been going down earlier, around 8:30, and it’s been great cause it gives us a bit of time to do our thing before bed. She’s been sleeping through the night and staying in her bed. I think kids have magical sleeping powers. While Meg drinks her milk before bed I start getting sleepy. Then she rolls over and snuggles into me to fall asleep. By this point I’m nearly asleep with her. I have to pry myself out of bed to finish whatever it is that needs doing.

Otherwise, not much is going on right now. It was Auntie’s birthday on Wednesday so we’re taking her out for dim-sum tomorrow. Yum-yum! I’ve been saying for months we don’t do it enough anymore and now I’ll have had it three times in a month. Yay!

This weekend’s new words are: poopy, bum, change bum (sorta), Sprocket (sorta), and Julie.

We had a good visit with Grammy & Grampy this weekend. Meg was full of hugs and kisses for all. Now that she says “mummy” all the time she’s started calling Grammy “mummy” too. It’s cute. It only took a couple days but Meg now can say “Julie” as in Auntie Julie. We’ll work on the Auntie part. Shouldn’t be too hard.