I'm gonna get you! Maegan is combining two of her favorite games in this picture. She is chasing me and she has rummaged through the diaper stacker and has pulled a bunch of diapers out. Now that she is good at walking, she loves to chase us/be chased by us. She squeals, giggles, and takes some hard falls when she inevitably trips.

Maegan has enjoyed 'reading' her new Dr. Seuss board books. Here she is wearing her new feathery slippers. The dog already got ahold of one of them, so it has fewer feathers than the other, but the dog slobber dried ok and it is still fluffy. :)

Maegan with her one of her favorite Christmas gifts. She quickly figured out how to climb up on the pony, but her dismount isn't so graceful (head first, very slowly).

Maegan is happy to be feeling better now.

Pneumonia

Maegan is doing much better after being hospitalized with pneumonia. She has had a cold with a cough for a couple of weeks, but started to get feverish on Wednesday night. By Thursday at day care, her fever was at 104.5, and her breathing was rapid. I took her to the doctor, who sent us to the emergency room for tests. The chest x-ray showed pneumonia, and they admitted her. We stayed 2 nights and she was released Saturday morning, having responded well to breathing treatments and i.v. antibiotics.

Mama and Maegan in our "matching" orange hoodies. I see your belly button!

Maegan's hair just after a bath. Before she sleeps on it, it is curly!

Toddlerhood

By 14 months, Maegan had just started to walk. At 14 1/2 months, she does very well. Now that she spends more time up off the floor, she has discovered different things to get into, such as kitchen drawers at her eye level. The top drawer is now crammed full of miscellaneous sharp utensils, and the second drawer is almost empty. Yesterday, I saw her open the top drawer and attempt to reach in, but she's not quite tall enough yet. I'll have to figure something out soon.

Maegan got her first molar this month, so that makes 9 teeth. I don't think there are any more, but she wouldn't let me look today, so I'm not sure.

She's starting to get opinionated. For example, she wants to feed herself. Last night, we had burritos, and rather than taking bites from the one I rolled up for her, she unrolled it and picked the cheese off with her fingers and took bites of the meat and beans from off the shell (imagine a tortilla up against her face). Tonight she successfully (sort of) used her fork to eat some stuffing. She scooped it up herself and everything. However, when she got a bite of a pea that mom snuck in, she spit it out. There's no fooling her with hiding veggies!

Maegan has other strange eating habits; when she's ready to put down her spoon/fork and take a drink, she puts the utensil and any other large pieces of food on her tray (like scraps of bread) in her bowl. When she's done drinking, she puts her cup in her bowl, so everything is neat and tidy in the bowl. When she's done with food, she reaches past the edge of her tray and puts the chunk of food on the table. (Her high chair is at one end of the table.) I guess this is her way of cleaning up or signaling that she is done.

This weekend, she identified a picture of a dog with her word for dog, which sounds like a cross between doggie and daddy. We think she tried to say banana the other day, too. It sounded like baBAba. Other than mama (and sometimes dada), that's about all she says so far. Not sure if I've already said that she can make the sign for light (open and close fist toward the light).

She's been good so far with the Christmas tree. She enjoys taking off the ornaments and then putting them back on. She has even hung her toy fish on the tree!

Her favorite game is to take things out of containers. Clothes out of drawers/laundry baskets, utensils and dishes out of cupboards/drawers, diapers out of her diaper stacker. She does put a few back in, and then she takes them all back out again. So far, she doesn't "get it" when I try to help her clean up/put things away. She just wants to take them back out again. We'll keep working on it.

Enjoy the pictures!

Maegan at Grandma's house at Thanksgiving. She enjoyed all the food and playing with her dad's old toys (you can see the school house in the back ground).

Maegan emptied out her dresser and started "getting dressed". She is looking for the edge of the blue sweater so she can put the right part over her head (like she did with the striped shirt).

Maegan wrinkling up her nose.