Happy Birthday to Us! (Updated)

Meghan and Daddy woke up happy today because it's our birthday!
I'm not sure what we are going to get up to today but if we take pictures, we'll post them here.
[Update] I have added some pictures from the party. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate with us!

Adventure Baby

Meghan, our adventure baby, has had a long weekend of adventures; climbing stairs at Trish and Ravi's house during Myra's 1st birthday party; helping Dad tidy the yard; playing with Sasha at Philippe and Asel's house; making friends over dinner at Thai Zenna in Plano; and taking first steps in Toys'r'us in Plano.

Here's a picture from a couple of weeks ago when Adventure Baby was helping fix the smoke detector.

Teddy Bear or Dog?

Meghan was full of beans last night and just wouldn't settle down with a book or even slow down long enough to look tired. Instead she was playing with her favourite teddy bear, Sheba, who is very good natured and understanding of a small person's urges to tug on her ears.

Starting Exercises and Blowing Kisses

Meghan found the exercise ball tonight and started pushing it and banging on it, enjoying the noise that it makes. This tired her out so she went down for the night earlier than usual. Or so we thought. She spent a little while talking to her mum and then started blowing kisses to Dad.. we thought we were imagining things so we waited and she did a couple more times. Hand to mouth and then out into a wave.

Pilot Episode

Back in January, Aey gave me two great birthday presents; Meghan and an introductory flight at a local flight school. The first has kept us both busy through the year but I finally got around to trying the other when I went to American Flyers yesterday to fly around for an hour in a Cessna 172 (edit: it was windy and 2 seconds after the instructor said "it's yours", it went sideways and down). Today I went back for two hours in the simulator.

About the only thing missing from the simulator was the hydraulics - two screens for the pilot (the world view and the instruments), all the buttons and radio equipment of the Cessna, rudder pedals, yoke with feedback and a control station for the instructor to set the weather and other simulator conditions. Very good and lots of fun.

Meghan Stands

Here's a video from a few weeks ago where Meghan is pulling apart a Lego creation and forgets to hold on to anything.

She has bursts of enthusiasm for standing and cruising and then goes back to crawling and clinging. Sometimes she likes to climb stairs but prefers us to be with her (as do we).

Six Teeth

Meghan's sixth tooth popped through today. She has been waiting for her teeth for months and then 6 of them came through in the last 4-6 weeks. She's been drooling for days and not sleeping well so we are glad that it's through; maybe now she can sleep!

Thanksgiving in Houston

We took a trip to Houston for the Thanksgiving break to see Chandra, David, Anisa and Ari. We had a great time and drove back on Saturday night in the rain. Meghan got to play with all sorts of new toys and we played with Anisa and Ari, who is a big boy!

Thank you Chandra and David!

Christmas Photo

 
We thought we would try and take some Christmas pictures to send out to friends and family and this one was just great!

Playing with the Walker

We were in Thailand for a couple of weeks and it has been hard to shake the jetlag with the little one waking us up. When we catch up on sleep some more, we will post some pictures and video.

In the mean time, here is a short video of Meghan getting used to her new walker and another video of her after she decides the box is more fun.