Lane Cove National Park

Eating (another!) box of sultanas with Babcia. Just how many sultanas can a toddler eat???

Mango Madness

In front of the Queen Victoria

Babcia comes to visit

Babcia came to visit from Mid Feb to Mid March. It was a lovely time that Meg and my mom had to bond. Note the scab on the bridge of Meg's nose...the result of tumbling down some concrete stairs!

Meg's first haircut

At Alec's 2nd birthday party

Vroom, vroom

Every since Nicholas's visit, Meg has had a bit of an obsession with cars. It is defintely her toy of choice at the moment.
It is amazing just how much she has developed in the past few weeks. Firstly there is no more crawling, only walking. She found her legs a couple of days after A, O and N's visit (10th of Jan to be precise) and hasn't looked back since. She knows lots of her body parts and various other objects. How is it possible for her to get sweeter and sweeter by the day when she is already infinitely sweet!

First bit of craft

Is it a Picasso? Is it a Da Vinci? No it is a Meggie-moo! Mmmmm I wonder just how much she participated in this creation...

1st day at Acre Woods daycare

Meggie is going well at daycare. I am really happy with the staff and the way the centre is run. She does get a little upset when Tim drops her off (thank goodness I don't need to do it!) but it is apparently short lived and is happy for the rest of the day. I am sure she will enjoy socialising and the variety of different activities which she will be exposed to.

Priceless

An extract from an email from Olga.....
A funny story, when I dropped Nicholas off at school this morning, Mary (one of the teachers) said to him, “are you number 1 Nicholas?” and he said “no, Meggie is 1. I am 2.” Too cute, so he definitely still remembers her.

Magical holiday

We had the most awesome holiday with Andrew, Olga and Nicholas. We were so lucky to have them here to celebrate Christmas and Meggie's first birthday and for the cousins to spend some time together. It was indeed a very sad day to see them go....

Taking a splash in Neil and Susan's pool

Party on!

We celebrated Meg's first birthday at a Bicentennial Park in West Pymble. As you can see there was a bit of a ladybird theme. It rained on and off, but we had the food under a shelter so it didn't dampen the spiritis. Meg was a bit overwhelmed by it all and only started chatting in the car on the way home!

Taking a stroll at North Head

Beaching

Meggie has spent a fair bit of time at the beach this summer and is getting used to the whole water, paddling and sand thing. She is pretty chilled when taken in to the water.... lets hope it lasts!

The bully!

Meggie terrorising her big boy cousin :)

Flying high at Balmoral

It took Tim a little while to build up to throwing her high enough for Andre to get the photo he wanted!

Meggie's 1st Birthday

We celebrated Meg's birthday by starting off at Shelly Beach in the morning and then in the afternoon we spent some time up at the local park.

'Lil Ripper

Meggie's Aunties and Uncles bought her the awesome 'Lil Ripper for her birthday.... her legs have a little bit of growing to do!

First Christmas

Meg was super spoilt by everyone this Christmas. This rag doll was a gift from Babcia and grampa KK.

Raggamuffin?

Aunty Kayla reckons Megs is looking a bit like a Raggamuffin!

Cousin, Aunty and Uncle in Syd!

Andrew, Olga and Nicholas arrived in Oz for a 3 week visit. It was a very special time that we were able to spend together and we had a ball....we were just very sad to see them leave :(

Mother's group 1st Birthday!

We had a 1st birthday celebration for all the bubs in mother's group. Meg is getting more sociable and confident and is happy to wander about without us by her side.

Family snap

The MegaMonster walks!

Megs took her first steps on Wednesday the 28th of November. She also surprised us (and even more so herself), by standing for the first time without the need to pull up on something.

Weeride

Meg is very happy to tootle along in her Weeride... we just need to find a helmet that is small enough :)

Beaching

Megs down at Balmoral Beach.... looking a bit grumpy as she was recovering from an ear infection - poor thing has really struggled over the last few days.

My first hair clip!

Ning-Ning, Nang-Nang

It is very obvious when Megan is asking for something to eat as she starts moaning with 'Ning-Ning, Nang-Nang.'

Standing on her own two feet!

Flying Fox Cafe

We had a picnic down at the Flying Fox Cafe. When we were there with Meg when she was a couple of months old she was very unhappy when her feet got dipped in the water....this time she was indifferent....lets hope that next time she is happy!

Take this thing off me - I am a Wallaby!

Mmmm on second thoughts after the RWC final maybe there is a little bokkie inside me!

New cousin for Meg - Woohoo!!

Aunty Kayla is pregnant! Meg hasn't stop smiling since I told her the news :) Baby Luger is due on the 4th of April. We can't wait until he arrives!

First 'bike'

Meg is a little indifferent about her first bike... it hasn't produced any squeals of delight yet, but she is perfectly happy to be pushed around on it.

Bag of tricks

Meg has added pointing, high 5 and low 5 to her bag of tricks. She also recently added VERY frequent waking during the night to that bag, but thankfully it looks like that is behind us. If you ask her to take the plug out at the end of her bath she scuttles down to the end of the bath and very enthusiastically removes the plug which is then followed by lots of finger pushing through the holes. She is continuously babbling and making some very interesting sounds which is very sweet.

No little Indians :(

Meg enjoys it when you make a noise like an Indian. She puckers her lips and lurches towards me for me to do it to her, but alas she hasn't worked out that she needs to make a sound for it to work! At least she has the clapping thing sorted - very little sound, well actually no sound.... but it is very sweet when you catch her doing it - she looks so chuffed with herself and then gets all coy.

Van der Graaf generator?

No, no.... just a metal bar..... and there I was beginning to think that her hair was starting to lie flat!

Summer fun!

Cruising Meg

Nobody told me that there wouldn't be a break between crawling and pulling up.....on EVERYTHING! I am totally amazed at the changes in Meg this past week. Besides the continuous mama mama mama she is also saying baba and we think there may have been a dada in there too. She is starting to cruise along the furniture and amazingly enough there havn't been too many bumps. It is now almost impossible to change her nappy as she wriggles and squirms. We are now greeted with her little head and big smile peeping over the top of the cot when we walk in to get her. She also through her first 'semi-tantrum' in the supermarket a few days ago when I tried to take the keys away from her that I had given her to distract her from pulling my bunch of Basil apart. I think the fun and games are just beginning :)

Father's Day

Meg spoilt Tim with a framed photograph of the 2 of them together.

Mama Mia

Meg is finally saying Mama which is all very well until she cries out Mama in the night and Tim rolls over and says 'she wants you!'