Bekah has Quit her Pacifier!

Yesterday, I decided it was time to start weaning Bekah off the pacifier. I had read that a good way to do it was to cut a little bit off the tip each time until it no longer soothed the child. So yesterday, I just cut a little bit off the tip of her pacifier before naptime. When I gave it to her, she looked at me and said "Paci Broke? Trash!" and ran and threw it in the trash can. She did this twice. Naptime was a little rough because it was so new. But by night time, she knew that she had thrown her beloved "paci" away (she did the same thing when I offered her another pacifier with a cut tip before bedtime) and only cried for a short little bit.
She's growing up!

She also got an early birthday present on Friday.

We bounced and bounced all weekend and even had the neighbors come over and bounce too. I think this will be a good investment, especially when Blake is old enough to bounce too!

Bekah is a Great Big Sister!

This is for all those people who have asked how Bekah is doing as a big sister. She's doing great! Although she's really not the most gentle person I've ever met, she does a pretty good job overall. She has a baby that she likes to pamper just like I do with Blake - she'll feed it, give it a pacifier, put a diaper on it, burp it, put it "night night" and sometimes she may even try to nurse it. She's a funny, funny kid!

Blake tolerates her very well too! He has never really gotten upset with her or her games ("Where did baby go?", "Night Night Baby" or "Let's Pretend I'm an Only Child" - ok, I made that last one up). So far, he's been an excellent baby and is growing like a weed! Now if we could only get him sleeping through the night...

Visit from Ian!

Last Sunday afternoon (4/5/09), we had a cookout to celebrate a special visit from Mandy and Ian! Ian and Bekah had a great time hamming it up for the family and playing together. Despite the rain messing up our "cookout" plans, we had a great visit and look forward to doing it again.

Easter!

We had a great Easter at the Legan house. On Saturday afternoon (4/11/09), Bekah participated in her first Easter egg hunt at church and she did great. There was a great turn-out of kids and Bekah quickly learned what was going on and ran around scooping up all the eggs she could find. Eventually, she couldn't carry her basket anymore and had to get Grandma to carry it for her! Her basket got so full that she eventually started putting Easter eggs up her arm sleeves! That's my resourceful girl!














After church on Sunday, the Kentucky fam came up for a nice, easy afternoon visit. Aunt Sandy brought up some of Caitlin's toys for Bekah to play with and her hands-down favorite was the Barbie play kitchen. She played for hours and hours with it as I'm sure that's what she's doing today too! She got some great Easter baskets from Aunt Sandy, MiMi, Aunt Ruth and, of course, the Easter Bunny. Blake didn't really seemed to care much about Easter - his day was complete as long as it included napping, eating and pooping :-)