13 Months

We found out the day after Sierra's first birthday that my mom has breast cancer. 

She had a double mastectomy on August 23.  She is doing very well and we just found out she

will not need chemo.  We picked some flowers for mama from the garden and had to take a sniff before we delivered them to the hospital.

Waiting at the hospital

More waiting.....

Getting a snuggle the day that mom came home.  One of the hardest things for mom

has been not being able to hold her grandbaby!

We sure are enjoying berry season!  Sierra has fresh berries of some kind

with every single meal.  We'll be so sad when the season is over!

Hugs for mama

We finally got the house painted.  Well actually I didn't have the

chance to help at all.  So Jesse got the house painted.

Shucking corn with Grandpa

Sierra won't eat cooked corn on the cob but the girl LOVES it raw!



Summer is almost over.  I'm so sad because it is by far my favorite season.  It's amazing how fast the last three months have gone by!  I'm reminded every day that my little infant is gone and my big girl is now a toddler. 

Sierra started calling me "Ma" this month.  Not mom or mommy or even mama.  Just "Ma."  The three of us were in Rite Aid and Jess had taken her down a different aisle to look at toys while I was on my coupon/single check rebate/sale rampage (I get paid to shop at Rite Aid:).  Anyway, I heard what I thought was Sierra hollering "Ma!  Ma!"  And I come around the corner and Jess is holding her and she is calling out for me quite loudly.  So now I'm a Ma. 

Some other things she learned this month: she wiggles her finger for come here, she feeds herself with a spoon (it's still quite a messy experience but she is doing VERY well).  She can get up on the couch by herself, stomp her feet, and she learned to oink.  She is obsessed with deer at the moment and loves a book about Bambi that we have.  I put on the Disney Bambi movie recently and now if she sees a TV she asks to watch the deer.  We don't have satellite or cable so we don't watch much TV.  She does have some videos that she really enjoys.  But asking for TV at 13 months old?  Maybe I should've waited a while longer to bring the magic of Disney into her life:)   

She has so many animals that she can identify.  She knows zebra, monkey, snake (lizards are also snakes to her), frog, owl (she can hoot well too), elephant, deer, rabbits, bear, as well as all of the regular barn yard animals.  She can make the noises of pretty much all of them too.  It reminds me of my former pre-mom self.  I've been an animal lover most of my life.  For some reason, after I had Sierra, something changed in me and my animals are not my children anymore.  I have a real child, so most of the time, our cats/dog/birds kind of bug me now.  In fact our parakeet died recently.  The pre-mom Megan would have cried, called Jesse, and waited for him to come home and bury the bird.  Yes I was that extreme.  Instead I saw the dead bird, without much feeling I went and got a plastic sack, picked it up, and threw it away.  What has happened to me?  The same day my parakeet died I also ran over a squirrel.  I wasn't sad a bit.  My first thought was one less squirrel to dig up my flower bulbs.  I guess that's what becoming a mom does to you.  All your feelings get directed towards your child, and a dead bird just doesn't bother you anymore.  That's okay right?   I tell myself that it is.

Anyway, back to Sierra:)  She has also started to sing this month.  Her new favorite song is "This Little Light of Mine.  She waves her finger around, blows on her finger ("Don't let Satan blow it out"), and yells "No" at the top of her lungs ("Hide it under a bushel, No!").  I sing to her every night before bed and she now sings along, especially to "Oh How I Love Jesus".  Jesus is a new word for her this month.  We have a book about baby Jesus, and she points to the baby and says Jesus and then rocks her hands back and forth and wants me to sing Rock-a-bye Baby.  She sure loves music.  I'm sure it stems from the fact that I started singing to her when she was in the womb.  I know her Grandpa Lee will love having someone to sing duets with. 

There's always more to say and plenty more pictures to post, but her nap time is almost over so that's all for now!