Grandma Berthold bought Megan some new shoes that just happened to have squeakers in them. When Megan put them on, Baron went crazy. The squeaker sounds exactly the same as the squeaker in his toys. He couldn't figure out where the noise was coming from and as you will see Megan loved teasing him.
Megan LOVES running circles around our kitchen island. She is always going in a circle so of course she had to take her squeaky shoes for a lap around the island.
The week of Megan's birthday her cousins were visiting so she spent lots of time at the lake. She said earlier in the summer that she wanted to learn how to fish and a few days before her birthday she caught her first fish!!! She was very excited. When I asked her how she did caught the fish she told me in great detail "I hold it, I wind it, and then I catch my first fish!" Add an adorable little shoulder shrug and that is what she told me :)
When I asked Megan what she wanted for her birthday she said "Fancy balloons." So Mark and I got her fancy balloons! 
Funny story with this picture. To hard to explain, but it was funny.
Kelsey, Megan, Morgan and Caila getting ready to eat birthday cupcakes! 
Megan liked her cupcake just a little.
What is a birthday without gifts? Here is Megan holding up her mama and baby moo-moo cows. She loves cows, so for awhile these guys went everywhere with us.
After spending the morning at the lake, we were off to Grandma and Grandpa Berthold's house for dinner and more gifts. Megan was very excited to open up a bigger hockey jersey and matching hockey socks! Yep she is going to be pretty cute at the hockey arena this year! (side note: Every day since the college students have gone back she has asked, "Is it hockey season yet?")
Fancy balloons weren't enough for a birthday, so Mark and I also got her, her first Playdoh fun factory thing. This set makes movie theater food and she loved it!
And since Megan is slightly obsessed with Tim Horton's Tim-Bits (doughnut holes) I just had to make her "cake" out of Tim-Bits! She knew right away that they were Tim-Bits and went straight for the chocolate ones. She even tried to steal my chocolate Tim-Bit away from me after she pretended to cuddle with me! It was cute, but birthday or not, she was not getting my Tim-Bit.
Yesterday we celebrated Megan's 3rd birthday. I can't believe she is 3 years old already, I know I say this every year, but this past year went way too fast! Here are some of the fun things that Megan learned/experienced in the past year:So as you can see she has learned lots of useful things this year. Can't wait to see what new skills she will discover next.
Her 2nd birthday
It looks like she has grown a little bit in the last year.
Aww, my sweet little tiny baby. Megan has been pretending to be a baby lately and she wants Mark and I to wrap her up like a baby, only problem is her baby blankets are all too small :(
Such a happy 3 year old. Love love love her to pieces! Mark and I love being her daddy and mommy and everyday we say "She's cute!" Happy Birthday sweetheart!
While at a family reunion, Megan got to take a tour of the Marvin family Dairy Farm. She was super excited to go see moo-moo cows up close. This was the first calf Megan met at the farm. As you can see, Megan was a little unsure, I think she always forgets how big cows are in real life. (This little calf was very cute, he had freckles all over his nose and butt)
Megan saying "hi" to all of the cows. I believe all of the cows in this barn either just had babies or were about to have babies.
Maria was showing Megan that calves will suck on your finger because they think it is a bottle. Megan did not want to try, but I think a couple of calves licked her when she got a little too close.
Megan wanted to show her moo-moo cow to the real cows. Maria was very excited to learn that Megan brought her own cow with her to the family reunion. (Side note: At the fair Megan had to find Maria to show her the 2 new stuffed cows she got)
"One of these things is not like the other" Megan found a spot in the middle of the calves where they could not reach her.
Megan and Grandma Schutte taking formula to the calves. The calves drink their moms milk for the first couple days but then they drink formula...who knew!?!
After drinking the buckets of formula dry, the calves will lick the formula off of their neighbors mouths. It was funny to see. These cows REALLY like their formula!
And then at the end, Megan was trying to feed the biggers cows hay. Too bad she kept finding the shortest pieces of hay and the cows just couldn't grab them. But she tried and had lots of fun. I think if Megan ever needs a summer job, she could work at the Marvin Dairy Farm, and she would love it!
This 4th of July was the first time we took Megan to see the fireworks. We knew it was going to be late and we wanted to make the whole event special so we stopped and got Wesco popcorn (Megan's favorite) and slushies (Megan has never had them before) Just look at those smiles, Megan and Daddy were all set for the show.
Just laying back relaxing before it got dark. (for the record, Megan only had about 5 sips of slushie, we shared one)
We had lots of time to wait and since Megan isn't awake when the fireflies are out, Mark was showing her the fireflies. At first they scared her, but then she really liked them.
It got cold really quick! So Mark and Megan had to bundle up to stay warm. Still waiting for the fireworks...
...fading fast. We brought along "GloDude" Megan's fancy flashlight so she was having fun watching him change colors, but that only lasted so long. After waiting for it to get dark, we had to wait for some motorcycle races to stop (surrounded by lots of unhappy families at this point)
YAY, they started!!! I'll save you from looking at tons of firework photos, but I liked this one because you can see all of the smoke coming from the fireworks. It was a good show and Megan did have fun once they started. She slept very well once we got home :)
Mark is playing in 2 different golf leagues this year, so Megan has heard me say, "Dad's at golf right now," a lot. She has been asking for a long time to go golfing with Daddy, so over the holiday weekend they finally went golfing together. Megan was super excited to go. I picked out her outfit, a cute pink polo and a white skort. She fit the Country Club's dress code, now all she needed was her clubs. After running to go get her clubs, Mark and Megan were off to the Club. (we are currently looking for real clubs)
I think Megan needed to take her sunglasses off so she could watch how far her ball went! The driving range is always a great place to start when learning how to golf. (hint hint Mark, if you want me to golf you will have to just let me go to the driving range a few times)
All I can think about when I see this pictures is that in a few years she will be driving the cart :(
I think both of them had a good time. Rumor has it, that Megan is a pretty good putter, so it will be fun to see what Megan thinks of golf in a few years.
The summer started out very, very wet and windy! Big storms at night (scary) storm clean up during the day (we had a tree fall over our driveway that cause no damage to anything) Then the weather turned cool, down to mid 40's at night! But then it got hot...really hot and humid! We had sprinklers going to keep our new grass alive and we had to get out Megan's sad small kiddie pool.
