Our Babies

Megan, our precious little baby, has reached the tender age of six months. Her personality is definitely starting to show.

Megan smiles easily and is generally a very happy baby. She has a hearty laugh already. She gets frustrated by her toys and will holler loudly to let you know. She rolls all over the place, often from one end of the room to the other. She loves her big sister and her eyes light up when she sees Hannah. Most people say that she looks like her daddy. She loves to put everything in her mouth, especially her feet and toys. We love her dearly and can’t even remember life before Megan was born.

Hannah, our bigger baby, is now officially three and a half years old. She has adjusted to having a little sister and life in Egypt beautifully. She absolutely adores Megan and is very protective of her sister. Hannah is a fun and funny little girl.

She loves to read, play outside, play inside, and is wild about animals. In fact, whenever we eat dinner and meat is served, Hannah will ask in a very serious tone “is that animal meat dead?” I’m sure it won’t be long before she announces that she will be a vegetarian. Her questions about life are becoming more complicated and I’m finding myself having to tell her that I don’t know the answer and that we would have to look it up on the internet. She says her favorite food is chocolate, and her favorite meals go something like this: toast with Nutella for breakfast (she’s serious about chocolate); a sandwich “separated” (which means a platter of plain bread, cheese, and lunch meat) and lots of veggies (girl after her mommy’s heart!) for lunch; and chicken potpie for dinner (she’s indeed daddy’s girl).

Her current passion has shifted from Dora and the Disney princesses (thank goodness, even though she still likes them) to the Little Einsteins (not the baby Einstein series; the Little Einsteins go on adventures all around the world) and Winnie the Pooh. She first found out about Egypt through the Little Einsteins, before we even knew that we would be moving here.

Hannah is also crazy about animals of every kind, with her favorite animals being deers (in fact she calls her sister Bambi and herself Faline), snakes, and crocodiles. I often find her telling stories about animals when she is playing by herself. She has annouced that "when I get bigger, I want to have a dog, a cat, a deer, and some snakes as pets." And if you ask her what does she want to see in Egypt, she will eagerly tell you “a Nile crocodile and a rattlesnake!"

It is fascinating to watch our children grow from babies into little persons, even if this means waking up at the crack of dawn and dealing with them when they are tired, whiny, and crabby. Life just wouldn’t be the same without them.