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We are very proud to announce that Megan Elise Petersen was born June 11, 2008! We are also very proud of our son, Evan Eric Petersen, who arrived May 3, 2005. We set up this Web site before Evan was born so that we can share information, stories, and photos with our friends and family!
Shawn and Kelly also have a website about their first daugher, Lily -- http://alilybug.blogspot.com
and a new one for baby Rory --
http://StoryofRory.blogspot.com/
Stories
EVAN: IN CONCERT
Act I - Evan Sings the Blues.
A month or two ago, I made Evan a Diddly Bow. It's a kind of one-string guitar made from a cigar box and a sawed-off broom handle. Today, Evan decided to put on an impromptu concert with songs improvised on the spot. We didn't get the first, and best, song on film, but here are...
Megan is talking more and now has 7
teeth.She clearly says yep and shakes
her head no.She is very cuddly when she
is awake, but unlike Evan doesn't really want to cuddle in bed.Aside from teething, she sleeps pretty
well.Bedtime is still easy, but she
does wake up at least once at night.Her
hair is getting really long and hangs in...
August 26—Megan is still amazingly easy to put to bed at night, most of the time. She knows the routine and usually plays along. One of her favorite parts is brushing her teeth. She loves to do it herself and I usually sing to her about it, which she loves. Getting her to let go of the toothbrush was a challenge, u...
July 3-- Evanism of the day-- When I told him that today was a holiday from Preschool, he really thought about it. This morning on my way out the door I told him to have a fun holiday with Daddy and he told me that we had to celebrate. I asked him how he would celebrate Independance Day and he said, "With stickers, of course." Of ...
June 11- Megan is one today!
She is so amazing.
In the past few weeks she has really gotten the hang of walking and has progressed to running.
She does fall down a lot more than before, but can really move.
She is very good at expressing when she doesn't want something.
She shakes her head no in response to a direct ...
May 29-Megan finally has teeth.
I think the first one popped through last Friday and she got a second on last night.
She is walking very well and is very frustrated when we try to contain her.
She is communicating pretty well, including shaking her head no when she does not want something we are offering her.
She is eating bett...
Guestbook Hi Melissa,
Its been a long time but I was looking for some thing else on the web and your site came up. I think because in the seach I used my name... any way... Congratulations on your lovely family. Our girls are a little younger than Megan by a few months. Zoe and Chiara were born on the 5th of September 2008 and their old brother Thomas jus...
-Gabriella Methven McKeever
Mikey, Mia & I can't wait to meet Megan on Saturday! It'll be interesting to see our two superheroes interact. ha ha...
See you on Saturday!
:)
-Nicki Henry
congrats on baby megan!!!
-kristen
Yeah..i guess she's pretty cute... We are so happy for you both, she is beautiful. Can't wait to meet her.
-Scott & Susannah
Congratulations!
She is beautiful!! What a beautiful family!
We can't wait to meet our new cousin Megan!
-Carolyn, Colin, and Elspeth
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Evan and Megan went for the traditional visit to see Santa Claus this week, and as you can see, the experience had mixed results.
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Kudos to Santa--we've seen the same one for several years running now--for doing a great job even despite...a difficult co-star. |
Here's Evan in his Melificent Dragon costume--it's the black dragon that the villainess from Disney's Sleeping Beauty turns into at the end of the movie. |
And here's Megan in her fairy princess custome before trick-or-treating. Every previous time she wore it, she cried and cried, so we were very happy and surprised that she was happy to wear it on Halloween. |
Here's everyone in their costumes right before heading out to trick-or-treat. Melissa may or may not kill me for puttinig up a picture with her in it. If you don't see any updates to this site after tomorrow, you'll know she did me in. |
Evan after a visit to the dentist. I can't say I'm really pleased with the tooth reshaping job the dentist did; I wish he'd asked me first... |
Evan actually had two costumes, and he wore this Batman costume to the school Halloween party the day before trick-or-trating. |
Another shot of Evan enjoying the batman costume. |
Evan made this frame at preschool, and we thought, why frame a picture of the kid, when we can just go ahead and frame the kid. |
We also tried to frame Megan, but the problem was... |
...she's just so cute that we couldn't settle on just one picture! |
Mark you calendars! It's picture that actually has me in it! They actually let me in one of the shots! |
This is one of the professional Sears portraits from when Evan had turned 4 and Megan had turned 1. Aren't they cute! |
Family portrait. |
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She looks so grown up....and, strangely, like she's about to do the hula. |
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Evan has been impressing us lately with the wonderful artwork he's been bringing home from school and drawing on his Magnadoodle. This is a picture Evan drew of his whole family. Megan is on the left, holding Evan's hand; Melissa and I are on the right. (5/25) |
Here's another picture Evan drew of his family. Megan's the little tiny green person; Evan is the medium size person next to her, then Melissa is the smiling big person, and I am the frowning big person (though I don't know why he chose to make me frowning). Evan brought this home from school, and when he showed it to us, he became very upset when he realized he'd forget to give everyone arms! Note the red heart near the left; Evan says that's a valentine for Mommy! |
Here's an elaborate picture Evan drew of a "Brick Girl". He just kept adding more arms, and legs, and fingers, and antennae, and things called "puffers" that--according to Evan--make smoke. |
What can I say to this? She's adorable! This is Megan's 9-month portraits, wearing her christening dress, and she is the cutest thing I've ever seen! |
Here's the first of two poses taken for Evan's school portraits on March. |
And here's the second pose. Not to brag (that's a blatant lie) but apparently our boy's so good looking that the portrait studio wants to use his picture for their ads! Maybe we can parlay this into a real modeling career. (Oh, relax, I'm just kidding.) |
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