2010
Megan Sheng-Nian Wang | 2009

38th-41st Month

Nov/15/2010 04:44 AM
August - October 2010: As summer wound down we visited local state parks and national wildlife refuges, we've also started taking advantage of free thursday evenings at the Children's Museum of Houston. Megan also has a Tricycle now, that has a handle so we can push and steer her as necessary.





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Halloween 2010

Nov/01/2010 09:53 AM
Halloween 2010: This year Megan was a spider, and she was quite pleased with herself, explaining to everyone that she's a spider and that if she catches an heebie jeebie she'll eat them.

This was the first year that she expressed curiosity as to what candy was. Mommy explained
"Candy isn't good for you."
And then we proposed the following,
"When you get home you can trade the bad stuff to Daddy for Pretzels".
She then wanted to go home right away to get pretzels. When told
"the more candy you bring back, the more pretzels daddy will trade you."
she responded "Let's go to more houses!"



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35th-37th Month

Oct/31/2010 02:44 PM
May - July 2010: The beginning of the summer was spent with weekly trips to the Armand Bayou Nature center, as well as walking around the neighborhood.






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Baltimore-Virginia Beach 2010

Oct/01/2010 06:43 AM
June 2010, Baltimore, MD and Virginia Beach, VA - Cousins Jessica and Joshua in Virginia Beach were graduating from High School and Elementary School and Megan hadn't seen her Great Grandparents in a while so we dovetailed the trips together. Megan's Great Grandfather (Ah Zhou) would pass away less than a month after we visited, so we were really glad we were able to make this trip.

In Baltimore we visited with Jeff, Zoe and Irene and took a trip to Fort Mc Henry which is much smaller than the last fort we visited (Ft Jefferson) We also went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Annex at Dulles Airport with Megan's Ah Gong, and stopped at Great Falls Park on the way back.

In Virginia we visited First Landing's State Park, and the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge when not attending the graduation ceremonies.

Megan had a great time visiting everyone!


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Buffalo, NY 2010

Sep/25/2010 05:54 PM
March, April 2010: Buffalo NY - Daddy had a business trip to Buffalo, NY to help support a Wind Tunnel Test. Megan and Mommy spent the time exploring Buffalo's Wildlife Preserves, Nature Centers, Zoo and Science Museums. We also visited Niagara Falls, and Canada many times, seeing the full length of the Niagara River from both banks stopping frequently at the State Parks.



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Send Megan a Birthday Wish

May/23/2010 04:20 PM
On Sunday, May 23rd, Megan just turned 3! We've setup a webpage where you can send her your birthday wishes.
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33rd and 34th Month

May/21/2010 08:58 AM
March, April 2010: These two months were filled with outdoor weekend activities, whether it was Strawberry Saturday, or The first day of Spring, or Trash Bash. We visited parks, wildlife refuges and nature centers.

She's taken an interest in cockroaches, and calls the ibby-jibbies, because they give mom the heebie-jeebies.






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31st and 32nd Month

May/17/2010 09:23 AM
January - February 2010: We bought a yearly membership to the Armand Bayou Nature Center, and we've been taking Megan there about once a week. They have trails and activites and animals on display. We also started our garden, and Megan's been very helpful planting seeds.

Megan’s been starting to speak short sentences: Mommy heat it up; Daddy pick up Mommy; etc...

In addition to lizard and frogs and toads being kept as pets, Megan is starting to collect insects, pill bugs, june beetles, crane flies, centipedes and millipedes.






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Christmas 2009

Feb/14/2010 02:04 AM
Christmas 2009:

December 2009, Christmas. Megan helps decorate the Christmas tree, and opens her presents and stocking stuffers.

We made Salt Dough Space Shuttle Ornaments and hand painted them as token gifts.

By the way, Happy Valentine’s Day!


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Gulf Coast Tour 2009 - Mid Texas Addendum

Feb/01/2010 02:52 AM
December 2009, after taken a 3.5 week break from our Gulf Coast Tour, we took a 3 day road trip to Corpus Christi, TX.

On the way down we stopped in San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge and did some birdwatching.

We started our first full day by visiting Mustang Island State Park, followed by a visit to the Texas State Aquarium. Megan really enjoyed watching the dolphin show, and seeing the otters and fish swimming.

The Second day we visited the Port Aransas Birding Center where there were a lot of ducks and birds, we also went to the Padre Island National Seashore, where Megan enjoyed playing on the beach and collecting Seashells.

On our way back home we stopped at Goose Island State Park, and the Aransas National wildlife refuge. We got to see Whooping Cranes just outside the Goose Island State Park.

Here are the pictures of Megan from the Gulf Coast Tour (November 12 to November 30)

Other pictures from the Gulf Coast Tour (Shuttle Launch, Scenic, Animals, and Panoramas)

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Gulf Coast Tour 2009

Jan/26/2010 07:46 AM
November 2009, We took a 19 day road trip to Florida, we watched a Space Shuttle Launch (STS-129) and we watched it land, we visited relative, Uncle Jerry, Aunt Kelly, Cousin Gabby & Jacquline, Uncle Jimmy, and Great Uncle Vinny, Great Aunt Janelle, Second Cousin Lisa. We had Thanksgiving dinner at Aunt Kelly's Dad's place, and we also visited 3 National Parks (Everglades, Biscayne, Dry Tortugas), 1 National Preserve (Big Cypress), and 1 National Memorial (DeSoto), 2 National Seashores (Gulf Islands, Canaveral), 1 National Wildlife Refuge (Merritt Island), 1 State Park (Bahia Honda, Florida) and 3 Nature Centers (Sand and Sea, Crane Point, and Six Mile Cypress Slough).

We stayed at a Disney Resort in Orlando, and had dinner with Pluto and Goofy, we canoed, we rode bikes, we went on a ferry, and collected seashells, played in the pool and in the sand, we watched birds, and basically had a lot of fun.
Here are the pictures of Megan from the Gulf Coast Tour (November 12 to November 30)

Other pictures from the Gulf Coast Tour (Shuttle Launch, Scenic, Animals, and Panoramas)

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2009 Archive Entries

Jan/01/2010 12:00 AM
Photo Galleries from 2009
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