I’d recommend the Nikon D40.
http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-Digital-18-55m…r/dp/B000KJQ1DG
It takes amazing pictures inside and outside. It has amazing reviews. The price is great! A guy from work let me borrow it for a little while, plan on getting one myself when I can gather the money. The flash it comes with works great (also there is an attachment if you like doing portraits and stuff that you can buy) Also, I wouldn’t focus so much on the MP, as I highly doubt you are going to be utilizing any resolution that would need 12 MP from the other camera.
And personally when it comes to DSLR I prefer Nikon. If it was point to shoot – Canon.