A walk in the park

We took Teagan to the park today to enjoy the nice weather and give the swings a try.  She loved the swings, the slides, and the other toys.  We look forward to many more visits to the park in the coming weeks, months, and years!

She didn't want to get off the little car!

Sliding down the big girl slide

Swinging

So much fun!

Time to go home

Finally an update!

I have been quite the slacking blogger recently.  Well, in fairness to me, I have been quite busy with taking care of Teagan and with work, so obviously blogging takes a back seat.  Matt was out of town earlier this week, so T and I were on our own for a few days.  

A recap of what T has been up to in the last few weeks:

• Crawling around like a madwoman
  
• Pulling to standing 
  
• Waving bye bye 
  
• Waving to the kitties "just because"
• Expanding her baby babbles to all sorts of noises including some nana and yaya sounds
  
• Bumping and bruising herself with falling - I had to fill out two "incident reports" at daycare this week because of her stunt tricks
• She is getting at least 2 top teeth coming in (looks like the first top front on one side and the second one over on the other side - that or she has a mad gap between her two front teeth!)
  
• Eating all kinds of big girl foods  - she had a bean and cheese burrito at daycare one day (just beans & cheese in a tortilla), parsnips and asparagus among other veggies in a soup made by Grammy Sue, scrambled eggs, fish, and the list goes on.  And the girl hasn't met a food she doesn't like 
• Just generally being a really awesome, happy, playful kid who is so special to her mama and dada

Teagan turns 10 months old tomorrow - hard to believe!  Here are some pictures from the last few weeks.  No pictures of the top teeth yet but as soon I can I will try to capture some!

Crawling Video

As promised, video of T crawling.  In our house, Cheerios work as great incentive!  This was taken after work today - it was Jammie day at daycare so Teagan was in her blue PJs.

She crawls...finally!

There will certainly be video to follow, however for now here is a cell phone picture of Teagan in action with her new trick - crawling.  She has been putting together all 100 pieces of the puzzle over the last month or more. We kept saying "any day now"...but today is finally the day!  Teagan was tuckered out so she is taking a nap, but the video camera will start filming as soon as she wakes up!!!  She was in such a good mood this afternoon, probably as proud of herself for learning to crawl as her Mama is!

Handle With Care

Grammy Sue brought Teagan a cute souvenir from Disney World, where she went for a work conference this week.  She was stylin' in her 100% organic "Handle With Care" Minnie Mouse t-shirt.  It is very soft and very cute!  She enjoyed playing with her toys and eating a quick lunch.  The rest of T's weekend will be devoted to celebrating her Mama's birthday!  Also this weekend is Teagan's phantom "9 Month Birthday", which is the 29th of the month (which of course doesn't happen this month).  Happy 9 months Little T.  She is very close to crawling, as captured in photo below.  

A sophisticated Teagan, reading a book

Trying to crawl towards...

...a plate of sweet potato fries.  I think we had better move this messy meal to the highchair.

Grandma's hand-me-down high chair has a make shift strap - a pretty scarf!

Forgot a normal bib - a dishtowel will have to do!

YUM!

A cute picture of T and I from Michigan

Baby Blue

Teagan and I went for a walk today.  The weather warmed into the upper 40s and it felt like a heat wave! We took a few laps of the circle then headed in so T could take a nap.  Teagan enjoyed taking in the sights and sounds of the neighborhood.  Her gorgeous baby blues peeked out from her hood to take it all in.  The slightly warmer temperatures made me long for spring, when T and I can get out and about every afternoon!!!

6th State - Michigan

Teagan took a trip to Michigan to visit her Great Grandparents for the weekend.  Michigan is the 6th state she has visited, and in the process she drove through her second country (Canada).

Teagan got to spend lots of time with Great Grandma, and also got to visit Great Grandpa.  She also spent time with Uncle Dave and cousin Emma, Uncle Paul, Aunt Nancy and Uncle Jim (all Great Aunts and Uncles) and also met my second cousin Kathy and Great Aunt Ellen (don't know what the technical name for her relation to them is!!).  Additionally, Teagan's Grammy Sue came with us, so she spent lots of quality time with her too.  Finally, as icing on the cake, we stopped at UB on the way home and had a 2 minute visit with Aunt Melissa.

It was so nice for so many relatives to meet Teagan, we thoroughly enjoyed our time in Michigan.  Teagan enjoyed playing and was a very good girl.  She had a special first Valentine's Day and was showered with gifts from Grammy, Great Grandma, Uncle Dave & Emma, and Aunt Nancy & Uncle Jim.  

We were unable to get out traditional "Teagan in front of the state sign" because the US/Michigan border is in the middle of a bridge, but we were able to capture a few photo mementos of our travels.

I have a lot more pictures to post but blogger is being a pain and taking forever to load them...so more to come