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Teagan participated in a massive G/B family photo op at Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving celebration started with a family lunch at Teagan's daycare classroom. Matt and I got to sit on teeny tiny chairs and eat with the kids. Teagan loved having us there, and loved showing off for us afterwards - diving on the mats, bringing us toys, chasing with her friends. We were both sad to leave her and go back to work for the afternoon.

For Thanksgiving day we celebrated at Aunt Pam's house in Buffalo. There were lots of good times, and Teagan enjoyed her first real Thanksgiving dinner (last year doesn't count, she was barely eating solids!!!)

Matt's Birthday & Grammy's Birthday

We celebrated Matt's birthday dinner (11/3) at Red Robin with Jenna and my Mom. Teagan was well behaved and enjoyed following the big red robin man around the restaurant and getting a balloon.

The following weekend (11/8) was my Mom's 60th birthday, which we celebrated by throwing her a surprise party! She was *shocked* to say the least, and had a great afternoon with her friends and family. Happy 60th Mom!

How is it possible that my last post was Halloween???

I have been swept up in the wave of life! Life with a busy toddler, life as a working Mom, a wife, a homeowner, a pet owner. Somehow I have neglected this poor, poor blog for over 2 months! I can guarantee one thing - it is NOT because I have a lack of pictures to post! I constantly have a camera in hand and am snapping pictures all the time. I guess it's the uploading, editing, posting, blogging thing that I fail miserably at!

Teagan has been growing and changing these past few months. Shortly after she turned 18 months (11/29) her vocab list grew to over a 100 words. I have lost count at this point. She is a climbing monkey, up and over the couch arm, climbing into her highchair by herself, up the stairs, down the stairs, round and round the house she will chase. Recently, her favorite activity is going outside to play in the snow, or "ousside" as she demands just about every night. Matt even made a sledding hill down the steps of the deck, and created a little sled path with the saucer sled. Teagan loves to go down, over and over.

Teagan was a blast at Christmas time, ripping open packages and playing with each and every toy. She has so many new toys and books to play with and explore. She travelled to CT over New Year's weekend, to visit Uncle Chris & Aunt Naomi, as well as Grandma & Grandpa George, Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Krenz, and the whole extended Bassett family. During the trip, she went to her 8th state - Massachusetts.

I am going to post some pictures and try to play "catch up" with my entries. Each entry may be brief but I want to have a record and share the event of Teagan's life with everyone who reads this.

Halloween 2009!

Teagan had an *awesome* halloween. Thanks to an interrupted mid-day nap, she ended up taking a second nap from 4:15-5:15 which made for a happy camper come ToT time. Miss Bumblebee got all dressed and ready to go out. It was windy and chilly and for a moment even a little rainy but Teagan had a blast. She loved holding out her basket for candy and being carried, walking, or wagoning around the neighborhood. We went to way more houses than we originally intended, but she was having so much fun. Her favorite stop was at Grammy Sue's house where she got Hershey's chocolate bars and hugs & kisses. Teagan ended up doing her ToTing with her buddy Joshua (a.k.a Batman). Luckily Mama ran home to grab mittens - T's hot pink mittens coordinated well with the bee costume, although the fact that they were thumb-less hindered the candy grabbing!

When we got home Teagan buzzed around the house in her bee costume, clearly hyped up from the evening's activity (it wasn't from sugar because she didn't have any candy!) She chased around and had a blast and helped answer the door a few times for ToTers before heading to bed. Fingers crossed she "sleeps in" as much as possible considering the time change does NOT work in our favor.

Halloween party and costume parade

Teagan had a halloween party and costume parade at daycare on Friday so I snuck out of work to attend. The kids had special snacks (Teagan had a pumpkin shaped sugar cookie I sent in for her). The kids put on their costumes and did a parade around the center. She had lots of fun having Mama at daycare with her for an hour.