Thank goodness for Daddies!

Teagan sure loves hanging out with her Daddy. Every day when she wakes up from her nap, she walks out to the living room looking for him saying "Daddy?" as she looks around. On Father's day she woke up and then leaned over and gave her daddy, and only her daddy, a big kiss! She is also a little preoccupied with bugs and I am teaching her that Dad is the one who takes care of that. Tonight when she thought she saw a bug in the kitchen, she went over to Paul in the living room saying "bug" and pulled on him to get him to follow her to take care of the bug.

Multi-tasking

Teagan loves to help sweep. If you even mention that the floor needs to be swept, she will go over to the broom and point to it saying "sssss" until you come and get the broom. When I couldn't find a toy broom for her, I just decided to get her one of those small hand held broom and dustpan sets. She loves it!

Cuteness!

Dallas Zoo

We celebrated my birthday on Monday by taking Teagan to the Dallas Zoo. At first, she seemed relatively un-impressed. She looked at the animals, but didn't really seem very excited about it. She was so serious and quiet! The things that did make her smile though, were Daddy holding her and bouncing her around and then lunch time! After about 2 hours at the zoo, we decided to head home. On our way out we walked by the penguins for the 2nd time, but this time they were all swimming in the water. That was very interesting to Teagan. She loved standing right up against the glass as the penguins swam by. We got her a stuffed penguin toy that she loved playing with on the way home.

Old toy, new fun

Teagan has rediscovered her blue rocking chair that we used to always put her in when she was younger. I moved it into the kitchen and she likes to sit in it to play, eat a snack, or send a quick email from her Blackberry. It has a good seat belt so when she is buckled in I try and take full advantage and do a quick chore like load or unload the dishwasher. Always much easier without little hands "helping."

Fishing

Teagan is so curious and into everything. It is so funny to watch her just toddle around the house and find things to play with. She loves to "help" open up any box and walks around with bags finding stuff to put inside. She can open the trash can and likes to find paper or wrappers to go throw away. Unfortunately she also loves to put things in the toilet. We fish objects out of the potty on a daily basis! Amazingly this all happens when she is fully supervised. I'm sure she could do some real damage if she managed to sneak away for a few minutes! I usually give her little things to play with while she is sitting on the potty, and she often drops them into the toilet between her legs or will throw something in while I am getting her clothes back on. You would think that would stop me from continuing to give her small things to play with. Some things we have recently fished out of the toilet include: chapstick, bottle of tylenol, nail clippers, measuring cup, hair clip, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. And yes, everything that come out of the potty goes directly into the trash can!