It's the simple things

Recently Teagan has been having great fun playing with a laundry basket and socks! Even if she is being a little bit fussy and not wanting to be put down, if I set her in front of a laundry basket with clothes, she is just fine with that! I have found that if I don't want her unfolding a whole laundry basket of clothes, she is just as happy to play with socks. I guess it's the simple things!

Peaches!

I gave Teagan peaches today for the first time and she loved them! I typically prefer to buy produce that is organic or local, but when I saw some good looking peaches at Whole Foods today, I decided I couldn't wait until next summer's Texas peach crop. They were conventional and from Chile, but I'll try not to think about the pesticides and the long distance they traveled to get here. I was worried that she might have trouble picking up the slippery pieces of peach, but she had no problems. She also thought it was fun when I used a metal spoon to scrape some off her bib and then fed her from the spoon. Hopefully I didn't confuse her though. She eats a lot of pears, and I kept saying, "yummy, pears!" As much as Teagan loves feeding herself, she also loves drinking from a sippy cup. I usually give her a little bit of water after her meals and have been working on teaching her the sign for "cup." She gets so excited when she sees me get her cup out.

Can't sleep

Teagan can be quite the challenging baby when it comes to bedtime. She usually goes down quite easily but then wakes up about every 30-45 minutes over the next few hours until I go to bed around 10pm. I decided to try something different tonight and get her to bed about 30 minutes earlier than usual. She went to sleep relatively easily, but then woke up pretty quick and was wide awake. She must have known the Stars were playing the Sharks tonight. So now she's watching hockey with Daddy and we'll try to get her back to sleep in a little while. She's such a fan! Maybe Daddy should have just told her he would Tivo it for her. Oh well, we'll try that next time.

Thanksgiving

It was quite the busy first Thanksgiving for Teagan. We drove down to Duncanville and stopped by Dad's house to visit before going over to Paul's parent's house for lunch. After our Thanksgiving lunch, Teagan napped and we headed up to Beth's house in Allen around 5pm. Dad and Marsha brought pie and we all admired Teagan's newborn cousin, Gabrielle. Teagan feasted on peas for lunch and bananas for dinner. She didn't seem too concerned that no one shared any pie with her. As we drove home from Beth's, Teagan let us know that she was not happy about riding in the car so much today and cried all the way home. She's finally sleeping now and it's time to start thinking about the next holiday. Hopefully she will stay asleep long enough for me to work on picking out Christmas photo cards. Sleep baby, sleep!

All snuggled up

I think one of the best parts of the day is waking up and snuggling in bed with Teagan in the morning. You can always tell when she is ready to be up for the day because she wakes up smiling. She will just lay in bed babbling and looking back and forth between me and Paul. She likes to make her daddy late for work by being too cute for him to possibly get out of bed and go get ready.

Adorable

Cutest Cutie Pie I've ever seen!

Sharing!

Teagan is doing a great job sharing her toys! The cat wanted to play in the playhouse, so Teagan just kept herself busy with some other toys. How nice.

I do it myself!

Since Teagan hasn't been too excited about me spoon-feeding her "mush," I decided to go ahead and just give her pieces that she can pick up and feed herself. She loves it! So far I have given her avocado, pears, banana, and baked apple, all cut up in strips or small pieces. She hasn't quite mastered picking up the slippery food, but she likes for us to put a strip in her hand and then she puts it in her own mouth. When the pieces get too small or slimy, I pick them up and then she pulls my hand to her mouth to feed her. She ate more today than I have ever seen her eat, and was so excited about it. On the menu for tomorrow: baked sweet potato fries.

Some days

Seems like some days Teagan barely lets me put her down long enough for me to take a shower, and then other days she is quite content to play on the floor while I mess around with my new sewing hobby. Like in this picture. Teagan was having a great time playing with a T-shirt that I cut up to make a prefold cloth diaper out of. I was quite pleased with the results of my work, but considering prefold diapers cost like $2, it probably makes more sense to focus my sewing efforts on something else.

Little Pumpkin

We went up to Beth's house on Halloween to see Connor & Audrey in their costumes and go Trick or Treating with them. Connor dressed up as his favorite hockey player, Mike Modano, and Audrey was a very cute Tinkerbell. I was a Dallas Stars fan and Teagan was a little pumpkin. Unfortunately, Teagan hadn't napped well all day so she was not in the happiest of moods. She was quite fussy and didn't really perk up much when we went outside to go Trick or Treating. After about a half hour we decided to head home. Riding in the car seat did not make things any better and Teagan cried all the way home. Oh well, better luck next year!