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!

Summer fun

It's warm enough for the kids to play in their kiddy pool, so I guess summer is officially here! Teagan had her first experience "swimming" when we went over to play with her cousins this afternoon. She was sort of interested in being in the little pool until her big cousin Connor came down the slide pretty fast. After that, she was more interested in playing with balls outside of the pool.

Problem solved!

So I know this has happened to all women. You go into a public restroom stall and there is no hook for your purse. What do you do? Well, Teagan has the perfect solution!

Walking!

Teagan has been taking steps independently for a few weeks now, but we never seem to get it on camera. Today I was finally able to record her cute little toddle. She walks more and more each day and really seems to have a lot of confidence in herself. If she is standing and she wants to go somewhere, she will usually take off walking first before crawling. She also still loves walking with her push toys.

The package says non-toxic...

Teagan loves to imitate writing whenever she finds a pen. She crawls around with the pen searching for some paper to "write" on. Since she likes to do that so much, I got her a Magna Doodle. That has become her favorite car toy right now. When we were at Target today, I decided to go ahead and get her some crayons. As I was getting lunch ready today, I put her in her chair with some paper and the crayons. She did great at first and seemed to get the hang of scribbling pretty fast. After a few minutes though, she decided to go ahead and taste the blue crayon. Soon she had blue crayon on her tongue and her teeth. She was pretty cooperative with letting me use a wash cloth to clean off her teeth and tongue.

Last night at dinner Paul and I were very impressed when Teagan decided to use her fork to eat her meatloaf and peas. She did an amazingly good job of stabbing the meatloaf and used her fingers to put the peas on her fork before putting it in her mouth. Today at lunch she also decided to use her fork to eat peaches. Is she the smartest baby or what?

And for the walking progress update... She is really taking off! She will pretty readily attempt to walk short distances and has surprised us with some of the longer distances that she has walked independently. She loves to walk around the house while I hold her hands. Anytime I say "You want to walk to the potty, your room, etc..", she always answers "ya!"

Cuddly fabric

Well, I still love to sew for Teagan every chance I get, and Teagan has really taken an interest in the fabric. She loves to help open the box whenever new fabric arrives in the mail. As soon as she can get her hands on it, she scoops it up and cuddles it like a blankie, or tries to lay down on it on the floor. She really liked this pink chickadee bamboo fabric that I used to make her latest, cutest diaper!