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!

Fun Toy

Teagan has been having a great time playing with one of the baby toys her cousins are letting her borrow. It is an easel with magnets. She likes to pull the magnets off and drop them in the basket. I put the magnets back on, and she pulls them back off. Such a fun game for a baby! She also likes to take her other toys and put them in and out of the basket.

I have been giving Teagan bananas the last two days, and she seems to like them. So far, I would say it is the least messy food that we have given her.

Fall picture attempt!

We took Teagan to Huffhines Art Trails today. It is an art festival at a park in our neighborhood. I thought they would have some cute fall decorations where we could get some pictures of Teagan since we may not make it to the pumpkin patch this year. They had several really cute spots that would have made great pictures, but Teagan wasn't having it! She did not appreciate being plopped down on a hay bale and didn't seem that interested in the pumpkins. Even being held, she wouldn't really give us any smiles. When we first started trying to take some pictures, a little audience gathered and someone said, "That's the cutest thing we've seen at the art festival." Oh well, at least we tried.