Hi Freak

Roger runs every Saturday with his friend Frank. A couple of Saturdays ago, Frank stopped by the house after the morning run. When he left, Teagan ran to the door and called out multiple times "Bye Freak!"
Then a few days ago the phone rang. Rog looked at the caller id and said "It's Frank" before answering it. Teagan ran up to Rog, looked up and said "Hi Freak!"
She's also adding to her musical repertoire. She kind of knows a verse to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We'll sing "Up above the world so high", and she'll sing "Up a ba ba ba ba high" over and over again.
She's repeating words constantly, she knows some of her animal sounds and colors (because we've read Brown Bear, Brown Bear 500 times) and we're also working on letters and numbers.
She's also learning a lot about time out. We've been dealing with some hitting, pinching and biting which hasn't been so fun. Daycare definitely has its pros and cons.
This past Saturday we tried and failed twice to have Teagan's two year pictures professionally taken. She was fine until we walked into the actual studio where she quickly became clingy and disagreeable. We probably should have just purchased the photos of her with her lower lip out, since that seems to accurately capture some of her more frequent moods. There was no acting out in the studio, she just didn't want to cooperate so we packed up and headed home. Twice. It seems as though we are face to face with the terrible twos.

Below are some recent pictures. The last one is after we got her all dressed up to have her picture taken. That's the best shot I got of her in that dress. The rest are of Teagan playing dress up again. She has adopted Rog's old Woody Woodpecker hat and loves it.

A Potty, A Song & A Bumblebee

Ok, I've been a major slacker lately. Well, on the blog anyway. Though this is usually fun for me, it's not a high priority.
We've had some pretty fun developments in the past few weeks. Teagan is still obsessed with Elmo, but now she's chiming in when I find myself absentmindedly humming "Elmo's Song" because it's CONSTANTLY in my head. But her little "ya ya ya's" and the grinning head-bob that go with them make me laugh every time.
We took her out trick or treating on Halloween. She was our little bumblebee.


She wasn't quite sure what to think at first, but she quickly got the hang of it. Each time a homeowner held out a bowl of candy, she reached in and scooped up the biggest handful she could manage. (I made her put back all but one piece each time!) She was sound asleep in her carseat by the time we got home that night.
In other very exciting news, the potty training process has begun! We bought a seat a couple of months ago and have had it in the bathroom ever since. We haven't pressured her to use it, but we talk about it and read a book to her about it. This weekend she came to us and let us know that she needed to go, and so she did! She has done it once again since, and we know there's a lot more work involved in perfecting the process, but we're excited that we've reached the starting point. Stickers and applause are amazing incentives!