big day!

Teagan took her 1st STEP today!! Tim and I were in the kitchen finishing dinner and watching Teagan play in the living room with Bailey. All of a sudden, she stood up (this is a new thing within the past couple of weeks), balanced longer than she normally does (with Bailey's blue "baby" - his stuffed animal - in one hand), and moved one foot forward! It was awesome and we were so geeked! :) She had a glimmer in her eye and a big smile on her face as we were praising her and hugging and kissing her.

Speaking of kissing, she ALSO learned to kiss us back! We discovered this right after she took her first step. We were in heaven! She will lean towards us and hold her mouth slightly open with her lil' tongue sticking out just a bit. One of the neat things about this is that she gaining those receptive skills...she understands what we mean when we say things like "give Daddy kisses!" It's really cute! :)

Here are some recent pictures of our lil' babe who is growing up way too fast!!


A few moments after the big step!




Our wild one! This is the day she fell into my plate of baked beans (at a picnic) and stained her shirt. :) Because it was already ruined, I didn't put a bib on her when I fed her later that day....and this was the result. :)


Playing with her friend, Ella.


Caught ya! I was making dinner tonight and turned around to find this! :)


After a bath


Taking a walk on a beautiful Fall afternoon!