San Diego in January

It is January and we have had temperature in the 80's all week. Apparently it is just abnormally warm and it will cool down again, but I am definitely getting used to good weather! My mom is in town and we went to the beach yesterday. The water is still too cold for me, but we played a lot of frisbee, did a lot of chasing Teagan around, and of course we took lots of pictures!
I think I want to get this one framed!

Doesn't my mom look like a super model!
Doesn't my husband look like a strong, strapping man!

Cute, the beach is made for pictures!

Spaghetti brains

I found a recipe that is delectable for the whole family. It is a Spaghetti sauce that I used for Lasagna and it was 100 times better than prego. It's really simple too. Just a couple peppers, onion, can of diced tomatos and sauce garlic and italian seasoning. I was proud.

Here is the link for the recipe. Remember to always read the comments

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Kays-Spaghetti-and-Lasagna-Sauce/Detail.aspx

Teagan loved it too. I still can't believe he will eat green peppers and onions, I didn't start liking that stuff until I was married.

Leftovers weren't quite as much of a hit so he wanted to share with daddy (who willingly accepted), but he just has to learn that he can either starve or eat leftovers, he does have the choice. :) It's all about love and logic.

Teagan does the cutest stuff!

So I have all these videos of Teagan doing cute/funny things that I wanted to share. Please do not feel obligated to watch, I know everyone can't watch them 15 times in a row and still think he's the cutest little guy ever like me!

Today he was holding the remote to his ear jabbering away so I thought we'd try to call grandma daniels. He loved it! He held the phone right up to his ear and would just jabber away talkin to her. Then we would listen to her and just smile smile smile. When I took the phone he started bawling and felt really bad, poor kid. It was the cutest thing to watch though. This video doesn't do it justice at all.

Whenever I'm brushing my hair Teagan either wants to help or steal my brush. Zac got me a new brush for Christmas so Teagan gets his own now and he is pretty skilled.

This is a cute little table that Teagan got for his birhtday. It has an activity center on top with way cute toys. Teagan loves to use it as a stool to get onto the couch and loves to flip it upside down and climb in.

Teagan has a number of "words" that he says that I think only I understand. They sound the same everytime, but not a ton like the actual word. Examples: Hello, Dad, dog, bye, bubba, and a variety of whines. I think I can actually interpret the whines...how sad. He is getting so smart. Here is his version of "Hello" (you may want to fast forward a little)

This is a song-game that my mom used to play with me that me and Teagan play about 10-15 times every day. It goes "Here is the beehive, but where are the bees? Hidden away where nobody sees. Soon they come creeping from out of the hive, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz " He loves to run away and hide, I love it!

I had about 5 more that I wanted to add, but they were all in the 2-3 minute range so it would have taken too long to upload. They included: Teagan's first haircut, diving on and off the couch, saying dadda, and running around like a crazy man. I can't get enough of my little cutie!

Somedays you feel like a Terrible Mom

Today has been a rough one, especially for little Teag. I went out for my morning run and had gone about a mile when I did something really stupid. I was going under some lower trees and a huge spider jumped out of the tree and landed on my arm. I acted like a dumb girl and screamed and flailed my arms and within about 1 second I realized that I'd let go of the stroller. I tried to jump forward and grab it, but it was too late and the stroller went flying over the curb. I grabbed the stroller and picked it back up and when I saw Teagan's face my heart broke.

He was sobbing and I started crying and we were a complete wreck! He was bleeding and had dirt in his forehead and I didn't know what to do so I just started for home. So I packed Teagan a mile back home pushing a stroller trying to run to get back home while he just whimpers, it was so sad.

Both parts of his lip are all swollen so I'm guessing his teeth hit his lip or something, he wouldn't let me put ice on it so we went and got popsicles so he could have something cold. All day he has just not been feeling good so we've had lots of hugs and kisses and he got his binkie and blanket all day plus 2 baths (his favorite). He didn't even seem to notice anything was wrong by this evening, the big band-aid just bugged him like crazy!

Everytime I look at him I feel terrible. I know it was an accident, but if I had just been thinking and not acting like a dumb girl it would have never happened. Zac and I decided that we won't run with Teagan in the stroller anymore. I'll just wait til Zac is home so I can go out alone or something. I don't want that to happen again.

Note: The pictures were all taken well after the accident happened, I didn't torchure him through pictures until a few hours later.

Winter isn't so bad...

Well I never got to posting Christmas because the pictures are at my mom's house. My sister Julie posted about it and it is about exactly what I would have posted so you can look at her pictures and comments and everything. Here is the link

http://loulewandlulu.blogspot.com/2009/01/christmas-in-california.html

So about a week ago we were watching the news and they had a multiple choice question. It said: "When will the weather in San Diego start getting warm again?"

a. January 22

b. February 4

c. January 6

d. February 20

When I saw the list I got excited because that meant that I only had two months of winter left (at most!!!). I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it begins to warm up January 6th!!!! I just have to say that I LOVE THE WEATHER HERE! Now I understand why people will pay such rediculous amounts for homes here. I haven't missed the snow yet, Zac has, but I've somehow survived without.

As teenagers Zac and I both had the opportunity to visit Balboa Park. Neither of us were impressed and I know that I pouted most of the time because I didn't like museums...mom, I'm sorry I was a bratty teenager. :) We went back on Tuesday and we both LOVED it. It is basically a collection of 20 or so different types of museums and exhibits. On Tuesdays four of the musuems are free so we took advantage! We were so busy checking out HUGE dinosaurs, sculptures, model train sets of San Diego, and learning about water conservation that we didn't get tons of pictures, but here is what we've got.

They had the most beautiful and awesome plants in the gardens! We enjoyed seeing where all the plants lived originally.

Teagan loved this little rock structure. On the inside there were snakes and bugs on the inside of the wall and he was mesmorized.

There were tons of train models. This one was made of legos ONLY, talk about amazing.

I had to post this picture so his battle scar could be documented. Sunday he was running in our room and tripped and face planted into the corner of our dresser. It was so sad. His head split right open and he was so sad. It wasn't bad enough for stitches, but it was definitely his biggest battle scar so far. This picture was taken after about 3 days of neosporn and band-aids. Poor kid.

My little sweetie

I'm always writing about how crazy Teagan is, but tonight he was so sweet! I gave him a bath, lotioned him, put him in PJs and started giving him his bottle when I realized that I had left both binkies in the car. I went out to get them and realized that Zac had taken that car, sad day for me!

I decided to proceed putting Teagan to bed anyway and just told him that his bubba had gone bye bye and we wouldn't get a bubba tonight. He seemed to actually understand me, so I just proceeded as normal. I gave him his bottle and when he was done I just held him up so he could lay on my shoulder and rocked him.

He never cried at all for his binkie which amazed me, but then he did the cutest thing. He lifted his head up off my shoulder and leaned in for an open mouth kiss.

(Side note: We are constantly trying to get Teagan to "give kisses" and he rarely does. Maybe 10 times in his whole life at most!)

I kissed him and told him to go to sleep. About 5 seconds later he did it again, then he would lay his head back on my shoulder. he literally did it about 15 times. Near the end it was getting so hard to keep from laughing. He was almost dilerious he was so tired, but he had to just keep lifting up his head for another kiss. What a sweetie! I love him so much, I love little sweet moments like that that remind why being a mom is so amazing. I am so blessed to have Teagan, he is the perfect little boy.

PS: He didn't ever cry for his binkie, which shocked me! Should I just get rid of the binkie permanently? Is he ready?

Cast Your Votes

We got Teagan's 1-year old pictures taken a week ago and just got the proofs back last night. My home teacher growing up, Brad Smith, took the pictures for us and I think he did an awesome job, especially considering how much Teagan moves! Brad brought his dog to the park across the street from my mom's house and we basically chased Teagan around the park trying to get a picture. We attempted to get him to sit down, but he would jump up in about 3 seconds. I am having a hard time picking a favorite one to have Brad photoshop and then get it printed to frame and send to all the grandmas and grandpas. Please vote on your favorite one keeping in mind that the lighting, boogery noses, and drool can be fixed with a click of a mouse. :)
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