First Walker

Teagan is walking. She took her first steps the beginning of June. Just after her 11 month birthday. By her first birthday - today - she is quite a good little walker. I need video to show you...but for now...this photo will have to work.

First Haircuts

The babies have endured a lot of firsts during the month of June. First family vacation, first road trips (8 hours in the car), first haircuts.

Yeah! First haircuts!!
Wyatt woke up in the morning with total "crib head". I decided he needed a haircut. This is him before. Wyatt getting his haircut....
This is Teagan's hair. She isn't really growing anything on top - just in back. And it grows VERY SLOWLY.... You may also notice her black eye. She misjudged the distance to the coffee table one day and smacked her face against the edge of the table. Our second urgent care visit! She is fine - and it is almost gone already. Totally scared Mommy however.
This is Teagan getting her "trim" because it can't really count as a cut.

Vacation

In the middle of June we took our first official family vacation. We went to the South Shore of Lake Tahoe for our friends Ben and Jill's wedding. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Becchetti. We then went directly from Lake Tahoe to Trinity/Shasta County for a one week stay at a Dude Ranch.

Coffee Creek Dude Ranch was a fantastic time. We will be the first to admit we gave my sister Kim a bad time for choosing this as our family reunion vacation site - but she knew what we didn't: that we would have a great time! We rode horses, ate down-home cooking, did barrel racing and enjoyed a good time outdoors for the week. Very fun.
This is a picture of Wyatt and Travis. No doubt this boy is a mini-version of his Dada.
One of our favorite things to do at the Ranch was sit outside on the grass with the babies. They were very fond of their cousins. They like to watch "little people". Max, Ben and Korina are so good with them. It was so fun to see them all play together and interact.
Here is Miss May with her cousin's cowboy hat. Too cute. The babies won't wear hats however. They just take whatever hat you put on them - off. They don't wear hats. They don't wear socks - they pull them off. They won't wear shoes - they pull them off too.
Here is the whole family!

This is me on a Belgium draft horse. This was a very big horse - he was 18 or 19 hands. Super smooth gait - really fun to ride. I rode him for the pole racing and the barrel racing. Travis and I at the Ranch after a day of trail riding. Where are the babies?!

11 Months....Really???!!!!

The babies turned 11 Months on May 25th. I can't believe they are almost one year old already. Doesn't it seem like they just arrived?! It does for us still.

Teagan....

Poor Teagan. This girl is going to be bald until she is 2. And then she is going to get a great mullet first - before she gets a normal head of hair. Not sure if you can see very well - but she has a total Alfalfa sprig of hair growing in the back of her head right now.


Wyatt....

Wyatt is a climber. He loves to climb over toys - over the coffee table - whatever. Here he is trying to climb the wall. I think he is trying to escape. Not a chance buddy. Lock down till you are 18. We all know what your Daddy did when he snuck out of the house!

Every day I look at them in awe and amazement. They are such miracles. I am blessed every day...

Double Trouble ~ Now I Get It!

T.May and Wyatt are quite the Dynamic Duo these days. They discovered the kitchen a couple of weeks ago and it seems like it is the place to be. They are now pulling themselves up to stand on EVERYTHING in the house including the kitchen cabinets and drawers. Teagan has figured out how to pull herself up on the drawers, open the drawer, reach inside and pull out its contents. The other day I came in the kitchen and she had pulled out all the Ziploc baggies.


Both T.May and W.C. understand "UP." They will lift their hands in the air when they want Mommy or Daddy to lift them up.
Wyatt discovered the cabinet that holds all the mixing bowls...then he figured out how to pull bowls out one by one. If I cooked he could help me cook something! It would be better if he offered to help Travis since Travis cooks dinner every night. :-)
No matter how quickly I move - once I get one out of trouble the other one crawls over and gets into the same mess I just pulled the other one out of!
This is Wyatt discovering the cereal cabinet. The other day I came in the kitchen and found them both on the floor - the Cheerio box next to them with a pile of Cheerios they were happily eating. I wish I would have gotten that on film. I will have to write it down in their baby book. They were just happy little clams - eating Cheerios on the kitchen floor! Hard to be mad at something so cute.

Waiting for Da

The babies call Travis "Da". Sometimes it is Dada...but a lot of times it just comes out sounding a whole lot like "Daah". They have figured out where the front door is and whenever it opens and he comes through - they go crawling to him. It really does make my heart melt...once they get older they will be able to run to him...but for now we settle for the crawl to Da.

Bath Time!

Travis and I put the babies in the bathtub together the other day. It was mayhem...and I don't think I will do this again until they are a bit older. Both the babies love bathtime - it makes it easy on me. I love finding all the food morsels from dinner whenever I take their diapers off...pieces of pasta, chicken, peas...food in their hair and in their eyebrows...so fun.
Here is little Miss May in her birthday suit getting ready for the tub. She loves to stand at the tub and talk to it. I only wish I knew what she was saying.
Notice the pivotal placement of the toy? I wouldn't expose my little man's "nature" now would I?!