The McDougal Family: January 2009

Tanner now has a front tooth on the top! We have waited a long time for one of those and we are very excited!!! She is growing so fast!! I officially stopped working in December, and I am now home with her full time. We have been having a great time, and it has been really great to be with her so much. We get to play every day, and it has been fun just to spend more time together. Here are a few recent pictures:

Sesame Street was on one day and Tanner had been watching on the living room floor. I looked over and didn't see her on the floor, then I noticed where she was. She had crawled up into this chair and was watching like a big person!

Playing in Daddy's uniform shirt

Climbing a tree

This was New Year's Eve and she was so tired!!

Playing games New Year's Eve at Tawny's house

Helping Daddy babyproof something

Clinton made Tanner a hat out of the newspaper
Fetching the paper on Saturday morning
Playing in the water hose

Yes, we are finally back from our very very long blogging hiatus! I haven't posted pictures forever! Don't worry, though, I have some today. Tanner is doing so many things these days, it is hard to remember what is new. She says so many words now! She says Mama, Dada, eat, dog ("doe"), cat(dat), hi!, bye, uh-oh, ball, down (dow), eye, nose (no), mouth ("mow"), Bobby (baba), no no, and she still tries to say "I love you" but it never sounds like that! When we were home for Christmas, she tried to say GiGi and she said "Ee-Ee". She hasn't said it on her own, though. She only said it when we were trying to get her to. She loves playing outside these days. It is really fun to watch her explore. She is also IN LOVE with Sesame Street. She will sit and watch an entire episode. It is really amazing! Elmo is her favorite. She gets very excited when they play Elmo's World.

She got a new playroom this week. We moved our house all around and repurposed some of the rooms. The office is now Tanner's playroom. This is great, because we can put all of her toys in there and shut the doors so they are out of sight. We moved the office furniture to the dining room and the dining room table to the breakfast room. It looks a little big for that space, but it fits fine. We are really enjoying the new office and playroom, though. The window in the dining room is bigger, so it is nice to sit on the computer now and be able to look out the window. Tanner got a giant zebra tent for Christmas from her Gammie and Mac and we set it up in her playroom. She sits in it and watches Elmo. She loves it!!

Well, on to the pictures. I have some from Christmas, but Erin and Haley took a lot more than I did so if you want to see them you can check out their blogs and scroll down to the Christmas portion. Erin's is www.babyhubert.blogspot.com and Haley's is www.babymitschke.blogspot.com . They have a lot of good ones, so you should check it out!

Here are ours:

Christmas morning