Keeping Up With Us: Mini Update with Lots of Pictures

Tessa's going to have a little sister! And as of right now she's quite excited about that, we'll see how much that changes when the baby has arrived.

Tessa is becoming a "big kid" more and more these days. A few weeks ago we stopped giving her milk in a bottle, she hasn't had milk since...oh well at some point she'll drink it, and if not there's always yogurt, cheese, and oj with calcium. She is also in the process of being potty trained. She understands keeping her undies dry, and for the most part when we are home has no problem going on the potty. If she's asleep, or we're out things are less reliable. However she does LOVE to go potty at the gym, the pool, and anywhere else she sees/hears big kids are going potty. She doesn't often say she needs to go, but if she is put on the potty 9 times out of 10 she goes. The other big news here is that her "bubbas" (pacifiers) were officially taken away yesterday. She was less than thrilled and showed me just how upset she was by screaming for 15 minutes, sleeping for 40, and then screaming some more. Today seems to be going better, so hopefully in a week or so "bubbas" will be a thing of the past.

Tessa is very excited to start school when she turns 2! Actually she doesn't start til Sept 14th, but I keep telling her when she's 2 she'll go to school. I was really looking forward to buying her a backpack, but her school requests "open top tote bags" so I guess thats what I'll be getting.

She has learned most of her letters, only gets confused by U/V and for whatever reasons has a hard time remembering G. She loves to point to signs and call out the letters in the words, most of the time they are not in the right order but we're working on that. She knows some of her numbers, but that is still a work in progress.

It is amazing how much she learns in a just a week. She is a little chatter box who loves to repeat everything we say. Luckily none of which has been bad...

And now for some recent pictures.