Winter Wonderland, and Mimi Visits!

Tessa's new dollhouse
Watching Daddy shovel (this was a few weeks ago, not the BIG storm)

All bundled up and ready to play

Sledding

Tessa has been sick, so to pass the time we've been baking...here are her first muffins!

Eating Cheerios like a big kid

Great Aunt Terri sent sunglasses, Tessa LOVES them!

Mimi came to visit over the weekend, we got 22 inches of snow! Yikes, thats a lot in MD!

Playing on the deck, after it had been shoveled once

Out our back window...

Much too much snow

Eating pizza during the superbowl

Lots of Pictures

Coloring in her high chair
Watching Elmo

Loving the "Ho Ho Ho" on her Xmas plates

Piling all her animals up, and then giving each of them kisses

Hugs

Max and Tessa playing with her new kitchen (she can't get enough of it!)

Her headband is falling out, but I still think she looks adorable

Holding hands

The new kitchen!

Need to Catch Up...

Wow...its been a while!
Tessa has changed a lot in the last few weeks. She can say quite a few words now, most only Tim or I can understand. Here's a few: dada, mama, nou (for lou), nana, ma (max, her buddy), did (sid the science kid), cacca (cookie), apap (help....this one she says ALL the time), ball, no no. And many more I can't think of at the moment.

Tessa really likes to color, scanned images to come soon hopefully. She LOVES the PBS show "Sid the Science Kid"...she walks around saying "Did, did, did", hoping we'll put the TV on for her. She has a new playroom in the basement full of lots of cool Christmas presents and has a great time playing down there. She really likes to give her animals, dolls, etc water/food or her books. Sharing with them is fun, sharing with another child is not high on her list at the moment.

A funny story: After being stuck in the house sick for far too many days and being SO bored, I decided to show Tessa some Pop-Up books that I had taken from Nana's house. I know she is too young for them, and requires constant attention, but I was desperate. Well she LOVES them. One of them is a Muppets book. On one of the pages Miss Piggy is on a swing, and you can pull a tab and Kermit the Frog jumps up and pushes her. Tessa thought this was the greatest thing in the world. And then proceeded to try and climb into the book so she too could go on the swing. It was hilarious. She couldn't understand why she couldn't have a turn. And went back to that book, and that page repeatedly to try and swing... (Normally I would have taken her out back and put her on the swing there, but it was pouring rain.)

Although neither of us was feeling great today we went to the mall and used a coupon to get some pictures taken....here's one of them:

A funny video...wait for the end

My New Camera

Tim gave me an early birthday present, a new camera! I love it! We got it today so that we can hopefully get some great pictures at Christmas. Well I think I took 300+ pictures today alone, clearly this is a problem. I will need to learn to delete or else things could get out of control.

Its too bad Tessa's face is covered in a rash from all the drool...

If you want to see way too many pictures for one day, check here:
Pictures

A few of the good ones:

Nov-Dec Pictures

I put quite a few pictures on kodak, check them out at the link above. Here's one of them from Playwise today with Max and Tessa.

Tessa's New Do

Hopefully people will stop asking me, "How old is He?"

Snow!

15 Month Appt

Weight: 24lbs 7oz

Height: 31in

Both were close to the 75th percentile. Her head is still in the 98th percentile.
Unfortunately for Tessa the appt involved a blood draw (lead test) and three shots. She was scared when we went in (pretty sure she remembers getting her flu shot two weeks ago), and now I'm positive the next time we go back she'll be petrified. Fun times.

We tried over the weekend to get a picture with Tessa and Santa (yes its early but its going to take some work). We ended up not staying to wait in line because Tessa was so afraid of the snowmen, reindeer, nutcrackers, etc. We figured there was no point waiting in a line if she wasn't going to get within 10ft of Santa.

A few cute pics:

Bath Time Video

I'm trying to catch up on videos, here's one from bath time tonight.

A Busy October

After many days of rain, Tessa's toys were all getting a little old. So I brought the stroller inside. She had a blast pushing her babies/bunnies/toys around the living room.
Calvin came over for dinner

Rylan came to play.

A cold spell sent us to the store to get a hat/mittens and winter coat.

She is loving the swing out back, too bad we didn't put it up earlier.

On a one rainy day, we met some friends at a "bounce house". Tessa did NOT enjoy it. I had tried to have her skip her morning nap, it didn't go well. Being tired, combined with the "scary" loud fans to keep the things inflated, left Tessa scared and whiny :( We'll have to try it again after she's had a good nap.

Doesn't everyone sit in their drum?

A little hay maze fun with Calvin

We picked out a pumpkin, now to carve it...we'll wait for Tim to get home to do that.

Looking for her belly button, a difficult task when you have one-piece outfit on. :)