We had a fun birthday party for Tessa. We had it at Pioneer Park. Tessa loved the splash pad and received some wonderful gifts. Thank you everyone who was able to attend and for the great gifts we received. Tessa has already been enjoying them.
She is walking full time now and has been for the last month or so. She'll still sometimes want to hold hands but it's more for social reasons than balance; she uses it as a means to drag you around where she wants you to go with her.
She has become so communicative. She can hold up her arms or pull you down by the arm to say if she wants to be picked up. Then she can grunt or point at things to tell you if she wants something or if she sees something she's excited about. She has also taken to saying something that I think is supposed to be "this". It's basically a sound somewhere between "th" an "z" but she consistently says it when pointing at objects or when handing us objects. She'll say "mama" and "dada". Sometimes seeming to say "mama" more when I'm holding here and sometimes pointing at David when she says "dada". Then she sometimes says "da" or "do" when she sees animals. It's hard to know if she's technically saying real words where she understands the meaning of them but we can definitely tell that she is trying to communicating more.
She still loves animals. She notices birds now too. She'll point at them in the sky. At David's last work party they had these people in some pretty realistic looking dinosaur costumes and Tessa thought they were so cool. I thought she might be scared of them, but she excitedly walked right up to them. She even tried to climb up on their feet and chased after them when they left.
She still loves to spend time outside. Incredibly she's been wanting to spend even more time outside lately. We play out in the grass and ride her bike and go on walks and play at the park all the time. She'll request to go outside by banging on the back or front door as early as 6:30 am as soon as she wakes up or as late as 8:30 pm before bed. I'm nervous for it to start getting cold as it will be harder to just pop in and out of the house.
She loves playing in the water. We've enjoyed taking Tessa to the Lehi rec center swimming pool. We also got a little inflatable swimming pool for Tessa to splash around in in the backyard.
She likes the to play with the most random things. She loves brooms, dental floss, toothpaste, and toothbrushes, small spice containers, and camelbak water bottles. She loves anything with buttons - remotes, the garage door opener keypad, the thermostat, etc. She likes to play the piano. She loves to hand you a cell phone and hear you pretend to make phone calls.
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| Holding two containers of dental floss |
For Tessa's birthday we went and got pictures taken. Here are some of my favorites:
I know - way too many pictures! I just couldn't narrow down my favorites any more than that. Our little girl is quite grown up. Dare I say David and I have a toddler! That sounds so wierd to me. I think I still kind of think of Tessa as our baby. She's growing up so fast and is such a joy.
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