Mom of the Year

NOT! Maybe WORST mom of the year! Tessa fell face first into one of her toys today! Left a wondeful bruise on the bridge of her nose. She thankfully cried for a quick second then went right back to playing! Hopefully the bruising goes away soon!!!! Poor Tessa!

On a different note...Being home has been great. I didn't realize how much I missed being home. The weather has been amazing! High 60's to low 70's all week so far! I have been having a blast! I haven't taken many pictures though. Ill try to get on that tomorrow! I am sure Tess will look amazing with her new bruised nose look :-( Poor Tess!
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Lunch

I love being home! Mom says "do you want a salad for lunch?" I say "sure"...and then I get this salad!!!! Sooooo yummy! :-) I think she needs to come home with me NOW! :-)
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Mackinac Island

We are over on Mackinac Island right now! As you can see Tessa is suuuuuper excited! Ha! We got here and came to eat in the park. Tessa ate...I mean played in the grass while we ate some food! After we ate we headed out for a walk and Tessa fell asleep....and is still sleeping! Not many Mac Island pics this time! Maybe next time!!!!!
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Greenfield Village Trip!

My parents came down in July for a quick visit! We had so much fun while they were here! Tessa obviously was spoiled rotten and got lots of extra love!

Here are a couple of pictures from our trip to Greenfield Village!

proud papa pushing the stroller!

waiting in line to ride a model T!

headed out for our ride!!!!

Tessa did NOT like the horn...and yes...im that mom that takes pictures while her daughter is screaming!

enjoying the ride! our driver was super nice!

she quickly got over the horn incident..i am pretty sure she dreams of Model T's now!

lunch time!!!!

after being awake the entire time we were there...a good 4 hrs...she finally fell asleep on our way back to the car! she was soooo good all day!

OH!!!!  I almost forgot!!!! While we were there we noticed Tessa had two bottom from teeth!!! They were NOT there that morning so they popped through some time throughout the day!!! I have been trying to get a picture of them for weeks now but I just can't get a good one!

I am headed up north next week for an entire week!!!! I can't even tell you how excited I am!!! I will totally have a ton of fun pictures to post when I return!!!!!

Until next time...Peace, Love, and TESSA!!!!!

My Apologies!

Sorry I haven't updated in such a long time! I really have no excuse...oh wait...yes I do...it's called MOTHERHOOD! Wowzers is it hard! I love every minute of it though!

Tessa is doing fabulous! She is crawling EVERYWHERE...and getting into EVERYTHING! It is so great seeing her learn and experience new stuff everyday! She is also pulling herself up onto things! She still has the cheekiest (is that a word?!) and brightest smile ever! She is constantly saying dada and babbling some nana and I think I heard a mama...but I think I just want to hear it so it might of been something else. I keep telling Casey to remember the only reason she said dada first is because it is soooo easy to say!

I have a ton of pictures to post so I will get to the fun stuff!

this was my attempt to have Tessa hold a sign that says "Happy Birthday Nana" for my mom's birthday on August 8th...next time I will use cardboard!

she was much more interested in eating, ripping, and tearing the paper!

finally I just had to hold onto it...you can see how much she wants that paper!!!

almost every time I put her in here to play she immediately pulls herself up!

yep...still bald! but she totally rocks the no hair look!

it is getting so hard to get good pictures of her! she is all smiles one minute...and then this! still cute though!

I know she is thinking..."hey mom! check this out!"

She is such a happy baby! I am sooo lucky!

yes...that is my 8 1/2 month old standing up to play with her toy! she is growing so fast!

she loves this toy...mostly the piano and the little swirly guy in front of her!

I still have one more post about our trip to Greenfield Village with my parents!

Until next time...Peace, Love, and TESSA!!!!!

August already!?!

Happy August from Tessa and I! - can't believe its already August! Tessa is growing so fast and accomplishing so many milestones! She now has two bottom teeth poking through (July 25th), can crawl (July 31st), and pulled herself up and leaning against the dishwasher-but then fell on her butt and had a little fit!!!
Whenever I get a spare minute (haha) I will post more pictures of my cutie pie!

Until next time...Peace, Love, and TESSA!!!
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Nana's video of the day!

The lighting is really bad because I had her curtains closed from her nap. Enjoy!

and yes...I know my voice is super annoying...but Tessa loves it! :-)

As always...Peace, Love, and TESSA!

Thanks Great Aunt Jennifer!

Earlier this week we got a suprise package (2 super cute outfits and a life jacket!) from our amazing Aunt (Tessa's Great Aunt!) Jennifer aka Antigen from Wisconsin! We put on one of the outfits today...I tried to get some cute pictures but Tessa was more interested in  her lion and Casper than she was me! Here are a couple pictures!

First when I was trying to take a picture she wanted to play with her lion...

Then Casper our cat came into the room

She was REALLY excited about that!

Finally got a cheeky smile out of her...even if she wasn't looking at me!

Rolling around with her lion!

We never did make it to the park...I decided I wanted to make a nicer dinner and that took a good chuck of my evening...then I was just too lazy to go anywhere :-)

Here is one last picture of Tessa knawing on a cucumber while we ate dinner

Until Next Time...Peace, Love, and TESSA!

I love weekends!

I love weekends so much. Spending the day with Tessa...as exhausting as it is...is just amazing! This morning she woke up WAY too early at 5:30am...thankfully around 7:00 she went back to bed for an hour and a half to let me get a little more sleep! She is napping right now. As soon as she wakes up we are going to go to the park! I will post pictures soon of our park adventure!

playing with toys!

she loves this toy!

Skyping with Nana! We try to do it every weekend!

Keeping Tessa confined while I get her some milk! She rolls everywhere these days...

Until next time...Peace, Love, and TESSA!

A couple video's

The first video is of Tessa and her first pickle. We poked a couple holes into the side and she just had a ton of fun sucking on it. I think it was a good for her constant teething!



The second video is of her rolling/crawling/blabbering on the floor. The end messed up and it's like its in slow motion...but the beginning of the video is cute! Too bad I don't know how to edit video's!



Please ignore my annoying voice in both these video's!

Until next time...Peace, Love, and Tessa!