Sorry for the delay. All 3 of us were in different places on her 9-month bday. Justin = Banner Elk, NC for the Emmaus Fall Retreat. Holly = DR for work. Tessa = Marion with the g-parents for her first time away.
What is she up to these days? Well, everything. First came the army crawl and now she's into the legit crawl on all fours. She pulls herself up on everything. Walls, doors, tables, chairs, Montana, Neela. She has a million toys and only wants to play with non-toys. Her top front teeth are coming in. She ate a french fry. She turns and looks at you when you say her name. She's more fun than she'll ever know.
9 months
Tessa and the girls
Of course we have a ton of toys for Tessa to play with, but her favorite playthings are furry and bigger than she is. Montana and Neela are politely tolerating her so far. Let's hope it stays that way. (You'll notice it's mostly Montana in the pictures. That's because Neela just tries to lick Tessa all the time, so we make her move. Poor Neela.)
On the move
It's happening. Life as we know it is over. Tessa is crawling. First, she was able to push herself up and then lay back down having scooted backwards a few inches. Then, she was up on all fours rocking back and forth trying to move, but not going anywhere. Next came the lean and roll to reach a toy in front of her. Now she's on to the army crawl and the occasional up-on-all-fours legit crawl. And within the matter of a few hours, she went from crawl position to sitting. Then at naptime yesterday, I laid her down only to hear her a few minutes later. When I peeked through the door, she was up on her knees playing with the ladybug mobile (which has now been removed).
We've been trying to catch her on video as much as we can, but our little camera isn't the best at movies. I think a real video camera is on the short list!
Here's our first installment. Backwards:
Baptized
Tessa was baptized on September 20, 2009. It was such a special day celebrating her and all that God will do in her life. We committed ourselves as her parents to raise her as a follower of Jesus teaching her to love Him more than anything. I pray that we will lead her by example everyday.
reunited
A couple weekends ago I hosted 4 friends from college for a girls' weekend. It's been 6 or 7 years since the 5 of us have been together. And none of us can remember when it was. We have a picture from that time, but no date to tell us exactly. We know we've had as many as 4 of us together since then, but living in TN, NC, VA, and MA as well as another country since moving on from Chapel Hill has kept us apart. Well, now we're all back within 2 states so we decided to reunite. We had so much fun catching up on life.
I'm so thankful for friends that I can go years without seeing (which is NOT my preference), but as soon as we're back together, it's like we never left. Love you girls! (Now we have Facebook, my blog, and pictures with dates so we won't forget this time.)
8 months
Tessa is 8 months old today. Here are her pics with her bear. She's really becoming fond of stuffed animals. She wanted to hug and eat the bear while I was taking her picture. And the hair is looking especially fluffy today! She's almost crawling. Definitely up on all fours moving backwards really well. She flips over so fast now. Her favorite place to do this is on the changing table making diaper changes quite the challenge.
We'll have more pics from her baptism up soon. And hopefully some fun videos of her latest moves in action.
Happy Fall everyone!
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