Tess is One!

How crazy that its been a year since she arrived!  Just cause i was already at the hospital today i went walking with her to the nursery, so funny!  Ok maybe i'm just nosey and wanted to see the new babies but it was fun to see my old room and tell her that was where she first met Jake!

Squishy Face!

The before picture!

She is 18lb 3oz and I am so proud to say 25% for weight and 10 % for height, not to mention the 40% for head size!  Silly!  She was happy as a clam at her appointment yet we learned she had an ear infection!  She is such a different person than Jake, during his ear infection days we were up all night with big fevers! Anyway she was not a fan of the 4 shots, ouch, neither was I though.

We had a wonderful birthday party where she Dug in to the cake and got good and messy!

She is also working on walking up to 5 steps now even thought when we try to encurage her to walk she wants nothing to do with it!  It has to be her idea, then she'll give it a shot.  She has discovered how to make friends and is a big ham!  She smiles and makes a squishy face when ever she makes eye contact with you which i think is the cutest thing ever!

She is also learning how to give her dolls hugs, it is also too cute!  This birthday thing by the holidays though is crazy i didn't even see thanksgiving comming, until preschool started getting us ready!

Hope you all have a great holiday!  Gobble Gobble, shop!

Sharing my cake with friends!

Pumpkins!

We went pumpkin picking a couple weeks ago when it was still hot hot hot out!  Hard to believe now, but it really was!We watched the cows eat pumpkins and tried to decide weather that made orange milk or not!  Jake has yet to decide.  We went to Giant Pumpkin and they are nothing if not accurate, jake was determined to find a pumpkin he could pick up and it was a long hunt, 80% of the pumpkins were this size!  

Thought my t-town friends would like this one!  Tess is Rocking the Tecumseh Indians t-shirt!  I am excited though i got one of the giant pumpkins and hope to put Tess in it for one good picture when we carve them wish me luck!

 Pulling the wagon back to the front was a little tricky, but jake was keeping a close eye on this one!

Apple picking!

So even though i was really hopeful for a second summer in september it looks like its not going to happen so in an effort to accept fall we had to do the quintessential fall activity, apple picking!

Jake, Tess and I even went raspberry picking too, i tried to be very careful when eating the berries to not leave any evidence of the taste testing but i'm afraid it ended up all over Tess' shirt!  Not a good sneaker yet!

Tess loved gnawing on the apples too.  Only bad thing was she kept dropping them and she was in the front carrier and i kept stepping on them!

Gotta Climb a Tree! 

Jake did a great job picking berries not a single complaint about the prickers!  Then off to apple picking all the little ones wanted to do was eat the apples and search for pumpkins since we got them there last year too.  We followed through the forrest of apples until the bugs talked us out of the orchard.  All and all a good fall day!

This one i just love cause Jake is still climbing in the back ground!

Fun Stuff

We had our first trick today at gymnastics open gym, a belly roll off the bars!  he did lots of them but then quickly moved into what i've decided to call his free running skills instead of his crazy jakes going to kill himself moves!

Notice how the movie abruptly stops when he continuts to climb higher!  Mom was called to action!

Yes its a picture of a picture but look how fun my little guy made the bulletin board!

Play SetFun!  We got our playset after jakes Big Birthday Party and we love it, you know when its not 5,000' outside!  

 We also found one good night where the lightning bugs were out like crazy and the 3 of us caught like 35 of them!  So much fun, you know we had to bring them inside to the bathroom the only dark room in the house to see them light up!  Ahh the summer fun to be had!

At first jake just wanted to put one in and then let it out, but he eventually got the hang of putting them in and shutting the door!

Gymnastics, Dance and the River!

Our class!

Look Tess look at my medal!


Gymnastics Spectacular!  Jake had his end of season gymnastics show this weekend and it was both fun and so silly!  Sorry just one 13 min video nothing short for the blog but look how proud he is of himself!  And of course how proud his little sister is of him!

Cousin Victoria after her big recital on saterday!


OH and this was week two of river kids, and Jake insisted on stearing the paddle boat today so we may have looked like drunk boaters weaving back and forth but it was fun!

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Gymnastics, Dance and the River!

Look Tess look at my medal!

Our class!

Gymnastics Spectacular!  Jake had his end of season gymnastics show this weekend and it was both fun and so silly!  Sorry just one 13 min video nothing short for the blog but look how proud he is of himself!  And of course how proud his little sister is of him!

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Cousin Victoria after her big recital on saterday!
OH and this was week two of river kids, and Jake insisted on stearing the paddle boat today so we may have looked like drunk boaters weaving back and forth but it was fun!

Gymnastics, Dance and the River!

Our class!

Gymnastics Spectacular!  Jake had his end of season gymnastics show this weekend and it was both fun and so silly!  Sorry just one 13 min video nothing short for the blog but look how proud he is of himself!  And of course how proud his little sister is of him!

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Look Tess look at my medal!

Cousin Victoria after her big recital on saterday!

OH and this was week two of river kids, and Jake insisted on stearing the paddle boat today so we may have looked like drunk boaters weaving back and forth but it was fun!

Peonies r a bloomin!

What a beautiful day!  We got to the Arb around 11 just before the heat came and how beautiful it is out there! 

Our Tour Guide!

I caaan climb trees!

All you Ann Arborites really have to make it over there!  It reminded me of when i was dreaming of having out wedding there, only drawback was they didn't alow chairs!  That's right just a little bit of shade and no where to sit, deal breaker.

Checking out the Fairy and Troll Houses.

Neighborhood Park Party!  How fun is this turtle!

   Anyway, fun family day hope you all had a great sunday!

Tess Loved touching the flowers.  Jake kept telling me that the little ones were going to Pop open soon!  We also walked down to the river and played in the water a little.  It was the perfect weather to not care if he got wet since we were dry before we walked back up the stairs!

Who needs a photographer i have a backpack and a timer!

Tess' Baptism

We had Tess Baptised this weekend and it went to well!  She cried before and after the actual Baptism but during the Dunk she smiled at Father and laughed as he was talking to her!  She's not shy in her birthday suit!

She has also mastered sitting up which makes for great pictures so i just had to share them all!  So excited to see how she's growing but i'm so sad that's going by so fast!
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