New Kicks

Last weekend, my mom and I went up to the outlet mall to buy Tessa her winter wardrobe. She had no long sleeve shirts or sweaters that fit and very few pants. They had some great deals and we got her some really cute stuff. Now I just have to decide what outfit to put her in for her pictures next week. I LOVE the new shoes we got her, so I had to include a pic. She moves around a lot, so getting shots of her shoes was actually really difficult.

Colors - her favorite colors to say are purple (purpur), yellow (lello), and green (gree). She can't really distinguish yet, so she will just repeat purpur while pointing at her green cup until you agree that yes it is purple, Good job Tessa.

Animals - she is learning more and more animal names and sounds. She has learned cow and moo (not sure why that took so long) and another interesting one is seal or sea lion and she'll actually clap her hands like they do and do a very good seal noise. She recognizes the picture of the seal in her animal book. She is trying REALLY hard to say alligator and gets pretty close most of the time. She know monkey and will imitate a monkey sound and movement. For some reason whenever she see the gorilla in her animal book she says "Mama". I think (hope?) that she is trying to Monkey but I'm not sure yet. It doesn't help either that Mike agrees with her everytime, saying "Yes, that's Mama".

Beard - Mike loves to wrestle with Tessa and will rub his beard on her face, which she just thinks is HILARIOUS. Once he stops, she will get up walk a few steps and fall back down waiting for Mike to wrestle again. I attached a small clip of these "wrestling" matches.