WHAT????

Last night, while Tessa was watching Tinkerbell, I was cross-stitching. I know most of you just fell out of your chair laughing at the thought of me cross-stitching. It doesn't seem to be my style, but I LOVE it. It's very therapeutic for me. Anyways, if I do it when Tessa's around she normally tries to climb all over me, plays with the scissors, pulls the threads, and constantly asks "Can I do it, Mommy" NO, you can do it when you are 10, you're only 3, so that's seven more years! Two minutes later "Can I do it now?"

When you get older, sweety. Then she asked "I can do it when my beebos (aka boobs) get bigger?" What the HELL? Where did she learn that? I thought she may have stumbled on her words, or gotten something wrong, but she kept asking it. I've never said anything to her about her beebos getting bigger or anything. I finally asked her where she got that from and she said "Daddy" to which he replied "I never said no such thing". She always points out how Daddy, Tessa and Ellis have little beebos and Mommy has big beebos and somehow she's figured out that she will get bigger beebos as she gets older.

Oooooohhhh, the things kids say!

Quirks

Seeing a post from Samanthat on her daughter Penny who has a fear of sinks with soaps, reminded me of some of Tessa's quirks. In general Tessa is not afraid of anything. She has no fear of water, animals, even storms. When we have bad thunderstorms she just stares out the window and says "Look Mommy, it's blinking" (aka lightning).

For some reason, though, she has developed a fear of the bath drain. The tub in our bathroom has a stop that you push down to close and when bumped or touched the wrong way can open easily. So of course, with all of her toys, buckets, AND Ellis in the tub, it gets bumped and opens. She flips out. It's gotten a little better since we have been working with her on it, but for a while. She would start screaming and pushing Ellis out of the way, which in turn would freak him out since he didn't like getting knocked over in the tub. It's very strange, since she developed this fear recently. She's gotten better where she doesn't start screaming or shaking, but she always lets us know "Don't let the water out, Daddy". We have to wait until she's in bed before draining the tub.

The other quirky thing is that she doesn't like flushing the potty when not at home. This fear I think I can explain. She was at the new playground by my parents house with my Mom, and had to go potty. They are newew, nicer, public potties with automatic flushers. I guess since she was so small, the sensor didn't work quite right and it flushed while she peeing. Then at the same time a lady started to dry her hands with one of those X-lerator hand dryers and I think it was too much at once. Since then she never wants to flush in public. On our way back from Jekyll Island she had a total melt-down when I flushed and for 20 minutes was screaming in the car about how I flushed the potty. Sometimes I can coax her to do it, but it's still a little wierd.

LOVE

Tessa LOVES everything now. It's her new word. This morning I was wearing these cute little red shoes and Tessa said "Mommy, I LOVE your shoes. Wow, they're cute." or the other day when I was changing she said "Mommy, I LOVE your belly button." And on Tuesday she asked Mike "Daddy, do you LOVE purple butterflies?"

It really is pretty funny how she says it all the time. Her other phrase is "Ooooh Maaaaan" Last night I said, alright Tessa, it's bedtime and she said "Ooooohhh Maaannnn". She just cintinues to crack me up. I can't wait until Ellis starts talking, and just listen to the two of them.

Classic Tessa

My parents came back from the mountains today (my mom was up there all week, soooooo jealous) and we had them over for dinner. We just grilled some burgers, had some fresh corn from the mountains, cucumber salad and fresh peaches from the mountains. While eating dessert, Tessa tried to eat her ice cream with her hands. So in an attempt to help educate Tessa, Opa said "Tessa, you can't use your fingers! Dogs don't even eat with their fingers." then off to the side he said "Because dogs don't have fingers." You could just see the wheels in Tessa's head turning and she said "No, Opa, dogs don't eat ice cream"!

Yeah, Opa, you silly goose.