Yes, that's right, Tessa turned 1 on Sunday 4/3! I still can't believe my eyes and how fast the year went by. She has been the light of our lives this past year. Not that Landon hasn't been, but so many things are new with her and watching an infant grow into a toddler all over again has definitely been exciting and interesting to see how different babies are. She has grown up so much. She can now say 4 words (Mama, Dada, Dog, and Ball)...which I have to say is more than Landon could say at his first birthday. But then again, Landon was already walking at his first birthday, and Tessa still isn't. She's close though. I love having a little girl where I can dress her up like a doll and fix her hair. She loves to give kisses and cuddle. She is such a calm little girl, unless she sees something that she really wants. When she sees my iPhone, she immediately wants it, which is frustrating, but cracks me up at the same time. She's into everything, like my bathroom drawers and cupboards. She loves to unload the already folded laundry, which I can only laugh at cause she's so stinkin' cute. My favorite is that when she is concentrating on stuff, she always has her mouth wide open with her tongue sticking out. I really can't get enough of it.
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Well Landon turned 3 today! Still can't believe it. I love this little man so much and he make my life so much better, I can't imagine it without him. Over the summer he was really into this cartoon called "Fireman Sam", so I decided that if he was still interested, we'd do a fireman themed birthday party for him. Time went by so fast and suddenly it was December and I still hadn't planned his birthday party, so I asked him if he wanted a Fireman party...Luckily he said YES! So anyway, it was a hit. We went to the local fire station for a tour of the firehouse and firetrucks and then we came back to our house for pizza and cupcakes. After pizza, my cousin Todd, who is also a fireman up in Everett, brought kid sized bunker gear and wore his own uniform. The kids got dressed up, went out back and fought the fires of Lakeland Hills (putting out flares on our back patio with the garden hose ;)). It was priceless and the kids loved it. Happy 3rd Birthday Moose!!!
Wow! Tessa is 6 months old! She's now sitting up on her own and babbling and playing with things. She actually sat up a week earlier than her brother did at this age. She loves jumping in her jungle bouncer, the same one Landon used to use and loved as well. She's such a joy to have in our family. She makes every day brighter with her adorable smile and funny noises. I wish I could get a video, and some day I might, but she does this funny thing where she scrunches up her nose and mouth and breathes really hard through her nose. It's hilarious. We went to Charlotte recently at the beginning of October and all her Aunts just LOVED her! We went to the pumpkin patch and rode on a huge tractor and we went shopping and hung out as a huge family. 
It was awesome. Landon loved playing baseball everyday because it was stil 80 degrees over there. Papa Dirt took him to the golf course 5 times while we were there too. He LOVED that! Landon loved all the animals that Papa and Lola have in there house, but he still doesn't understand that Teddy (the big orange cat) doesn't like being tormented. Teddy gave Landon a battle wound right across his left cheek, but Landon kept coming back for more as if he had never been touched. I guess he'll learn one of these days.
