One year old!

I love birthdays! and I really enjoyed celebrating with Tessa!


She had some help from excited brothers to open gifts.


I had to include lots of these photos so grandma could see!


Thanks for the gifts!



We've come a long way baby!

She knows that she is big stuff!
What a blessing she is!
Somehow with each child I have more fun(and more chaos).

Yes, Michael started school

all day. every day.
and he still can't get enough. This is his third week.
I asked him today, "What is your favorite part of school?" (I think for him it is definitely the friends, social systems, etc. and I wondered if he would recognize that.)
He just said, "pretty much every part of school is my favorite mom."


Here is the classic photo:
-- getting ready to walk to school on the first day


We saw this turtle at the beach on Monday.
Michael's class is the Trefry Turtles (Ms. Trefry).



Jordan and Tessa are becoming quite the duo.
Jordan is participating in a preschool coop at home and he is trying out a tumbling class. At the end of the first class he said, "Mom I want to do more." I was impressed with his attention span and determination!


As of today Tessa is taking four steps at a time and then plop... Her balance isn't quite there yet, but she has caught the vision.

one last picture of labor day in Florida--just because.
We enjoyed the beautiful sky and a new beach.