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Category: Tess
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This morning, while the girls were eating breakfast and I was making their lunches for school, Grace was telling jokes. So Tess came up with a joke of her own. Tess: "Where does the flower go to get him own stem?" Me: "I don't know. Where?" Tess: "To the garden!" Me: "Where did you learn that…
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The other day, Tess inexplicably started asking for a cape. So Adam dutifully tied a blanket loosely around her neck. Tess then ran around the house for a while, saying "Super Tess to the rescue! Na-na-na-naaaaa!" Not being one to miss out on an opportunity to run around, Grace joined her and promptly made up…
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I had no idea what Tess was doing at this moment, as we walked into the coffee shop, but she insisted that I take a photo of her. Later she told me that she was making a "smile" with her arms. Three-year olds are funny (and yes, she's holding a balloon).
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Tess completely surprised me the other day when she sat down at the art table and made a snowflake all by herself. She cut the edges of the paper, then decorated it with dots of color. She even wrote her name (if you look carefully, you can see all 4 letters). Beautiful! Later, she taped…
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On Sunday we walked at our favorite spot. Tess insisted on wearing her backpack (which contained her baby doll), and she ran almost the whole way. She walked on the rocks, she ran with Maggie, and she played "chase" with Grace (who dropped her drawers, but that's another story). She even attempted to do a…
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Today, Tess's preschool class went on a field trip to a local farm to visit their oxen. In class, they've been reading the book Ox-Cart Man, about a farmer packing up his ox-cart with goods and traveling ten days by foot to a harbor town to sell them. The kids got to meet a real…
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On Monday, Tess wrote her name for the very first time. I wrote an example and explained how to do it, and then she just did it. Like she had been waiting for someone to ask her to do it. And she wrote it right next to a portrait of her gymnastics coach — see…
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Me: "What do you want to do today?" Tess: "Play, play, play, play, play. And wear dresses."
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On gymnastics days, Tess wakes up and puts on her leotard right away. She simply cannot wait for it to be time for her class. She participates with great enthusiasm, and seems to particularly like walking on the balance beam then jumping off into the foam pit. And when it's time for 'follow the…
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