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Category: Tess
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Poor Tess, being the younger sister of an outgoing older sister means that she has to hang around — a lot — with her sister's friends. And being the younger daughter of a rather introverted mother means that she never gets any playdates of her own because her mother already deals with enough playdates, thank…
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I'm enjoying a lot of things about our just-turned-five-year-old. I love the questions she asks ("Are robots real?"). I love her crazy, out-of-the-blue proclamations ("Mom! Great-grandpa is a zombie!"), and her adorable matter-of-factness ("Mom, I love you, but that is the last time I'm going to say it."). I also love the names she gives…
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Tess got to go on a field trip yesterday with her preschool class, as a way to celebrate the end of the school year. They went to Maine Audubon, just down the road from the school. They watched a red-tailed hawk, a turkey, and several groundhogs (with babies). They hiked up and down hills and…
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This is a "sorry card." It's what your newly-minted five-year old makes when she is sent to her room — again — for not listening (after she was already sent to her room once for not listening, whereupon she immediately left her room and did some more not-listening). You see, a five-year old is just…
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Meet Marshmallow, a one-year-old guinea pig that Tess picked out at the animal shelter for her fifth birthday. She chose a guinea pig because, a) she can hold it on her lap while watching television on weekend mornings, b) she can keep it in a cage in her room, and c) it's not a rabbit…
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This is what happens when the girls are quiet and out of sight for a few minutes, and you're so happy that you can finally hear yourself think that you don't go looking for them to see what they're doing… And, lesson learned.
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To my sunshine, You have been so excited to turn five. You have been saying, "When I'm five, I'm going to be able to reach that without standing on my tippy toes," or "I won't need your help carrying this when I'm five." Of course, I am in no hurry for you to grow older,…
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Tess, at bedtime on her 5th birthday: "Mom, I'm probably not going to sleep this whole night because I am so excited my birthday has come. I'm just going to think about all of the lovely things I'm going to do tomorrow and all of the lovely presents I got." It's good to be five.
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About two months ago, Tess attended a birthday party at the Children's Museum, and she's been been talking about it ever since. Today, after enduring pleas to go "every day," we finally bought a membership. And then we celebrated by sailing away in the lobster boat, catching our own lobsters, and delivering them to the…
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