Mama got a new phone, and in the process downloaded all her old phone pics onto the computer.

These are her favorites.

In other notes - we get to see pics of Baby Mac tomorrow!  I am excited to make sure it is a healthy baby.  And no, we will not be finding out the gender, just like last time.

Chicagoans bring cold weather.

Last year around this time we had a hard freeze. Like all our plants died kind of freeze. It happened to be when The Colemans were visiting. They are coming back. Good news is that it has been cold this past week but it looks like it is supposed to warm up midweek for them. Put away the winter hat Tessa and bring on the swimsuit Claire!

Take a picture

Tessa was playing with her pipe cleaners, and thought the colander would make a good hat.  I asked if I could take a picture which resulted in this:

Then she asked if she could take some pictures.  She took a few minutes to set each of these pictures up, and even would re-adjust her "scene" if she was unhappy with the result.  Here are Tessa's pictures:

Then she acted as director while I took pictures of her and her baby.  She even made sure to tell the baby to smile in the first one.  Then she wanted her baby looking at her:

Finally, she wanted pictures of her Baby sitting next to her, then the teapot and then she was done.  All in all, it was a lot of fun.

just for fun

Citrus, Worms, Swings and MLK

We are getting more settled into the new place.  Our citrus has been harvested so we can start working on the backyard (there are a few trees too close to the house that need to come out, but we wanted them to be harvested first). 

Tessa had her first experience with worms this past week.  She was scared at first, but quickly warmed up to the little guy and wanted to take him on wheelbarrow rides and to play soccer.

Monday, we talked about Martin Luther King Day.  We talked about who he was, and what he stood for.  We even related it to one of her favorite books (thanks Katy!) The Rough Faced Girl.  She did ask what happened to MLK, and I explained that he died.  She asked how and we briefly talked about that another mean man shot him with a gun.  At dinner that night when Scott got home, I asked Tessa to tell him why today was special.  I was expecting her to talk about how it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside because we honestly talked about that concept for 30+ minutes.  Instead she blurts out that the man died because of the mean blue(?) gun and says nothing more.  Awesome.

Hope you all have a good week.

15 weeks

Tessa loves the baby, and usually says it will be a baby sister for her.  She finally thought of a name tonight:  Baby Claire... which I am not so sure the Coleman family would appreciate :)  Both Scott and Tessa are eager to feel some kicks which I've begun to feel this week!

Natural Playground

I've debated on what sort of play structure to get for Tessa, and tonight I started working on a natural playground for her.  Just logs right now, but I have visions of teepees and slides, and all sorts of fun things.  All things loved in Tessa's world are campfires.  So of course that was the first to be built.