A real, live baseball player signed her cast.

July, 2011

(#17 Joe Dvorsky of the Great Falls Voyagers)

"I started off jumping, but then I fell."

Prettiful

Tessa: I'm prettiful!

Daddy: Prettiful?

Tessa: Yeah, full of pretty!

mirror, mirror, on the wall

"How I tell how I look is by looking down, but I can't see my face so that's why I like mirrors."

not anymore

september 3, 2010

i was a daddy's girl once for a couple of days.

about our backyard

"If I was a little kid I would think it was the best place in the world."

why I can't be the kid & have her be the mom

"Because I don't know how to be the mom. Besides, I don't have that much money."

For her upcoming birthday

we took Tessa to get her ears pierced. I asked, "Do you like having your ears pierced?"

"Yes," she answered, "but it changes almost everything."

big words

July 2, 2010

"Mom, I'm a little dehydrated."

I think she likes learning and using new, big words.

flips

Daddy: Tessa why do you do flips on the couch all of the time?

Tessa: Because it's the only thing I can do flips on.

in the future

sometime last year

"When I grown up and get married, where will you and daddy live?"

because this is, after all, her house...

why she hit her sister...

october 17, 2009

"It's just that when I get mad I get really strong"

learning to read

"Now I know how people learn to read! They just magically know all of the words.

That's how I did it."

when I grow up

"I don't think I'll be a juggler when I grow up."

way back then

August 3, 2009

"When I was five I didn't know that much stuff."

back in the day

"I still remember when I was five."

(Um ... earlier this week?)

she lost her first tooth

"I was like, 'Did it come out or something? 'Cause it kinda hurts.'"

"I didn't think I would lose a tooth till I was, like, six!" (which will be in less than 3 weeks)

and how does she feel? "Happy, but when I swallow it tastes gross."

muscles

May 30, 2009

"My feets got big muscles, see?"