Happy Birthday Tessa!!

Our Tessa Girl turned 5 today! She has been so excited for her birthday.

  

Tessa is such a spunky girl! She is full of life and energy. Boring is definitely not a word to describe Tess. She is always imagining and playing pretend. I love to listen to her play, she says such grown-up words and phrases that just crack me up.

  

Tessa is naturally generous. She would give the shirt off her back to anyone that needs it. Anytime she gets something, the first thing she does is share with her family, specifically her brothers. 

Tessa is very sweet with Damon. She loves to help him do the things he can't do himself yet. She is able to distract him when he wants something he can't have and make him happy when he's sad. Damon adores her and will always give her hugs.

Tessa loves that Rockwell will always let her play with him and his friends. He includes her like she's his best friend. Tessa loves to tell Rockwell about her day. She will tell me a couple things about school when I ask, but she gets really excited to talk to Rockwell about the things she's learning and doing.

  

Tessa loves stuffed animals, real animals, watching tv, playing outside, playing with Hallee, and preschool. She knows almost all her letters and their sounds and is interested in addition right now. 

Paul had a great idea to take Tessa to the Puppy Barn for her birthday. Al let Rockwell and Damon play at her house on Saturday while Paul and I took Tess and Hallee to pet the puppies. She was in heaven!

  

Tessa opened her presents Sunday afternoon. She was thrilled with her gifts.

  

  

I wrote this post earlier this afternoon and waited to publish it until I had pictures of her blowing out the candles on her pupcakes, as Tessa calls them. :) The pictures turned out even better than I was hoping, because some of the cupcakes are missing from the tower. Our neighbors, Steve and Chris, showed up right before we were going to have cake and ice cream. We visited with them for a while, and Tessa said she wanted to give them some pupcakes to take home. Steve went on and on about what a special girl she is for wanting to give to others on her special day. Their first response was to say no, that she didn't need to give any to them. I'm glad they took some when she said that she really wanted to share with them. Giving makes Tessa happy. It's one of the many many things I love about her.


Happy birthday beautiful Tessa girl. We love you so much!!