9 months

It’s Groundhog Day! Hopefully Px Phil was right about spring arriving early. As mild as the winter has been, we can’t wait for warmer weather to be here. Despite the weather, we have still been getting out a lot and making new friends wherever we go. Tessie loves swim class and we still go to the library weekly. She is born to be a diva. While the librarian reads the story she crawls to the middle of the circle of babies, stands directly in front of the librarian, claps her hands, and makes little happy noises. She loves to be the center of attention.
Speaking of standing, she is getting very good at it, standing for about 30 seconds and taking some steps! I have seen her take as many as 7 steps. Stephen has seen her walk about 12 steps when I went upstairs for about 10 minutes. Isn’t that always the way? Most of the time it’s about 2-3 steps before she drops to the floor.
We have plans to travel to New York again this month, so maybe my friend Kristen will take some more beautiful pictures…hopefully Tessie will cooperate.