Eight months old today!

Tess is eight months old today! She is crawling everywhere and wants to stand all the time. She says lots of "da-das" and some "ma-mas", although she clearly doesn't associate those words with us. She is such a happy girl!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Tess made the hike to Chicago to see Grandpa and Grandma Tillman and the extended Tillman family for her first Thanksgiving. Everyone enjoyed meeting her! While we were there, Tess discovered that she LOVES walking (while being led by a mom and dad that will soon have sore backs if this continues much longer)!! We'll have to post a video of this new trick soon.

Tess with Grandpa and Grandma

Tess and Dad

Tess and Mom

Tess and Uncle Mark

Happy Birthday, BFF!

Today is Kadie's 1st birthday! In case you've forgotten, Kadie is Tess' BFF. Her party was last weekend and it was the first birthday party that Tess has ever been invited to. That makes it the best party that Tess has ever been to! Tess can't wait to share lots more birthdays with Kadie.

Jeepers! Now she's standing!

Now that we've mastered the art of crawling (not really), we have decided we are ready for the next step. Strike that - Tess has decided that SHE is ready, but Mom and Dad aren't so sure. Yikes! What happened to our little baby?

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Today is Grandma's birthday! Tess helped to celebrate by going out to dinner with her (and the rest of the gang). Tess even got to hang out with Uncle Brendan. Tess hopes that Grandma had a nice day! (The picture of Tess and Grandma is when Tess visited Grandma at school last week.)