For her third birthday Tess received her first driving lesson, on one of John's beautiful Farmall tractors.
Tess -- whether by nature, or as a byproduct of having four doting family members -- is a happy, quick-to-laugh, easygoing kid.
She is also extremely independent. For instance, Tess has not followed the crowd in its shoe-wearing habits.
As a general rule, Tess chooses to ignore all instructions.
And Tess goes where she wants to go, without notice. I lost her at the farmer's market in a split second. We all spread out to find her. Silas finally tracked her down... at the cookie stand.
If Tess wants to leave a playground, she just up and leaves the playground. We have found her, at different times, wandering in the nearby woods; chasing birds across a field hundreds of yards away; and, once, hanging seven feet above the ground from a pole on the big-kid play structure ("Hi Dad. Can you help me get down?").
The transition from two to three was a little hard on Tess, I think. She has told us more than once that she still wants to be a baby. She absolutely clings to her pacifier -- we will tackle that issue this coming year, but potty training comes first. Meanwhile we are praising the heck out of her big-girl steps, like attending preschool and sleeping through the night. Luckily for Tess, as the third child, she will always be our baby.
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