Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

On impulse, we moved Tessa to her "big girl" bed. We let her help us put flowered sheets on the bed (she really likes flowers) and then set up a bed rail. Then we hooked up the all-important Fisher Price aquarium. Tessa handled it like she always handles transition--with ease. I, however, was a little nervous about the up and coming possible night of no sleep due to chasing a toddler around the house in the dark. So that meant that Anthony had to be on his quietest behavior. That almost rules out breathing for him...but I relented. He accidentally rammed his clodhopper shoe into the closet door while getting ready for bed, and I gave him a look that would melt the face off any normal person. Anthony just burst into a fit of barely controlled giggling. With tears in his eyes, he chuckled and leaned down to kiss me and said, I love you, in that way that really means, I love you even though you are a crazy person. Well, loud banging from Anthony notwithstanding, Tessa slept quite well. She also slept good the next night. Napping is still a problem. She likes to get up and come out of the room looking for me with a book in her hand for me to read to her. I had a "conversation" with her about staying in the bed (thanks for the tip, mom), but she seemed to think there was an asterisk in there somewhere that led to a footnote that stated "*when Momo is not around to see me". I would go up the stairs again and again to open the door to a blur of pastel cotton and dirty skin as Tessa dove past me to land on her pillow face down and pretend to be asleep. After the 5th trip up the stairs, I decided to sit in the chair next to her bed and read a book of my own while I waited for her to drift off. I know, stupid. She kept saying, Momo? Momo book! Ugh. So I gave up and threw her in the crib and left. She was asleep in 5 minutes and almost slept 3 hours. ??????????? :[

She also got a haircut (her first--mostly).

Look--I don't know how she does it. I clean her face, and this is what it looks like in 5 minutes.