Dress Up

Tess doesn't play with toys for very long, but she can be occupied by clothes for hours. Sometimes she tries on every item of clothing in her clothes bins--even dirty laundry, other times she utilizes the dress up box. If I were to give a conservative estimate I would say she makes at least 50 clothing article changes a day (shoes/socks/hat included). It is hilarious and I definitely should take more pictures (but she rarely holds still so the times I try, it results fruitless). But here are a few gems as of late:

Some how this shirt and skirt match because they both have flowers. She loves these shoes and coat our neighbors, the Pehrson's, gave her even though they are obviously too big. (btw, we had her in the dr. the other day and @ almost 3 years old she only weighs 21 lbs. 2 oz.) Note the sunglasses to finish off the outfit--upside down of course because they don't fall off her face like that. Tessa's cousin, Abby (age 10!), made this cute little blue dress for her. She loves it, but obviously is still working on understanding other coordinating items. But at least she has the modesty thing down (Well, for that day, since at this moment of typing she is running around in a swim suit, knee high socks and pink high tops).Dress up with someone else is always more fun than by yourself. Unfortunately our dress up box mostly contains real clothes that just don't fit Tess right now or ones that I don't want her to wear out of the house. (not that that matters because she mixes up dress up clothes and regular clothes all the time and often insists on wearing the combinations out and about.) So when we have friends over, options are limited for bigger bodies. Thankfully Estee found a few glitzy things that fit her. One more. The pink is actually a dress. Very nice with the jeans.PS. I added a few more items to the Tessa Documentation post below if you are interested.