The Agony and the Ecstacy

Tess's emotions all feel more intense lately. On Sunday, we were talking with a neighbor when her dog snatched a snack out of Tess's hand. We continued to talk for a minute after this happened, trying to comfort Tess, offer some more snack, but Tess was just silent, her lip slowly emerging. When our neighbor left, Tess turned to me and burst into sobbing tears. She was inconsolable for several blocks. She'd stop, think, and then burst into tears all over again. She didn't want more snack, she just needed to cry.

Last night we had a small bowl of cut up tomatoes on the table for tacos. She wanted to eat the tomatoes out of the serving bowl. No other scenario was going to work, and we tried offering many, including putting some of the tomatoes in a separate bowl and then giving her the serving bowl. Inconsolable sobbing once again, which was really annoying because I just wanted to eat.

She's definitely a toddler with the rocky emotions to prove it.

(She's worn that band-aid since Ime or Sebastian put it on her yesterday afternoon. In the second photo, she's trying to lift her markers onto the table with her toes.)