Two and a Half Minutes With Tessa - episode one

Today I am introducing a brand new video series "Two and a Half Minutes With Tessa" it's going to be a new regular thing around here on the blog.

Tuesdays - roughly around 9AM. Every Tuesday. For an entire year.

If you have read here long you know how much I love making a series, documenting a journey is my favorite thing to do. This time I was inspired by a simple unedited clip that Cole shot with this new little camera I had bought her. She put it on one of those little bendy attach to anything tripods and shot Tessa at the end of breakfast for two and a half minutes and just let her do her thing. It was amazing to me. I mean I watched it 50 times, but I am her Dad so of course I was amazed by her wielding her cuteness power.... Her funny messed up bedhead, and her new monster jammies, and her little head tilt, trying to lick all the oatmeal off her face, her new voice, and she has TEN teeth now. TEN!

Tessa has been on the verge of getting chatty for weeks it seems, she will copy sounds, mimic a phrase, she is gearing up to be a real chatterbox we can tell, so after Cole showed me this clip-- I thought it would be really interesting to film Tessa for two and a half minutes uninterrupted each week for a year and see the changes. Watch the personality come out. It says in the tagline of this blog: Stories of growing. So that is that.

Tessa is 15 months old tomorrow. And here we go...

I also wanted to share another video that Cole and I watched in total amazement and smiles last night. How cool is this family? And who just thinks: "I'm going to send some stuff to space."-- "NO, it will freeze!"-- "Nah! We will just throw some pocket handwarmers in the craft and it will be fine." I love how simple and matter of fact their approach to everything is. Think about how their kids view "space" now compared to the kids that grew up watching the shuttle program roll out. AND It was refreshing to see a father do something with his kids and a weather balloon that wasn't desperate and creepy. Seriously if I was a TV producer I would get this family on TV doing more of this stuff. The space program goes on... and it's in Brooklyn.


found via (Your Ill-fitting Overcoat

All the Love in the Universe ~ Me

P.S. I started filming the Do What You Love series a little later than I thought we would get started, but life is life and things change, and I just wanted you to know it is coming soon :)

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