Squirrels

Lauren is watching for squirrels in this video which she has now renamed 'Foofa' from Yo Gabba Gabba. All the talk about Foofa made her think about Brobee (another Gabba character) which set her off into a spin of a few of her favorite things (Jaxson, Lola, Heather, Horsey, and Apple)...ENJOY!

A few more of her favorite things...she has quite the vocabulary! Lately she has been having some 'quiet time' in her room. She will walk in there, close the door, and play for a few more minutes before knocking to come out. I opened the door with the video camera after she had been in there for awhile. She always tells us everything that she did when we open the door and that is what she is doing here when talking about Violet and the chair.

Is it Summer Yet??

We ask ourselves this question often in this house. Unfortunately, without central air...I am sure we are going to dread wishing for its humid goodness shortly. To help get us through the final weeks of winter, we picked up a bag of 18 month summer clothes off of FreeCycle.

Included in our new free belongings...

a swimsuit cover

a 'new' swimming suit...possibly from the 80's? Lauren seemed to enjoy it, diaper and all!

Kia's Trip

Kia took a trip outside to see the huge amount of snow {before it all melted} and to Cedar Rapids to visit Uncle Ryan and Aunt Amanda. Oppsies!

Lauren's hat off, Kia's hat off

What Happened?

Something happened to Lauren's doll...it is a mystery but she doesn't like it! Here is a better glimpse of Lauren's active personality; always on the go!

JEW!!!

Lauren loves juicing in the morning! When she sees me pull the juicer out from the wall, she starts yelling 'jew'. Now she has to help too!Saying 'jew'

I found this little cup with a straw for under $2 and figured it would be a good 'jew' cup.

Stuart Little?

Meet Stuart Little's Jonathon Lipnicki's little sister...
She found my OLD glasses (from 5th grade) and has been wanting to wear them to be like Papa (aka Grandma Cindy). I popped both the lenses out and she wonders around wearing her them.

Day 23 and 15 month Teaser

Day 23 is a picture of your friend as a baby...seriously, not many people have this. I scoured Facebook for a good picture of my friend Kelsey and came up empty-handed so I thought a picture of Kelsey with a baby (Lauren) would be good enough! We miss our bestie who lives in Florida now.

Making homemade bagels...yummy!

Kelsey's going-away party in Chicago, sad night!

Here is a little teaser of Lauren's 15 month professional pics! I know, they were taken 2 months ago...but I finally got them uploaded to my computer. Of course, her true personality came through during the photo shoot and we got some pretty silly ones!

Day 22 and other recent happenings...

We have been rather busy this week but didn't get much accomplished, doesn't that always seem to be happening! My mom and dad were planning on coming to stay with us Tuesday-Friday while my dad was in the area for business. With the "Storm of the Century" approaching, my mom decided to come on Sunday instead. Thank goodness she did, because my dad never made it and she most certainly would not have with the storm! We went to bed Tuesday with the wind howling and snow falling and woke up to about 16 inches of snow. It was a fun day of scooping up snow and enjoying the fact that we couldn't go anywhere.

This is the neighbor's driveway. Can you see the massive amount of snow we got? He plowed the side but a middle section is still there, it was/is pretty deep!

There is a step up to our garage but it looks level here.

Lots of snow on our front bushes

Day 22 is a picture of your town so I figured this would count! This is what our town looks like...a big snowy mess!

And just because it has been awhile since I posted last and all some of you care about is pictures of Lauren...here is a recent one of our little daredevil!