Lauren's Idea of Fun, Part 1

Lauren loves to learn by reading, watching videos, or watching her parents (really scary). In this picture she is sitting quietly (REALLY scary) while watching one of her sign language videos at Mimi's home in east Texas.

Lauren's Interpretation

Guess who Lauren has been been watching get ready in the morning!

Hey it takes work to be this beautiful!

Spring time calls for some yard work

Almost Gone With The Wind

Our baby girl.

"Catch me if you can"

Lauren just built Mr. Gingerbread a dream house in hopes of trying to lure him in for supper.

Well, the house looked too enticing......for Lauren!

Lauren's Travels

Lauren has been traveling quite a bit lately.

Sometimes she likes to bring a friend (see picture above and below).

And sometimes she likes to just read a good book.

Sleeping Beauty

Example of typical moment spent with Lauren

You are watching this beautiful baby and she looks at you like, "Hey. How are you doing?"

"I'm just standing here looking at my toy."

Then you look away....for any reason.....for a split second, and you hear..........

"LALALALALALALAL...giggle, giggle....LALALALALALALA...giggle, giggle...LALAALALA"

"LALALALALALALAL...giggle, giggle....LALALALALALALA...giggle, giggle...LALAALALA"

So you turn around to see what in the world just happend and you see.......

this beautiful baby and she looks at you like, "Hey. How are you doing?"

Birthday Madness

Let the birthday celebration begin!

First, mommy & daddy took Lauren to have her favorite meal (pancakes) at IHOP.

Mommy was nice enought to help me eat.

But, hey I am ONE year old today and I can feed myself.........

MMMM...I LOOOVVVEEE me some pancakes!!!

Angel?

This is Lauren's "What? I'm not going to get in to anything." look.

Lauren's First - Part Five (w/ a bonus)

time at the movies! And, yes it was a Disney movie (Ratatouille).

After the movies it was only logical for us to move our date to.....

the bowling alley!

I don't want to give away how good Lauren really is at bowling, but I'll just tell you that she didn't even use bumpers!!

Strike A Pose

Ready for the weekend?

Lauren is ready.

Lauren's Favorite

Lauren has been a fan of ice cream for awhile...

and boy has she come a long way!

She is really cute, all the time, but especially when she has ice cream! Everytime she takes a bite she says MMMMMM!!!! And then she lunges towards the spoon, bowl, or person closest to the ice cream to get some more! However beware if you don't get the spoon back to her fast enough......

be prepared for a meltdown.

Lauren's First - Part Six

Lauren's attended her first rock concert

(yes, these pictures are from about 4 months ago)

She really got into the spirit of the evening with the whole mohawk thing!

Lauren's First - Part Five

Shift on watch duty for.....

DEER!!!!!

In the following picture she is just making sure mommy & daddy didn't sneak away. She always keeps a close watch on us. :)

Lauren's First - Part Four

Day at the beach

with her friend Riley Cate

She misses Riley Cate, who just recently moved out of town. Lauren keeps up with her good friend by checking out her blog: http://www.carltonbaby.blogspot.com/.

P.S. We were so impressed with Lauren and Riley Cate and their day at the beach. And yes...they made it back before curfew.

Lauren's First (Cont'd)....

Workout with her personal training mommy

right hand

now the left hand.....

Can you tell which is Lauren's preferred hand? :)