Happy Birthday Nana

My mom turned 59 today....she doesn't look a day over 50. We had a nice family dinner out at my sister on Saturday night to celebrate. We got her a gift card for the spa. She is going to Pena to the spa over spring break with her girl friends. What a nice way to celebrate a birthday family dinner, fun with friends, and some stranger massaging your body....sounds perfect to me!!

It was nice that Nana got to celebrate her birthday with her 3 favorite people. This was the best picture we could get and we took about 20.

Lauren has been singing happy birthday all day but I know that when I pick up the phone to have her do it for Nana...she won't.

Happy Birthday Nana!!!!! and many more

Lauren and Ava BFF

Lauren and Ava are pretty good buds. Lauren talks about Ava all the time. Most of her babies are named Ava and she like to bless Ava at night when we say our prayers. If we hear a baby crying at the store she says "Ava crying?" Lauren is a little mother hen to Ava and so far Ava seems to enjoy the nice mothering.....let's hope it lasts!

This was right before Ava started screaming....I think Lauren might have tried to wash her hair.

Lauren's sleep habits

Lauren, lately, has been a pretty good sleeper. She will occasionally wake up and need one of us to come and lay with her for a little while, but most nights she goes to bed at 8 and wakes up around 7. On the weekends we can put her to bed later and she will sometimes sleep until 8 or 8:30. This picture is my favorite because she is sleeping spread eagle sideways on her bed laying on top of about 4 different blankets.

This picture is pretty typical. Whenever daddy puts her to bed he doesn't have the heart to walk out of the room and let her cry for the 2 seconds that she does cry. So daddy stays with her until she falls asleep which usually means he falls asleep too....this is why a majority of the time I put her to bed (haha)

This picture cracks me up because at bed time now I will let her play with a doll or something before she goes to sleep. Lately it has been her baby doll...which she must have a bottle so she can feed her baby doll or she will demand I get one. Or she wants to go to bed with her groovy girls car and dolls and of course she must have two dolls because there are two seats in car.

Nikhil

This is my dear friend Janel's little boy Nikhil. She and I have been friends for over a
decade. He is almost 9 months old and cute as a button. Janel lives in Texas now and I miss her dealy but thankfully she can come back to visit several times a year, so she was able to stay overnight with us on Friday night.

I know his daddy loves this picture of him driving the pink car!!!

He had so much fun at Aunt Kimmy's house! We wore him out.

Lauren's eating habits

Lauren may just be shy of about 25 lbs but she eats like a pig. She loves eating any kind of pasta and she just shovels it in.

She eats her bread from the inside out.

The other night she helped me eat this entire bowl of salad with ranch dressing

Her favorite food....powdere sugar donuts. She loves them.

v-day

One Valentine's day. We had family over for dinner...but first we had to give our big white teddy bear a big hug. This is Lauren's typical cheese face.

All the kidos having dinner. After dinner they played and played. Until they dropped.

My sleepy little Valentine. All sugared up and sound asleep.

Does it get any sweeter than this!!!!

My cutie pie

Lauren is at such a cute age. She is a 2 going on 20!! She loves her high heel shoes and carrying a purse. She is really into putting her own shoes on and if I try to help her she gets very upset with me and says..."No mommy, I do it". She is very independent she wants to do everything by herself and does not want help. She gets very frustrated when she can't do something.

Look at that sweet grin. What a cutie pie. The best thing about the stage Lauren is at now is probably all the talking she does. She is really into Curious George right now and loves reading books. She still loves strawberry cupcake. She loves her baby dolls and she is definitely a daddy's girl.

Lauren's shorty robe. This is her baby robe that she wore when she was 6 months old. She still loves it and likes to wear it after her bath. Every night when it is time for her bath I say "guess what time it is Lauren?" then she says, in her little high pitched excited voice "bath time"!!

Then when she is cold she will say "brr cold" or if it's cold outside she will say "brr cold outside". Lauren's new thing now is fake sleeping. She loves to pretend that she is asleep. Or she loves if we pretend to be asleep. She says "shhh daddy is sleeping". Some other things she says right now that are cute: "Pinger" (finger), "I pall down" (I fall down). "prench pries" (french fries). She loves to count things she says "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 2,