Long Over Due Update!

Wow! I can't believe it has been two months since I last updated. Laurel, Matt, and I have all been sick on and off since before Christmas. Laurel had a virus and an ear infection which lasted for a few weeks. Then Matt and I got sick with bad colds and we have both been so tired lately that not much has gotten done.

Laurel has been up to so much lately. She understands so much now. We can ask her where her belly is and she pats her belly with this huge smile. You can just say bye or hi and she will wave. Or you can say clap and she will clap her little hands. She also loves to dance and we can say "dance baby" and she will start shaking her butt and hips.


Here are a few pictures from the last few months...Beware there are a lot of pictures!

Here Laurel is trying to steal the camera from me. This is how all her pictures look lately.
(Give me the camera!)

Here is Laurel at music class. She loves the drums!

Laurel is wearing one of my shirts. Don't ask me why!

I love the way she walks with her hands up in the air.

It looks like she is playing football here. Hike!

Laurel looks so cute with a hat or hood on, but...

She hates anything on her head. No bows for her!

Laurel playing with Abby.

Here is Matt playing around with Laurel.

Laurel at storytime. She loves the big teddy bears.

Laurel playing on the slide. She had the best time; I hated to leave!

I will put up some Christmas and Birthday pictures soon (hopefully). I am realizing that nothing much gets done with a baby! Hope everyone is well!

First Steps

Laurel took her first steps a few days before she turned 10 months. It was pretty cool, but a little sad too. My baby is not a baby if she can walk! She is really funny about it though, because she refuses to let Matt or I help her walk. She wants to do it all by herself, thank you very much! She is so independent it is not even funny (I wonder where she gets that from)!



Matt trying to get her to walk. She loves remotes!

This is what she does whenever she sees the camera. She crawls over to me at super speed and crawls on me and tries to grab it. It sure is hard to get any good pictures lately!

I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving. I'm at my in-laws today so I actually have a little bit of a break from Laurel and what do I do? Post about my baby, what else! Happy Thanksgiving!

A Fall Day

Here are a few pictures of Laurel playing on a lovely fall day.

Mommy Wow, I'm a Big Kid Now!

9 months has brought so many changes to Laurel. She is really beginning to become a big kid. She started clapping (she did this all day in music class today) and besides smiling and laughing this is the cutest thing she has done.

Laurel is saying all kinds of words now. I don't think she really understands what they mean, but she is getting really good at copying what we say. She started saying hey and waving at 6 months, but she hasn't said anything else until now. Lately she has been saying dada all the time, but I think she thinks it means man because she is calling all men dada. She has also said dog, bye, no and other simple words like that. I can't wait until she looks at me and says mama!

But the biggest change is that she can stand all by herself! She has been letting go while she was standing for awhile now, but she would always grab back on or sit down. This past week she just started standing like it is no big deal. I've only been able to get a few pictures of her standing and they are not the greatest, but it is just awesome to me to see her standing like a big girl.

I guess walking is going to be coming pretty soon. She has been cruising around the house for awhile now, but I don't know if I'm ready for her to be walking. She is still my little baby!

A Few Pictures of My Sweet Baby

Is this not the sweetest baby in the world?

This was taken while Laurel was playing chase with Daddy.
Laurel eating her first pancake. Yummy!

Cold Snap!

We had a really cold week recently. Laurel loves to go on her walks in the morning and afternoon down our driveway, and I had to put a hat and jacket and on her. I'm sorry, but she is just too cute with her little poms. I had to post a few pictures of "winter" Laurel.



By the way, trying to get her in her jacket, hat, and shoes to go on the walk almost took longer than the walk itself! She kept crawling off into the hallway. She has just learned how to play chase and she loves for us to chase her around the house. It is super cute expect when I'm trying to get her dressed (well, okay it's still cute then too).

Happy Halloween!

Laurel was a Bumble Bee for Halloween. We went to two Halloween parties and she wore her costume to music class and to get pictures taken at the mall. She had a lot of fun and she was SO CUTE!

Laurel with her "boyfriend" Drew. Thanks for the candy!

Hey we match!

All tired after a fun night at the church Halloween Party.