I Love.....

I love this little smiling face...
I love this tiny little hand...
And I love these tiny little feet!

Sorry it's been so long since I last updated. Just busy living life and as you all know time sure flies, especially with a little one.

Lauren is doing AWESOME! She is talking up a storm. Who would have thought, right?!?!?! She says ball, duck, hi, dada, mama, "mo" for Elmo, mmm for yum, no (shakes her head side to side when she says it, so cute) and lots of other words that I can't think of right now. She is a full fledged walker...CRAZY! She's practically running. And I will add that she is walking with flat feet. :) She weighs 23.5lbs and is about 30 inches tall. She is wearing 18 months clothes in most brands, but we all know how different sizes can be from brand to brand. Lauren now has 4 teeth! 2 front bottom ones and then she got one of her upper laterals and is now getting one of the upper front two. When she just had the lonely one tooth on top we nick-named her "snaggle." So nice of us...I'm sure she will appreciate that someday. She loves eating all kinds of table foods and has moved on from breast milk & formula to just whole milk. I got her off of the bottle right after her 1 year adjusted (so at the beginning of September) and the doctor was impressed that I was able to do it so quick. I am super paranoid about bottle rot and just her teeth in general so I didn't want her hanging onto the bottle for too long. Lauren is so much fun and continues to have a fun loving personality. She laughs....A LOT. Just ask anyone who is around her. I think she's going to be a class clown. She's a huge teaser too. She will tease Cooper with his ball and run away with it. And she thinks it's funny to run away from me when its time for bed or has something that she shouldn't. We are lucky and she still likes to take about a 2 hour nap everyday and sleeps from about 8:00-8:15pm to 7:30am. She did have cold about a month ago that I gave her. She's already gotten her flu shot for the year, but probably will not get the RSV vaccine since she's been "too healthy." Since it is so expensive (just under $2000 per shot and there are usually 5 or 6 of them) they don't give them unless the child qualifies. I'm a bit scared of her getting the virus (it's a bad respiratory virus) because she still could end up very ill and hospitalized, but that just means we have to continue to be careful with where we take her etc. I did speak with the doctor about all this and she said because she has been doing so well that we can start to treat her like a "normal" kid, but that still means not taking her around people who we know are sick.

I will post some more pictures tonight...hopefully. Lauren just woke up from her nap, so I better go get her!