A Proper Update...Lauryn Style!!

My baby is no longer my baby...she's almost 2!! I'm sad and blown away at how quickly time goes by. I'm so thankful to have 2 beautiful little girls, but I'm still shocked that my baby is growing up!

Lauryn is such a sweetheart! She is always smiling and generally a very happy little girl! She loves her mommy and she adores her sister. She follows Addison around like a lost puppy, but she also knows when to walk away from her. Lauryn is good about playing with herself when she can tell Addison is having a rough day. I like that she can entertain herself, and that she can have fun playing by herself too! She is amused with the strangest things but I love to sit and watch her.

Lauryn also has a temper, but it's just starting to show. She is becoming more verbal so we try to ask her what's wrong or what she wants when she starts to throw a tantrum, but she's still in that stage where a lot of what she says is still gibberish to us...if that makes any sense. She says a lot of words like: puppy, mommy, Addy, juice, cookie, milk, outside, fier (pacifier), swing, book, chip, daddy, and penny (what she calls her Aunt Jenny). She also likes to sing, although it's usually some melody that she made up on her own :)

We're gearing up to start potty training here in the fall. She sat on the potty once this summer and by some fluke she actually peed on the potty!! I praised her like crazy, but I don't think she quite understood what I was doing and why I was so happy. We're still going strong with the cloth diapers. I use mainly Mother Ease OS diapers and Thirsties covers, but there are some diapers that Todd likes called CuddleBunz, so we have a few of those too! Daddy grumbles a lot about it, but I don't think he's realized just how much money we've saved this year not buying diapers...

Our next battle with Lauryn is taking away the pacifier. It never used to be an issue and now Addison is stealing them from her, so she is more attached to them than ever. Thankfully daycare doesn't allow them, and grandma is going to be told that she can't have them either, so they'll do the dirty work for me :)

Alright, Lauryn insists on spinning me around in the chair, so I'm off for now...Take care!