Lauren's Christmas

On the 23rd Lauren woke up with Laryngitis. Seriously, she sounded like a 60-year-old smoker. If she sang, it sounded like Janis Joplin or Stevie Nicks. So needless to say, she didn't feel good. She pulled a "Papa" and fell asleep while watching cartoons in her chair that morning. Very cute, but a little sad because mommy knew she was going to not be herself for Christmas.

So that evening, since she wasn't feeling good, mommy and daddy let her open her present from Ross and Melodee. She'd been trying to open it since Sunday! It was a remote control car! Daddy did the controlling, but Lauren chased it and picked up so it couldn't run. It's very colorful and entertaining.....even Biscuit got in on the action....Biscuit hates it!

Biscuit trying to take a bite of a tire as it zooms by!

This was our Christmas tree this year. It was very pretty for our first family picked tree! I already have it taken down and put the Christmas decorations away. It was quite dry since we got it fairly early.

Christmas Eve we went to Grandma and Grandpa's and spent the day opening presents, playing cards and of course eating. Lauren really didn't feel well this day. She didn't nap well and is in the middle of cutting molars. She would wake up from her 20 min. nap screaming. So we didn't get a lot of pictures because she really wasn't into Christmas. She only spent about a half hour in her dress....bummer. But she did like the bows!

Lauren got a newborn Cabbage Patch from Gram Gram. She liked it and gave it loves...but quickly moved on to the bows and wrapping paper. Biscuit hates her Cabbage Patch too! BTW, the adoption papers say her name is Susann Josefina. What is with Cabbage Patch names?? Mine was Henrietta when I was a little girl. C'mon!!! At least we can shorten this to Susie Jo to make it a little cuter!!!


Christmas Day we spent at our home. Santa Claus brought Lauren 2 girlie bug cars, a horsey union suit and a little stuffed horsey. Nice Job Santa! Grandma, Grandpa and Gram Gram came over for dinner. Lauren was a little better....but we still spent the day in our PJs relaxing!

On the 26th we headed to MP. Lauren was much better that morning. And once we got to Nana and Papa's, it was time for some more presents. We will have to remember for next year to take all the toys out of their packaging for instant playing!

Here's Lauren with the 25th anniversary of the Fisher Price Farm. It brought back many memories for the adults! She was patiently waiting for daddy to take the barn out of the box. Aunt Emmy helped too.


This was a favorite and still is. She likes hammering the pegs, even though she uses the side of the hammer head! I figure it gives her good practice for "Whack a Mole" at Chuck E Cheeses. (We have a 2 year olds birthday to go to in a couple weeks!)




She got a Rody horse from the cousins and Auntie B. She first peeked in the bag, but really couldn't figure out how to get it out! Once daddy got it out, she really didn't get the concept that you have to hold it's ears to ride it....but she's catching on. She really doesn't bounce on it, just rocks. She'll get it. Cousin Sam tried to help her out by showing her how to use his.










Lauren enjoyed helping the cousins with their gifts too. (And helped played with them as well!) "Here ya go Sam, this is from my Grandma and Grandpa, it's a Hunter Dan and Buck, I already played with it!"


As soon as Cousin Sam went for the buck, Lauren snagged Hunter Dan. Looks like someone will need one eventually. Cousin Sydney also informed us that she would like a Hunter Ann. So needless to say for this hunting family Hunter Dan was a HIT!

Here's Cousin Syndey with her Littlest Pet Shops from our family. She was pretty stoked! And Lauren helped her play with them later by running off and misplacing them all over the house!

On Monday mommy finally took Lauren to see Dr. Davis. And as expected it was a just a virus. But I just wanted to be sure that she didn't have anything else going on with everything going around. She's 100% better and it will be interesting to see if she wakes up for the New Year tonight! Doubt it, but you never know! Depends on how many neighbors have fireworks!