Waaaa-Hoooo! My first food!

YAY! Lauren has now experienced her first "food." Other than the "juice" and rice cereal that is! She had her first adult food, that being Bananas! She loved them! We were over at Grandma Karen's house and she was making some banana bread and we decided to let Lolo have a try, she LOVED them! She took them from the spoon really well and enjoyed every moment of it! She enjoyed it so much that Aaron and I had to recreate the moment today and take pictures! Before we gave her the nanners she was really restless and we couldn't make her happy so that's when I decided to bust them out. We had her in her exer-saucer and she snacked. After she had a few bites (though she wanted more) she was as happy as a clam! Here are a few snapshots of the moment, enjoy!

Finally, an update :)

Geeesh, I've been slacking on the blog front, but not by choice. I have been slacking here as well as not returning phone calls or emails. It seems like I have been incognito for about a month, but I have been here. It is just hard to focus on those things when Lauren doesn't nap for longer than 45 minutes at a time and while that happens, I am trying to get some things done. By the time she is put into bed for the night, all I do is relax! So I apologize to everyone for my lack of being accessible.

Lauren is growing and growing and growing! She is currently going through her 4 month growth spurt, therefore, her nighttime sleep is now disrupted two times a night because she is a hungry girl! I can already tell she is longer, but that won't be verified until her 4 month appointment on March 9th. I put her month by month pictures side by side and I can't believe my eyes! My neighbor had her little girl, Olivia Hope, on January 29th and when I go there and hold her, I swear Lauren was never that small, though she was! To prove to me that she is getting bugger, she is now sitting in her Bebe seat and her exersaucer all by herself! Lauren also had her first play date with my sister-in-law's sister's little girl (whoa, did you follow that) Emma Claire (E-Claire). I think Lauren didn't know what to do with herself, but she handled it well none the less. And this past weekend we celebrated Lauren's Baptism. We went to church with the family and everyone came back to the house for a little cake party and Lauren handled all the people and attention really well, but was tired at the end of the day!

Other than that, we have just been waiting for Spring to arrive because we are tired of being locked indoors due to the cold weather and continuos snow! And what doesn't help is that I HATE driving in the snow and then to try it with a little one in the back, I can't do it. So again, to all my friends, I apologize!

Anywho... I promise it will not be as long in between posts... but don't hold it against me if it is :)

Here's how I spend my time...

I often find myself playing with Lauren and still needing to do something else. Therefore, I have taken to making picture frames, all handcrafted by me! I was thinking about selling them online, but would LOVE your input on if I should or shouldn't. Please let me know what you think... Here is a sampling!

Here's to the New Year!

Happy 2009 everyone! I hope everyone had wonderful and safe holiday season, I know it was for us! Aaron and I got out alone for the first time on New Year's Eve and Lolo stayed with Grandma Karen...well Lolo slept while Grandma read. It was nice to get out, but still felt different to be out without Lolo.

The old saying is true, everything IS different after you have a child. There isn't anymore get up and go, going to the bathroom at your convenience doesn't happen, and staying out until the wee hours of the night - not possible. While I sometimes miss being able to just up and go, I find great pleasure in being able to take Lolo out and introduce her to the world, and the the staying out has now turned into staying up until the wee hours of the morning. While we have been lucky with Lolo's sleep patterns at night, her napping is what needs the work.

It's amazing how much Lauren has changed in the 13 weeks since she was born. I don't see her as my little newborn anymore, she seems SO much older! Again, time does fly! :( While I am excited to watch her grow, I want her to stay little!

Other than the usual, nothing new is going on... so here are some pictures of the Little Miss :)

Post Christmas Wrap-Up

Christmas has come and gone and I couldn't be more sad :( It seems like the time passed and we didn't really get to enjoy it! I mean, we did enjoy it, but it was obviously different from Christmas' past. Lauren seemed to enjoy herself when we had family over on Christmas Eve day, at church on Christmas Eve and then the entire Christmas Day. I just can't believe it was her first Christmas! All these firsts are wonderful to enjoy, but they do pass far too quickly!

In addition to Christmas, Lauren also hit her 2 month mark! I can't believe it! It seems like it was only yesterday that she was born, but at the same time, it feels like she has always been with us! Here is her 2 month picture, do you see any difference from her 1 month?

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

And I couldn't be more excited! We are in the process of decorating the house and getting everything ready for Santa! And the snow fell yesterday! Here's hoping for a white Christmas!

For Thanksgiving, we spent the day in Indiana and had a great time! Everyone got to meet Lauren and Ann took some wonderful pictures and she has them posted on her blog. We really did luck out with a good kid, the entire 3 and a half hour trip there, she only woke up once and didn't wake up at all on the trip home. At this point I was afraid she wasn't going to sleep when we got home, but guess what, she did :)

Not much has happened since Thanksgiving, but Lauren really is starting to come into her own. She has created her own schedule and it has been pretty easy. We really are just hanging out at home, decorating for Christmas and taking pictures.

A House Divided?

Yep, and always will be ;) Aaron is now outnumbered with two for Michigan and one for Ohio State, though, I am sure if Aaron could claim the dog and cat as Ohio State fans he would, just to win, obviously :)

It has always been said - even before Lauren came into our lives - that if we were to have a girl, she would be a Michigan fan and if we were to have a boy, he would be an Ohio State fan. This scenario seemed to be fair enough... until the time came for Lauren to wear her little Michigan cheerleader dress to the "Big Game" at a house where we would be outnumbered and Aaron wanted to renege on our agreement. This was a debate I was not going to back down from and after all was said and done, I won and Lolo got to wear her outfit and was the hit of the party!

And we even took a picture to document the occasion :)

Just Because...

When I do find a moment and I there isn't enough time in that moment to type something clever to accompany it, I take to scrapblogging. Here is an example of my scrapblog enjoy!