website update 1/2009

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Laurens Fort

Finally found some time to put a post on here, its been pretty busy in the watson household with work & soccer. Lauren turns one next week (2/12) , not sure where the time went. She insists on walking everywhere and even tries to walk up the stairs (its interesting) she tries to walk down them too. She can say and wave bye bye, she loves kids and tries to play with all of them. She still loves her cousins and her and Jake are BFF's. She can also turn any room into a pigsty within 10 minutes (as you'll see on the video), I think she gets that from the West side of the family. She LOVES books and makes us read her almost every book she has, she'll have me read one page and then when she thinks I'm done with the page she'll take it over to Joe to have him read the next page and it keeps going back and forth like that for the whole book. She can do that for hours, her favorite books are the thick ones because she can turn the pages herself and she loves the touch and feel books or anything that has mirrors. She loves to look at herself in the mirror and whenever she see's herself she runs to the mirror and kisses herself, she also does this with all her dolls and animals (not sure which side of the family she gets that from, I'm guessing Joe's).
You'll see in the video that she now loves forts, and just running and trying to talk. This video is pretty much how she acts everyday. Oh and she FINALLY got a tooth!!!!!
We are still looking into visiting some family in the next few months and can't wait to visit everyone during the summer. ta ta for now!

@ The outdoosmen show in a boat!
Still happy with crazy hair!

@ Outback Steakhouse

Flood & new baby legs

Lauren is still running around like crazy. Shes getting better at going up and down single steps and tries to get into every drawer and cupboard that she can. She insits on walking whenever we go to the store and tries to make friends with everyone. Still no teeth yet, so she can't eat everything we had planned but she is till a pretty picky eater (just like her daddy).

Here she is with her new baby legs - thanks aunt susie!

Baseball or Soccer?.. tough choice!

With her bottle her toys and her tutu, what more could she want.

Ready for bed!

Here are some after pictures of the flood.

You can see the leaf line of where the water was in our front yard!

The entrance to our complex, we had to park in the park behind our house for a day or two until it went down. My car wouldn't make it through.

Holidays 2008

Lots has happened over the holiday break. Lauren got to play in the snow, meet santa 3 times, got lots of presents (mostly clothes), played with lots of bows and boxes, and got really good at walking. She still doesn't have ANY teeth, but we expect to see one anyday now. SHe'll be 11 months next week and we are starting to plan her first birthday party! So exciting!

On the Carousel @ the Zoo!

loving it!!!!

All bundled up at ZOOLIGHTS!

Christmas Day at the Martins, with all the girls

On Christmas Eve w/ the Wests & my new Triceratops!

Lauren = Pele?...

Okay so Lauren is walking everywhere now. We can never get the best video of her because she LOVES the camera so the second she sees it she stops whatever she is doing and runs for it, makes it very difficult to videotape her. In the video below you will see how she was born to play soccer, I swear we didn't teach her to do this she just loves to kick stuff. She was doing it for a good fifteen minutes before we got the camera out but you'll see what happens once she sees it. Time to start her soccer training, its never to early right....

SNOW STORM 08

Yesturday we went with the Gadsby's to the Cougar Mountain Zoo up in Issaquah where we got to see Lions, Cougars, Santas Reindeer & SANTA! It was pretty cool!


Lauren on a Camel Statue @ the Zoo.

The Watsons in Santas Sleigh

The Watson's being attacked by a Grizzly Bear.

Our 2nd experience with Santa this year, As you can se eit didn't go to well.

We'll we finally vetured into the snow today. We only went about five feet into the backyard but I think it was plenty far for Lauren. She could almost stand up in it, she didn't seem to mind the snow or the cold weather but she HATES her snowsuit. Probably because she can't move and she is like the little borther in the Christmas Story movie. You have to hold her up even if shes sitting because she will roll over and be stuck. (You'll notice my hand holding her up in a few pics) We only lasted about 10 minutes before we went back inside.

Why am I out here?.....................

I hate this!!!!

I'm ok now.

as long as someone holds me up.

All pretty for christmas pictures!

Waiting in Line to go see santa!!!! It took forever but we got some shopping done while we waited. And Lauren slept for half the time.
AT home before leaving for santa pictures. For some reason she was kind of excited....

See I told you I can walk, I just don't let mom get it on camera.