Spokane - The windy city!

Last weekend we took a little trip to Spokane for a soccer game (the girls team that Joe coaches). We left super early in the morning (4am) and took Joes truck because it was supposed to snow the whole time we were there, OF COURSE! We made it there ok, stopped in Moses Lake for breakfast with some of team on the way, Lauren entertained everyone by dropping her toys, by the time we got to the field in Spokane she wanted out of her car seat ( i don't blame her) and on the way back she slept most of the way until Moses Lake again so we stopped there for dinner and stay the night and go over the pass on sunday morning.

It was a very long cold and WINDY weekend. Spokane = YECH!

Here is what Lauren looks like @ 4 AM - notice all her pacifiers

When we got to the game we ventured out into the cold. It was nice to get out of the truck but way to cold and WAY to WINDY! Notice the piles of snow on the sides of the fields. She was playing by one and face planted in the snow at the end of the game, she was NOT happy, it was not soft snow.


All bundled up!

Playing in the truck during the game, she actually had fun.

Good thing we had lots of toys and lots of cheerios and her favorite toy daddys work keys!

watching the game

eating and watching the game

playing with daddys navigation system

On the way back from Spokane playing with Gina in the backseat.

That means she threw stuff and Gina picked it up for her - cheap entertainment.

Lauren @ the soccer game.

Here are some pics of Lauren at one of our soccer games. Its funny how clingy she is with us until she gets to new places then she tries to get away from us as much as possible.

Shes definetly an explorer, until someone talks to her then she becomes miss clingy again.

Playing with the fence, she actually tried to eat it. Shes getting her 2nd tooth in.

running away from mom AGAIN!
This is one of her many purses, she loves them. For some reason she loves to carry stuff and I'll hide a bunch of her toys or snacks in there and it will keep her busy for hours. Of course she also uses it as a weapon against people, we'll have to work on that.

Taking a lap on the track.

Lauren loves cake!

Here is a video from Laurens 1st birthday party.

We kind of new she wouldn't eat any cake, shes never been a fan of it or any real food. But I tried to shove it in her face anyways.

She does like ice cream though and the day after the party I was eating a left over cupcake and she ate half of it! Hopefully she'll want to eat cake at her 2nd birthday party, we'll see!

Laurens PARTY!

We finally had time for Laurens FIRST birthday party!
Here you can see some pics of how she didn't want any of her cake or cupcakes, but she did have a lot fo fun with all her presents, she wasn't to thrilled with the clothes though. With so many people she was pretty shy all day but once she got to the presents she had a blast playing until bedtime. I have some video I'll try and post later today.

Getting her cupcake ready

Wasn't to interested with the cake but liked the singing
What is this thing

yech

get me out of here!

she did take a little swipe of this cake - see the top of it

playing with one of her new phones - she loved all the presents!

Thank you everyone, for all the cute gifts

And loving her ATV while eating a cookie, what a multi-tasker

sunday @ daddys soccer game

Lauren is finally ONE!

At Athens for Birthday Dinner (just woke up)
In one of daddys work chairs

w/ daddy at work

For Laurens 1st Birthday we went and visited Daddy at Work in Belfair. It was a long drive but Lauren got to play in daddys office and discovered his box of nutrigrain bars (she loves the wrappers, they make fun noises and are shiny). We also went out to lunch at a mexican restaurant down the street for lunch and then went to Athens for Dinner with the family. She slept through most of dinner but woke up just in time for ice cream which she wouldn't eat.

Her birthday party is this saturday 2/21 @ 1:00 at our house, if anyone is in town please stop by for some cake and ice cream.

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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!

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Still happy with crazy hair!

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