Lauren Having fun and getting clean.

Ok so here is a video of lauren from today. She had just gotten out of the bath and she usually trys to play before I can get clothes on her. I think she'd be naked the whole day if we'd let her. Shes not to fond of diapers either. You can see she gets around pretty easily. Maybe she thinks her clothes slow her down. She might be smarter than we give her credit for.

This will be a good video to embarass her with when she gets older. This is the most I have caught her crawling on tape, I kind of had to trick her into it, long story.

And here is probably my favorite video of her ever. She LOVES playing in the tub as you can see and this book is her new favorite toy. Also from today 9/26/2008 - 7.5 months old.

look what I can do!

We learned lots of new stuff in the past few weeks. Lauren can now say dada and mama and can wave bye bye. She is crawling around everywhere and pulling herself up everywhere which is scary for us. Here are some pictures of some other things she can do now.
Can sit in a highchair all by myself - so much easier for mom & dad. Oh and Lauren loves it as you can see.

Can wear a cute dress and not get it dirty. At least this day she didn't.
Still tries to get the camera though.
Still loves zizou, but doesn't understand whe she wont play with her.

Is lazy like mom & dad so instead of pulling myself up to see whos in my room I just move the padding around my crib. She pretty much does this everyday and it is now not tight around the crib like it used to be.pretty smart though.
TA DA! THis is the first time she pulled herself up. Now she does it everywhere non-stop. Even in the middle of the night if she gets up I'll walk in and she'll be standing there just like this.

Crawling for her soccer ball.

Asleep after a long day @ soccer. You can see her favorite toy is there with her (a water bottle) she could play with it for hours. I think for christmas she'll be getting boxes & waterbottles as those are her favorites.

Inching Along

SO here is a video of Lauren when she started trying to crawl (a few days ago). For the past week or so she has been getting around really good by rolling or going in circles but she only started actually going forward in somewhat of a straight line earlier this week (wednesdayish). Everyday she gets a liitle better. Now She can crawl about two steps in a row, then she usually dives or lunges for what she wants and falls down and does it again.

I'll try and get more video of her crawling but of course she never wants to do it on camera.

BAPTISM WEEKEND!

So had quite a busy weekend. Grandma & Grandpa West came intotown for the week and we finally got Lauren Baptised on 8/9/2008. She laughed and giggled throught the whole ceremony and loved all the attention she got. She loved her party and even tried to eat some of the cake.
It was great being able to have over so many family & friends thanks for coming and hopefully we can do it again in 6 months when Lauren will be 1 year old! Yikes!
Loving Great Grandma & Grandpa!!! Miss them!

The whole group @ the church! Thanks for coming!
THE WATSONS! *missing zizou.
The Godparents - Joey & Susie
Trying to grab & eat my cake!

Being cute @ the church


I love my uncle joey!

Father Chuck baptisng Lauren! YEAH!

Hula girl

Our friends Jeremy & Tiffany just got back from Hawaii and brought Lauren some presents.

A hula girl outfit

and a book
She not into reading books yet, just trying to eat them and throw them.

Then she gets upset because she can't get to the things she throws. Hopefully she'll learn soon

Soccer in Portland @ 5 months

This was Laurens first soccer tournament (the first of many). We were super busy having two teams and being down in Portland and it was 80 degrees the whole time. It worked out ok and we didn't have any games overlapping so Jamie & Lauren pretty much just hung out during all the games on the sideline and Joe did all the coaching for us. We also had a lot of parents (on our girls team U-18) that like to steal lauren, so Jamie got some nice breaks and was able to enjoy the sun and the games for a little bit. We were mostly running back and forth to games and then to the hotel all weekend so Lauren didn't get much for naps but I think she did ok, she def liked all the attention she got.

Here is the tent she was in when the sun was out @ the games.

Once the ball went out of bounds hit the bleachers and rolled into her tent, I don't think she even noticed.

Here is Joes boys team (U-11) bus. His assistant coach bought it and fixed it up. You can't miss it driving down I-5. We took this picture as we were driving home from the tourney.

This is when Lauren decided she likes the camera and tries to grab it whenever I get it out. At least it means she is usually looking at the camera when I take a picture.

Still recovering from my cold, you can see some snot in this pic.


And she is FINALLY fitting in to her 6 month old clothes, yeah!

Swim & Nap

More swimming pictures from Camerons birthday party at the watsons house.

Then Nap time with Uncle Joey. He's like a big fluffy pillow. Best Nap ever!