Bow's and Headbands

A few of you have asked where I got Lauren's new bows. My cousin has a boutique called Mary Katelyn's Cottage that you can order online or go to her boutique which is at 100 Water Street in Elm Springs, AR. Her website is below if you want to check it out! Her prices are VERY reasonable!

http://www.marykatelynscottage.com/

Pee Pee in the Potty!

Over the last 3 days Lauren has gone pee pee in the potty 5 times! Sunday she went 2 times and Sunday night didn't go in her sleep. Monday morning when I realized she was still dry I instantly sat her on the potty and after a few minutes, she went pee pee #3!!! Then at daycare on Monday, she went pee pee on the potty once....#4. Then tonight before bedtime she sat on the potty and she went...#5!!!! Now I will say that it's not a 5 minute process...like tonight I probably sat in front of her for about 30 minutes singing songs, letting her "fix" my hair, etc and she finally went. But the good news is that Sunday she was saying "potty, potty" so we would put her on the potty and one time she didn't go but the 2nd time she started saying it (a few hours later) she really had to go! So at least she is starting to learn that when she gets that urge, she knows where to go. So thanks to the Easter Bunny...when she goes pee pee in the potty, she gets some chocolate! :-) When our weekends are not so busy, I plan to take a full weekend and just stay at home letting her wear only big girl undies and get fully potty trained that weekend! Hopefully that is just a few weeks away because this weekend we are going to visit Poppa Louie and Nona Donna, then next weekend is the Race for the Cure, so after that it's potty training time!

Coloring Easter Eggs

Last Thursday, April 9th, we were supposed to go to the Beck household to color Easter Eggs, but Nana was sick, so we had everyone over to our house and had a great time! Kristen, Brian, Spencer and Chelsey came over and we dipped the eggs and then let Lauren color some with the coloring pen. She loved it! We have a little artist on our hands!

Aunt Kissy shared her water with Lauren and she loved it because she got to drink from the bottle herself instead of a sippy cup or without someone holding it for her so she didn't spill it.


After working with the eggs, someone wanted to hide...Where's Lauren? :-)

This was the sunset that night! Isn't it pretty!

After the Easter Bunny

Just to show that everything was fine the second I picked her up I wanted to show our time after we got the photos. We went to lunch at Chick Fil A in the mall...and then Lauren got a cookie. :-)

Here she is saying "cheese!"

Lauren loves music...so they had the pianist playing in the food court so no matter what he played, Lauren was dancing and clapping her hands to the beat.

Blowing kisses to mommy

See...this was how excited she was when she saw the Easter Bunny! After we ate lunch we went to the Cookie place on the corner which was right in front of the Easter Bunny's set up. When she saw him walking around and waving to people she just started smiling. She just didn't want to be sitting with him! :-)

Easter Bunny

So lets just say there is a huge difference between a 10 month old and a 22 month old seeing the Easter Bunny. The evidence is below.

Little Miss Happy at 10 months!

Little Miss Not-So Happy at 22 months!


I promise you it is not as bad as it seems. We got to the mall at 10:45 a.m. only to find out they didn't start until 11 a.m.. Glad we didn't go at 10 a.m. like we had originally planned! I was so excited...we were first in line! So when we saw the Easter Bunny walking up the hall (around 11:10 might I add), Lauren was so excited! She was smiling and excited to see him. Then when we walked up to him, she had a death grip on me but would touch him and give him high 5's, etc. As long as I was holding her she was fine. So I thought "lets let someone else go in front of us so she can see that everything is fine!" So we did that...the lady behind me gladly went 1st and her 2 1/2 year old son did great! They got their photo on the first try! So, when I went back up there I didn't play around with the "lets get to know the bunny first thing" so this time I just put her on his lap and she was ok for about 2 seconds...just long enough for me to walk away and get into position to take the photo. Once I started taking pictures this is what happened. So in all actuality, she only sat on the bunnies lap for about 10 seconds MAX and then I went to get her. :-) These were the only two photos I took because I didn't want to torture her!

Waiting for baby Kieran

Last night we got the call around 6:30 p.m. that it was time to head to the hospital for baby Kieran Mackenzie's birth (Lauren's new cousin). Click here Ryan & Lisa's shower to see Kieran's parents. So while we were in the waiting area, Lauren was having fun with the light board. I have to say I was a little disappointed with the board because it says "interactive" board, however we tried and tried to push on the wall and get it to light up and nothing...so I think it's just a set program that runs. :-( Oh well...Lauren still liked it!

Action Shots...

We have got to get rid of the paci! Any ideas?

(I will post some photos of baby Kieran once her parents get the opportunity to post some on their blog. I want them to have the joy of "announcing" their own birth. :-))

Poison Control

Ok, so for most of you (me included) the first thing you don't expect to hear when walking in your door is "I'm tempted to call poison control"! I was like "what happened" and Kraig proceeded to tell me that he walked out of the room for a second and came back and noticed Lauren had something in her mouth. When he went over to check it out he realized that she had the little white paper things that come in shoe boxes that say "DO NOT CONSUME" in her mouth and they were open. He said her mouth was full of the little beads that are in those packages. So he of course wiped her mouth out and then heard me coming in so he handed her to me and told me to rinse her mouth out really good over and over. So as I'm trying to show her how to get water in her mouth without swallowing it and spit it out in the sink (not very successful by the way because she just kept swallowing it) he was trying to decide what to do. He finally called one of our Dr. friends and left a message and then called poison control. Good news! According to the poison control hot line this is one of their most called about incidences...and they are not harmful! When our Dr. friend called us back he was laughing and said "oh my kid ate a whole package of that stuff" so we felt much better! But another lesson learned for us...when we get new shoes, throw away those little white packages instantly! Don't think "I'll do it later" because there might not be a later the next time!

**LET ME ADD THAT THE POISON CONTROL CENTER SAID THESE WERE NOT HARMFUL IN SMALL AMOUNTS! I don't want someone to read this and think their child can swallow a full boxful and be ok...just a disclaimer. :-)

Puppies

The other day we were outside and Lauren wanted to talk to the puppies. First she went over and talked to our neighbors dogs (Murphy and Harley) and then she thought she would give some love to our dogs (Hunter and Bo) too! She loves animals!

Dress Up

Nana and Papaw Beck got Lauren some new dresses while they were away on Spring Break last week. When Lauren saw them she loved them...the only problem is she wanted to wear them both at the same time...over the clothes she already had on (see the jeans)! Take a look...

Dress #1

And Dress #1 & 2

Thanks Nana and Papaw!

New Trick

About two months ago we had to go out and buy door knob covers...you will see why. :-)

*Lauren is 20 months old in the video