Lauren and I both have had good weeks in our new classrooms! Lauren is eating 2nds on most foods at daycare, even FRUIT! She likes pears. I discovered this morning that she will eat peaches, pears, and cherries as long as they are room temperature! That may be why she eats them at daycare and why she eats bananas.
Lauren has discovered how to blow raspberries. She prefers to lift my shirt to deliver them on my belly or to sneak attack my calf. She thinks that it's hilarious and laughs as hard, if not harder, than Paul and I do. In the attack of the raspberries, Lauren has also discovered my belly button, something that she's fascinated and disgusted by. She likes to poke her finger in my belly button then look at her finger as though it's tainted.
She's adjusted well to the toddler classroom. There was actually one day last week when I picked her up that she did NOT cry because I didn't get to her fast enough! Progress! All of the other toddlers who knew me from the other classroom swarm around me when I go in, but because Lauren is usually in my arms, she doesn't protest the attention I get.
Tooth number 9 poked through last week as well. What's different about this tooth is that it appears to be a molar. She has the top and bottom 4 teeth in sequence, but on the top left, there is a gap between the 4th tooth and the new tooth. I also noticed more pokes from this new tooth today. Lauren has really been chomping on her pacifier, toys, hands, and anything else that she can get into her mouth (including her foot this morning, at which she squealed because it tickled!).
Bye-bye is also coming along a bit more easily and quickly. She always waves (and pants) at Buster when we leave for school and arrive home in the evenings. She waves to people in stores, and she has even started to wave at people (and pets) who walk past our house.
We're discerning more words from Lauren. She now says Mama, Dada, Dad, cat, yeah, and up. She's been using sign to say please much more frequently. If we say please, she rubs her chest, even if we aren't talking to her! However, if she really wants something, she rubs both hands on her chest, thinking that it will surely get her what she wants and fast! Lauren's growing up very quickly!
On 08-22-08, Lauren enjoyed a banana with breakfast. However, she only wanted to eat it the way I normally eat it--out of the skin. Once she finished eating it out of the skin, she tried to eat the skin...however, she decided that it wasn't good to eat, but it was a fun toy!
After school on Monday, 08-25-08, Lauren wanted to color with me. Here she is taking colored pencils out of their container and letting them fall onto the floor. She didn't get the concept of coloring on paper, but she had fun playing with the pencils.
I had to get bread on Tuesday. I refuse to pay the prices at the store, so I make a special stop at a bakery outlet and pay $1.29 for a loaf of namebrand wheat. They sometimes offer free samples to entice you to buy more. This time it was a Twinkie. While I wasn't planning on letting Lauren eat it, she saw it, screamed, and had eaten the entire thing in about 8 minutes from the bakery to Wal-Mart. 08-26-08
Lauren enjoys climbing up in her camping chair that Grandpa Wade got her. She likes to put her sippy cup in the cupholder, unplug her pacifier, and then drink from her sippy. Lauren is also learning her limitations with the chair. We've been having to fuss at her to sit down. She grins devilishly at us when we tell her to sit and will only usually sit once we start to stand up to make her sit. 08-30-08
Lauren has a (bad) habit of throwing all of her books from the shelf to the floor. To be honest, I got tired of picking them up, so I only left out her favorites and put the rest in her room. Lauren decided that it would be fun to explore this new, open space. 08-30-08
Showing off those pearly whites for mommy! What a ham! She now has 9 teeth. 08-30-08
Harris actually enjoyed some of his cake. He was covered in much more frosting after a while.
What a mess! The party theme was Spiderman and the cupcakes were dark blue or red. Aunt Suzy commented that she thinks Lauren enjoyed this party more than her own.
Lauren absolutely distroyed her cupcake. If you look closely, she was able to lodge the frosting into her ears. After she was done, I took her straight up to the bathtub. The first tubfull needed to be drained as the water was pink with the dye. The second tubfull produced a frosting covered Harris and a clean, mostly white Lauren. She has some spots on her, especially on her hands, that will be pink for quite a while. I shared Aunt Ivy's whitening toothpaste remedy with the other parents at the party.
