Laurel's Favorite Book

(Warning: may take a while to download).

You guessed it, another captioned clip of Laurel identifying things, this time from her current favorite book. She loves this book. It's a claymation picture book Heather bought in grad school. For me this is high quality entertainment and a fun way to archive Laurel growing up. Enjoy. W

What Fruit is It?

If you've talked to us lately you know we try to get Laurel to talk to all of you. She's usually too shy when people are around so we're posting her talking here. In this clip we are identifying the fruits on our kitchen poster.

You know you're an adult when...

You ask for laundry shelves for your birthday. Washers and dryers in Florida are generally found in the garages of the homes. I thought it was strange when I first moved to Florida (but I guess we don't have to worry about our dryers heating our already hot/humid dwellings that we pay megabucks to keep cool). I told Weston that we could purchase our home if he would agree to build me laundry shelves. He agreed..... and now I finally have them. With our crazy lives it has only taken 2.5 years! For the past 4 months we have been fighting the ants in our garage. They are horrible. I think they are lured in by the food that is sometimes found on Laurel's clothes. They seem to have eaten numerous holes in our clothing. It drives me crazy. We started using the shelves Nov. 22 and we are ant free!!! The laundry shelves may be a solution to our problem, but with time we may find there is another cause (washer defect?). Those ants have really been bothering me, so when Weston asked me what I wanted for my birthday I was already prepared with my answer. He spent the weekend of my birthday working on them. He did the finishing touches during the Thanksgiving break. I am so proud of my handy, intelligent husband who knows how smart it is to listen to my qualifications and then create my vision. Thanks Weston!!!

Laurel's "pretty" dress

I caught a sewing bug and decided to sew this little dress for Laurel. I found the fabric for $2 a yard, the pattern for .99 and figured I couldn't go wrong. It was a fun project. Laurel has enjoyed wearing it and says "preetty" when she has it on.

Happy Halloween!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween! We are only 2 months behind on blogging, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to blog about Halloween. It was fun this year to take our little "tiger" trick or treating for her first time. We always enjoy dressing up with a family theme for Halloween to attend the ward trunk or treat. We were zoo keepers this year. It surprised me how many people thought Laurel was Tigger. I purposely put a pink bow in her hair because I knew she would be called a boy by those who didn't know her, and she was. I found costumes last year for under 5 dollars so had the choice of a tiger costume or a monkey. She absolutely cried when I put a monkey costume on her in September however, she enjoyed wearing the tiger costume and would say "rah" when we asked her what the tiger said. We're in trouble if her opinions are that strong at such a young age.

Laurel had a great time obtaining candy and relished in the fact that she had a whole bucket full. She took piece by piece of candy out of her pumpkin bucket saying "num num num num". She then handed each one to me and said "tenk tu" (thank you). Good thing I'm not an older brother or sister and that I give candy back.