Every Mother Has It Happen To Her.....

Yep, it happened. I went in to get Laurel from her nap and she was completely naked. The diaper was laying in the middle of her bed. And, there was a small puddle on the carpet just beneath her bed. I have never seen her look so happy and proud of herself! It is so difficult to be angry when she is so cute!
And the reason I didn't take any pictures of it is because we are currently sharing a digital camera with Sarah, and she needed it this week/weekend to take it with her to...........the OLYMPICS! Are you jealous? I am! She has a friend whose parents live in Vancouver and is making her way north to spend the next 5 days enjoying the Olympic experience. She has tickets to a hockey game (US v. Norway) and is planning on wandering around downtown to try and find some Olympians. And, my grandpa requested she get Bob Costas' autograph. I'm very excited for Sarah and will probably make her post her pictures on this blog so you all can see a first-person version of the Olympics!

Work and Play

The girls are learning the importance of

work

and play

Laurel in a Box

Laurel enjoys showing us how small she is by getting into boxes. Any kind of box.

She has also followed in her sister's footsteps and loves to dress up. Today, she wouldn't take off Erika's fairy wings. Whenever I tried taking them off her, she threw a fit! So we had a fairy and a princess walking around the house this morning.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!

One Year

I took Laurel's one-year-old pictures on Friday. I was only one month behind on getting her pictures done exactly when she was one. With Erika, we did her one-year pictures at 14 months, so I'm getting closer!

I have chosen to do pictures at home with my trusty digital camera. First, I don't want to spend a bunch of money on pictures where the girls obviously don't want their pictures made. Turns out our girls can be pretty strong-willed. Who knew? Here are the results.

Pretty excited about the picture taking adventure.

Happy girl!

Getting a little feisty.

Only about 4 pictures before she decided she didn't want to stand still.

And then she left.

So I brought in Erika, who brought her babies to the photo shoot.

Erika had a good cry when I told her I didn't want to take a picture with her babies.

I told them to start clapping which kept their attention for about 15 seconds.

But then we got tired.

And then we were done.

By the end of the 15 minute session, I was sweating, the girls were wound up, but I got a few good shots that can now be blown up and proudly displayed on the wall. My favorite picture is the last one because it is a pretty accurate display of the relationship between the two girls. Erika is not being mean by pulling her sister's clothes.....I told her to make sure Laurel stayed standing beside her. She was just trying to obey me! But, as you can see, Laurel lets us know when she doesn't want to do what we want her to do.