Lip Smackers

My little miss who LOVES "lipstick" (chapstick for her)!! She was so excited this morning to find her strawberry lipsmackers. She will walk around all day today putting mulitple applications on to keep her lips sweet and soft. Can you see the shine that is already there and it is only 9 o'clock. Cover girl here she comes!!

"I can feed myself!!!"

Lauryn has hit the "I can feed myself" stage. She has been feeding herself non messy things for forever but now has asserted herself with EVERYTHING. Not that I mind much I don't have to stand there and hand feed her, but one thingn Lauryn is not, is tidy. She is a pig pen, we put her in the kitchen to eat while we are all in the dining room because she had the stage where she flung everything off the tray and thought it was hilarious. This is from this morning. We had oatmeal which she loves. She literally shovels it in handfuls at a time. She is provided with a spoon but chooses not to use it, hands are better. I have had to start putting a kitchen towel on her because the other bibs were just not cutting it. Food would still leak down between her and the tray and get all over her legs. Notice the oatmeal in the hair. Happens every morning!! Crazy kid-

Green Thumbs

Ayden and Meysa love strawberries. Here they are looking for the few ripe ones left. Nana and Papa still plant a garden big enough for half of Seattle, which is ok because we are the recipients of all the extras.
The whole clan looking for the last few berries.

Lauryn thought it was pretty neat to walk between the corn rows. Almost like being back in Iowa (without all the flooding of course.)

A girl and her shoes (or anyones)

Little Miss Lauryn LOVES shoes. She can be found at any time of day trying to put on shoes, anyones shoes. She is actually pretty coordinated and succeeds most of the time. She raids the shoes basket and will find your shoes and come and try to put them on your feet as well. The top picture is Lauryn in Ayden's dress shoes which she found in his bedroom closet, and the bottom three are of Lauryn in Meysa's cowboy boots. She wore those around all afternoon, falling and them coming off and putting them back on repeatedly. She is a funny kid, and we love her!!!

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