I am a bit behind in my blogging updates, but with good reason. We've had a busy few weeks...we hosted Justin's family (19 total, including us!) for Christmas Eve and Christmas day, then we drove to Iowa to drop our sweet baby girl at my parents for the week, drove back to Chicago and jumped on a flight to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to celebrate the New Year, landed back in Chicago and promptly raced back to Iowa to see our little girl and celebrate Christmas with my family! Whew! It's been a fun, but exhausting two weeks. Luckily, life is still busy but basically back to normal.Christmas was wonderful. We love to entertain and really enjoyed hosting Christmas this year. 
It was fun to have the house full of little kids (and adults too!) Lauren has figured out what opening presents means. As soon as she'd get something open, she'd hand it to Justin and say, "Open Daddy." She wanted the toy opened immediately. But it's really hard for an 18 month old to understand that she had to wait her turn to open the next gift. Luckily, she had a lot to open and could take multiple turns during each round. Everyone was way too generous and now we have to find places to put all of these new things.
It was fun to have the house full of little kids (and adults too!) Lauren has figured out what opening presents means. As soon as she'd get something open, she'd hand it to Justin and say, "Open Daddy." She wanted the toy opened immediately. But it's really hard for an 18 month old to understand that she had to wait her turn to open the next gift. Luckily, she had a lot to open and could take multiple turns during each round. Everyone was way too generous and now we have to find places to put all of these new things. 
One of Lauren's favorite new gifts is her kitchen. (Watch her 
playing with it here). We have already enjoyed many plastic food dishes! She likes to make "hot vegetables" and "eghhs" (translation= eggs). And of course, "Daddy coffee" because Daddy is the only one that drinks coffee in our house.
After Christmas, we took Lauren to Memaw and Papa's house for 
the week and Justin & I went to Puerto Vallarta for a few days. It was much harder leaving her behind than we had imagined. I don't think we'll be doing that again anytime soon, although Lauren had a great time and I'm sure was as spoiled as can be that week. She didn't seem to mind we were gone. Puerto Vallarta was beautiful though and we enjoyed the 85 degree weather every day. We had some really great meals, too. We flew back on New Year's Day and then drove straight to Iowa.
We spent last weekend in Iowa with my family celebrating our 
Christmas. Again, Lauren got way too many gifts!! She had a great time seeing Nick and Stephanie. (Watch Stephanie and Lauren playing ring around the rosey here.) Papa built Lauren a beautiful dollhouse bookcase for her room. She also got a new baby that you can feed and she wets her diaper. (Watch her feeding here baby here. So motherly!) She loved her new Princess towel from Aunt Melissa too and didn't want to take it off! Silly girl!Thanks for checking in on us. We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009!
Until next time--
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