Children's Museum

Laura had a special trip to the children's museum. She had fun, of course, especially the shopping and doghouse.


This doghouse is great. No wonder daddy is always in mommy's doghouse.


Face Paint!


Canvas never looked so good!


My latest coup d'état is convincing Laura that cleaning is fun! She spent 30 minutes this afternoon using her toy broom to clean the kitchen. Here she is demonstrating her mopping skills at the museum. "Laura Cleaning! Cleaning Fun!" I am sure right about the age where she will actually clean something, she'll realize how un-fun it is. Plus Mimi would probably bear resentment when (if) Laura cleans around the house considering all the effort put into it when I was a kid.


Laura going on a shopping trip. I hope she made a list.


Filling up the cart.


Daddy usually does this part.


I would love to say the expression on her face was for distain for the salt and fat McDonald's passes off as food. However, the truth is she loves "Old McDonald's" hamburgers and nearly ate an entire happy meal.

Mommy Downstairs

As is her usual practice, Laura came into mommy and daddy's room this morning when she woke up.

She saw that I was awake, and said "Daddy awake, mommy sleeping", but when she went to wake mommy up, she wasn't there. "Mommy awake, mommy downstairs! Laura go downstairs and see mommy!"

So she went downstairs excitedly and ran to mommy sleeping on the couch. Of course, she woke up mommy. No rest for the weary!

Anna wearing her stripes.


Yes, I am cute but no smiling allowed on camera!


This is my swing, don't take me out.


Mommy sleeping... I can fix that!


My is mommy so groggy?

Brrrrr

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!



That's -22 this morning on the drive into work. It actually registered -26 at one point, but I was driving and didn't want to crash into a snowplow taking a picture.

Anna Time

In order to prevent her from developing a complex later in life, I'll try to make sure to put more pictures of Anna on the blog.

Anna loves riding in her swing, sometimes she even stays awake.


No Smiling, you won't catch me do it.


Ha, I can see when you bit the button, I'll smile right until then.


Ok, I let you catch a little smirk.


Ha Daddy, you can't resist putting at least one picture of me on the blog. Heh heh heh.

Ice Skating

Laura, Emily, and I went for a skate on the rink at grandma and grandpas yesterday. She had a lot of fun, and was even able to skate on her own a little. Her legs got tired, so we took the skates off and she had fun cruising around on the ice.

The family.


Laura and the cousins learning to skate.


Laura and Beepa Bud.


Brad look Laura 'flying' on her puppy.

Happy Near Year Everybody

Happy New Year everybody. Laura just got back from a new years eve party with the cousins. Grandpa Bud and I spend the afternoon making an ice rink on Prior Lake, so hopefully Laura and the cousins can get a chance to go skating again.

Laura loves Thomas trains, here she put together a line all be herself. "Laura do it" is a very common phrase around here. She was very proud of herself and wanted to take a picture (herself). Once again - "Laura do it!"


Today was watercolor day for her art project.
Step 1: Dip


Step 2: Color


Step 3: Paint!


Here is the result.


Here is Ladybug Anna showing off her new duds.

Rock-a-bye baby.

Laura enjoys rocking her baby to sleep, and Emily has taught her a slightly less morbid version of "Rock-a-bye baby" where she catches baby instead of letting her fall. Laura has really been practicing her singing, so if you have a birthday coming up, she may just serenade you with a "Happy Birthday" song.