November - Catch up!

Not sure where the month of November went so here is the post with what happened in the month!

School is going well, daycare reports that Lauren happily goes on the bus on a daily basis.  In fact she was quite upset when we picked her up from school causing her to miss her bus ride home.  She loves her backpack and we love the growth she is making.  She has certainly picked up more vocabulary words and surprised us with her knowledge of recognizing letters of the alphabet. 

Her special friend at school is Govanni.  When she sees the letter "G" she says, "Govanni!"   Here is a picture of the two of them together that her teacher sent home.  Her teacher reports that she loves to play dress up. 

Doggy/Puppy is still her favorite toy.  It goes with us almost everywhere and she also brings it to daycare now as her comfort toy.  She also like building "happy birthday cake" with her legos. 

We had a few check-ups with the doctor in November.  Lauren is still seeing the gastrointestinal specialist who is monitoring her growth.  She did slow down a bit in the last 3 months in growth, but overall made great growth in the year that she has been home.  Lauren discovered Mr. Potato Head in the waiting room and he keeps her quite entertained when we wait for the doctor.

Her favorite thing to do is still to be active.  Running, climbing, jumping, and now bike riding are her favorite activities.  She also enjoys going to farmer's market, looking at boats, and getting samples of grapes and strawberries from the vendors. 

With her full schedule of daycare in the morning and school in the afternoon, we said goodbye to her private speech therapist. When Lauren started school in the afternoon she lost her nap time so we made a decision to stop speech, at least for now.  Thank you miss Kimberly for working with Lauren!

And we ended the month giving thanks for many things.   Thanksgiving was celebrated at daycare first, and then oom Ruben's house for our annual fried turkeys.  And yes, Lauren loves turkey!

Finally we went to Sophia's birthday party where Lauren made us all nervous by going all the up the big kids play structure.  There is no play structure high enough for this girl!

Yes, that's her inside the red slide.