Singing with Oom Ruben

Thanks for getting a guitar and learning all my songs Oom Ruben!

First popsicle

Summer months equals hot weather.  And hot weather equals a popsicle!  She wasn't sure at first as to what she should do with it, but it didn't take long for her to figure it out.  

Eight

Eight months home now!  We are loving her emerging speech.  She is beginning to mimic and repeat words as we speak.  Translation = we need to watch what is said in front of her.  Music continues to be her love and we often see her little foot tapping along.  She has learned to sit still long enough for nursery rhymes videos on the laptop.  We are amazed at the number of songs she knows the melodies to.  As she is quite demanding, we have to sit close to her and be prepared to change songs as she appears to prefer certain ones, over and over, and over and over again.  And again.

We celebrated eight moths home by taking her to the local Starbucks.  There is a fountain outside and it kept Lauren amused and entertained for two hours.  Of course, this means that one of us must be close-by as we did not want her inside the fountain!

And the best part of eight months home?

 She now says, "Cheese" when the camera comes out!

Dada's Day

Happy Father's Day!   We celebrated with lunch and a walk on the beach.  But someone forgot to explain to Lauren that it did not literally mean to walk on the water at the beach!

Say what?

We wanted to record Lauren's jibberish before it all goes away.  Slowly we are hearing less jibberish as she is picking up more words.  Here is a sampling of her talking to "dada" on the phone.  We have no idea what she is saying except the bye-bye part. 

Her first chore?

With her love of water, watering the garden may be just have to be her first chore.  And she may just be ready soon!

Although we probably have to teach her that concrete doesn't grow, no matter how much you water it.

Ice Cream & Lollipop!

Lauren had her first ice cream cone at Dairy Queen and she loved it!  When we first got her she could not tolerate anything sweet, but obviously that didn't last very long.  After every bite, she said, "Mmmm".

Her first lollipop was had after dinner at Enrique's.  Unfortunately she liked it too!