Lauren has been picking up so many new words lately. Today on the way to church, I said, Lauren, "Look at the beautiful sunshine!" to which she replied, "SUNSHINE!" This picture is of her on in the parking lot of church. After church today we picked her up in Waumbaland (the children's program Lauren attends where she is in the 1's and 2's room) and I asked her what she learned about today and she said, "God." That was pretty cool and made her teacher (Auntie Jen) very happy when we told her later. Also today, we went to Lowe's for a while and while we were walking through the Garden Center, Lauren happily pointed over to the tulips and shouted, "FLOWERS!" And last night she started saying Grandma Patsy's name, so we called Grandma and Grandpa tonight to tell them that. She now can name Mommy, Daddy, (Uncle) Cory, Grandma Lori, Grandma Patsy, Papa (Grandpa Richard), (Auntie) Jen and Gracie. She also says Ryan's name (the babysitter's son and can sometimes say Tyler (her other son) and tonight for the first time she said Marsh for Marcia, the babysitter. We're working on other family member's names too, and she can say the names of some of her favorite tv characters Hannah (Hannah Montana), Jackson (Hannah's brother), Ferb (Phineus and Ferb), Elmo, Abby and Cookie (Monster). I haven't counted, but I'm pretty sure she has over 100 words at this point and I'm pretty sure speech will never be a concern for her. She also has started talking about the baby and if you ask her now where the baby is, she will pat my tummy, or her tummy or her teddy's tummy and say "baby". Also if you ask her if she wants a brother or a sister (or sister or a brother) she says "sister" which is kind of funny. She also likes to say things are funny now and then crack up laughing.
In other news, I have my consultation for my cerclage tomorrow so I will get another ultrasound and we will schedule my procedure then. I'm nervous and excited. Today was two years ago that I had my emergency cerclage with Lauren and it has brought back some scary memories. She's here, though, and beautiful and I have so much to be thankful for. According to most of my ultrasounds to date I'll be 12 weeks tomorrow, and according to the "biological" dates/timing, I should be around 14 weeks, so I feel positive about that, having reached this milestone. I'm still really nauseous and I have been really exhausted this week, but I'm counting that as good and telling myself that that means I'm growing a healthy little baby!
Nathaniel is doing well and working hard as usual. School is winding down for me, and as it does, I'm in the race to try to find a job for next year. I've done lots of applying and went to a job fair in February, but haven't heard from any schools yet. I also applied to work summer school in a few districts, so hopefully I'll hear something about that soon.
As the weather warms and the sunshine increases, we wish you all many hours of enjoying the beautiful outdoors and all the gorgeous and beautiful things that God has blessed us with. Lauren loves the outdoors and we are so thankful and blessed to see her running around outside so healthy and happy right now. Have a great week and we'll update soon!
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Lauren's such a sweetie! You know, Ainsleigh was about the same age as Lauren when I was pregnant with Addie and she would always say "sister" when we mentioned the baby being a brother or sister. We though it was so funny since she couldn't really understand what either one was. It turned out she was right! Maybe it is toddler intuition?! Maybe Lauren't got it too! Have a good week!
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