Old MacDonald had a farm.........

E-I-E-I-O!!!

And on that farm he had a HORSE!!

This is my cousin Tabitha with her horse Ginger. And who is that getting a free ride? It's LAUREN!!

E-I-E-I-O!!!

Nuttin' but some good old lovin'...........

Future Dancing with the Stars contestants?

.....definitely not the waltz.Just lovin' the kitty..........

Here SHE is.............

Lauren looking FAB in her butterfly shades................(don't look at the woman holding her.)

Lauren blowing out her 2 butterfly candles..............(don't look at the woman holding her!)

Lauren caught playing at the playground................
...............again.

The cake that didn't turn into the butterfly I wanted it to look like....but that is okay because the cake tasted so damn good that we didn't feel guilty destroyin it. LOL!

Lauren Elisabeth...is 2 today!

From the mouths of babes...........

Was it yesterday or the day before? I can't remember but Bobby had come home a little earlier than normal and had told me that another "Hail and Farewell" was this Friday (which was yesterday actually). And, I being the social recluse, cringed on the inside because I knew what that meant. I, the newest of officers wives, was to perform my duty and go with my husband, the officer, to this function.

I moaned and groaned. "Do I have to go? Can you go alone? Is it mandatory?" While both Bobby and I bantered back and forth about this, Lauren lay on the floor watching one of her Nick Jr. shows with a coloring book in front of her and a Crayola No Mess Marker poised at the ready in her hand. She scribbled with no care if the color was within or outside the darkly defined boundaries.

As our conversation came to a close, our voices getting louder, Bobby winning in the end. I needed to make an appearance. Lauren looks up from her scribbling, her show (probably Dora, I think) singing in the background, and yells....."Shut Up!" in her most serious of tones for a soon-to-be two-year-old girl. Both Bobby and I look at each other, we open our mouths then close them. What could we say? So we shut up.