These Two

are best, best friends. They love playing together and have so much fun together. Throughout the day I hear Austin say, "C'mon Wauren, let's go.....(whatever it is he wants to do)." And Lauren willingly follows along, toddling behind him. She thinks most anything he suggests is a good idea. They play kitchen, dinosaurs, Duplo, ball, cars, trains, and more, and work puzzles, watch videos and read books together. When they play trains, Austin has his track, and Lauren has hers, that either Austin or Brian builds for her. They do fight now and then (of course, ha ha!), usually when one takes (or tries to take!) the other's toy. But they really do have a great time together! We went to Vons today, and there they both sat in the firetruck cart (a cart with a kid size firetruck stuck on the front end), so cute. This morning they were just rolling around on the floor, getting up to ride the rocking horse and play with the balls, then back to laying and rolling on the floor. Silly kids.

I asked Lauren today what her name was. She answered, "Wawnen." I asked, "Who's your brother?" And got two answers, first she said, "Aus," and then "Autin." I asked, "Who's your sister?" She replied, "Deeya....Mama, Dada." Guess she thought she better name the rest of us while she was naming names. :)

Let's try to ride this horse together... It didn't work too well...look who ended up with it. Can you see the Lightning McQueen car in his hand? At one point, Austin put the car under one rocker, when Lauren was on the horse, and said quietly, "I'm going to trick Wauren!" She was rocking, or at least trying to rock, as hard as she could, and the horse would not, because he had jammed it with his car! Stinker! I told him I hoped Lightning McQueen's roof didn't get dented in, and he picked the car up and showed me, "See Mommy? It's OK!"

And then we have this silly one too. So nicely sitting by the Cyclamen plant Brian brought home from one of his customers. At least he appears to be so nicely sitting there. Tonight we realized he has bitten off every single flower from this plant! Brian and I noticed Pongo nibbling on a blossom or two early this morning. Then tonight they are all gone!! He ate some, and the rest are under the desk where he let them fall.