Funny girl

She looks a little like a ragamuffin in this picture,
but I thought it was cute that she went and got my
shoes out of the closet and put them on all by herself.

Lauryn says the funniest things sometimes. I think they're even funnier when you see them coming out of her little 22 month old mouth. Here are some of the funniest ones.

"Come on, Mom. Vamanos!"

"Let's go, guys" -Talking to Paul and I as if we're her buddies, not her parents.

"Lauryn Reese Pahulu and Mommy Reese Pahulu"

"Go brush your teeth?" -Said to me after I kissed her one morning.

"My can do it!" -Said anytime she wants to do something without help, like eat or sing a song.

Me (very frustrated): "Lauryn, do you want to go to time out?"
Lauryn (calm as can be): "No thank you, Mom."

Last night she wanted to sleep with her stuffed alligator but I told her I didn't know where he was and we'd find him in the morning. Then at about 7:45 this morning we hear her yelling excitedly from her crib and when Paul goes in to get her the first thing she says to him is "I found alligator! I found alligator!". Apparently he'd been in the crib the whole time.

Goodbye, Hernia...you will not be missed.

Bright and early at 5 am this morning Lauryn had surgery to fix her umbilical hernia. We got there and got her dressed up in a little gown. It was so cute when she was walking around right before the surgery and you could see her little back and diaper bum through the opening of her gown. It went pretty quickly and the toughest part so far was when she woke up from the anesthesia. She was really out of it and very grumpy and squirmy. She slept all the way home from the surgical center and has been pretty good since we got home. We watched cartoons all morning and then she just went down for a nap, hopefully a very long one :). Our camera was out of batteries, so I didn't get the before shot like I wanted to or any pictures of her in the tiny little hospital gown. But looking back over her pictures I found where that hernia snuck into a few of them. In a couple weeks when she's healed up I'll get an after picture on here.

Moved

Well, after 9 years, I no longer live in Provo. It's hard to believe I actually lived there that long! About 2 weeks ago we moved to Saratoga Springs. We are renting a town home there. It is so nice having a garage and a yard. We really like the place for the most part. What we didn't notice before we moved in was the massive amounts of dog hair all over our carpet. Apparently, the renters before us had a dog, but no vacuum. But after a thorough Rug Doctoring, several vacuumings, and a complete going over with a lint roller of every square inch of carpet we are 90% dog hair free. Hopefully, regular vacuuming will eventually clear up that last 10%. Needless to say, I didn't have the kindest thoughts going through my head towards the previous renters as I was down on my hands and knees trying to lint roll the hairs out of the carpet. I think one of the most frustrating things about moving 5 times during our 3.5 years of marriage has been spending hours cleaning the place we were moving out of and then spending hours cleaning the place we move into. I don't know if it's just our luck, but we have never moved into a place that was left clean by the previous tenants.

Well, I usually don't vent very much on our blog, but it feels nice to get that out. Anyways, in more exciting news, to celebrate our clean carpet, we went and bought a new leather couch! Well, new to us and in very good condition. Now we just have to find a loveseat or chair to match it!

Just a random picture if Lauryn I thought was cute.