All the toys in the world...

can't beat playing with Mom. Too bad for Lauren that Monica doesn't have the endurance that she once had or else this game could have gone on all night.

You Can Be Whatever You Want To Be

I think as parents we are supposed to be supportive of whatever Lauren wants to be when she grows up, lawyer (heaven forbid), doctor (good plan), garbage collection engineer (sure), but Lauren has her own plan which Monica seems to be savvy to. I guess our next big purchase will have to be a Bluenose replica.

Season Changed and So Did our Names

Apologies for the lack of updating but my employer seems to care more about production than the Blog.  Unreal.  Anyway, snow is on the ground, the leaves are off the trees and we have new names.  For some unknown reason in the last week, Mom has become Mama and Dad has become Dada.  Close enough I suppose - but bizarre nonetheless.  At first, I thought that maybe someone had swapped Lauren for a kid that didn't know the lingo but then I heard a rather large rumble from Lauren's backside which was followed by a slight chuckle and "Dada, I toot".  I knew then that nobody had switched her out - she is so much like her mother it is unbelievable.