luv her perspective

on the car ride home from the Kane Co. 1st annual Oktoberfest last night...
C drove home and L and I were in the back seat and as I cuddled up next to her, she says:
"I am not a buddy" as in not one of her many stuffed animals that gets cuddled....

playing games...

"...it's fun and it makes me smart."

Lauren says as we played Mosaic and put together this cool-crab!

good one :)

L says: "hey dad, you have your underwear over your shorts!"

seeing me in my biking shorts (before the 51 mile ride!), w/ spandex under the plaid shorts--that kind of look like some boxers I wear...

too funny

two good ones from a kids eyes...

This afternoon, as we were all out in the yard enjoying the nice weather, (1st non-rainy w/e in a long while) and while we were doing some yard work... Lauren was grabbing some pink buds/flowers from the crab apple tree in the front yard and says as she's grabbing a low hanging branch, "I'm shaking hands with the tree."

This evening, after Rosie's 1st communion dinner celebration at Monzo's, as were were walking to the car in the parking lot, Lauren asks, "When will Rosie have her 2nd communion?"

Laughing feet

"...that really made my feet laugh!" ... says Lauren after a funny part of the movie Madagascar...while the three of us sat on the two couches together...

Oct-Nov '08

'I'm going to be taking a 'bshower' or 'shbath'

Playing games...

~as we played Chutes & Ladders, I landed at the bottom of a chute and asked Lauren if I could go up the chute...to which she politely said. 'sure!'

and her response gave me an idea, so 1st we played the game backwards, starting at 100 and going to 0, going down chutes was good this round and up ladders was bad...

then we played in reverse starting as usual at 1 but going up chutes and down ladders...

she won all three games...

Update...we now have many different ways to play...
1. regular, starting at 1, up ladders and down chutes
2. backwards, starting at 100, up ladders and down chutes
3. reverse, starting at 1, up chutes and down ladders
4.
5. double
6. two in one,
7.