Ta Da !!!!

Today was Lauren's first gymnastics class, she loved it.

she tried the balance beam, the cheese slice and the jumping block. She is in a class with only 5 other 2 year olds and she enjoyed watching them also. She learned that after you do anything in tumbling you get to put your arms up and say ta da....

Chinese New Year Party

We had a CNY party here

tonight, we had 17 people come

over and we all had a great

time with food, fellowship

and fireworks. We served traditional new years

food, a prosperity tray and

Nian Gow for dessert.
Lauren & Jocelyn in their matching outfits
Let's eat

Steve, Stacie & Lauren Dudley

Daddy's Girl At Last

For those of you who traveled
with us to China you know the
routine with Lauren and Steve, she was not having it.
Well, she is now becoming a daddy's girl, she will run to the door and look out yelling
dada, she has to have him lay down with her at night to go to sleep, he has to play don't break the ice and ants in the pants EVERY night with her, he has to be the one to feed her at dinner if she is having rice, it is so funny watching her become a dada's girl, Steve loves every minute of it also. Oh, and I get a break so we all win. :)

Challenging Week In Toddlerville

Well, this has been a challenging week in the land of Lauren, our first incident this week was the large cup of chick fil a sweet tea being poured out on my couch. the story behind it is I had moved it so she could not reach it, well, she is a climber and when I left the room she climbed up, got the tea and you can imagine the look of horror on my face when I came around the corner to her pouring a large sweet tea on my couch. That was incident #1

#2 is the sore throat drops she stashed and then put 4 of them in her mouth at once, this happened yesterday as we were getting ready to leave for church, late as usual. Daddy had taken them away from her on Saturday when he found her in our bathroom floor sorting out sore throat drops( non medicated) that she had climbed up onto the counter to get, well, he didn't realize that she had stashed some away and yesterday pulled them out in the living room and put 4 of them in her mouth at once, I asked her what was in her mouth and she went blah, and red cherry throat drops went all over her and her church clothes. Like I said this has been one heck of a week with Miss L.

Sorry no pictures, trying to recover from Toddlerville, unlike Margaritaville where you feel no pain. :)

FCC Lunar New Year Celebration

We went to the FCC new year

celebration this weekend and had a great time

Lauren did not care for the

costumed characters but she does

love her new purple parisol.

She tries to carry it through the

house but it's so big that daddy

hung it from her bedroom

ceiling to keep her from tearing it up :)

She !!!!

Loves to Dance & Tumble

Is 24 Pounds of Pure Stubborness

Loves White Rice & Mandarin Oranges

Loves to Push Boundaries

Likes to pick out her own clothes

Tries to put on her own shoes

Tries to repeat everything you say

Tries to count to 10

Has her daddy & mommy completely wrapped around her finger. :)

T Ball

We got Lauren a pink t ball set

for Christmas and last week

we went outside to play it, that

was the funniest thing I have ever seen

she would line it up like a pool ball

and try and hit it off by pushing the bat

at the ball. Hilarious. Jocelyn

actually had a good stance going though. :) Ok, Lauren, This is how you do it
Swing batter batter
Oops, it went the wrong way
A little pool table T ball

The Fort

It's a cold, windy day here in Georgia

so we decided to build a fort since

it's too cold to go outside & play.

The girls loved it, they played

in it most of the morning. It's

a great getaway spot for 2 giggly girls :)

A Day in the Life of Lauren

Here's a few pictures of Lauren

doing what Lauren does best, being really cute :) (of course, I am a little biased) Talking to Eeyore after a nap, not sure what about
Outside "helping" Dada put away Christmas decorations

Trying to catch the little blue ball
Yeah, i got it..

2 Year Old Stats

We took Lauren today for her 2 year old shots & checkup, she is 31.5" tall, weighs 22 lbs. Her weight is in the 8th percentile, height in the 5th percentile but her head circumference is in the 40th percentile. The doctor says she is extremely sensitive to light which would explain why she hates having pictures taken now. She does speech therapy once a week and her newest words are big bird, snack, I stuck ( and she usually is stuck somewhere :), Shiloh(our bird) and Sarah(Jocelyn's mom) The funniest thing she does right now is if she is doing something wrong and you give her "the look" she'll hold up her fingers and say I two. HA like she can get away with stuff because she's 2. :) oh, she also says Target......sorry no pictures... I'll try and get some later but she is in no mood for pics after having shots done.

Oh, The Luxury....

Well, sorry if I don't post for a while but we recieved 2 sears gift cards for Christmas this year so Steve & I decided to go shopping yesterday and we pooled our gift cards and got the most wonderful down comforter for our bed so if I don't post it's because I am piled up in bed still. :) Thanks Uncle Marvin & family for the great excuse to never get out of bed again. sorry no pictures, I don't want to get out of bed to download them. HA !!!!

A Florida Christmas

We went to Florida for Christmas

to see all of our family, it was

in the 80's all week with a

little Florida snow( rain) mixed in.

Lauren had a great time playing with her cousins

and we all had fun seeing each other again. Japanese dinner with the Kelley crew
Cousin Kim teaching Lauren piano
Off to Church Christmas eve
The 4 Dudley grandkids ( Brittany, Shannon, Kenny, Lauren)

The Big 2

Lauren is 2 years old today,

we started out the day with

pancakes, then for lunch we

had her favorite meal of

spaghetti, followed up by

chocolate cupcakes. yum...

She has changed so much

since last year, she is saying

a few more things, but is also

very busy, she likes to hop,

jump and run now. she also

will cut her eyes at you if you tell her no. :)

Wow, what a difference a year

makes in a precious baby girl.

Festival Of Trees

Children's Healthcare of

Atlanta puts on a festival of trees

fundraiser every year, we took

Lauren & Ryan Saturday night

and had a great time, they

rode the carousel and then

the train ride andthe super slide.

A few of the trees, there were hundreds of decorated trees for sale
Lauren & Daddy ready to ride the horsies
Ryan & His Daddy ( Darrin) ready to ride the horsies
The mommies got to ride the train with the kiddos.

A Visit With Friends

Our friends Vicki & Darrin came

from Nashville this weekend to visit

with their son Ryan, we had a great weekend full of fun, we

went to the Georgia aquarium and

then to the festival of trees. We

are grateful for good friends

to spend fun times with.