The look

Lauren has this look...if she were an adult, it might make you shake in your boots because it's so intense. But because she's just over a year old, it kind of makes you laugh. Wally and Dena (via skype) and Miss Gwen our day care provider have been fortunate (or shall I say unfortunate?) enough to see it, and they too have laughed out just how severe it is.

I've been trying to capture it with the camera for like a month now, but I haven't had much success. I've been purposefully trying to upset Lauren over the past weeks so I could take a picture of it, but that unfortunately has resulted mostly in faces like this:


And I swear she knows that I want her to make the face because she's not been making it as much lately. The other night at dinner though, we were able to irritate her by telling her no when she started throwing food on the floor and we got a close approximation of "the look". It's not nearly as intense, but here's what we were able to capture:







While trying to catch "the look", we were able to take a few other fun pictures of Lauren in action:












Lauren has been having a rough go of it lately when it comes to sleeping. She will just wake up screaming and there's nothing we can do to comfort her. She'll flail herself around to the point that it's hard to hold on to her sometimes. We're not sure if it's her teeth bothering her, bad dreams, or ears. It's so hard to not be able to do anything to comfort her at those moments. It just tears at your heart, so we're hoping that she's feeling better soon and that she's able to get a good night sleep tonight!

We took Lauren to the doctor for her 15-month check up. She's up to 22 lbs, 5 oz and measures approximately 28 inches in length. She's shrunk in length from the last visit though. They even measured her three times but we couldn't get her up to the 28 3/4" that she was in June. I think that must have been a bad measurement though. The doctor wasn't worried about it and just called her the mysterious shrinking baby. We got a new prescription for her eczema on her back and will be working over the next week or so to get rid of the bedtime bottle. But other than that, she's doing great. She's adding a few words to her vocabulary - she now says book, dada, and an approximation of Alyssa. Every once in a while she'll come out with something else, but it's mostly still lots of pointing and grunting or screeching of some sort. But I love when she says those few little words of hers.