Fun Things for Lauren

So Lauren has had a few fun things happen the last week or so. First of all- She had her first sleepover!! It was with her bestest bud Brooke. We weren't planning on letting the girls have their first sleepover quite yet, but Brooke's poor Mom had an emergency root canal AND her Dad is out of town for almost two weeks! So, my friend and I made a last minute determination (at about 7:00 PM) that Brooke would just spend the night instead of going home. This became a monumentous occasion all of a sudden so I hurried and popped some popcorn, let them watch a little show, and took a few pictures :-) They had a blast!

Then, we decided to make the playroom Lauren's room so that she could have her own space and fill it with all her little girl things (she had been sharing a room with Josh since we moved Olivia into her room). So, she had a fun sleepover at Auntie Tracy's place while we scrambled to do it as a surprise. The green paint I chose turned out too dark, I think, but she was really excited. She especially likes the chandelier and describes it to people as a "light with necklaces on it". I still have some stuff to do in there- but here are a few pics....



A really fun thing for me to watch was her "decorating" her room all evening. Bit by bit, she would go get a basket filled with toys and carefully put each one in the perfect place. Towards the end, she was running out of room on her dresser, bed and table, so she started putting things on her play kitchen and on the floor. It actually looked like a tornado had hit when she was "done" but it was so fun to see her so excited. She wanted to take some pictures of her fine decorating skills, and the pictures below are some of them. I got a kick out of how she placed things....



In the end, Josh and Lauren asked if they could sleep TOGETHER in her new room :-)