Week 6

I'm finally getting around to posting this post...a week after I started it.

Life Continues to fly by in the Albrecht house. Taylor is six weeks old today, and Lauren is almost 16 months. Here's the recap off all that's gone on in the last two weeks.

We recently had a major change in our back yard. We had a giant maple tree that hung over the house, more specifically the two nursery's which also blocked all of the after noon sun from the back yard. We decided we'd had enough raking, shade and picking up sticks, so we had it cut down. The tree cutters we had come in meant business. They brought a 25ft crane with them, and took the tree down in 2.5 hours.

Lauren is starting to like Taylor more and more each day, and is very generous with her toys. She even shared one of her favorite monkeys with Taylor.

Taylor continues to be a night owl. She sleeps for most of the day, and stays awake till usually about one or two o'clock. Below are some of her favorite sleeping spots.

Lauren went to the doctor last week. Everything checked out alright. She was in the 80th percentile for height, weight and head circumference. The funniest comment from the doctor was that she said Lauren was "Sturdy." We're still trying to interpret what exactly she meant.

This past weekend we made our first trip to Brainerd with the two girls. We didn't' try to make the trip on our own though. We brought reinforcements. Leah and Ty came in from Chicago and joined us on the ride up. Leah was a blessing to have in the car. She was there to entertain Lauren as well as clean up her puke after she lost her breakfast. Lauren + Barney on an Iphone= puking. Dad took this as a learning experience to completely dismantle the car seat.

Grandma and Grandpa spoiled us as usual. They even stayed up with Taylor until 3am on Saturday so Kerri and I could sleep.

Lauren enjoyed playing outside, but she was disappointed that she couldn't go in the lake. I had to hold her back from trying to jump off of the dock.

For the rest of this week Leah is helping out around the house until she heads back to Chicago on Wednesday. Each day we remind her that Long Lake would be a great place to move to.