Kiddo updates

"Zerba, zerba, zerba, zerrrra." That's how Nicholas sounds right now. He's gotten very chatty lately and you can tell he's trying to tell you something important, but yeah, you can't make a word out. I usually respond with "Uh huh, what else?" and he'll nod in agreement. He does say a few real words, such as "Mamma," "Dadda," "bye-bye," and "nah-nah," (which means night-night). He can also show you where his tummy is and he will dance when he hears music. He especially loves the "We Did It" song from Dora the Explorer. He will stop everything he's doing to go stand in front of the TV and watch and dance to this song.

As for Lauren, she spends most of her day dressed like a drag queen. She LOVES to play dress-up so she typically looks like this...

...or this... 

...and last night, it was this...

She knows she looks cute 'cause she'll tell me to take her picture so we can show Dadda later. She's also pretty smart. The other day we didn't let her have a snack after lunch because she'd been bad. However, while she and Nick were taking naps Patrick and I had some cake. Well, later that night Lauren looked at me and we had this conversation: 

Lauren: "Did you have cake after lunch?"
Me: "why?"
Lauren (smiling): "Why did you say 'why'?" 
Me: "Why did you ask if I had cake?" 
Lauren (smiling): "Because there's a big rectangle missing."

It's hard to get stuff past her these days.