Another milestone

I forgot to mention that Lauren reached a milestone. Crawling at 8 months old!! It is so exciting to watch her develop. Did I mention that she is also very clingy? She craves attention from people, especially mommy and daddy. But since mommy and daddy can't be next to her all the time, she starts crying and then she continues crying while she starts crawling to us, following us around everywhere we go. It's a crawl and cry fest every day. But this is where Ryan comes in handy. We just sit her next to Ryan and then she is content for a while. He is the next best thing to mommy and daddy.

But putting Lauren next to Ryan is not always the best idea, when all Lauren wants to do is destroy whatever Ryan is working on, like an elaborate building made of blocks or his mousetrap game setup. Ryan always says, "Mommy, can you put Lauren away?" Before she could crawl this wasn't really a problem because I could just separate her from Ryan just enough so Ryan can play with his toys in peace. But now Lauren will crawl over to Ryan's toy and try to knock everything over but Ryan will block her with his leg and then Lauren will SHRIEK at the top of her lungs at him. Poor Ryan!! Don't let the cuteness fool you...