Happy Thanksgiving (Lauren's First)

Apologies for letting so much time pass since our last post. There's been so much that's been happening as we approach Lauren's first birthday (12/10). She's been blabbering in some foreign baby-tongue complete with intonation, varying speech patterns, and even pondering looks before responding when she's asked a question. Lately, she's been taking 3-4 unassisted steps at a time before realizing she's walking and then sits down. Anyway, we'll keep up our post more frequently. Since this is the year we go to Ohio (and JohnDawn go to Indiana) for Christmas, we had a California Thanksgiving-Christmas in one...

First the turkey:


Then Christmas gift time...


















We even had a fitting for Lauren's "hanbok", a traditional Korean ceremonial costume, which she'll wear at her first birthday party...

Princess:




The remote control was a diversionary tactic:


Finally, she had enough: