The Laursens

It's been a really long time since I've published on this blog, but I would really like to keep up on the blog, if nothing else than to just to be able to remember these things about my babies when they were young.

Currently we live in Logan. Nathan is working for Utah State, and though he is busy and it takes him from home a lot more than we would all like, I think he really likes working there. He likes the people he works with and he likes working with the students and helping them learn and do better. He likes when he goes somewhere and works hard to improve something and I think that he has done that here.

I am busy being a mom. I love being able to stay home with my girls. It's really hard and some days I count down until bed time so it's quiet, but I love being a mom. I love watching them grow and learn. I love seeing how smart they are and watching them figure every little thing out. I feel bad when I sit in my pajamas until 3 pm, but who doesn't do that?!

Josslyn will be turning 3 soon and I just love how smart she is. She is so quick to catch on to things, and remembers every little detail of everything you ever tell her. Which obviously is hard sometimes when she remembers things you don't really want her to, but I wouldn't change how smart she is for a second. She recently started a ballet class, which is literally the light of her whole week. She loves going to see her teacher and it really is amazing to watch her shriek with excitement when Thursday rolls around. She has always loved singing and dancing. She knows more words to songs than I do and can memorize songs and dance moves like it's nothing. She continues to surprise us everyday with how articulate she is, how smart she is, how outgoing she is, and how much she loves life! She is especially a really good big sister. I definitely believe the oldest are meant to be because they naturally have this amazing ability to look out for their siblings. She doesn't love sharing her toys, but I think this is mostly because McKynzie is a baby who slobbers all over everything and Josslyn says "that's gross mom, SPIT!" Now the next challenge is potty training, which of course, she is smart enough to realize she'd rather wear diapers and not worry about having to take a break from toys or playing to go to the bathroom.

McKynzie just turned 5 months old. Despite a recent inability to stay asleep, she is really the joy of everyone's lives. She is so happy. Loves to smile and play and gets really mad when you leave her in a room by herself. Wherever you are going. McKynzie has to go to. Where Josslyn was my tiny, petite little baby, McKynzie is my chunker. She continues to grow like crazy and is so much bigger than Josslyn ever was. In fact she wore a dress to church the other day that I'm pretty sure Josslyn wore when she was about a year old. She can roll all over, she loves to sleep on her belly in particular. She is starting to sit on her own, she usually does much better when she has something to hold on to, but falls over when she tries to look around. She'd really love to crawl. When something is out of reach, she lays on her belly and yells at it until someone comes and pushes it closer. She is starting to push off things with her feet so crawling is not far behind!

Our family is so blessed. And even though sometimes we are not sure what path to take or what things to do with our lives, we know we are trying hard and our happy girls make it all worth the struggles we face.

Hopefully I'll keep better track of our lives. I know there are little things that I would like to remember that I never will unless I take a picture and write it down!