This week Lauren will be 18 months old – amazing. She’s really become a little toddler the last few weeks. Very independent – wanting to do things herself, doing (or attempting to do) everything that Sophie is doing and talking up a storm. Although we can’t understand most of it, she’s got a fair amount of words now: “Daddy” (her first and favorite word), “shoes,” “up please,” “help please,” “hi,” “cheers” and “dog.”