ALIAS - The Game

See my post on LINQ for a funny.

I've copied it over for easy reference:

This will only make sense to those of you who watched last night's season finale...(And yes, Lauryn was still awake at 11pm)

Tonight, Lauryn was playing on the couch pretending to bake cookies. A little while later, she asked me to play with her. Here's our conversation:

L: "Mommy, you wanna play ALIAS with me?"

A: "Huh?"

L: "Do you want to play ALIAS with me? You can be the girl who's sick."

A: "OK."

L: "OK!"

She went to get something and came back to me. She had a small play shovel in her hand.

L: "Ok, you say, 'What's that?'"

A: "OK." "What's that?"

L: "It's just water." "Now, turn around mommy."

She proceeded to poke her shovel into the back of my neck, making a 'chhhhh....' sound.

A: "AAAHHHHHHH!!!!"

She then left again, and came back with a small pink box and her shovel.

L: "Now I have to make your eyes red."

So she dipped her shovel into her pink box and then swept the shovel over each of my eyes. Then I opened my eyes really big and scary and roared.

She screamed and then started laughing. She told me I did a good job. I asked her who she was supposed to be, and she said, "I'm the bad girl."

She made me play "ALIAS" about 3 times before she had to go to bed

Barbie Bike Incident

It took Lauryn a couple of tries to learn how to ride her new Barbie bike. Our friends, Sarah and Jeff, bought her this bike for Bike Day at her preschool. On Bike Day, Lauryn was so excited when I dropped her off with her new bike and helmet. When I picked her up and asked how her day went, she said that everyone rode their bikes, but she didn't know how. And when I looked at the bike, it also had a flat tire...

So we practiced and practiced and she finally was able to ride her bike to the park all by herself.

Tom & Katie

Yes, I'm a semi-closet Oprah lover.

Today she had Tom Cruise on the show. Not sure why I felt this was significant to post. He seems to have a different girl everytime he's on Oprah. Last time he was promoting The Last Samurai and he was all about Penelope. This time he was all about Katie. How old is she??

Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster

During our last trip to LA, I took Lauryn to Disneyland for a few hours. We tried the new Buzz Lightyear ride. You actually get to shoot at different targets inside the ride. At the end of the ride, you can find your picture in one of the consoles and email yourself the picture. Lauryn was a little scared in the beginning, but towards the end, we were defeating Zurg together!

Sydney's Martial Arts

Hands of Fury


Buddha's Palm


Tiger Stance


Animal Shroud

Monkey Bars Incident

Lauryn on the rings

One day after I picked Lauryn up from school, she asked, "Mommy, can you teach me how to do the monkey bars? All my friends can do it except me." So feeling like a bad mom, we took our daughter to the park. She couldn't reach the rings swinging on her own, so daddy had to help her from ring to ring.

Giving in to the Blog...

After reading blogs by many friends and family, I finally gave in and decided to start one for my family. Partly because I keep telling myself that I need to write down the funny and cute things that happen with the kids, which I never get around to doing, and partly because it's kinda neat to look back and see the history of a family.