Many times I feel like Laramie gets lost in the shuffle as the oldest child. Anyone else know what I mean? (Hope I'm not the only one!) You know, like when I hear us telling her to hold on "just one more minute" because the baby needs something right now, or asking her "can you help your sister...". So, every night after Irelyn is snoozing soundly, Laramie gets some much deserved Mommy and Daddy time all to herself. She gets to pick the night's activity. The most popular are watching a cartoon (the current fave of both girlies is Phineas and Ferb...not a bad choice for something we're going to see a million times, if Mommy and Daddy do say so ourselves) or playing Wii sports. I think it's probably been a couple weeks since we've played the Wii, so I was kind of excited that it was tonight's pick. Of couse, our gaming fun is owed all to Zac's sneaky battery-picking operation to swipe enough double As from the girls' toys to operate our Wii remotes, since the second one died today. Parenting is all about creative solutions. So, tonight's pic is of the little punkin in action. She's actually not half bad. The pic is of her bowling, where she insists on running from the couch all the way up to the TV. For whatever reason, it's the only way she can ever seem to release the trigger at the right time to actually get her ball to go down the lane. Whatever works, right?