After crying for quite some time about her bumped, hurt shin: “I hate my bones!”

At Shoup park, Laurana kept saying that she wanted to “go on the sea horse”. You mean the teeter-totter? “Yeah, the teeter-tot! The sea horse!”

Laurana has tried to stop smiling because “it hurts my cheeks.” When she catches herself, she gives a little exasperated moan and lets her jaw go slack, massaging her cheeks in circles. This is apparently part of the reason she doesn’t want to get married; she doesn’t want to smile on her wedding day, and knows the bride is expected to smile a LOT.

Laurana scooped a bunch of dirt from a planter onto the welcome mat by the back door. Then she dumped bubble solution onto it to make mud. Her explanation for the mess? She was making glue so that she could stick her papers to the window. Thankfully, she didn’t get to the glue application step.