15 Month Birthday

Payton is 15 months old today!

Since my last post, she's started saying Uh Oh, and now she says it a LOT. She also started clapping tonight. I had noticed that she didn't really clap much, if at all, and at Garrett's tball game, we were all clapping and cheering and she started doing both, then was laughing at herself.

oh, and this morning I noticed 2 new teeth had broken through on the bottom, so she has all her top teeth, 8 of them, and now 6 on the bottom. She's an easy teether, doesn't fuss much at all, other then her drooling a ton lately, I'd never have guessed she was getting new teeth.

I take her to the Dr on Thursday, so we'll get her "stats" updated then.

Happy 15 months, girl :-)

Kisses

Yesterday, I said that Payton doesn't like to give kisses, I need to make a correction. Apparently, she only likes to give kisses to Garrett.

Last night, after baths, we were all in Payton's room playing and it was time for her to go to bed, so I said, Payton, give Garrett a kiss, she walked over (he was laying on his back), bent down and kissed him. It was SO cute!! I said, ok, give Daddy a kiss and she ignored me. She walked away, so I said again, give Garrett a kiss, and she did! So, I said, give momma a kiss, she ignored me.

This morning as we dropped Garrett off for school, I said give Garrett a kiss, and she did, I tried to get her to give me a kiss probably 6 times, nope, she wouldn't do it!

Such a stinker!

Cutey

I guess I'm on a blogging role, not sure anyone finds it all that interesting, but sometimes I just feel like sharing!

So, I'm sitting here thinking, could she be any cuter?!?! And I don't mean looks wise, she is the cutest baby ever, but it's her actions that are cracking me up right now. Payton believes everyone should always have their shoes on, if you don't have them on, she brings them to you, if you don't put them on, she sits down and cries, even Garrett just puts them on now! oh, and she knows who goes with which shoes, and she always brings you a matching pair.

She loves sneaking food out of the pantry. If she sees it's open, she runs to it. I have some goldfish lined up on the desk for her and every so often, her little hand sneaks up and grabs one.

She loves to play chase and be tickled, she screams with delight when we do this.

She loves being outside, same as the pantry, if she hears the back door open, she drops everything and runs to get outside.

She does not sit still, EVER. I am not exxagerating, she is a very active little girl. Sure, she'll sit for a couple minutes to read herself books, but I cannot read to her. We were playing in her room and I noticed she squats a lot, she'll squat down and play with a toy and then move on to the next. I guess sitting down would take up too much time! She does come sit in my lap, but usually it lasts less then 30 seconds and ends up with her sliding down so she can be tickled.

She loves to tickle, she'll grab my feet, or her new things is to lift my shirt and try and get my belly.

She entertains herself very well, better then I could imagine a 15 month old would.

She is an amazing sleeper! She sleeps at least 12 hours at night, and takes two 2 hour naps a day. (every once in a while, today for example, she tries to prove me wrong).

She does not give kisses. If you ask her for a kiss, she'll tilt her head to you and you can kiss the top of her head. I have no idea why, but I think it's hilarious.

She loves to empty things out, purses, diaper bags, boxes, drawers, pretty much anything she can. She's now learning that she likes to put things away, which is good.

She is a good eater, not great, but good. She hates a bib though. She is extremely neat when she eats, so bibs are not always needed, but since she won't keep one on, I don't feed her things that could stain her clothes, or she eats in just a diaper. I tried the bibs that slip over her head, she practically chocked herself trying to pull it off, so I decided none was better!

She is now attempting to take her diaper off, as fast as I put it on, she's undoing the velcro and pulling it off. This morning, i was letting her run around in just a diaper, 5 minutes later she came to me carrying it. So, now she has on a diaper and shorts, lol.

She barely talks, I think this is funny, only because everyone says your second and girls do things faster, well, she crawled at 6 months, (really early), and walked at 13 months (kind of late), and at 15 months days maybe 4 words, mama, dada, hi and here. She knows what things are, she knows what her cup is and shoes and who Garrett is, but she doesn't repeat those words. She talks, don't get me wrong, almost as much as Garrett, but we can't understand a word of it.

She loves Garrett's school, as soon as we pull up, she starts kicking her feet and laughing. She runs right in, I've already asked if they would consider taking her at 18 months (they normally don't start until 2 years), the director said it's a strong possibility, especially since Garrett will be there too.

She is a momma's girl. She cries when I leave her with the sitter or at church, she cries if I get too far away at baseball practice. A lot of times if she can touch me, then all is good, but she does not like to be away from momma. I believe this is a phase, she did not cry for the nursery staff or the sitter until recently.

so, there you have it, an update on my cutey pie. She will be 15 months in 6 days and I cannot imagine life without her. I am excited to see what new skills she learns today, tomorrow, next week, next month..........

Jealous

Saturday was not a good day for me. I woke up in a horrible mood and was just jealous. Have you ever just been consumed with jealousy?!?! I wasn't jealous of one particular person or thing, it was everyone who maybe has it better then me. I was jealous of people with cleaning ladies, and people with lots of family to take their kids off their hands for a while. I was jealous of people with bigger houses, bigger yards, nicer cars, people with pools, people who's husbands had normal 9-5 jobs, people with corporate health insurance, you name it, I was jealous. I don't know where this jealousy came from, I'm not, by nature, a jealous person. In reality, I love my house, and my car, I love that my husband has a job he loves (even if it's still in the starting phases and hard work for little pay), and I love my kids.

On Sunday, I woke up fine, back to my normal self. Maybe I just needed a "woe is me" day? I also realized that, no matter how bad I think I have it, someone out there has it worse, someone may be jealous of me, of my car, my house, my kids, or my marriage, etc. I just needed to take a step back and realize I have it pretty darn good. No, I do not have a cleaning lady and if my house was bigger, how would I keep it clean, lol! And if we had a pool, I'd probably be stressed over the upkeep and keeping my kids out of it when I didn't want them in it, etc. I just needed to remember how blessed I really am.

Snacks

I have to keep my pantry door closed at all times, Payton LOVES to grab food out of there. I've gotten smarter over the years and the bottom shelf is reserved for the kids snacks, so if she does get in there, she doesn't accidentally spill flour all over my floor or something!

On Saturday, she got in there while I was getting lunch ready, she brought me the box of Vanilla Wafers and said, "here, here", (her favorite word). I was making lunch, so I'd normally say no, but the sweet thing was literally dancing when I took the box from her, she was SO excited at the prospect of a vanilla wafer, I could not deny her! The funny thing was, my heart just swelled with love for her, why?!? Who knows, but she was just adorable moving her little feet around and bouncing and saying, "here, here".

(Just now she brought me some goldfish, I'm guessing Garrett was in the pantry, lol)

Smiles

Payton & I headed to Houston yesterday, to pick up some supplies for Matt. It was a warehouse full of granite tools and supplies. There were 2 female employees, but other then that, Payton and I were the only girls, and might have been the only ones with English as our first language. But, every single one of those burly, construction men, smiled at her.

Her favorite thing in the store was a roll of painters tape, she would hold it up to her face and look through it and giggle, big belly laughs. Not a person in that store could resist her and her laugh.

This always amazes me, how many people get a little joy from a baby.

Easter 2011

I just realized I never downloaded my pictures or wrote any comments about Easter! So, pretend it's last Monday :-)

We had several Easter Egg Hunts this year, the Saturday before Easter we had the hunt at the George Bush library, I'm not a huge fan of this, there are just SO many people that go, but Matt's family really likes going, so we go. This year we brought a friend of Garrett's, Louden, and that helped. Because of the kids ages, they had to hunt eggs in separate areas, so I went with the boys and Matt took Payton. We were right behind each other, so we got to see both kids, but keeping an eye on all was hard! I even lost Louden for a minute! I told the boys to go fast, meaning grab eggs as fast as you could, Louden took off into the crowd fast, lol! But, he got a lot of eggs and was found very quickly, i don't think he even knew he was lost. Garrett was going for all the green eggs (his favorite color), so he didn't get as many as Louden did, but he got plenty. Payton got 3, 2 she grabbed and one we tossed in the basket for her. She was pretty overwhelmed when the whistle blew and people started screaming and runny. She carried her 2 eggs around a long time thou! We let the boys play a few games, and I think they had fun. We met up with Matt's family for lunch afterwards, so in all a nice day.

The day before Easter, we met Louden's family at their lake house and there was an Easter Egg hunt there, this was more fun, not nearly as many people, but enough to keep it a little competitive. Payton did better, but she kept getting mad that I wanted her to put the eggs in the basket and not just carry 2 around. Garrett got a bunch and was quite happy. Both kids were able to swim in the lake, Garrett did not love it, he preferred the hot tub, or the pool as he called it.

Easter we had to get up early! Matt was cooking ribs at his parents, and needed to go start the fire, so we got up and the kids hunted a few eggs in the house and checked out their baskets, then Matt & Garrett went to his parents and Payton took a nap. It was SO hot on Easter, we ate lunch and had another egg hunt, it was SO hot though! It was just the 3 kids, Ryan wasn't going to hunt eggs at first (he's 14, think he's growing out of it), but once he came outside, Garrett got into it, trying to grab more eggs then Ryan was more fun then trying to grab more then Payton, lol! Payton did a lot better, but was just so hot and red, I was a bit worried about her. Hunny hides money in her eggs, so Payton liked shaking them. All in all, it was a great Easter. The Easter bunny did a bath theme this year. My parents bunny brought the kids big, hooded bath towels, Payton got a new bath toy and both kids got bubble bath. Garrett got a Toy Story Leapster game (I bought a bunch from a friend for $5 each and just saved this one for Easter), Garrett also got some sidewalk paint, we've played with that and it is fun. They also got a bubble gun, I thought this was great, Garrett could "shoot" the gun and Payton could chase the bubbles. After getting it open and outside it would not work :-(, so we need to replace that.