Happy Valentines Day!

Payton & I started our day out with a lot of valentines day plans. After breakfast & getting ready, we headed out the library to get Payton & I some new books. She wears her books out faster than anything with how often she looks at them ha! She also likes to go to the library because she can play in the kids section with all of their neat little toys. After the library we ran to Papa Murphys to get pizza for tonight... we got a heart shaped pizza- how funny is that?! Then we came home for lunch. After we ate, I bundled Payton up to go outside to enjoy the snow. She loovved it. She ran around yelling "snow! ooo!" She loves to play outside & the snow was a different thing for her to play in! We also took our nice neighbor lady a hand painted "valentine" from Payton. Now its nap time for the little one & tonight is pizza night! Mike & I celebrated our valentines day date on Saturday in St Louis at The Cheesecake Factory & shopping so tonight we are staying in :)
We wish all of you a happy Valentines Day!!! Payton especially wishes one to her two favorite Grandpas (notice the shirt)- 1 in Linn & 1 in Colorado!!! Love you!

Playing @ the mall

Here are a few pictures from last month playing at the playplace at the mall. Payton absolutely loves the slide there! She goes up & up over & over & over again. It is so funny! I also think the picture of payton giving Bo a sweet little kiss is adorable :)

Best Friends...

Life is sure a whole lot more fun when you have a best friend by your side...

Play Date

On Thursday we had Kati, Audrey, & Bo over to enjoy the beautiful 60 degree weather! Kati & I let the girls run around in the backyard & explore, while Bo played in the grass. We also enjoyed some iced coffee :) It is so neat to watch the kids interact with each other & we love how well they play together! The girls absolutely love to run around & be silly together. Payton also adores Bo... we might have to keep our eye on them as they grow up ha! I am very proud of Payton because she is doing a much better job with sharing & playing with other kids her size! It is such a joy to see her learn new things! Kati took some amazing pictures that afternoon & I can't wait to get some printed up!!!

Cowgirl

Payton has been learning to do soo many new things lately! I am just amazed at how fast she is growing. Some new things she has done recently: did the sign language sign for eat yesterday when I asked her if she wanted to eat ( I have not tried to teach her this sign in MONTHS!) She is also learning new words every day... she sure loves to try to talk! Some of her newest words include stick, rock, bird, nest, happy ("appy"), bus, train, car, bike. She is amazing when she looks at books- we look at them so many times that learns what words correlate with what pictures! She loves The Big Hungry Bear & she knows which pages to say "Boom Boom Boom" and "Ohhhh..." ("Oh I see little mouse". It is so crazy! The other day she learned how to get on rocking horse by herself so Mike & I were praising her & we said "high five Payton!" And we just gave her an "air high five" because we were on the couch. Now she thinks it is the coolest thing to say "five" & put her hands up in the air to pretend give high fives! (See pictures below). She is also trying to count (from her Clifford Counts book) & she says "one one one". SO cute!

Things are looking up!

So I am happy to announce that we have our normal, sweet baby back! haha... So far today (Tuesday) Payton has been totally back to normal... maybe her teeth are feeling much better??? Anyways, this morning we had to run to the store to get a few things & then we stopped at our friend Mrs. Connie Wheeler's house on the way home to visit with her since we hadn't seen her in awhile. Payton loves her little pig decoration statue & it was so funny because she was trying to ride it like a rocking horse! After we got home, we went outside for awhile to hang out some laundry (its in the upper 40s today so not too bad!) I snapped a few pictures of Payton exploring in the yard. She learned 2 new words while we were outside today- "rock" & "stick" (as you can see from the pictures)! I cant believe how fast she picks up new words!

Play Time!

Yesterday I was starting to get discouraged with how grumpy Payton had been for the past few days, so after her nap I decided to take her outside to run around in the yard for a little while. She is getting braver every day & loves to explore! It was kind of funny though because since she was being so grouchy, she decided that she was mad that our neighbors have a fence up around their yard & she can't get in. lol. Drama right?! ha. Anyways, I think these pictures are cute & funny.