A whole bunch of RANDOM

 

Well I haven’t been the best blogging mommy in a couple of weeks.  I am pretty much busy like everyone else but I have not made time to blog like I use to.  Payton has had croup after Thanksgiving and tonight he is running a fever so Lord I hope he is not coming down with anything.  All the pictures in this post is a re-cap of the last 2-3 weeks.  So here is a whole bunch of random pics! Hope everyone has a blessed CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year!

Payton with his hat that he loves!

While Daddy was napping Payton was lining up his bowls to cook with our dog Jaida looking on :)

Our CHRISTmas tree with our little elf stealing ornaments off of the tree!

 

Me and my not so happy boy!

Payton’s 3rd Annual Christmas Parade.  You ask how that is well he went in my tummy when I was about 10 weeks pregnant, he went last year at 5 months old, and this year at 17 months old! This picture with me, Jordan, and Payton was from last year!

Dewitt, Garrett, Aunt Joy, and Kayla

Bonnie, Christian, Payton, and Kayla

Garrett and myself were good looking Liberty Tax models huh!

Payton’s Santa experience= NOT SO GOOD!

Payton riding the cars at the mall

Daddy, Payton, and Grandpa Glen picking soybeans

Hope I didn’t bore you to death with all the random events in our life! Once again may God bless you and your family this upcoming year.

Happy Birthday Mama

 

Yesterday November 17th was my mama’s birthday.  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful mother whom I have always been so close with.  She is my best friend and I have always been able to tell her anything.  As far back as 4th grade I can remember her being in the hospital throughout much of my life.  She has a lot of medical problems with her heart including 2 mechanical valves, a pacemaker, and a constant battle with congestive heart failure.  She is such a strong women and I can truly say that she has been through a lot in her short life but she puts up a good fight even when she feels terrible.  I would have to say she loves all of her family but the highlight of her life would be Payton and Jackson!  Here are some pictures from her birthday supper at the Baron and Beef.

Above is Mama and sweet Jackson

Pa Pa and Payton

Just simply precious!

 

Two Happy Grandparents!!!

 

My sweet Grandma Shirley, Mama, and Jackson (he wasn’t too happy!!)

Our Little Monkey

Well this year was Payton’s second Halloween but actually this one was much more fun!  He was old enough to enjoy his costume and hold his basket for candy.  He did really good and didn’t get aggravated  with his costume except he took his hat off as often as he could.  He was the sweetest little monkey I ever did see and we had a great time trick-or-treating with our family.  Here are some good pictures of our sweet monkey.

This is little man before putting on his costume

He is thinking about putting on his costume

Nana and Payton looking at his pumpkin bag full of goodies from Nana

Payton and Grandpa Glen before we headed off to go trick-or-treating

The monkey “ROUSE” clan!

Payton and Aunt Charlotte

Payton getting candy to put in his basket at Grandma Evelynes

Aunt Joy gave Payton candy along with a stick hobby horse whom we named Goldie after Pa Pa’s horse that Payton loves.  Payton kept going up to this stick horse and giving it a kiss…how sweet is he!

 

Another family picture

Pa Pa, Me Ma, and Payton

Pa Pa getting some love from the monkey Payton!

Overall we had a great time and look forward to the many years to come spending precious time with our sweet angel.  How blessed we are to even have a child to love and spoil and we are double blessed to have a healthy child.  Thank you Lord for blessing me with such a wonderful family!

The cutest little pumpkin ever!

 

Doesn’t he just fit right into my harvest scene!

He loves picking up these little pumpkins and throws them on the ground!

Giving Nana a flower that he picked

This one has nothing to do with the harvest scene but this shows off his personality and his climbing skills well!

I LOVE THIS LITTLE PUMPKIN!

15 months old

 

Yesterday Payton was 15 months old.  Today he had his 15 month old Well-Baby check up at the doctor.  Since the weather was rainy today Jamie was able to go with me to take little man to the doctor.  I am glad he is able to go to most appointments to talk with the doctor and asks question just like me.  I always make him be the bad guy and hold Payton for shots and the assessment.  As soon as Dr. P started listening to Payton’s heart and checking his ears, he started crying.  He DISLIKES any doctor coming close to his ears since he had sooo many ear infections before he got tubes at 8 months.  One thing is for sure, he doesn’t forget why he is at the doctors office!

Today’s visit wasn’t as bad as I thought.  Payton only received one shot for MMR.  They were out of Flu shots for his age group so we will have to go back next week for another shot :(  Here are Payton’s stats and a little bit of what he is doing right now.

Weight= 19 lbs. and 12 ozs.   (2 percentile)

Height= 30.75 inches   (38 percentile)

Head Circumference= 47 cm   (33 percentile)

Right now Payton you have been walking since a little bit after your first birthday.  You are practically running now.  You climb onto everything and I am so scared that you are going to really get hurt.  You love to play with tractors and trucks in the floor and push them around.  You really love to read books now and you listen intensively to words and sounds that mommy says.  You feed yourself like a big boy and you like to use a toddler fork and spoon.  You have become a very picky eater and you don’t like half of the food that you use to like when we introduced table food.  Right now you like hotdogs, chicken nuggets, french fries, cheese doodles, and fruit.   You sleep through the night and you don’t fight sleep much anymore because you are always worn out because you are so busy.  You have started throwing your head backwards when you get mad and Dr. P said, “ this too shall pass!”.  Your most favorite word to say is “JAIDA” and you call her 100 times a day…that is our dog!  You now have 4 teeth on the bottom, and 5 teeth on the top.  Mommy just found 2 molars that have come in last week.  Your mommy and daddy love you more than anything in the world and you are just perfect.  We can’t imagine what life was before you and we look forward to watching you learn and do something new each day.

Fall Scene

 

Tuesday Payton and myself ran a few errands gathering all the things that we needed for our fall scene to put into our front yard.  Last year I didn’t put a fall scene out because Payton was only 3 months old and I had just started going back to work and a fall scene was the last thing on my mind.  Jamie’s favorite season is fall so he really enjoys this season and likes the fall scene in the front yard.  Payton and I went and bought some  bales of wheat straw, pumpkins, mums, and got a bundle of corn out of the corn field.  I pulled my old scarecrow out of the barn.  Then with Payton’s help we began placing everything where I wanted it to go.  Needless to say, my little helper took every little pumpkin that I placed in the fall scene and threw it in his little red wagon that we used to pull all the items out to the front yard.  He had a great time and I just loved watching him pick up the pumpkins and throw them in the wagon!  No pumpkin was harmed during this activity!

This one is going to be heavy mommy..

My hat fell off cause I was working so hard

I am going to throw this one in the wagon!

Here I go!!

Our First Play date

 

Today Payton and myself hosted the very first play date at our house.  We hope there will be many more to come.  Stacey, Cameron, Diana, and Brody joined up for the play date.  All 3 of our boys had a great time playing together and eating!  I cooked lunch and made sure all of us Mama’s got our bellies full!  In the picture above, Stacey and Diana were trying to eat but as you can see the little ones always come first.

Payton and Brody in their highchairs eating their lunch!

Here is Stacey holding Brody and Cameron

Above and below are us moms trying to get our boys to look at the camera for the picture…..wishful thinking huh!

In the next few pictures is a little photo shoot that we put together on the couch.  We gave the boys some fall scenery and look at what we got…..

Of course my child is the one NOT looking in the picture above!

Payton thinks the pumpkin top is a hat and Brody is trying to eat the gourd!

Aren’t they so cute???!!!

Payton was trying to grab Cameron’s leg!

Brody was the only one who would cooperate!

Here is my wild child and dog Jaida

I thought this was the sweetest picture of Brody

Cameron just couldn’t hang with the big boys!  Give him a break he is only 4 months old!

Brody and Payton playing with all of the toys

Brody says, “Hey man do you think I could ride that fire truck a time or two since you are sleepy?”

Payton says, “Man you can’t have my pacifier, get your own!”

Two sweet boys

Baby Cameron taking a nap on mommy! That is the sweetest thing ever!

Overall we had a great time and the boys played so well together.  Diana, Stacey and myself have been best friends for quite a while now.  When we were teenagers we all thought that I would get married first, then Diana, and then Stacey.  Well life didn’t happen that way.  Diana was married first in May of 2006, I was married in June 2007, and Stacey was married in April 2008.  Isn’t it amazing how God works in our lives?  I was the first one to give birth to Payton in July 2008 followed by Diana having Brody in December 2008 and followed by Stacey having Cameron in May 2009.  It is crazy how we all had boys and we wouldn’t trade them for any sweet little frilly dressed girl!  Although we were all talking today how cool it would be for us all to have girls the next time around.  God is so good to us and even though we don’t get to see each other a lot with our busy lives, I am blessed to know that if I need Stacey or Diana that they would be here in a split second and I am proud to say that they are my best friends.  They both are good people and are good role models for Payton.  I say that they are Payton’s “Aunt Diana and Aunt Stacey”.  I hope the start of today’s first play date is just one of the many to come in the near future.  Stacey has already spoke up to host next months play date at her house for October.  Diana will have November and it will be my turn again for December…..yay!!!  Hope you enjoyed the sweet pictures of our little pumpkins!