Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year!  Payton was so excited!  He is just at the right age where he is really into it!  He is really into Santa and loves singing Christmas songs and watching Christmas movies!  On Christmas Eve, Justin's family came down from Iowa and we got to spend the evening with them.  Payton was really happy to see his Uncle Jeremy!  That night we left out cookies and milk for Santa.  He insisted that the reindeer wanted chocolate milk too!  It took a lot of convincing, but I finally got him to realize that he didn't need to leave the reindeer milk outside, that Santa would bring it out to them!  He woke up bright and early on Christmas morning and ran right past all of the presents straight to the plate of half eaten cookies!  He was thrilled!  Santa brought him a new bike which was the highlight of the morning.  His reaction was one I will not forget.  We then opened presents for a while and then went over to my moms and spent yhe rest ofthe day over there.  (It sure is nice having to drive 6 minutes, instead of 6 hours!!)  Payton was a little mellow then, but i think he was on present overload!  A day and a half of opening gifts is a bit much for a little guy!   Friday it was 64 degrees here, so it was a perfect day to try out the new bike!  We have spent the rest of the weekend being very laid back and playing with all of our new toys!!

Overall we had a wonderful Christmas and got to spend lots of time with family.  It was strange to think that next year there will be one more person here!  I think we may need a bigger tree then!!

15 week update

I had a doctors appt yesterday and everything looks great with the baby!  They are not very happy though because instead of gaining weight, I am losing it.  You should would not know it though by looking at my baby bump!!   Hopefully by my next appt in 4 weeks I will be able to put on a few pounds, or at least not lose any. 

My next appt is January 13 and I will have my sonogram!  So as long as the baby is cooperating, I will be able to find out if it is a boy or girl!!

Keeping busy!!

We have been pretty busy the last couple of weeks!  We spent Thanksgiving at my moms and Justin and Payton decided it would be a good time to rake her leaves.  She has some big trees in her back yard so her leaves were inches deep.  Payton was so excited to help daddy.  He actually did a pretty good job.  We have also gone to see Santa and Payton told him his very long list of things he wants for Christmas!  (Thanks to those kid grabbing commercials on TV, his wish list is out of control!!)  This week we attempted to do a gingerbread train.  We have never done one before, and I know why!  What a mess!  It didn't turn out quite like the picture, but not too bad for our first try. 

Payton absoultly loves all things Christmas!  He is fascinated by the lights on the houses and is very proud of the lights that he helped daddy put outside.  Whenever someone comes over he has to show them a surprise, which is taking them out the front door and showing them the lights.  I don't know if he realizes that whoever came over saw them when they pulled up!  He also makes sure that we always have the lights on inside the house as well.  He also told me that he really wants to see Santa when he comes to our house this year.  I am trying to convince him that he comes while we sleep and if we stay up and see him, he might not leave presents!

Just has been working, ALOT!  Thanksgiving weekend was brutal.  We pretty much didn't see him from Thanksgiving night until Sunday night!  While he has been busy working, I have been busy redoing our basement.  When we moved in 5 years ago, the people before us had put up walls and carpet in an attempt to start finishing it.  We then did a little more, nothing spectacular, added a ceiling and a lot of paint, but good enough for a bonus rec room of sorts.  It was then used as an office and room for an extra TV used for the playstation.  When Payton came along, it started turning into a playroom and just started accumulating lots of toys.  I have been wanting to redo it to make the space more usuable for a while.  So, after I moved Payton to his new room a couple of months ago, I started my planning!  I knew when the new baby comes next summer, I would want to get some new baby stuff, but I wanted to keep some of Paytons old nursery things.  So, the new playroom incorporates almost everything from his old room.  I even made cork boards out of his old sheets to hang artwork on!  I am so happy with the results!  I think it is going to be great when the baby comes too because I can sit in the rocker with the baby while Payton is playing.   I am so proud of it because I did the entire thing all by myself!  Justin helped to move the desk and TV, but besides that it was all me!!  I completey rearraanged it and moved the office area to this little extra space that used to have toys and the rest of the room is all playroom!  I added some before and after pictures to the photo album. 

 

Pregnancy update:

Things are going great so far with the pregnancy.  I had an appt and ultrasound on Friday and things are looking great so far.  (I added some ultrasound pictures to the pregnancy album).  I think this week I have finally started getting my appetite back which is a good thing.  I can't imagine going ino the holiday season not wanting to eat!!

 

I hope everyone is doing great and getting ready for Christmas!  Less than 3 weeks to go! 

 

Payton is 4 now!!

My baby boy turned 4 yesterday!  He seems to be such a big boy all of a sudden!  It doesn't seem possible that he is 4.  That means next year he will be 5, and then he starts school after that!  Does that seem possible!   He was very excited for his birthday!  The first thing out of his mouth yesterday morning was, "I'm the birthday boy!!"  We didn't do anything too exciting, just the typical family party at home.  He also brought cupcakes to school.  With Thanksgiving being so late this year, and the news of the baby coming and the layoffs at my work, the last few weeks have been really busy.  So we will probably go and do some more fun stuff this weekend or next weekend.  He had a Mickey Mouse theme for his party last night.  Ever since we went to Disney this summer, he has been really into Mickey, Goofy, Donald and all of the other Disney characters.  So he had Mickey balloons, cake and decorations!   He has been difficult to get to bed tonight and last night because he wants to constantly play with all of his new presents!   Thank you to everyone who made his birthday so special!