Time flies...

I can't believe that it is June already!  Where did the month of May go!  May was a pretty busy month for us.  Early in the month my Aunt and cousin came to visit from St. Louis.  Payton had a great time following Logan around all weekend.  Then, we traveled up to Iowa to go to a friends wedding.  It was great to see lots of people from high school that I haven't seen in years.  We spent the weekend with my sister and visiting some family and friends.  We went to my friend Sarah's house to see her new baby and Payton and Norah had a great time playing.  (I forgot to bring my camera to their house, otherwise I would have some adorable pictures of the two kids!)  Then, the next weekend, Justin's brother Jeremy and his girfriend Mandy came to visit.  It was great to see them!  Unfortunatley it rained all weekend so most of our plans with them were ruined.  We then spent Memorial Day at our house with mom and Kristin.  Justin grilled out and we spent the entire day playing outside.

 

Payton is doing great.  I am still so amazed that it seems like he learns so much everyday.   He is talking up a storm.    You can now have an entire conversation with him.   The things that two year olds say can be so funny!  If we try and wake him up in the morning to get ready he will say, "Go away mommy, I'm sleeping".  

One if the funniest things he says if we are out near the car is, "Bye, see ya, going shopping."  Then if you ask him what he is shopping for he will say, "I buy candy and toys!"

He has also told both Justin and the cat to sit in the 'Naughty Chair' for various reasons.  Its even funnier that Justin will actually do it!

His other new thing is he is deathly afraid of flies!  I have no idea why he developed this fear, but if there is one anywhere near him he completly freaks out!  I am hoping he gets over that soon otherwise it could be a very long summer!!

 

Here is a cute video of Payton and daddy reading:

 

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Its warm outside!!

It is finally warm outside!  We took full advantage of the weather and played outside all day yesterday!  

Payton is doing great.  Everyday he amazes me by the new things he learns to say.  His new favorite thing is to put up his finger and say "In a minute mommy."  (Can you tell who runs our house!!)  He also says things are "Cool".    Tonight he was dancing and he said, "Shake my bootie".  I was laughing so hard my stomach hurt.  I think he learned that from day care because I did not teach him it!   I think he is finally starting to get a little bit taller too.  About two months ago we could not keep him full.  He would eat numerous helping of food and literally take food out of your hand.  The minute he would wake up he would say, "EAT, mommy."   I know that meant that he was getting ready for a growth spurt.  I haven't measured him, but I know he has gotten taller because his shirts now look like crop tops and his pants look like capris!  We had to go shopping this week so he would have some summer clothes that fit.

Mom came and stayed at the house last weekend so I could spend the night down at the Plaza with some friends for a bachelorette party.  Payton and Grandma had a lot of fun going out to eat and going to the park.  And it allowed me to go and have some fun with some dear friends that I don't get to see very often.  Win, Win for everyone!!

I hope everyone is enjoying this warm weather!  I know we are!!

Happy Easter!

Not a whole lot is new around here.   We are getting ready to celebrate Easter tomorrow.  Hopefully it won't be too cold so we can hunt Easter eggs in the yard!  (Or maybe in the living room if it is too cold!!)

 

I think I have figured out how to upload videos to this site, so I thought I would share a few!  (The videos are the not best quality, but I think you can still enjoy!)

 

 

This is Payton and Daddy being silly. 

 

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Doing the alphabet-I was to slow with the camera and only caught the end:

 

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Dancing to the cartoons on TV:

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suburban mom

Well it is official...I can now call myself a suburban mom!  We got a minivan!  I never would have thought that I would get a van, but I LOVE it!  We got a Nissan Quest.  It is really pretty and has lots of features that will take a while to learn.  It is quite a bit larger than my SUV was, so parking has been interesting! 

March 3, 2007

Hello Everyone!  I am sorry that it has taken so long for me to update.   2007 has started out to be a little rough!  It started with Payton being sick, then I have been sick for over two weeks with bronchitis, and then in the middle of that our furnace broke!   So, after lots of asthma treatments for Payton, two trips to the doctor and 5 prescriptions for me, and $1,100 dollars to get our furnace fixed, I think we are starting to get on the road to recovery! 

It hasn't all been bad though.  In January we went up to Lake View, Iowa and celebrated X-Mas with the Schulte side of the family.  Payton got to ride in a tractor with his Grandpa and Uncle Jeremy hooked him up with lots of Iowa Hawkeye clothes.  In January, Payton and I also went to the Quad Cities to visit with his other Grandpa and Aunt Lindsey.  We even got to go see lots of family and friends that we don't get to see very often.   (We decided we need to do that more often!)  A couple of weeks ago we took Payton to Union Station and Science City here in KC.  They have a train exhibit that was a huge hit for Payton.  For Valentines Day, Grandma Joy got Payton tickets to see the Wiggles concert this week.  Payton loved it!  I don't think he blinked the entire show!  The only problem is everyday now he says he wants to go watch the Wiggles!  I will say, "Lets get ready for school" and his response is, "No school mommy.  Wiggles"!

We are a little bummed because we found out that our neighbors on both sides of us are moving.  (I am not really sure that says alot about us if our neighbors are all moving!!)  We are sad because one side has a boy Paytons age that he likes to play with and a new baby boy, and the other side has a baby boy.  I was thinking by next year we could have our own basketball team!  Hopefully the new people will have kids as well.

Payton has been doing great.  He is getting so smart!  He loves working on his puzzles.  (If we get him a new one, he has it mastered in a couple of minutes!)  I think I might have to start getting him a 100 piece puzzle and see what happens!  He also loves to 'read' his books.  He likes to practice the alphabet and counting.  Yesterday he counted to 14!  (He always forgets 6 and 8 though).  We about had heart attacks when he did it.  And I don't think it was a fluke because he did it all night.  Of course today when I try to get him to do it he starts to act silly and won't do it.  But it was still pretty amazing!

I am going to try and add some new pictures to the photo album tonight, so you will have to go and check them out.

Hope everyone is doing well!!

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas everyone!!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.  We had a very nice Christmas.  (Except for the fact that Payton was sick the entire time!  More on that in a bit...)  I think Payton has gotten the hang of this presents thing!  He was trying to open up everybodys presents.  Even some that I had left under the tree that I need to mail to Iowa.  We all received some wonderful and thoughtful gifts from everybody.  Thank goodness for our play room, because I have no idea where I would put all of the toys if we didn't have it!  On Saturday the three of us celebrated with my mom, my sister and Kellen and had a great time.  I have a few pictures in the photo album, but I can never seem to remember to take very many.  Maybe I should put someone else in charge of being the photographer!  Since mom is still in an apartment we had it at our house.  So I took Friday off of work to prepare!  Mom's house at Christmas is always filled with homemade goodies, so I tried to do the same.  I made lots of cookies, fudge, chocolate covered pretzles and lots of food!!  

Monday morning (after Santa had came) we had Christmas at home with the three of us and later that day my mom and Justins sister, Kristin came over.  We had a big dinner and played with new stuff all day.  (And ate lots of cookies and candy, etc!!!)  Now tomorrow is back to work.   Justin is very happy that the holiday season is over.  He is now back to working normal hours.  It has been a long month for him.  Payton is also very happy to have daddy home more often.  Yesterday he was a daddy's boy and would not let Justin too far out of his sight. 

 

Saturday when we woke up Payton was sick with a really bad sore throat.  And he has had it since.  So needless to say he was not a happy boy most of the weekend.  He would perk up throughout the day (mostly because of new toys and all of the people coming and going) but nighttime has been pretty bad.  So today I took him to the doctor, along with every other child in Kansas apparently, to find out that it is not strep like we had thought.  So that is good news.  Basically it is just a virus and it just has to run its course. We are now on day four, so lets hope it is almost over. 

Our goal was to get mostly potty trained these 4 days that we were home, but with him being sick, that took a back seat.  He has been doing pretty well and is doing pretty good at day care, so hopefully it won't be too long now.  Kristin helped a lot with the potty training yesterday.  She works at a day care, so she has the hang of it! 

 

Payton has now moved up to a toddler bed.  I was a little apprehensive at first.  I had visions of him roaming the house at night.  But he loves his big bed.  He has not gotten out of it once!  The first night I thought it was just a fluke, but it has been over a week now and he is still doing great!  I will continue to keep my fingers crossed!

Payton is now 2 years old!!

Sunday was Paytons birthday!  I can not believe he is already two!  Payton had a lot of fun on his birthday.  He loves trains, so we did a Thomas the Train party.  Everything was Thomas!  Even his cake had a little train on it that moved around on a track.   Payton loves to act silly when other people are around, so he was having a blast showing off to everyone that was here!  My sister even came down from Iowa and my Grandma even flew up from Florida!   He was so exhausted by the end of the party, he could barely hold his head up.  But he was so good the entire night.

We got his 2 year pictures done on Saturday.  I really feel bad for the people working at the portrait studio!  He will be really good in the waiting room, and the minute we go in to the studio he has a complete meltdown!  For some reason he gets scared.  He loves to pose for the camera at home, but this is different. It happens every time, so I shouldn't be shocked.  We did get a couple of okay pictures, not the ones I had in mind, but they will work.  So be looking for them in the mail in a few weeks!

 

He moved up to the two year old room at day care a couple of weeks ago.  So now he is a "big boy".  They have projects to take home and even have show and tell once a week! 

 

He is growing up so fast.  He is starting to talk a lot more and put a couple of words together.  I can usually understand what he is telling me.  He is very good most of the time, but he does have his typical two-year old moments.  Luckily they don't last long and he forgets pretty easily why he was mad or frustrated.  We have started introducing the potty chair.  Nothing real serious yet, but just getting used to the idea. They do it at day care too, so that will help.  I think I will wait until after the holidays before I get to serious about training him. 

Hope everyone is doing well and staying warm and I will try to update this a little more often!