" On Ten!" Recap

Oh boy so much has happened in Payton's tenth month don't know where to begin!Lets start by saying how beautiful, sweet, and madly in love we our of her! She is definitely the apple of our eye!Milestones in month 10 were when she decided to truly just stand up in the middle of the room out of nowhere. She had so much fun seeing our joyous reactions to it that she decided to do squats in the middle of the room! With this milestone we ran out right away and bought a walker for her to walk with which she LOVES! Payton will now give you high fives, give you a kiss sound if you ask for a"kiss face",now is on half milk mixed bottles, and has decided she might drop a nap! Her personality is out for sure! She likes talking a lot, giggles everywhere, now bawks if you take something away that she wants,curious about everything, and smiles with what my family like to call the "chimp grin"! All Payton wants to do is for you to hold her hands while she walks around the house.  With all this walking we had to get out and start buying her some good shoes! When I (who loves to be barefoot )finally starting putting shoes on her little feet she wasn't  to sure on what to do with them. Yes of course we have put shoes on her before but you see she was born in winter. That consisted of me just bundling her in bear suits and then in summertime I just left her barefoot. We went almost a whole year of her really not wearing shoes,wild! Our month ended badly or I should say our hearts broke for little P.K.. She first seemed like she was getting a cold. Then we were startled and scared when she woke in the night sounding absolutely horrible. Coughing horribly and not breathing in without a certain sound. Zack called nurse mom over and ,you guessed it, Payton seemed to develop croup cough.Steamy bathroom, walks outside, and a call to the doctor it was.Daddy to Payton to the doc and they confirmed everything was fine but ,yes, that it was croup cough and two day set of steroid to give to her. Let me tell you as much as I am singing Payton's praises but her evil twin came out when we gave her the steroids. not a true wink of sleep for 24 hours,crabby,and wired! Could not be that mad at her though because through all this she decided to pop ANOTHER tooth. Good news about all this is croup is just a virus and she is feeling back to her old self AND with the doc visit we got her weighed once again. She weighed in at 25 pounds! With this news she is definitely of safety standards to switch her car seat around so we did!I think mommy and daddy were more excited about this then her probably! It is great to talk and see her more in the car and I must say she giggles and talks more in the car also! Here we are in 11 months and I am planning this peanuts 1st birthday! I just cannot believe it!