Five Months!

So yes I know that I am not winning Mother of the Year award. I am literally posting about Payton at 5 months and she will be 6 months in a few more days. I am still getting the hang of balancing mommy life and working life. I think I got the hang of it but now I am lagging on updating this blog! LOL I absolutely cannot believe how fast little Payton is growing now!Payton is more and more interested in EVERYTHING. Always intensely looking around and taking as much as she can in. She loves bouncing in her exercauser and fiddling with her giraffe stuffed animal.She is completely entertained by her cousin Bel !We laugh because we don't think her legs ever stop moving. It doesn't matter if she is laying on the ground, sitting on your lap, or being held those legs are going a mile a minute."Ya Ya" ( my mom) says she is just like her mommy and daddy always on the go. Our little peanuts hair is really starting to grown in and I love the one little piece on her sweet head that always wants to stick straight up!Payton has accomplished getting all her first taste of veggies. She is a BIG fan of sweet potatoes.We are now giving her first tastes of fruits.Of course she is a fan of what we have tried so far because they are nice and sweet.Since we have started the whole solid feeding I was worried about how much to give and how much formula she should be in taking. Last time we went to the doctor they gave us a chart of recommended servings and formula they should be taking in. When I came to pick up Payton after work from my moms house one night I was worried because they were recommending to drop a bottle soon and I knew that I wanted to try to also drop a nap soon(.pk was still taking 3 short naps during the day). It all seemed like so much to mess around with on her and I was so worried she wouldn't do well with it. My mom pep talked me and said we will take one thing at a time. I swear my daughter heard everything and just wanted to put her mom at ease. The very next day ,on her own, she decided to drop a bottle. She was just fine with it! Within a week she was down to two longer naps during the day. We have honestly been blessed with an angel for a daughter. Her personality is just getting bigger and bigger everyday. We get to hear her belly laughs a lot more these days and I could just live off of those alone.Now that the weather has warmed up a bit we have gotten to take Payton on walks around the neighborhood in her stroller. She seems to really like it,looking around at everything and hearing new noises. Little Payton started of 5 months by accomplishing rolling from her back to her tummy, by mid month( April 12th) she was sitting up completely on her own, and by months end (April 19th) she has cut her very first tooth! I cannot believe how fast it is all happening. I could not be happier and prouder for my little nugget.

rock and ROLL!!!

March 26th marked a new era for our little peanut! She spent the day with Grandma Kerruish and showed of a new trick! At 5 months and 3 days old Payton decided to roll from her back to her tummy! What a big girl! I got the call while I was at work( a saturday) from Zack to tell me. Part of me couldn't believe it! I had to see it for myself. Zack and I were going out that night for a suprise birthday party for a good friend so by the time I got home from work poor Payton had a small window of time to show her mama what she could do( she decided to make mommy wait). Payton had her very first over night with Grandma Kerruish that night but boy oh boy the next day when we brought her home she did not hold back. Rolling is all she wanted to do! She would roll to her tummy and then get kinda frustrated because she wanted to figure out how to back on her back!I love my little peanut and cannot believe how big she is getting. EVERYDAY somthing new!

Happy St. Patty's Day

Payton's First St. Patrick's Day! I have to say she is the cutest thing ever!

Payton has gotten TONS better on her tummy! She now can get her arms underneath her and push up a bit!She loves to roll side to side but we still haven't it completely over! She is getting to be such a big girl. I can't believe it! Happy St. Patty's Day everyone!

Our Peanut at Four Months

Oh my goodness I can't believe we are already through half of month four. Payton went in for her four month doc visit more at like four and a half months. A week before her doctors visit she received her FIRST cold. The poor thing was buggery and had a bit of a cough. I was waiting for this to happen considering she was a winter baby and had made it through just fine. Part of me wanted her to get one so we could get it done and over with and mommy and daddy new what to expect , but then another part of me ( the neurotic part, lol) didn't want her to because I was worried it would get really bad. Needless to say my poor mother had to have me constantly ask her to hear her lungs to make sure it was not turning into anything worse! OH BROTHER! Sorry mom, :). Payton actually really has a good demeanor on her. She went through the cold still happy and sleeping pretty well through the night. When we went to see the doctor I wasn't sure if they were going to give her the five vaccines she needed because she was still a bit congested. Our pleasantly plump baby weighed in at 16 pounds 2 ounces and 25 inches in length. The doctor says she is a happy healthy baby which I would agree with! They went ahead and gave her her vaccines ( 4 shots and one oral) AGAIN Payton took it like a champ. Not much crying and calmed down pretty well. This time after shots Payton seemed a bit irritated. She has been a stellar baby with sleeping through the night but the night of her shots not so much. I was up with her three times in the middle of the night! It brought me back to the newborn stage, lol. Like I said she was coming off a cold, had the shots, and we were told by the doctor that her bottom gums seemed a bit swollen (teething). I think it was a perfect storm of irritation!Payton wakes up everyday and seems to be adding something else to her repertoire. Its amazing! In the beginning of the month I think she realized her own voice and started talking more and more. Now by mid month she is really getting more physical. She is sitting , not entirely unassisted, but when propped up she put hands on knees and last about 15-30 seconds before falling to the side. So fun to watch her try to get her bearings. She has realized where her feet are so at diaper changes it takes abit longer with her grabbing her toes and holding on for dear life.Within the past few days she has realized how to plant her feet on the ground and stand assisted. She LOVES it. When her grandma Kerruish was over for a visit we were laughing on how she seems to want to go go go all the time.Zack and I have gotten to hear a little bit more of her belly laughs which I cannot tell you how much that melts my heart. I wish I could hear them all the time.If you pick the right moment our peanut on her tummy will now lift with her hands underneath her. Payton is still not an entirely huge fan of tummy time which is funny to me, because when she was a newborn she LOVED falling asleep on my chest on her tummy.Payton also is sitting really well in her bumbo now and is enjoying her rice cereal. This week we gave her some oatmeal and next week it will be barley cereal. At five months we will start introducing veggies and fruits! fingers crossed no allergies yet. She really likes to play and bite down on her spoon after feeding is done. The biting as well as constant drooling is what is giving us a little bit of the heads up that she is getting herself ready for teeth. She is a beautiful baby with a great little personality growing. As much as I can get frustrated at times I love her with all my heart and can't imagine my life without her. Her smiles and coos could melt any ones heart. Her eyelashes are the longest things I have ever seen and I could just kiss the dimple on her chin she inherited from her daddy all the time. I love this child more then life itself!

Payton playing in her exesaucer at "Ya Ya's" house

Always biting on everything

all dressed up and nowhere to go!

Aunt Annie reading to the girls at our first story time at the book store.

Favorite cousins at Boo Bel's two year birthday party!

Happy in the A.M.

our little "Morning Girl"!

Rice Cereal...The Breakfast of Champions!

Today Payton ate her very first bowl of rice cereal! Payton has been sleeping 12 hour stretches through the night since she was 8 weeks old. She goes down at 7pm and wakes at 7-7:15am. So since we are SO close to her 4 month birthday and she has decided the past couple of days to wake up around 5:30am and SUCK down her bottle we thought she is a growing girl and the bottles just aren't holding her over so much.Because I am a little neurotic (I don't know why?nobody in my family is!lol) I spent a whole 24 hours thinking.......well when in the day I am I suppose to give it to her?....how much?....what if she has a reaction?...blah blah blah blah! So this morning when she woke early enough so that daddy could play with us before work we just went for it. I had to give her a bit of her bottle first to hold her off a bit. She was pretty confused in the beginning, but by the end of the bowl( that's right I said the END of the bowl) she got used to it and was opening her mouth wide for me! I was not expecting her to finish the whole bowl , but she was game for it! I think she was ready for solids! Of course she kicked probably more then half of it out but she took a good amount down too!So proud of my big girl!

Payton at 3 Months!

Our little peanut is growing stronger and stronger everyday! Payton is still sleeping those wonderful 12 hour stretches thru the night. Bedtime at 7pm and sleeps until she wakes up for the day around 7:15 am. I am sure this will change when she starts teething etc. , but we are loving our sleep through the night! Payton loves to spend time in her play mat batting at the rattle and swatting at the big furry stuffed bee that plays music right above her. She is now holding onto toys and bringing EVERYTHING up to her mouth to explore. At tummy time when she is ready she will lift her head up a good 90 degrees, and when mommy rolls her over from back to tummy she has figured out how to pull her own arms out from underneath her. She is not doing any rolling on her own yet , but she seems like she might be a real mover. When she is layed down on a blanket Zack and I always say Payton " where you going so fast". Arms and legs going and going like she really is getting somewhere.LOL She has accomplished some time in the Bumbo chair, which means she really has awesome control of her head so fast. What a big girl.She is a drool queen right now. So much so that we have to put special lotion on her cheeks and dimpled chin because they get chapped. She does not seem to mind at all!LOL We did not have a doctors visit this month so no update on her numbers. But if she is still staying consistent with everything and how much she is eating I would guess she could be close to 14 pounds! She still hasn't decided really on her napping yet. Somedays we can get a good 2 hour nap out of her and other days it is nothing but cat naps all day long. After a long day of being crabby and fussy for no apparent reason ( I think due to a growth spurt) late that night she decided to give her daddy and I her first real big belly laugh. We haven't heard one since but it was the most precious thing I ever heard. It made the day worth every penny. Payton truly is a happy camper. She only seems to get fussy when she is a bit overtired or going through a growth spurt.Zack an I still look at each other on a weekly basis and cannot believe that this is our little one and we made her. I would have to say we do good work!