A couple weeks ago Aunt B was up here for a wedding. When she had some downtime she came over to play. It was a windy day so we decided to fly kites. Of course the string wasn’t long enough for Lee’s liking so he tied Faith’s fishing pole to it! We think the kite was over 750 in the air! It stirred all the neighbors out of their houses and they started flying kites too! It was a fun afternoon.
Yesterday Lee and I took the kids to the pond at the hospital to feed the ducks. Peyton’s main mission was to submerge himself in the pond. The trip was short lived as I had to hold Peyton most of the time because he was either giving the ducks a heart attack by chasing them, or heading straight for the pond. One time I waited until the last minute to grab him to see how close he would get to the water. As he was stepping into the pond I swept him up. He has NO fear! All in all it was a good trip. The geese were probably glad to see the CRV pull out of the parking lot. They got a workout running from Peyton while he was MOO-ing at them. Love that kid! 
I am realizing everyday how different boys are from girls. Peyton is a live wire these days. He is into things that I never imagined a kid would be into. I have on my list to purchase every kind of lock out there from oven door locks to drawer pull locks. He is my little “ball of fire” His little dimples and smile have spared him from a few spankings though. He melts my heart in the midst of his messes he makes.
He has started talking so much. He can say several things now. My favorite being “I love you” and then follows it with a kiss. Other words he says are:
Dog, Bopper (Copper), momma, daddy, ball, woof woof, bye, Hi, Halleluiah, book, shoe, night night.
Those are the ones that come to mind right now at least.
The last two days Peyton has come out of his room completely dressed. Faith loves to get him dressed. She takes his PJ’s off, picks out his outfit, which may or may not match, and gets him dressed. I hope this trend continues. Poor Peyton, he has TWO mommmas.
This is the question on my mind right now. I know this is trivial and shouldn’t matter but its a decision I am going to have to live with for a few years. Part of me says take the plunge, it’s all about survival and convenience, the other side of me says, NEVER! I really like both options besides the fact that if I get a Sequoia I will be driving a TANK! The time is quickly approaching where I will need 3 car seats. WHAT TO DO?!?!?
The Lord has blessed us with so many things. I am grateful that we were able to spend Easter with family this year. Becca and Stephen came up this weekend for a visit. They had to go back on Saturday, but it was good to see them for a day. Mom and dad came up on Friday afternoon. We just stayed around the house and played with the kids. On Saturday Lee did the Iron Pig Duathlon so my parents kept the kids so I could go watch. Lee did great! I will post more on that later. Saturday night Lee supprised me with a date night out to James at the Mill! It was AWESOME! I will post about it more later as well. It was the best food I’ve ever eaten!
Saturday Faith broke out in hives all over her little body. So church on Sunday was not an option for her. Mom stayed home with her and let Lee, dad, Peyton and I go. Mom and I stayed home last year because Peyton was sick. We are two for two! Hope this doesn’t become a tradition! Picture overload below. Faith got up and put her Easter dress on even though she didn’t go to church. Lastly, let me add that the dress she is wearing my Aunt Gail made for me when I was Faith’s age. Love passing those special things down.
Just had to write this morning’s outting down so I can look back and laugh while today I’m not amused. Saturday I went to Bella Jack’s to look for an outfit for baby #3. who yes, has no name yet. I ended up finding a steal of a deal on some Zutano for Faith. When I got home I realized that they had over charged me, so that meant a trip back to Bella Jacks. This was my first errand of the morning. I decided to not take the stroller in the store for a 3 minute transaction. Mistake #1. Faith and Peyton started running around like they had been cooped up for days! I turned around to find them steady pulling shoes of the racks and Peyton heading for the back storage room. I was going to shop for a friend’s baby gift but decided that it wasn’t in the best interest of the store or my sanity. So on to stop #2! We ran into hobby lobby to get some craft paper for a project I’ve been working on. Faith was wearing some of her favorite flip flops which I wish would be lost forever because they fall off her feet every 2 minutes. The kids were well behaved for the 5 minutes we were in the store. I had everyone buckled in and was pulling out of the parking space thinking, well, that wasn’t too bad of a stop until Faith said, “mom, I’m missing a shoe”. What! It was all I could do to pull back in the parking spot and get out and look for it. I have been wishing those shoes would disappear. This was my chance! But I obliged to parking getting both kids out of their car seats and loaded back in a shopping cart. We went into Hobby Lobby and scoured the aisles for the shoe. No SHOE! By this time Faith was beginning to have a melt down, as I was leaving the store I asked the store clerk if anyone had turned in a shoe. She said, Why yes, it’s right here. At this point I wanted to throw the shoe at someone, anyone! We loaded back up in the car for the second time and off we went to stop #3,- not sure why I even attempted this stop. I needed some makeup from GLO which I might add is not extremely kid friendly. The people are friendly but just not my idea of a place to take little ones.. I pulled the double stroller -which seconds for a freight train- out of the car and loaded both kids in the stroller. When I arrived at the makeup counter I told the girl I was going to have to make it quick. Trying to color match my skin tone while hearing Peyton kick the back of Faith’s seat and Faith yelling at him to stop was just what the whole store wanted to hear. I ended up giving Faith my phone to play with and Peyton my keys. He was sucking on the car keys but at this point I was ok with about anything as long as it didn’t jeopardize his safety. We left the store after apologizing to the young cute girl that helped me out. I’m pretty sure she’s never going to want to have kids….EVER!! We got home and ate lunch and got everyone down for a nap. Then I went to get my phone to make a phone call. NO PHONE!!! I couldn’t find it anywhere. I looked for over an hour and finally decided it had been lovingly left at GLO by my daughter. We don’t have a house phone so I couldn’t call and see if it was there .I went to two neighbors houses to see if I could use their phone but no luck. Neither was home. After the kids got up I looked in the car with Faith one more time! As I was about to give up looking Faith found the phone under the back seat! I was relieved! Ah yes! I won’t have to show my face at GLO again today. (they would probably lock the door if they saw me coming)… And this concludes my morning errands. Did I mention that #3 is on the way?!?
