Payton turn 2!

The past few weeks have been full of a lot of fun. Payton had his second birthday and he loved it. Since his friend Olivia's birthday in February, Payton has been talking about his birthday. When he woke up Friday morning, Kellen and I gave him his Elmo balloons and he said, "I love it!" I have no idea where he got that from but it made me laugh. A little later I asked him do you know how old you are? and he said "five" and held up five fingers. I said, "no, your two" to which he replied "no mom, I yellow!" hmm... I finally convinced him he was two.

On his birthday we went swimming in the morning before Gregg got home from work, then we went bowling and to Pizza with my family, Gregg's mom and Patti and Jerry.

The next day was his friend's birthday party. Everyone came over for a Pizza Party. We made little english muffin pizzas for dinner, I made an ice cream cookie pizza for dessert and we played pin the pepperoni on the pizza. It was a good time!

Now that Payton is two it seems like his vocabulary has gone through the roof. He can say pretty much anything. He is saying really long sentences now too. One of the cutest and most frusterating is the never ending "WHY." and one I would love to break him of its, "Mom, I want it right now!"

We have been taking the boys swimming a lot and he is starting to be able to keep his head above water without any life jacket. He loves jumping in and swimming under water. With his life jacket on he will swim all over the pool and wants everyone to watch him while he swims with his face in the water. Kellen has a tube he can sit in that has a mesh seat and he will float all over the pool as happy as can be. I will be sad when our two month membership to the pool is up but it is too expensive for us to continue it after the promotion. Hopefully it will be warm enough to start doing more outside soon.

Here is a nice day in the middle of a bunch of rainy ones. We had to try out our new b-day toys including the cool motorcycle powerwheel from Grandma and Papa.

Here is Payton opening his presents from G.G and Grandpa. He loved his Handy Manny Truck and swim stuff

Here are the boys just being cute brothers. Kellen is getting pretty good at army crawling around the house and will be crawling on his hands and knees in no time.

Easter and California and then some

Here is my little brother, Keaton and Triana before prom.

The last month has been crazier than most...which is saying a lot. The weekend of March 20th, we went and visited our friends, Mason and Lindsay, Tim and Ashely and their baby Aiden in Couer d'Alene. It was so fun to hang out with them and meet Aiden. He is a month older than Kellen and all the boys had fun together.

We got home Monday night and then on Wednesday, Payton Kellen and I, along with my parents and brothers flew to California. We met Kendra down there and it was so good to spend sometime with her. While we were there we stayed with my grandparents and my Oma and Papa. They all got to meet Kellen for the first time.

Unfortunately Payton woke up with a fever the last night we were there which continued for the next 6 days. A few days into it, he had blisters in his mouth and a few on his finger and he was diagnosed with Hand foot and mouth diease. It was a horrible virus. Most nights his temp would got up around 104. He hardly ate anything the whole time. Thle good news is once you have had it you can't get in again and Kellen didn't get it. He finally started feeling better the last few days and I am so happy about that.

Here are a few pictures from all the craziness.

We started feeding Kellen more different foods and he loves everything he has tried. He can roll and scoot all over the place. He can hold himself up on his hands and knees and is so strong.

Here is Payton on his Easter Egg hunt in Grandma and Papa's yard. He had a blast even though he was sick and wasn't really interested in eating the candy.

Our attempt at a family picture on the camera timer.

The boys in their Easter shirts.

Kellen at Mimi's with Oma and Papa.

The boys with GG and Grandpa.

Uncle Keaton and Payton playing at the playground.

Auntie Kendra and Kellen at the bowling alley. Kellen got so spoiled while we were gone it took him a few days at home to adjust to not being held and played with all the time.

Kellen, Payton and Aiden at the "cabin"

March 2010

Gregg's mom got the boys Red Wings shirt. Payton wants to wear his everyday even though it is still a little too big. When he is helping me get the clothes out of the dryer and he finds it, he always puts it on right away.

Payton is learning how to play more gently with his brother and Kellen is getting more durable so they play together a lot now. Kellen smiles and laughs everytime Payton talks to him or does anything. He is a good audience.
Kellen's fingernails are sharp and he grabs on Payton's nose, but Payton is learning that babies don't mean to hurt you, its just an accidence.

Auntie Kendra found these blocks at a garage sale. The lady who was selling them had made them and drawn them by hand. They are one of Payton's favorite toys. He plays with them almost everyday. Now when he takes them out he says "P-T-N make Payton!" It is hilarious. He then makes me show him what order to stack them in.

Some days he just wears his elmo underwear. It is easier that way for me because then he can go potty by himself.

Here giraffey is taking a ride on his "block train" Abby has grown alot and is such a good dog. Payton loves her.

We have been busy as usual and my kiddos keep growing and growing. Kellen will be 5 months old on Saturday and we have already been in our house for 4 months. I can't believe how fast time is passing.

Kellen is getting really good at sitting up and rolls over quite a bit. He is very smiley and will go to anyone who wants to take him. He is a really good sleeper. I can put him down for his naps wide awake and we put him to bed and night wide awake as well. This is so nice because we got Payton in the habit of getting rocked to sleep and it took us a while to break it.

Payton is very close to being potty trained. When we are at home he wears his new underwear and never has accidents. When we go out he still wears a diaper because he still isn't really excited about going on a different toliet without his little elmo seat. We still need to work on that :)

We went up to Big Mountain a few weeks ago to watch Uncle Kyler race in the Special Olympics. Kyler is a fast snow shoer and won every race we went to. Payton though it was awesome to cheer for Kyler and play in the snow. It was so warm up there we didn't even need our jackets.

Baths Bowling and Basketball Games

Payton loves bowling and talks about it ALL the time. At home we set up water bottles and bowl them over with a basketball. Sometimes he uses the ramp and sometimes he sets it on the floor and pushes it.
After every single throw, he would gallop back to everyone and give everyone five and say "Kyler's turn" over and over.


Kellen after a bath

Payton knows he is only allowed to pour the water on Kellen's feet and body, so when he picks up the cup he always says "just Kellen's feet?" Like my answer might change.

We went to the girl's highschool game the other night because Keaton and some of his friends did a drum line for half time. They were awesome. The girls' basketball team...not so much! When we left after the halftime show, they were losing 30something to 5

You can't see it in the picture but Payton is wearing his future Whitefish Bulldogs shirt.

Payton love jumping on his bed and it probably isn't the best idea but we let him do it. He has to have some kind of energy outlet until its summer :)

Kellen has grown a lot lately. He is 4 months old and at his appointment he was 16 pound and 26 inches long. He can roll over from his tummy to his back and is so close at rolling the other way. He can sit up on his own for about 30 seconds (still kind of wobbly) and can hold his upper body off the floor on his stomach. He giggles like crazy when you play with him (or try to wash him with a washcloth). He is such a easygoing and happy baby. We recently moved him out of our room and into his crib and it has gone pretty well. He sometimes wakes up at 4 or so to eat but always goes right back to sleep until about 8.

We have been working on Payton with potty training. It is earlier than I had planned but all his friends are doing it so he is interested. At home I let him run around with out any pants and he doesn't have accidents. When we are out and he has a diaper on though he doesn't attempt
( or even ask) to go in the potty. I am just letting him go at his own pace because he isn't even 2 yet. He is getting really smart and he talks a lot. The past week we have been focusing on being very consistan with discipline. We only ask him to do something once instead of repeating it over and over and it is really been effective. We are all much happy and he is listening and behaving better and challenging me less. I have been reading Dr Dobson's "Dare to Discipline" and it has been great.

Kellen smiling and blowing raspberries

Here are some new pictures. I don't have time to comment about them all but enjoy!
Payton and Kellen with their valentine characters from Great grandma and Grandpa. Payton loves his Elmo :) He is getting chubby. I love chubby babies.

Winter carnival. All bundled up.

Gregg and Payton's creation right before they knocked it over.

Snowman building is hard work!

Payton's art