9 months old

It is unbelievably hard for me to accept that Peyton is 9 months old. She has 5 teeth and is cruising around on the furniture. The good news is that so far she isn't to extremely interested in the idea of walking. Yea!! A few more months of crawling is OK with me. She does really well with her schedule when we stay home, but 3 days out of the week we're not home and she doesn't do as well on those days. On a typical day she wakes up around 8, then she takes her first nap from around 10-12. Then lunch and playing and another nap around 2:30-4:30. If she does well with that then she's up until bedtime at 8. On a day that she hasn't taken good naps she still needs an early evening nap. She's still pretty happy and loves to crawl and explore. She loves to open the bathroom cabinet & take everything out. I guess we're going to have to invest in some baby locks, because I'm sick of cleaning it up everyday. She's a pretty funny girl. Here are a couple of pics of her and her vampire pic is on here too.

first piggy tails

I vwant to suck your blood!!

Dancing!!

Dancing & dressing up is the norm in our house these days. Our girls do not go one day without putting on some piece of dress up clothing. They love it!! I'm so worried about having 3 teenage girls at the same time. Our house is going to be crazy. Here's a shot of both of them spinning. Unfortunately I could not get a great one of Taylor, but I love this shot of Cameron. She even looks like she has spirit fingers. I got a great pic of Peyton with her vampire fangs tonight, so I'll have to put it on the computer tomorrow and hopefully post it soon. One of her front two teeth has decided to come in, so she isn't going to have the vampire look for much longer. I hope that means the biting will stop. She thinks biting me is hilarious. I don't! She's so darn cute though. I tell her no and she just looks up at me with this grin and laughs. Little Stinker!!!

First tooth

As I am trying to catch up in the blogging world I thought I would post a sweet picture of Peyton's 1st tooth. It started breaking through before Christmas, but took a while to be photographed because it was so tiny. Last Tuesday she decided she would have 3 more break through all on one day and handled it with basically no crying. The funny thing is the top teeth that decided to break through are her fang teeth (incisors maybe). So now I call her my little vampire. When they get a little bigger I'll try to get a picture before any others can break through. So if you're counting she now has 4 teeth. The fangs on top and the 2 front teeth on the bottom.

Christmas

Santa visited the girls one day early so we could drive to TN on Christmas day. Santa brought them a dollhouse and some of the things to go inside the dollhouse.





Peyton enjoyed this cookie a lot at Mimi & Papa's house in her Santa baby dress.


We stayed with Dustin's sister Kerry and her hubby Kane. Here are all of our beautiful girls.
Emma, Cameron, Taylor, Sophia, Macy, & Peyton

We want to thank all of our family for each of the gifts they received. The clothes are wonderful and adorable. The toys are great. The girls even like playing with Peyton's new toys. I have to say that I think they love their new Leapsters most. They're getting so smart.

December Water Park Fun

2 days before Christmas we had the wonderful opportunity to go to Great Wolf Lodge to play at the waterpark for a few hours. We had a lot of fun. It is a hotel/resort with an indoor waterpark. The water was a bit cold for us, but we didn't keep us from missing out on fun. Here are a few pictures of our fun day.

Pictures

Picture People pics

The link above will get you to the website, but you need my password to see the pics. If you want to see the pics call me or message me for the password.
I'm trying to create a link where you can go and look at the pictures the girls took today. Grandparents if you would like a page it is $20.

Merry Christmas

Make a Smilebox postcard

Bicycles

For the girls birthday we bought them their first real bicycles. We had the bikes set up close to where they were opening their presents, but they never really noticed them. Then they opened their helmets & I asked them what they needed helmets for and they said bikes. Then I showed them the bikes. I don't think they quite got it at first, but after a few minutes they were so excited. The cool thing was there was a perfect place for them to ride all around.

Tati held Peyton while I was watching the girls ride their bikes.

I've posted several posts tonight so keep scrolling down to see more.

Cowgirl birthday!!

For the girls birthday party this year I decided I wanted to have something more than just a birthday at home. For their 1st birthday we had it at Dustin's mom's house while we were living there. For their 2nd birthday we had it at my mom's house on Thanksgiving day. For their 3rd birthday we had it at our house. We had some fun kids gym equipment to add a little more to the party. Well like I said I was determined to do something different this year. So I started researching places to have a party. Well it's really expensive to have a birthday party. I'm ready for them to be old enough to have a sleepover birthday. Finally I found the science museum and remembered that the last Friday of the month is Family free Friday. Their birthday is at the end of the month so I started thinking we could piggy back off of the free day. Well a couple of weeks later I realized that the science museum is being renovated and it is combined with the cowgirl museum right next door. So one Saturday I went into Fort Worth to visit the cowgirl museum and see if there would be enough for the kids to do. While there I decided we would do a themed cowgirl birthday party. The girls were so excited as we started planning. I got them pink cowgirl boots & a pink hat on Ebay. The girls looked adorable in their cowgirl clothes. I made a boot "cupcake" cake. I was kind of excited about it.

In front of the museum

Cupcake Boot

Peyton on a horse.

This is the cookie cake that I made 2 of for the girls to take to school.

Crawling

Peyton is officially crawling. She army crawled for about a week or so. Now she can crawl, but randomly she'll still crash face first into the ground. She loves being able to crawl she can go all over the place. So of course we are moving things constantly so she isn't swallowing things that she shouldn't. Picture taking is really hard now. But here's a few of Peyton.

Curls!!

Since I didn't get to curl the girls hair for Halloween, because I was sick, I curled their hair for church one Saturday night. They slept in the sponge rollers and did great. So look at how cute they are.

Cameron

Taylor

At the Zoo

The girls and I went to the zoo a couple of days before Halloween. I thought I would brag on myself a little bit since I've had a rough time recently. Of course this weekend I was sick, again. Taylor & I both had the stomach bug during the night Saturday night. So I don't think I have taken any pictures since Halloween. I know that the 6 people who do read my blog are wondering if I will ever post Halloween pics and of course I will, BUT it might be a while. We took Halloween pics with our 35 mm. So that means I will actually have to go to the store and get a disc to put them on the blog. I have made videos of Peyton saying ba, da, ba, ba, ba and of her rocking with much frustration that she can't move her arms. She is now doing a great army crawl. It's kind of funny because she gets so angry that she can't get there quickly that she really is like a soldier grunting while crawling. I have video of Taylor spelling words. I will try to get some of this video on the blog, but for me that is harder to do. I know I'll have to carve out a huge window of time. So on to our zoo trip story.









Most people who know me know that I am pretty cheap. I try very hard to not blow our money, but to still do fun things with the girls. I often hit up the free outings. We have found many fun things that we can do for free here in the DFW area. But I also wanted to take the girls to the zoo again. We haven't been in a year and a half. So the last time we went the girls were still free to get in. So I had a plan!! Our mom's group started talking about going and I suggested we go on Wednesday. That's half price Wed. Some of the mom's weren't so sure b/c they thought it would be way to busy. But we scheduled it for Wed!!! Well I also decided that it was ridiculous to pay 5 dollars to park when there is free parking less than 1/4 of a mile away. So I put the girls in a stroller and Peyton was in the sling. I haven't used a stroller for the girls in forever, but I decided since I was by myself I couldn't carry both of them at the end of the day if they were worn out. It was nice b/c once we were in the zoo the girls walked and looked at the animals and Peyton rode in the stroller. Well we hung out with our friends and had a blast. I only packed a half lunch because I have to admit I LOVE buying food while I'm out. I usually don't, but decided we would splurg for that at the zoo. I took the girls drinks and a snack so they could easily split some shicken. All the other families went home shortly after lunch and the girls and I decided to finish the 2nd half of the zoo. We stayed until the zoo closed at 4. We had a blast and we it wasn't bad. Everyone was dead asleep for the ride home. I was impressed with myself!

Sick

Well I fell off the blogging roll because I got sick. Last Friday morning I woke up with Mastitis ( if you don't already know what this is you can look it up.) Well it has flu like symptoms. I had high fever and I was throwing up. It was awful!! I was so sad because I wasn't able to do all that I wanted to do with the girls for Halloween. I had planned on waking up and putting the girls hair in sponge rollers for the first time. It was so frustrating because there was no way that I could take them trick r treating or to our old churches trunk r treat. Dustin came home and helped me with the girls. I was feeling better until Saturday night I started to feel a cold sore coming on. Well by Sunday morning I woke up with cold sores all over my lips and the inside of my mouth. Well since then I barely even want to go out into public. We did go to school on Tuesday & Thursday but not to much activity this week.

I need to take some pictures of the girls. They love school and are both doing great in their classes. They're in different classes which I wasn't sure about, but has been great. They are both very close to learning to read. I am so proud of them. They are also both writing all their numbers and letters, needless to say they don't write them exactly right. Today Taylor counted on her fingers to 9 and showed me her 9 fingers. Then Cameron told me that was 5 & 4. So they said 5 & 4 makes 9. I mean come on my girls are so stinkin smart. I realized the other day that I should take a picture of their names that they've written. Taylor will sit down and write everyone in our families names.

Peyton is growing like a weed. She is 6 months old an is so close to crawling. She can sit up for the most part. I still typically put something behind her because on a couple of occasions she toppled over. She struggled a little bit with the time change. She is wanting to still wake up an hour earlier. Yesterday was better so I'm hoping she's adapting. At home she sticks to a schedule very well she takes a morning nap between 9:30 & 10 and sleeps for 2 hours. Then naps again from 2-4. She might fall asleep for a short nap, but not always. On the other hand on school days she struggles with naps. She usually takes a 30 min. nap in the morning and 30 min. to an hour nap in the afternoon. Then comes home and takes an hour nap in the evening. Then she is semi fussy the rest of the evening. Peyton is my sweet baby. I snuggle and love on her continuously throughout the day. Taylor is also obsessed with Peyton. She loves to feed her, although most of the food ends up on the bib. Peyton originally didn't do well with baby food, but now loves it. She also loves real food. She loves crackers, crust to my pizza, and a banana.

OK this was a short post that turned into a long one.

Fair, Pumpkin Patch & a sad attempt to get a cute picture.

Here are some more fun pics.

Jessica here's the unfortunate best shot I got of all
three girls in the outfits. They looked adorable though.
I'm going to try again.

Cameron at the pumpkin patch.

Taylor at the fair.

Peyton in the sling.

All 3 cuties at the Pumpkin patch the first time we went.

I'm back!!!

Yea!!!! I got my new camera cord in the mail today and guess what it worked!!! I was so excited b/c I thought it might not solve our problem. So I have a lot of new pictures to post. Most likely I'll just post a few at a time so I can tell you a little about them too.

Here are my little princesses at the pumpkin
patch last weekend for a birthday party.
They have on their costumes over their clothes.

This was the first evening that it was cool here in TX
so the girls and I put on long sleeves and played on the swing set.
Here's a cute pic of all 3 swinging.

This is my masterpiece. It took me like 3 hours to carve
these pumpkins. It was my first time to carve a pumpkin
without actually cutting holes. If you can't tell it is
Cinderella & Aurora (Sleeping Beauty).

Horse Ride

Several weekends ago we went to a place called Christ's Haven. It is such a neat place. It is a home for kids without a home. They have several houses on the campus and have the kids in houses according to age and gender. Dustin has a couple of students from school who live here. They had an open house and invited teachers of the students and other people in the community. It was a fun morning for us. They have horses and a stable. The girls were able to ride on a horse together. They looked so cute. I was so sad that I didn't have my camera. Dustin took a pic with his camera phone. The quality isn't great, but I still wanted to share it with everyone. They're getting so big. I have been interested in foster care for a long time and I thought this was an amazing place helping these kids. I hope that when the girls grow up that we might be able to be foster parents. I'll probably have to talk Dustin into it, but I think it would be such a neat ministry opportunity.