Fall time...

I haven't been to good at blogging. So I'll try to recap what has been going on around our home since August.
In September we went to Peach Days with some friends. It was our first time going to Peach Days. The kids had a great time and I guess we did too?? (fought crazy crowds and spent a butt load of $$)

In October Bailey started dance. She is so girly and LOVES to sing and dance around the house. She has loved being in dance and has been doing well. Parents can only watch the first lesson of each month so we watched her for the first time in November. She didn't really pay attention too much while we were watching and we kept trying not to make eye contact so she would ignore us and dance but it really didn't work. Now we understand why parents can't watch every week.

Halloween was fun this year. We did our regular pumpkin carving with some friends except this year we used foam pumpkins. Foam pumpkins never get rotten and you can save them from year to year so we were very excited at our discovery. This year we carved batman, a skull, Snow White, Iron Man, and one that said Trick or Treat for Jackson's headstone.

Peyton dressed up as Wolverine and Bailey went as Snow White. We had a lot of fun with Beetle's costume, she sure played the part too.

Peyton had a kindergarten program a few days before Halloween. He and his class mates sang lot of cute Halloween songs. I have to admit I got a little teary (I know, I'm a boob) I just couldn't help it, he is so grown up!

Last but not least, we celebrated Peyton's 6 birthday!! I can't believe how quickly time passes. For his birthday we had a little party with his friends then took him and 7 of his friends to see MegaMind. Lucky for us we had some good friends who were willing to help us man the crazy kiddos. Let's just say Dan and I NEVER want to have 8 kids!! Especially all around the same age!!

I just want to mention how thankful I am to be Peyton's mom. He is such a sweet, kind little boy. I'm not saying he never gives his sister crap or is never disobedient but mostly he is perfect. Every time I turn around he is doing something sweet for his sister, helping her with her seat belt, getting her a drink or a treat, playing ring around the rosy with her, all without being asked. Peyton and Bailey have been doing the cutest thing lately, he is really into football these days (probably because it's LSU's football season) so they go into the living room and he is LSU and she is USU and they play one down of football then one round of ring around the rosy, then one down of football then a round of ring around the rosy and so on. Dan and I love to sit and watch them. We truly are blessed.

Peyton's going to Kindergarten!

I can't believe Peyton is old enough to start Kindergarten! He has been so excited to go. The only tears were when he thought he wouldn't see me very much because he was going to be at school all day (he's a Mama's boy, what can I say). Once I explained that he would only be in school for less than 3 hours, the tears were gone!

He did so well on his Kindergarten testing, he knew a lot more then I thought he did, I definitely can't take all the credit. When asked to identify a number the teacher held up number 79 and he knew what it was. She said "WOW Peyton, that is awesome that you knew the number 79! How did you know it?" He replied "hmph, I just sounded it out!" Silly boy.

I know he is going to have a great time learning and playing with new friends.

Going to meet his teacher (nice pose buddy)!

Ready for the first REAL day of Kindergarten.

Tball

Peyton is playing Tball for his first time, and is LOVING it! We decided to have him play in Syracuse with one of his buddies becasue they have the coach pitch first then have the kids hit off the tee. He has been playing well and making Dan and I proud. He looks so cute in his uniform, I love game days!! I'm not sure who's loving it more, me or Peyton :)

Spring Soccer

Peyton started soccer a few weeks ago. Already he is doing much better then he did in the fall and has spent the majority of both games on his feet! Hopefully his interest will last. He's a little discouraged because he hasn't gotten a goal yet, but last game he had at least 3 assists. We have tried to explain to him that assists are pretty much as good as a goal but he doesn't seem to believe us :0).

Sledding & Santa's Sleigh...

Yesterday after I took my last final for the semester (YIPEE) we went sledding with some friends. It was a lot of fun minus the steep slippery hill that provided a great workout for my outta shape bootie! Peyton had a great time going up and down while Bailey sat at the top watching contently (she did go down twice much too her dismay).

This morning Peyton's daycare class took a field trip to sit in Santa's sleigh! Here are some of the pics...

Long time!!!

Sheesh, it's been a while since I last posted. I guess I'll just give an update.
To celebrate turning 5 Peyton had a birthday party with a million kids!! No really there were 16 kids there total (talk about chaos!) He had a blast playing with all his buddies and of course got a load of presents! Way too many if you ask me!
His cake turned out awesome, I bought this edible image from a company on ebay, he loved it.

After deciding we weren't going to put up lights on the house this year we put up our Christmas lights LOL! We just couldn't not do it, we knew the kids would love it and it brings so much Christmas cheer, we couldn't go without! We even got a new blow up of Mickey Mouse. The kids thought it was fun sitting on the roof with me (for 2 seconds each -Dan's idea!)

We got our tree from a tree farm called North Pole Pines in Farr West. It was a fun little place, you go and pick out your tree then cut it down. We went with Dan's older brother and his family, maybe it'll be a new tradition?? It only took us a little over a week to get the tree decorated!

Last week was MeeMaw's annual work client appreciation night where Santa comes. When Peyton saw Santa he ran and jumped in his arms. I overheard him telling Santa "remember that thing you brought me...that Robin toy? Well, I want a riddler and a penguin toy that goes with that toy set" Santa was awesome and played right along. Bailey on the other hand FREAKED OUT!! She didn't want anything to do with Santa. I finally convinced Dan (who is a softy for his baby girl) to take her and sit by Santa so I could get a picture. As you can see from the picture she wasn't too thrilled. After a minute she warmed up but still wouldn't agree to sit on Santa's lap. He was great with her and had her tell him about her list she had made.

My birthday was last Saturday. Check out the cute wrapping of the presents (Dan's idea). We went to breakfast at IHOP then shopping at Kohl's then Dan and I went on a date to his work Christmas party at the Timbermine (thanks Buffy for watching our crazy kids!) Dan hooked me up with a lot of cute clothes and a book (the Lost Symbol by Dan Brown). It's amazing how much more he knows me and knows what I like after 8 years of marriage!

My Baby is 5!!!

Wow, time flies! It seems like just yesterday we were checking into the hospital to have Peyton. We were so excited to have him in our family, nervous but excited. As a baby he was pretty hard. He had reflux and was very fussy because of it. As a toddler he was AMAZING compared to all toddlers I've seen! And as a kid, he's pretty dang good aside from the occasional bout of crying. He's sweet to his sister, who bullies him to no end, and he is always saying nice things too me out of the blue. He has such a tender heart (just like his Dad). He LOVES playing with his friends and asks all day when they will be home from school, when they do get home they play until the sun goes down.

We celebrated his birthday today by going to Chuck E Cheese. Dan took the day off work, it was great to have him there. The kids had a great time playing and it was actually pretty clean. I think we'll be going back soon.

We are so thankful to have P in our family, and hope he has had a great birthday!