Payne's 2nd Birthday Pictures/Family Pictures!

I know I have said it many times before, but I couldn't be more thankful for Meredith Curtis! I love that she is so patient with my family to take our pictures! I absolutely love the pictures! She captured Payne's personality right now!

Payne's Construction Party Details

 

The front door. I wrapped an extension cord around the straw wreath. I got a 2 from Hobby Lobby and covered in scrapbook paper.  Really simple! 

 The table! We had lots of left over cement blocks from building the play set that I use for make the cupcakes higher. We used all the trucks and construction toys to decorate the others tables as well.

 

For the favors I made soap that was in the shape of trucks and tractors for the kids to go home and take a bath with!

Pink Milk

This summer we hung out with Brody and Jillian. Jillian "drinks pink milk" and so Payne thinks he needs to drink this "pink milk"! Really it is milk in a pink sippy cup! Payne seems to think that is the only way to go though. So we are trying for some other colors of milk. Yet he without fail will tell you something is pink or yellow! Oh, well! It is really funny though. We sent this video to Jillian a while back, but I thought I would share!

I play golf!

1st Day of School

      This year was a little different in the start to the school year. I was starting a new job, in a new grade as well. Of course my kids are awesome! And it was Payne's 2nd birthday! I have moved from teaching at a private school where there were 36 kids in 3rd grade and I had to collborate with one other teacher, to a public school where there are five 4th grade teachers and a 125 kids in the grade!
      I work on a team with in the 4th grade team of 3 teachers. I have my homeroom in the morning and then teach them Math, then we head to recess, then my class goes down the hall for Writing and Content and I teach another Math class, lunch and planning then the kids come back and my homeroom goes to Reading and I teach other class of Math. At the end of the day I teach my homeroom Word Study. If you could keep up with all of that, congrats most people are so confussed.  Really all I do is teach Math three times  to 75 kids and Word Study once. It is a lot different and I am learning so much, but I am absoultly loving it!
Payne and Ryan waved me off and wished me good luck on my first day!

    Also, like I said it was Payne's birthday on the 1st day of school which was hard for because I wanted to spend the day with him, but that didn't happen. We were able to have a some friends over for birthday cake that evening and it turned into a great night.

Happy 2nd Birthday Payne!

I can't believe that my baby turned 2 today!! 

Happy Birthday Sweet Boy!!

He weighs about 29 pounds, wears 2T shirts, 24 month shorts, 6-7 shoes. 

He is starting to speak in complete sentences.

He is becoming less and less shy!

He loves airplanes, boats, trucks, and firetrucks!

He loves to be outside!

He still sleeps well! He has started sleeping in his chair on some nights?!?

We went to the beach for the first time this past month!

We are still working on eating. Some days are good and others are terrible! 

He got the stomach virus this past month!

He loves to read books and say his alphabet and numbers.

He started back to school after spending the summer at home with mommy!

Payne's Birthday Party

 Payne turned 2 a few weeks ago. We had his party the weekend before his birthday! Which was also the weekend before I started school. We kept things real simple. We got some play sand from Lowe's and put it in the baby pool. We had lots of trucks from the beach that I had gotten at Target for a $1, that we put in there. We brought the tool bench outside, and then we also had the sand and water table. The kids also played on the big play set in our backyard. For food we had chips, pretzels, chocolate covered raisins, and cupcakes.

 He loved his "tuptake" and blowing out his candle!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Sweet Boy!!!

On his actual birthday, when I went to wake him up! He yelled "tuptake!!!" when I told him Happy Birthday!

Hey B!

Payne loves his Uncle B and Aunt Al! Uncle B came to stay with us a few days while he worked in Fayetteville.  This is Payne's favorite game to play with Uncle B! I couldn't stop laughing!

Hemangioma Update

One year ago today I did a post about Payne's Hemangioma. You can go back and look at the post here. It has continued to get better and better. I still get lots of questions from people about what it is. The doctors still seem to think it will be gone by the time he is 5 or 6. I think it will be gone long before that! Here are a few pictures of it recently.  

23 Months

I can't believe that Payne is 23 months! I am going to have a 2 year old! I doesn't seem like that long ago I was finding out that I was pregnant!

Somethings I want to remember about Payne at 23 months!

Weight is around 29 pounds

You were having some tough times with eating, but have started eating some chicken fries, fish sticks, and veggies mixed with apple sauce. 

You LOVE trucks of all kinds. If we hear a firetruck you can't get it off you mind and say firetruck over and over! 

You wear a 2t shirt and 18-24 months shorts.

You are saying more and more each day and are able to tell us what you want better.

You hate tennis shoes, so we wear flip flops but you still take those off everywhere we go!

You aren't fond of us dropping you off at the church preschool

You learned how to open doors this month so we had to get door covers! 

You naps still vary from day to day. You will sleep anywhere from an hour to four hours.

We still try to put you to bed between 7-8. Therefore you sleep around 12 1/2 hours from the time we put you down!

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday Afternoon Sprinkler Fun!

Sunday afternoon when Payne got up from his nap we went outside to play in the sprinker! Payne loves being outside so it is really easy to make him happy by turning on the sprinkler ball and giving him a pop-ice!

 

 Payne and Dada were playing ball! As you can tell we are still working on our hand-eye coordination skills!
He prefers to just kick the ball!

I think he is a pretty cute kid!