Top 5 - September 2015

Payton Millie

3 Years 3 Months

1 - Payton started preschool this month and she absolutely LOVES it.  She gets so excited on the days she gets to go and talks non-stop about it.  The very first day she came home and told me that Miss Connie taught her how to raise her hand when she wants to talk.  I have been trying to teach her how to not interrupt for months now and bless Miss Connie's heart for teaching her in one day.  She now raises her hand all the time when Tyler and I are talking and she wants to interrupt.  It is so cute.

2 - She just learned how to spell her name and she continually tells me that she wants to spell her name with two P's.  She tells me that her name is spelt P-P-A-Y-T-O-N.  

3 - She loves to dance.  Particularly "ballerina dancing".  She puts on her tutu and has me put on ballerina music and she starts twirling and turning and skipping.  She actually is quite graceful about it.  It is probably my favorite thing to watch her do lately.

4 - She is the sweetest girl and tries really hard to be friends with everyone.  I was watching her interact with a girl she had just met (without her seeing me) and the girl was telling her that she didn't have a mom or a brother after Payton had told her that she did.  The girl then began to yell at her that she didn't have a mom.  She was quite rude and the mom in me wanted to go in and deal with it myself but I just sat back and watched.  Payton folded her arms and scowled and walked away.  Later that day she was telling me about this situation that I actually already knew about and she told me that she made a bad choice and was mean to the girl.  She thought that scowling and walking away was mean.  Bless her sweet heart.  I love that girl.

5 - She is so inquisitive.  I swear she asks "Why?" fifty times a day.  I realized the past few weeks that  explaining the reasons behind everyday things in life is quite difficult.  She is putting my knowledge to the test.  I was showing her all the different colors in the leaves and ended up giving her a complete rundown on all the seasons and what happens in each season.  She loves to learn.

Cooper Seth

5 Months

1 - This boy is always happy.  He is very relaxed and easy going.  I feel really lucky having him as my second baby because Payton has been needing a lot of attention lately and he doesn't seem to mind.

2 - He decided to stop sleeping well again and consistently wakes up 2-4 times a night.  Especially the last few weeks since I'm pretty sure he hit his 6 month growth spurt a little early.

3 - I started to feed him solids and he HATES anything that isn't milk.  I've tried rice cereal, bananas (who doesn't like bananas), butternut squash, apples and carrots and he spits everything out.  I hope he starts eating solids soon.  We'll see...

4 - He discovered how to make the zerber sound (is that what it's called?) and he does it ALL THE TIME.  Payton thinks it's hilarious.

5 - He is a tummy sleeper.  No matter what I do he always ends up on his stomach.  He sleeps so much longer during the day and at night since we discovered this.