Payten's First Birthday!

Payten had a very nice 1st Birthday. She loved being sang to (I think?). She LOVED eating her cake OF COURSE. She ate it all in a matter of a couple minutes. She had cake all the way up in her arm pits, it must have been REALLY good! She got a few things one was a dolly and a doll stroller. She liked pushing it around. She looks like such a big girl doing it.

Today she also had her Doctors appointment. All was well! She chunked up to 19lbs 1oz. the 20th% up from the 7th% last appt. (3mnths ago) She is 30" tall, still in the 75th for her height. I am so blessed to have a healthy Happy little girl. I love spending every minute of every day with her. She makes my life absolutely WONDERFUL! I truly have the best life!!

Talking on the phone

A few weeks ago I caught her acting like she was talking on the phone. I finally got a picture of it tonight. She was pretty excited that I did not snag my cell phone RIGHT away from her! It is funny that they learn these thing so early! This will be the last post before she turns 1! this is the eve of her birthday. I am filled with excitement and sadness too. I love that she is growing up, it is just a little too fast. I still miss that little newborn. But at the same time I love her walking around and acting all grown up!!

Visiting Great Grandpa

Today we visited Linus' grandpa, Payten's great grandpa that is 93, at Banner Baywood Hospital after he had his hip surgery. He fed Payten some Ice chips, she had lots of fun running the halls, then she gave him a nice kiss goodbye. She has so much fun walking, it is ALL she wants to do!!

For my memory

Just a little something for me to remember. Payten has been walking all over this past week. She loves it smiles and laughs all the time. She would rather walk from place to place in the house instead of crawling. We don't even ask her to, she does it all of the time on her own. She still falls and is kind of wobbly. But she loves it and is getting really good at it. She is sure growing up fast!!

SOY JOY!

I think I have told a few people about Payten and the Soy Joy commercials. When Payten was 6 or 7 months old and this commercial would come on she would push her bottle away and pop up and stare at the tv like she was mesmerized(if you know Payten you know that to refuse her bottle is very serious!) Well now when this commercial comes on she literally cannot control her body. She is so silly when it comes to dancing anyway, but this puts her over the top for some reason. In church yesterday she she started bobbing her head to the hymn music. Also when she hears music and really gets into it she start popping her lips like she is singing! It really is the cutest thing ever. I love that she cannot control herself, sometimes she dances when there is no music at all, I guess she hears it in her head!

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DANCING PAYTEN

Payten has become quite the little dancer. Whenever she hears music her hips start moving. She hardly ever stands up and bounces, she always sways her hips. Sometimes she sways them so hard she almost falls over. I also caught her in the crawl position and she had to dance, that is a rarity, she is always standing. It is so cute that they naturally hear music and find the beat and dance!! Oh did you notice the music. One is rap the other is Barney. It does not matter she will dance to anything, even your singing. I LOVE IT!!!

LOOK AT ME!!

This week at grandma's we worked on walking. Tonight after dinner Linus and I worked on it with Payten again. She is really getting the hang of it. She turned 11 months this past Friday. She is growing up soooo fast I can hardly believe it.

I LOVE MY DADDY

"I loved being in California to see Aunt Abby, Uncle Nate and Grandma and Grandpa but I was sick the whole time. I was super grumpy and cried all the time. As you can see in the picture I was glad when I got to see my daddy again." As you know Payten is NOT a cuddler, but she just could not get enough loves from her daddy. I love the picture of Payten and Linus, she has such a sweet little smile, you can tell she is happy!

My fun but annoying toy!

Here is Payten at Grandma and Grandpa's house in California. I brought this toy cause all the pieces stack inside each other and make just one ball, easy for packing. Payten found a much more fun way to play with them! Isn't it amazing how they can make a simple toy into something so crazy!!! It is much more annoying and loud in person, believe me!

Today I was sitting on the couch working on my computer and heard mysterious, strange, happy sounds behind me, of course I had to check it out! Payten was so excited and proud of herself that she found a new thing to play with. All day she is constantly roaming trying to find new things to get into or climb on. I guess it is time to put the swing away!! The only thing I use it for is to trap her in while I paint her toenails and that has become difficult to do too!

My sick baby!

Here is my poor sick little girl. Her eye actually looks much better in this picture. Is was much redder and puffier. We took Payten to the doctor today. She has an upper respiratory infection, an ear infection and her eye is infected. She sounds horrible, a croaky little voice. I can tell she feels miserable!! I feel so bad for her. She just cries to be held and then cries and flops around when you hold her because she is so uncomfortable (fever). Hopefully her medicine makes her feel better soon!!

4th of July weekend in Snowflake

This 4th of July weekend Linus flew us up to Snowflake to visit our friends Jon and Dawniel Flake and their 3 children Keaton, Hayden and Brynn. It was nice to get there in less than an hour instead of the 3 hour long car ride! The Flakes are our good friends from when we lived in Payson. We had so much fun. When we got there we went outside and visited. We were able to lay on the grass and Payten crawled all over exploring! Now you CAN'T do that in the valley summer heat. IT WAS WONDERFUL to escape this hellish heat even for a short weekend! Oh, and Tippy sure did enjoy all the cooool green grass!!

Payten Loved playing with the animals. They have a new Puppy and have a turtle. I guess Payten wanted to taste the turtle!!

Big Boys Playing. Let's face it, they never grow up, and I love it! I know Linus had fun. I caught him walking off holding a gun, I LOVE that picture (although I don't know where he went!). Then him and Jon had to blow things up. The dump truck is evidence. They tried to blow up anything and everything, even an ant hill!!

Payten rode a 4 wheeler with both her mommy and daddy. And a VERY pregnant little horse. She did not like either one.

She had fun Playing with their kids. Keaton, Hayden and Brynn. They are Very cute kids!

The first night was the 4th. We did not see fireworks until the 5th and went to Heber. Dawniel got them all glow bracelets and necklaces. Then the guys took the kids next door to Jon's parents were they were doing there own fireworks show. I did not go cause it was raining and cold, hence why no pictures.

Several times Linus and Jon disappeared sometimes with the boys and sometimes not. They would go out to shoot the rabbits. Apparently there are TONS and they eat their gardens. This time it was with the boys and they came back with this HUGE dragon fly. It gave me the creeps. If you can click on it and zoom in you can see what I am talking about.

Here's to a fun weekend filled with things you can only get away with in a small mountain town. I mean walking around your yard with guns, blowing things up in your back yard, Riding a 4wheeler in your back yard AND you can keep going cause your not surrounded by neighbors, riding horses in your yard and your own private fireworks show! Now if you did most that in the Valley you probably would have the cops at your door!!! THANKS FLAKES!!!

(ok so I just finished everything and realize i do not have a pciture of their whole family together, I will have to post that later, sorry)

My Sleeping Angel

Our fun Saturday ended with a trip to Sam's club. We spent 2 1/2 hrs and way too much money. I had pizza, Linus had a hot dog, we each had a milk shake and a churro and it came to less that $8. WOW now that is a cheap date (excluding the groceries!). When we got home Payten was exhausted, we had skipped her afternoon nap so she screamed for 5 minutes and then fell asleep. When I checked on her she was conked out in this position. TOOO CUTE, I just had to get a picture. She is my angel sleeping or awake!!

Payten eating Sparks' Special

Well Payten is 10 months today, can you believe it. I made Sparks' Special for dinner, yah, I know, gourmet!! So I decided that Payten could eat it with us, after all it is just tomato soup, water, rice and ground beef. As you can tell from the video she LOVED it!! You can actually hear her smack her lips in the video!! The picture was taken when it was all gone, she was sooo sad:( She sure likes to think that she is a BIG GIRL!!

Family trip to the pool!

Linus came home from his IFR cross country today and was hot. So he asked if we wanted to go to the pool. YEAHHHH, we love the pool! Payten sure had fun with her daddy!! I think she is going to be a good little swimmer:)

Dinner with Grandpa

This past Monday my Dad and Debbie came into town. Payten had not seen him yet and neither had Cash. It was nice to see them!!! I love the picture of Cash and Payten, she is always willing to share her binky. Here is a picture with all his grandchildren too.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

To my most wonderful husband and Father, Linus. I could not ask for a better husband to me or father to our wonderful baby. He is the love of my life and Payten adores him. I am grateful every day for him. He works so hard and does so much, he is absolutely AMAZING!! I don't tell him enough just how much I love him. He is my best friend and I love him more than anything!! And an added BONUS he is very handsome!!

REMOTE CONTROL

Today at church my friend Summer pulled a remote control out of her purse to give to her baby to play with. Now why have I not thought of that. We all have a remote control that goes to something that is broken. So when we got home I gave Payten her new toy!! She seemed very happy!! I love her goofy faces in these pictures.