Slumber Party!

Miss P is having a slumber party with Mims and Drum! Lane and I are in Austin for the highway letting...well, Lane is here for the highway letting and I tagged along for a mini-vacation. Last night Lane and I went to dinner at Truluck's with an old coworker turned customer and Payton went swimming!!

While Lane worked today, I went down to San Marcos and shopped a bit at the outlets. Tonight is dinner at Eddy V's and we leave tomorrow around lunch. It's so strange to not have P here with us. I miss that little stinker!!!

Nekkidness

Just wanted to let yall know Payton does have clothes! I promise!!

Looking at past posts, I realize she's either in her diaper or nekkid in the majority of them. For whatever reason, she seems to do all the cute stuff in the morning after I've taken off her jammies or at night after her bath. Since she eats dinner right before her bath, we usually just strip her down so I don't have to pretreat her clothes. And you say, "why don't you use a bib?", because Miss Priss likes to eat on her bib while she has food in her mouth so it defeats the purpose of said bib. And honestly, she prefers to not have clothes on! When she was a newborn, we could get her to stop fussing by undressing her and taking her diaper off. She's her mother's daughter all right. If you look at photos of me from birth to about 6, I'm rarely dressed.

Baby

Payton loves babies! It can be the baby in the mirror, a doll, a picture in a book, on tv, or in real life (I kept the nursery during church on Sunday and was having to physically remove her from the little ones. She wanted so badly to play and kiss on them). She's already so nurturing...kissing, cuddling, and talking to any baby she sees.

The baby P is holding was mine when I was little. I still remember asking Santa for a real baby doll.


*Update on the no no post from below... P is actually giving us kisses now! She's a little stingy with them, but I'll take what I can get.

Words and Walking

The list continues to grow...

We have:
Momma
Dada
dog
cat
meow
brother (what we call Scout)
teeth (YaYa will be so proud)
yum yum
uh oh
and a whole slew of babbles that only she knows what she's saying ;)

I don't think I ever posted about it, but P is totally walking. First steps at 9 1/2 months and walking walking at 10 months! She's so much like her over-achieving momma it's scary.

I Want to Do It Myself!

For the past few weeks, Payton is insistant on feeding herself... and not just with the baby spoon or fork... it has to be like the one Momma and Daddy use (if we're all at the table together).

Wipe Out

Miss Priss is currently fascinated with pulling wipes or kleenex out of their containers,

and then ripping them into little pieces...

Look at this cutie!!

I know I seem like the proud aunt... I guess I am! (Just wait till my sister has a baby)

We dropped by the Renfrow house last night and I held Mr. Grant for a little while. He's so precious and has tons of dark, straight hair. I can't remember Payton that tiny, but she was even smaller when she was released from the hospital!!