Spring!

I went for a run today outside with Payton. It felt SO good to run outside! I am excited that I can finally start training for the 5K I am planning on running this summer. I love the warm weather, and sunshine! I am so excited for it to keep getting warmer and warmer. Payton LOVES being outside.
we have so much going on lately.

• Payton is VERY busy discovering the world. He rolls everywhere in the house, and is crawling backwards. He gets on his knees and rocks trying to go forwards, but hasn't quite figured it out yet. He will anyday though. He is babbling so much. He says "mumumum", "paaaa" "buba", "iii", and "dada." Its so hard to tell what if he actually knows he is saying something. I am pretty sure he says "mumum" knowing its me, and "ii" when I say Hi to him. He also has discovered that he can scream. He will be laying on the floor playing and just let out high pitched shreeks. He thinks it is SO funny, and keeps doing it and laughing after. He makes me laugh just watching him. He giggles ALL the time, and is just a VERY happy baby. I LOVE being his mom, and watching him learn and grow everyday. I feel so lucky to have the job that I do, where I can be home with him everyday and experience all of his "firsts." Even though I am a part time nurse, I am still very much a full time mom!
• I stopped nursing Payton about a month ago. After fighting with my milk supply for over 3 weeks, I finally added some formula and slowly weaned him. It was a very hard decision for me, and I felt like a failure becuase I wasn't producing enough for him anymore. I tried everything from supplements, mothers milk tea, root beer, pumping every 2-3 hours, increasing calories, cutting back on exercising. EVERYTHING. Nothing worked. Feeding sessions would turn into him getting mad because he wasn't getting enough, and me feeling annoyed or upset. It was not a good experience for either one of us anymore. I finally decided it wasn't worth the fight or frusturation. Switching him to a bottle was great because he could hold it himself, and loved it! Some parts were difficult at first. He was spitting up more then ever! I switched him to Soy formula last week, and since then he has hardly spit up at all. It was a tough decision, but has worked out for the best.
• We had the flu FLY through our family this past weekend. Payton woke up Friday night in the middle of the night. I went in to see what was wrong and he threw up everywhere. Then he was happy and went right back to sleep. He did it once more that night, but other then that he was fine. He had been spitting up a lot since being on formula, so we assumed that was the problem. Apparantly not. We spent part of saturday with Devry's family, and on Sunday morning Devry came down with the flu, then I did Sunday night/Monday morning along with devry's dad, mom, and our 2 nephews and 1 neice. Then Devry's brother had it tuesday. It spread like CRAZY, and was not fun at all.
• We went to boise last week for Payton's follow up appointment. He will have to have a second surgery on June 25th because the first one didn't work. We are frusturated about it not working, and that we have to go through the traumatic experience again. Luckily the hospital is writting off the first bill since it didn't work. We still have to pay for the anesthesia for the first surgery, but it is much less then we thought we would have to pay.
• All of our puppies are gone. it was a great way to make a bit of extra money. They were so cute and we are excited we easily found good homes for them all. Payton LOVES Daisy and Dash, and the puppies. Here are some pictures of him playing with one of the puppies.
  
  

And just a fun pic of my cutie loving life with his toes :)