18 Months!

Payton is 18 months today. I am in shock at how quickly time flies by. He is in no way a little baby any more. I adore this little guy so much! He makes me smile constantly. He melts my heart with his hugs and kisses.

At 18 months he is doing so much I can hardly keep up!
He is talking a TON! Constantly repeating words we say, adding new ones to his vocabulary daily. My favorite words he says - Pease (please), mommy, daaaeyy (daddy), fish, truck, buhbye, lubbooo (love you), tank-chu (thank you), phone, book, cold, and kiss.

He is so silly. He dances whenever he hears music. He makes funny fish faces and then laughs at himself. He grabs the phone and says "hi, bye" then hands it back and runs off. He is obsessed with wearing hats (which can be anything from a real hat, to a bowl, or a box) and shoes. If anyone says "bye" to him, he puckers up for a kiss (including people he doesn't know).

When I leave for work he says bye (followed by a pucker up) at least 10 times. When I walk outside he runs to the window and blows me kisses.

He is very good at playing by himself, and is so funny to watch! I have worked the past 2 nights, and yesterday afternoon I was dozing on the couch while he was playing on the floor. I guess I dozed off pretty deep for a few minutes, because when I woke up he had piled all of his stuffed animals, balls, and cars on me. I pretended to be asleep for a few more minutes while I peaked and watched him run back and forth from his play room, grabbing a couple toys at a time and piling them carefully on me.

I just simply adore him, and LOVE being his mom.
One of his many silly faces. This is is "cold" face. He was eating ice, and I asked it it was cold, and this is the response I get. Of course he is in his crosby jersey that my dad sent for Christmas! Love it!

Quality Time with my cutie

Devry is out of town for a school thing for 3 days. So Payton and I are having some quality time together.
We play...alot.
We read tons of books.
We sing and dance together.
He sleeps wonderfully and lets me have a break!
He is so Happy!

His smile melts my heart. So does his hugs and kisses, which I get ALOT of.

If he hears ANYTHING outside (cars, snow falling off the roof, the dogs...anything) he runs to the back door saying "daddadadadadadadadadad" over and over again. Then looks at me like "where is he?" I say "daddy's not home" he says "oh" and runs and plays again, until he hears another noise. SO funny

I love him so much! He is the best little boy ever!

We have been using time out lately when Payton hits, or throws things at people. Well now if he throws something, he looks at me with his head down and a heartbreaking look on his face and says "noo noo" while he shakes his head. Then sticks his bottom lip out, walks to the time out corner and sits down. I don't even have to say a word. Then when I say he can come out, he runs over to me SO excited, signs "sorry" and puckers up for a kiss.

PS I kept the fire going all day! I have to blog about it, because most of the time when I am left in charge of the wood stove, I forget and let it go out. This is a small accomplishment for me!

My punishment for sleeping.

Sleep has become more of a luxury to me lately then a necessity. I function VERY well on little or no sleep. Well this week I was scheduled to work tuesday, wednesday and thursday nights. Between a horrible migraine, and strep throat, my week was quite exhausting. Luckily I was on call wednesday night and recovered a bit, and I had tons of help from Devry, his parents and a friend of mine so I could sleep.
Then I worked last night, which was ok. Still had a sore throat, but the migraine, fever and body aches were all gone. I got home today, and dozed on the couch while Payton played. I was woken many times with the usual shoe, toy, cup, box,etc being thrown at my head, or the occasional hair pulling or jumping. Then I actually fell asleep. When I woke up, my first thoughts? Why is it so quiet, where is Payton? How long have I been out?
And I walk into the living room....
and the family room.....
There are crackers, an entire box of rice crispies, toys, cups, diapers, clothes, books and who knows what else, EVERYWHERE. Thank you for letting mommy sleep Payton, and being so good at entertaining yourself.

Next time though....Why don't you try making a mess in this room. It is called your toy room. It is the confined space that we put your toys so you can make all the mess you want. I checked in this room next and notice that it was perfectly clean, and untouched.