Hair and Home

We finally gave in and trimmed Payton's bangs. She desperately needed it, but we were worried that she might not cooperate. It was a success! Now if we could just get her to let us put her hair in ponytails without her ripping them out!!

This week we also had two days of early release from school due to the weather. One of those days we decided to make homemade play dough; she didn't quite know what to do with it (she really just wanted to eat it). Nonetheless, it was nice that we could all be at home and enjoy time together:)

Cookies with Grandma and Aunt Megan

Payton wanted to "ca-la" (color) so Grandma helped:)
Payton, taste-testing the cookies:)

Mismatched

Payton in new sweatpants + toast with jelly = sticky mess all over pants:) Friday, Payton decided she'd rather wear the toast with jelly on her pants rather than eat it:( Luckily, we plan ahead for these types of episodes at the babysitter and provide an extra set of clothes or two - who said they'd have to match? :)

St. Nick

Payton received a singing Christmas card from Grandma and Grandpa B for St. Nick's Day - she loves it! We were all dressed up and ready to go to daddy's football banquet but she had no interest in leaving the house unless we could take the card along with us! I was all for it, as I knew it would surely entertain her in the car (she isn't one for car rides anymore) :) Thanks, St. Nick:)

Happy Fourth!

Here are the suggestions for 4th wedding anniversary gifts according to Google:

Traditional = Flowers

Modern = Linen/Silk

Travel = Hawaiian Vacation

One out of three isn't bad!!! Thank you for four wonderful years, Russ!

Big tree, little tree; green tree, pink tree

Friday afternoon we completed the annual trip out to the Fulk Tree Farm (Megan and Brian's family tree farm) to pick out a tree for this year. Russ and I dropped off Payton at mom's house (we would have taken her, but she is still not feeling 100%). I had also found a cute little pink tree at a garage sale this past summer, so we put that one up in Payton's room:) Although we cannot believe that it is already December, we had better face it (yesterday it snowed all day and left a good covering on the ground). Happy December!

Moments Of Losing All Recognizable Sanity (MOLARS)

Payton's molars must be coming in; that is our only explanation for her cranky state of being these past couple of days (not to mention the extremely high fever Wednesday night). It is/was quite the experience. She can't seem to get enough sleep (or enough Motrin)!!! As you can see, she had reign of the house this week (Russ even gave up the recliner for her....that speaks volumes right there)! Hopefully we are through the worst of it and she will soon be back to normal.