Time!!

Where does the time go? 2 days left of the work week -- how busy we become. Really I'm trying to catch up here, thank goodness nothing much has been going on here. Mom is back to work, trying to keep up on laundry, cooking, cleaning. Ok so Trav is gone for supper tonight I'm so excited I'm not cooking. And I'll be honest cleaning is on the back burner. I rather sit and hold Payten or sleep at night. The kids and I are going to lay low on this rainy evening.

We had a quite weekend as well, helped Hannah with her hair for Prom on Saturday and Sunday we stayed home. Here are a few pictures:

Hannah and Payten

Cody teaching her the tricks on his game

Back to Work

TGIF woo hoo!!!! Its been a long week, yesterday I got up and was glad it was Thursday. Then I thought again it was only Wednesday. Its been good to be back to work but when a little girl (I won't name any names) sticks out her bottom lip and wrinkles her eyebrows it breaks my heart. She makes me sad the little goof knows just when to play the game. Poor daddy in 12 years:)

It makes things a lot better knowing that she is with family for the most part when I'm at work right now. The worse part of being with family is that I can never thank them enough -- So thank you just in case I forget!

We'll write more this weekend -- enjoy the beautiful weather

Daddy Daycare

When Cody and I got home from the ice show last night this is what we came home too:

Too cute :) One more show to go!

Bitter Sweet Weekend

We have 2 shows left of "Charie and the Candy Factory on Ice" it will be nice to be done. Its been a really long week! But once the show ends this means I'm going back to work Monday. Not sure how I'm feeling about it. I have a feeling I'll have a long week ahead of me -- but we can do it.

Oh.... Payten went to her first ice show last night I have a really cute picture on my phone of her watching the show I'll try to up load it!

Dr. Visit for Toe

We visited Dr. Springer again today. He noticed the same changes Trav and I saw with her toe, it has moved. The Dr. decided that she will not need another cast right now. The plan is to tape the toe in the the right spot for the next 2 months. I was glad we didn't need another cast right now (we did take a nice long soaking bath this afternoon just in case we did get another). We were able to see that her toe does go right into the correct spot and will stay there until she wiggles her toes. So with the tape he believes that it will continue to stay in the right spot.

Today is the Day

Today is the day I get to soak of her cast. At the OFC our doctor doesn't want to cut off the cast so this afternoon (when Cody gets home from school) we will soak it in warm water and vinegar. We have another doctor appointment tomorrow at 3:20 so we will see what happens. The one thing I know for sure Payten will have a few baths in the next 24 hours --she loves to sit and soak, splash, and smile in the bath. Is she all girl or what :)

Oh No!!

Guess what I forgot to do..... Payten turned 3 months on Monday!

Here's her picture:

3 months 2 months

1 month

My Puppy Cousin

My auntie Laura and uncle Shayne have a baby girl. When she came to Easter we got to see her all dressed in her Easter dress. So we had to have a little photo shoot.

Payten and Cousin Dazzle

Recovering from Easter

On the hunt for our baskets!

Sitting with our loaded baskets from the Easter Bunny.

All dressed up and ready.

We had lots of fun yesterday. When we got home we were ready for bed. Mom and the kids slept in this morning :)

Easter Dress

Happy Bunny Day!!

Easter traditions!!! What did you do for Easter when you were a child? Decorate eggs, look for hidden plastic eggs, go to Grandma's for dinner! Well as a very young child we would go to my god parents house to decorate Easter eggs -- the real dye, I still look back at pictures and can remember those nights. As this tradition ended it was because life got to busy, what did we do to "Save" time. You know the plastic wrap that you put over the egg, put it into boiling water for 10 seconds. The total time it takes to do a dozen eggs is 5 minutes. I sat and teased my mother about the plastic wrap eggs today -- as my mom, Cody and I did there eggs. Cody was laughing at me, he just couldn't believe that's what we did. They did dye eggs for the first time in years. It was fun.

So last night we did our Easter eggs. This was the first year I really was able to watch and let Cody just go for it. Things stayed clean and he did lose interested after 5 eggs. It was a lot of fun. Payten didn't get to do her own eggs but she watched and did a wonderful job smiling at the camera.

Cody has really figured out how to make his little sister smile. He has this little Easter song he'll sing to her and she will smile away at him. We are going to my parents house for dinner on Sunday. Then we will celebrate with the Otto Family later that day. Lots of fun :)

Chores for Payten

Cody wonders why in the world Payten doesn't have to do chores around the house too. So here are a few pictures with the new things Payten can do!

Payten can clean out the dish washer! Watch out big brother she might get you.

She loves to help with Thursday Pizza night.

Toe!!!

You may know that Payten's 4th toe on her right foot is crossed over her 2nd and 3rd toes. Yes it folds right over the top. Our doctor told us the day he first saw her and at her 2 month visit that once she was standing and walking on it, it would straighten out. It was just the way she was packaged inside. The more we looked at it and thought about it we wanted a 2nd opinion. We really wanted to see if there was something that we could do about it now instead of waiting until she was older. This way we figured it wouldn't even bother her now to get it fixed. My worry was in 5 years she would have to have surgery on it to get it fixed. And she would have to deal with it when she is walking.

So we saw Dr. Springer at the OFC in Mankato this morning. As far as he could see the bones look good and it was just the tendon in her toe that needs to be stretched out. Then came our news, she is going to get a cast for two weeks! We will remove it and then the next day go in for a check up and we are guesses another cast. How long will she be wearing the cast you ask! Not really sure it all depends on how the tendon grows. Our best guess is a couple months.

Then we are waiting to get the cast at OFC and what does mom remember I don't even have a picture of her toe the way it was. We took one with my phone so it isn't as good as it could be but its better then nothing.

I'm hoping to hold off big brother until after her Easter dress pictures to sign the cast. We are having them on Saturday afternoon. I guess we won't need the tights I bought to go with the dress :) I'm glad we are getting it taken care of now vs. later.