February 2009

February is the month of love, right? Here is Peyton and I sharing a little kiss. He has also started responding "Luv ew" when we tell him that we love him. It is just the most heartwarming thing. The teachers at daycare crack up every morning when I drop him off, tell him that I love him, and he responds. They think it is so cute.

My brother's girlfriend, Jill, gave Peyton this ball pit for Christmas. I'm sure everyone knows that Peyton just loves balls. She thought that giving him 50 balls would be much more fun than giving him one. We finally got around to setting the ball pit up for him. It took Kyle and I (mostly Kyle) about 2 hours to blow the bottom of the pit up. We were out of breath after that. Needless to say, though, Peyton absolutely loves the ball pit. For the first few days, he sat in there a lot of the time.

Here's Peyton's Valentine's Day shirt. He had to wear it on the 13th though, because I wanted him to wear it to daycare. The shirt says "Heart Breaker" and I'm sure that's exactly what he is going to be one day with that adorable face and those long eyelashes. He's going to have fight girls off.

For Valentine's Day, we got Peyton an Elmo balloon (because Elmo is his very favorite), some heart-shaped cookies, and a Valentine's themed Sesame Street coloring book. Peyton is just now starting to like coloring. I think he liked his gifts, especially the balloon. He carried it around the house for about a week.

My parents came over on the 15th to give Peyton his Valentine's Day gifts. They got him a bunch of balloons and a bee that sings "How Sweet it is to be Loved by You." There was also some candy and a little Elmo figurine thing. Peyton also received a special package in the mail from Austin with some candy and a little M&M guy filled with M&M minis. Peyton definitely liked the M&M guy and refused to put it down for about a day.

One night for dinner, we had quesadillas. If Peyton sees someone dip their food into a condiment, then he must have his food dipped too. I was eating sour cream with my quesadilla, so Peyton wanted it too. He really enjoyed that sour cream (and maybe the quesadilla too)!

One night Kyle was letting Peyton drink some of his Gatorade. All of the sudden Peyton started saying "more more" and doing a motion with his hands. I looked up the sign for "more" on the internet and it was what Peyton was doing. I found out later in the week that he had learned that at daycare. I was pretty impressed. He does the sign whenever he says "more" now.

One more picture, which shows my happy boy.