Great Grandma LaTocha's Visit

Great Grandma LaTocha was able to come up from Arizona to visit Peyton.

We used Grandpa Bart's airline miles to fly her up her for a few days so that she could meet and spend time with Peyton.

On Wednesday Oct. 21st we went to get Great Grandma from the airport and then went to Grandma and Grandpa's for dinner. We kept Great Grandma pretty busy while she was here, going shopping, out to eat and just spending as much time as possible with her. We even went down to Grandma's on Sunday and took pictures the 4 Generations together at once! I'm so happy that Grandma was able to come up and spend some time with Peyton, I know it's time that Great Grandma will always remember.

Here are some pics of Great Grandma and Peyton.

Great Grandma at the airport holding Peyton before she had to go back home- we promise she's always dressed like a little girl, but Peyton wanted to give Great Grandma a parting gift and blew out her outfit that she was wearing and this was the outfit that was in the diaper bag as a back up...

Cousins

It is so fun to have cousins that are going to grow up together.
Me and my cousin Lisa are only 6 months different in age and it was so much fun growing up with her and now Peyton is going to be able to have that same experience.
Oh wait, you can't call Peyton just Peyton around Ava, it's "Baby Peyton!"

Here are some pictures of the girls together.

Ava is 22 months, Ella is 6 months and Peyton is 3 weeks and they 3 of them are already showing signs of getting along just fine. Ava likes to whisper right to PeytonElla looks so grown up compared to Peyton.
Peyton here is 2 weeks old and about 9lbs and Ella is almost 6 months old and 16lbsElla isn't the little one anymore but she is sure interested in PeytonAva was singing to Baby Peyton.
The only lyrics she used were the words "Baby Peyton" Ava holding her Baby Peyton for the first time.

Blog Updates...

Okay, I know I'm not the greatest at the blog updates.

I really wanted to update things as they happened but life happens and it is happening WAY too fast. I only have 2 weeks left of maternity leave and the last time the Vikings played the Packers we were in labor and today I sit here with the 2nd game they play together this year on and Peyton will be 4 weeks old tomorrow and I still haven't updated past her 2nd week of birth!

So instead of trying to update at this rate, I am going to work on just updating in general on how our weeks go, I will try to make Sunday my day to update and I will update on what happened during our week instead of what happens everyday!

So on with the updates!

Off to the Dr.

Wednesday morning, I called the Nurses hotline to see if Peyton's eye was something to come in for and they said that we should, so I made an apt for Noon.

So I was off on our first outing as just Mommy and Peyton.

We were not able to get and apt with Dr. Dessa, so we saw Dr. Hana (wasn't my fave Dr, I liked Dr. Dessa a lot better)

One good thing is that she's already back at her birth weight.. she weighed 8lbs 6.5ozs, 4 ozs more then when we were in on Friday.

The Dr. was surprised at how strong Peyton was, and for her eye she said that Peyton has a blocked tear duct, she said it's nothing to worry about at this point, that it is something very common in newborn babies, she showed me some ways to massage the tear duck and also gave us some antibiotic drops to put in her eyes to help the eye from getting infected during the flu season. We are to give her the drops every 4 hours (or when she is awake) for one week. It was a relieve that she had not caught anything and that it was something that was a normal development issue instead of her being sick. So it was worth making the trip in to the Dr only 4 days after we had been there the first time!

Mom's First Day at Home Alone with Peyton

Our 1st day home wasn't bad.
We had a little excitement when the power in the neighborhood went out. It was only out for 30-40 mins but it was still the thought of -okay, if it doesn't come back on soon then I need to go out and figure out how to put the base in my car so that I can take her over to the farm or down to my parents house or something, because with no power meant no heat and it was only 40 degrees outside. But before I knew it, the power was back on and everything was just fine. When R go home though, we made sure that the base got put in my car so if I did need to go anywhere, it wasn't a problem to do so.

Other then that, it was a pretty uneventful day, just some Mommy and Peyton time.

Here's some photos that I took while we were just laying around.

After a good day home, Daddy came home from work and then Grandma and Grandpa drove up for dinner. Also to join us was Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Van, they were in Colorado for Grandpa's toy show and a wedding when Peyton was born and had just got home that morning but were able to make their way over to our house as well to see Peyton. Talk about some proud Grandparents. I was really happy that they were able to make it out to see her, only one Great Grandparent to go...

I noticed that Peyton's left eye started to get a little crusty... As I didn't want to panic and worry about it, I was still concerned because of all the H1N1 Flu going around. I wanted to make sure that Peyton didn't catch something. So I decided to call the Dr. in the morning and see if it's something we should come in for or not.

Daddy's Last Day Home

Monday was R's last day home before he had to go back to work.

Both R and I agree it was the best day so far with Peyton.

We had a very lazy day, and that could have been part of why it was the best day so far.

Peyton let us sleep in until after 10, and then we sat around in our sweats all day and watched movies (Bedtime Stories and Bolt), took short naps on the couch downstairs and just played with Peyton until about 5.

Then Haley and Joe came over for dinner and some quality time with Peyton.

Joe held Peyton for the first time and I think it made the two of them want kids sooner then later!

It was such a nice way to spend our last day as a family before we start to face the real world again with work and life beyond our little family.

Papa's Girls

That's one proud Papa!

All 3 of his girls on his lap at one time!

After Peyton's first Vikings game at home, Papa posed for this photo will all his girls.

We need to work on getting Ella all dressed in Vikes stuff too. Ava has her AP Jersey on that R and I bought her last season and Peyton has on her pink Vikings pants (that are at least one sizs too big) and her pink Vikings bib, but she couldn't wear the onesie that matched cause it was as long as she was, or longer! So the whole outfit will have to wait a little while.

When we were at MOA Thursday, R found a Brett Farve Jersey but the smallest size they had was 12 months. So R didn't buy it cause she wouldn't fit in it this season. If you see a Vikings Brett Farve Jersey in 0-3 months pick it up and we'll pay you back. :)