Hello again!

Our little family had quite a busy weekend! I had planned to go to my friend's bachelorette party Saturday night, so Kyle decided to take Payton down to Albany to visit the family at the Sweet Home Jamboree. I went last year (and blogged about it of course!), it's a whole weekend of concerts, mostly country artists... oh the new things I've enjoyed since meeting Kyle! :) Kyle's cousin was visiting from Idaho and he doesn't get to see her very often, so he didn't want to miss the chance. Although I was glad he got to go, I was pretty sad because I have never voluntarily spent that much time away from my baby, except to go to work... just one day and I missed her so much! I don't have babyfree freetime very much though, so I decided to go shopping for a dress for a wedding we're going to that's coming up. Kyle is a groomsmen, so I wanted something a little nicer that would match him, plus none of my dresses fit me the way they used to anymore :) It was quite a challenge! Still haven't found anything I'm particularly fond of... good thing I still have another month to look!

After my shopping excursion I came back to the house, got ready and headed out to the party! It was for my co-worker Denise, who is getting married in just a couple weeks... we're unfortunately not able to go because it's in southern California, but I still wanted to celebrate with her! It was really fun, we went to a lounge called Shenanigans on the waterfront. After having some drinks and a little dinner, we spent the rest of the night dancing!



From left: Bri, Ally, bride Denise, Kerri, and me... thanks Kerri for letting me steal your picture!

Payton has been doing really well lately, although she's been a little crabby these last couple days... we think she's teething. I gave her some teething tablets tonight and they definitely helped. Poor baby :( No teeth yet though! We also haven't been letting her have her binky as much. We started to realize that we were using it too much like a crutch, every time she started to sound unhappy we just popped it in her mouth. Plus she started waking up at night wanting it... at 2am... then 3am... then 3:30am... you get the picture! We don't mind at all giving it to her when she needs it, but we also want her to be able to soothe herself to a certain degree. Plus, instead of just "muting" her, we try to see if there's something she needs, or if she just needs her diaper changed, or is bored, etc. The last couple days we've barely used it at all, and last night she fell asleep without it and slept for 9 hours straight! Very nice :)

We're heading up to Gig Harbor this weekend! We're coming up Friday afternoon, and will be there until Sunday. We hope we get to see lots of family, Payton is growing up so fast. She's been rolling over a couple times a day lately, and is even getting better at standing. We got a cute video of it below!



Dinner time has gone pretty smoothly the last couple nights, I've been putting in a little prune juice with her rice cereal (trying to head off any constipation) and she seems to like it much better. We're going to slowly introduce other foods, we can't wait to see all of her reactions! :)

My mommy took this picture when we were out and about running errands. Don't I look cute with a hoodie?!