Let it... snow?

Hello everyone! Hope you are all staying warm, safe and dry in this weather. I have to admit I was pretty skeptical when the forecasters predicted snow, but it looks like for once they were right!

Sunday morning we heard Payton get up around 8:30 (she has been sleeping in lately, which is VERY nice!), and we brought her into our bed and the three of us looked out the window while the snow fell. She actually seememd pretty interested in it, until she realized it was time for breakfast. After she ate we threw some warm clothes on her and headed outside before it melted!

Hmmm... what is this stuff??

Daddy and I checking ourselves out in the video camera

The only other time she's seen snow was when we went to Sunriver when she was about 10 months old. She wasn't too excited about it, and didn't even want to play in it. But now that Dad taught her how to make snowballs that was a different story!



So fun!

Very intense about this snowball business...

Payton has been developing so quickly lately that it's almost making our heads spin. She has been putting sentences together quite a bit, and saying lots of words that I didn't even know she knew! For example, we were in Target one day with Kyle, who had walked ahead to get something, and Payton turned to me in the cart and said "Where Daddy go?" I just stared at her and all I could do was point at him! She can also say "I want cracker", "I want cheese", etc. She uses those quite a bit! She has even started really responding to us; one night I told her I loved her, and she said "I love you too momma". My heart melted! She can point out so much too. I was reading her a book and she was looking at the pictures and naming things off like trees, flowers, cars, trucks (she REALLY likes saying hi to trucks when we're driving to daycare), and she even said "Papa's truck" when I pointed to a picture of a firetruck :) She's really into Elmo right now, I let her watch one Elmo video and now she'll point to the TV and say "Watch Elmo? Watch Elmo momma?" She loves to sing, but if you sing with her and get too loud she will actually "shhh!" you! It's hilarious! She has so much personality, and it's becoming more and more obvious all the time! My favorite observation that someone made about her is "wow, she really walks with a purpose, huh?" Yep, she definitely has quite the strut!

The other day I heard Payton in the bathroom saying "baby potty, baby potty". When I went in to investigate, Payton had put her baby on her potty and was sitting next to her like we do when she sits on the potty! SO cute!

Stay safe on the roads out there!