Big girl bed!

Wow our big girl, Peyton slept in her new bed last night for the first time!

Our friends gave us their toddler bed recently, so yesterday we finally decided why not give it a try. With the crib still in the room and ready to go I explained to Peyton that she has to stay in her bed all night long until her sun comes on and Mommy comes to get her. I told her that if she needed anything to just yell for Mommy and Daddy. She was a champ. Fell asleep on her own and woke up right before her sun came on. She stayed in bed until I came in to get her. Right now we are working on naps...she is currently laying in bed talking but I do not hear her playing so that is a good sign. Crossing my fingers she will be out cold any minute!

I am sure there will be times in our future where we will hear her reading books or playing with her toys but that is ok. I am so proud of her for making it through the first night with no problems. She is very excited right now about her big girl bed. I will post pictures of her getting comfortable with it yesterday very shortly!

And for a funny Peyton comment to end this post....

One of Dominic's best friends left to go back to Europe a week ago. Peyton asked "Where is Christian" I told her "He is in Europe" Peyton's response "He is not in my up"! It was hilarious she heard your up instead of Europe. After trying to explain it to her again we ended it with saying he went on an airplane. Dom and I got such a kick out of it!

2nd Birthday

This weekend we celebrated Peyton's 2nd Birthday. I can't even describe how crazy it feels to think that she is already 2 years old. The last 2 years has flown by faster than I could have even imagined. Her birthday was Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themed. Including a home-made Mickey Mouse Cake. Peyton fell asleep that night signing Happy Birthday to herself.

These days Peyton is quite independent...or would like to be anyway. I guess this is the start of the "terrible two's!" I can't even start to list all of the words she knows now. You can actually have a conversation with her and she will give you a sentence back. It may or may not make sense every time but she is incredibly smart. (and yes I know I am bias) She wow's us every day with something different that she says.

She loves to sing. Her favorite songs are: ABC's, Wheels on the Bus, Old McDonald, Itsy Bitsy Spider, and Twinkle Twinkle. Things are songs she can sing by herself. She can count to 13 sometimes 14 on her own. Like every other toddler she loves to run and jump and be outside. She has discovered how much fun digging in the dirt can be and would be content doing that for hours!!

In the next couple weeks we are going to attempt to move her into a big girl bed. Since of course she will not accept that she is a baby anymore. If you tell her she is a baby she either says "I am not a baby I am Peyton Ferraro" or "I am not a baby I am a big girl." We are also working on mastering our skills with drinking out of a cup and continuing to work on potty training (which has taken a back burner recently).

Cousin Maggie and Peyton coloring.

Present time. Peyton did awesome this year and opened every single one of her presents!

Smile BIG girl!!!

The famous Mickey Mouse cake.

Play Time

A day in the life of Peyton:

Hmm...color or watch cartoons?

Making PB and J for lunch

Painting

Just keeping busy

She is such a good Mommy to her dolls.

Mason and Peyton love

Peyton absolutely loves her cousin Mason. Grandma has been nice enough to bring Mason over a few times on her way to play with Peyton. A day does not go by where Peyton doesn't ask where Mason is. This is one thing I love about being a mom and being so close to my brother and his family. I hope Peyton and Mason (and of course Maggie and Gabby) have many years of fun times together.

Cooking

Recently Peyton discovered helping me cook. This now means I cannot make a meal without her insisting we get the stool out and letting her help. She is becoming quite the little chef!

Playing outside

Look Mama an airplane

How can you not love this face???

Working on her soccer skills.

With this non-winter like weather we have been having Peyton has loved spending her afternoons playing outside on the slides and driving her school bus. She is always driving to the store to get applesauce...funny because she doesn't actually like to eat applesauce. I can already tell this summer will be spent mostly outdoors.

More snow park

I think this picture is absolutely adorable. Peyton kept saying "I hold daddy" while we were there. This is her way of saying "I want daddy to hold me".

Fortunately there were some smiles.

This is Peyton standing in a giant footprint.