8 Months

Peyton turned 8 months old on December 2nd and I know that I always say this...Were did the time go! It just seems like a week ago I was posting her 7 month old picture...Yikes! She is growing too fast for me.

The last month has been a lot of fun watching her change so much. She has not started to crawl yet, but she will roll to where she wants to go or get. Peyton has not started to talk, but will make the same noises and act like she is saying what we are asking her to say. It is very cute and I swear that the other morning she was telling me that she loved me back (just not in those words) We are very close to clapping and she is very aware of her hands. Yesterday morning I went in to wake her and she was already awake and was just staring at her right hand and twisting it back and forth in amazement. Peyton has started to fake cough and stick her tongue out at us. Also you will be able to tell that our little girl is not so little anymore. Since we have started her on solids she is getting quite the belly!

Everyday is something new with Peyton and I can't wait for it and feel very blessed to have such a wonderful baby that is just so sweet for me.

Peyton at 8 months old.

Baseball Family

A couple of weeks ago we had our family picture taken for the 2009 K-State Baseball Media Guide. I am very excited with how it turned out and I wanted to share with you all.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving this year was in Mount Ayr, IA with Grandma and Grandpa Yoder. It was a great time and it was so nice because lots of other family from Illinois were able to make the trip out. It was the largest Thanksgiving that I have ever had up there and it was so nice to see everyone since we are not going to be out in Illinois for Christmas.

Thursday started out just like every other Thanksgiving to get up and watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I did my best to watch Debbie cook the turkey, but I am sure that I will have to watch her again. I helped out with what cooking I could, but Debbie had prepared most of it earlier in the week. I was able to help make the most wonderful, but not good for you cake. I'll need to steal the recipe to make it for my family! It was a great day and I missed my family, but I was glad to be able to talk with them and hear that they also had a wonderful day.

Peyton getting ready to go out with Grandpa Yoder on her first tractor ride and feed the cows Thanksgiving morning.

In the cab and ready to go...
...here we go!
Peyton with her 3rd cousins Maddy and Sammy. They are very excited and can't wait for their new little sister expected in March.

Peyton and Sammy

Peyton with cousin Andrea who is expecting her first child in May

Peyton with Cousin Darcy

Great Uncle Warren with Peyton on Thanksgiving

Grandma Yoder and Peyton having a good time together.

Wrigley all worn out on Thanksgiving and of course she found a good spot right in the middle of the floor to take a nap.

Brandon wiped out on Thanksgiving. This is pretty much what he did during the whole holiday weekend. It was either taking a nap or playing on his PS3

Four Generations Together!

Great Grandma Darnall with Peyton playing with the new toy that she got for her.

Both having a good laugh together

Peyton playing with all her toys

We woke up on Saturday morning to large snow flakes!

Don't judge us: I know that we should have a coat on Peyton, but it was for just 2 seconds that she was outside for the picture.

This is what we woke up to on Sunday morning. It was very beautiful!

Watch the video of Peyton riding off in the tractor with Grandpa Yoder

Sweet Baby Girl

Peyton was playing around on the floor Saturday morning and this is how we found her playing with her toys.

We hope that all of you have a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy time with your family and friends.

Love,
The Yoders

Carrots...

... and not a big fan! Last week we started Peyton on her 1st solids and it was anything orange. Brandon and I had a hard time picking between carrots, sweet potatos or squash so we placed then all in front of Peyton and let her pick. She reached out for the carrots and that is what she got. As you can see from the pictures that she did not enjoy them very much. The first couple of bites went down with no problem and then the sour face started. It was a little hard not to laugh at her, but I also wanted to make sure that she knew that the carrots were yummy and wanted to eat them.

Since that first night of eating solids things have been so much better. Peyton still is not a huge fan of carrots, but we have given her sweet potatos and she can not get enough of them.

Peyton taking her first bite of solid foods...

...not so sure I like this
...still thinking about

...I'm pretty sure I don't like these carrots

Weekend in Columbia...

...with Uncle Drew and friends. Last weekend we went to Columbia, Missouri for the weekend since K-State was playing MU and also to see Drew and some of our friends that use to work here at K-State with Brandon. It was a great weekend full of all kinds of fun and excitement. We stayed a couple of nights with the Hairstons' who have a daughter Harper that is just a year older than Peyton. They share the same birthday! It was a lot of fun to get the girls together and we just had to laugh at Harper because she really wanted Peyton to get up and run around with her but since she is a baby she couldn't. It was a great weekend with lots of fun memories.

Peyton with Uncle Drew at his apartment wearing her MU outfit that he got her.

I am just sure that Peyton is telling us to get her out of this Mizzou tigers outfit and into some purple before the game. Hahahaha!!!!

Harper and Peyton playing together before the game and showing off their MU outfits.

It was so cold for the game that Peyton was covered head-to-toe in layers. We all had a good laugh at Peyton's expense because she reminded us of the kid in the movie "A Christmas Story" that was unable to put his arms down. Remember? Poor girl...but she was warm!

Brandon and I during the game all bundled up together and the big purple bump on my lap is Peyton asleep under the blankets. We could not believe it but Peyton slept for the whole game under the blankets and stayed nice and warm too.

All of us trying to stay all bundled together to stay warm. If I could I would have rather been Peyton under the blankets all warm with no head wind in my face.

7 Months Old...

...and growing! Peyton turned 7 months a week and half ago, but I have been really busy and really bad about getting these pictures up here for you all to see. The weather has changed in Kansas big time in the last week and as you can tell she is in shorts in these pictures, but now is all bundled up for the cold cold days we have been having.

Enjoy the big grins of my little red!