Road Trippin', Conference, and Friends

We left last Friday evening on a trip to our favorite small town of Boerne and then to Austin for Zach's work conference. It was a blast of course but we needed a couple of days to unwind and catch up on rest. Payce met lots of new people, many of them are more like extended family. We were impressed that the shopping, sleeping in different locations, hours in the car seat, unfamiliar faces, and the slight climate difference did not seem to affect his mood. Towards the end of the trip his schedule got off a bit and we were up many times throughout the night. This seemed to cause more problems for mommy and daddy than did Payce. It was nice to have a mini vacation tucked around Zach's conference and also nice to know Payce is ok traveling! This marks our first family trip and I did a very poor job of photographing it. My sister looked through the pictures I took and said "you only took pictures of Payce". I noticed she was right after I looked through them myself and saw only a few other people besides Payce. My intentions were to do better.

Payce a couple of days before the trip


On the road... he seems to be attached to this elephant blankey


Shopping in Boerne


Kaita, where is your nose? Such a sweet girl!


Kaita kissing Payce


... and Kaita hugging Payce.




After eating at one of our Austin favorites HULA HUT...yum!




The Rushing cuties... Holden, Georgia, Alexandra

Not much new... we had a garage sale that was a success but exhausted us all. Today we are resting and the rain makes it so easy to do. Payce is filling out and in such a cute way. He will be 12 weeks Wednesday, hard to believe!

BuMbO
On our last playdate with Zaylee and Blaze, Payce tried out Zaylee's bumbo. We have one but have never tried putting him in it. His little head is not completely sturdy but he did very well sitting up for the first time.


Hangin' with the boys!






Spider-Man/Baby


I love my new towel, thanks Mrs. Jackie ~ Payce

Two Month Checkup

A little late but last week Payce had his two month checkup and here are the results:

Weight- 13lbs 4oz 90th percentile
Height- 24.4" 95th percentile

He is a healthy growing boy and we love every moment! His eyes seem more blue every day and they sparkle. He is very alert and active and now more vocal when he wants/needs something. He talks for longer periods of time and seems to be more interested in toys, rattles, lights, etc. He has outgrown a few 0-3month outfits but most 3-6 are still too big. His thumb finds it's way into his mouth a lot easier now so we are constantly fighting his hands away from his mouth. He is the sweetest boy and we thought we would share a picture of his reaction when we told him of his growth stats!

Here is what he thinks of that...

First things first... Zach has become an incredible handyman! This weekend he completed the repair on an existing water sprinkler system in our front yard. It had not even worked for the previous owners so me being skeptical thought for sure it would take replacing each part to finally work. Not to mention that months ago Zach pulled a huge root out of one of the lines while repairing a cap that had busted. I was so impressed Saturday when I walked outside and saw this...




You're AWESOME!



To those who are keeping count, Payce is 8 weeks! I continue to be amazed of how fast he is growing and changing and the new things he learns each day. As much as we want it to slow, we enjoy seeing his progress. He neck is very strong and he bobbles his head much less now. He is making eye contact and loves watching the ceiling fans. I have noticed him grabbing my shirt, necklace, whatever he can get his little fingers around and grasp in his fist. He carries on a conversation of coos and will respond to us talking to him. The smiles are bigger and more frequent everyday and always make us laugh. He loves when Zach comes home for lunch or at the end of the day as if he noticed him being gone. It is harder to catch his smiles in picture because the camera seems to intrigue him. We almost had rather see and enjoy the smiles than ruin it by bringing the big black camera in view.

To celebrate our anniversary we went out for a nice dinner. Yes, we even took Payce! It is hard to leave him in the next room alone, much less with a babysitter. Of course at this point if we left him, it would be with a very close realtive who knew my every wishes for the child. Not to say that on this night I did not trust leaving him with these people, we just wanted him to be with us. I am sure other mothers can relate, right? Or maybe you want to tell me that this time will pass and you will soon be begging someone to babysit so you can have a nice dinner out alone with your man! Either way, we enjoyed our dinner and Payce was an angel. He slept the entire time and we enjoyed watching him. The waiter must have thought we were celebrating a new baby! This is a picture we took before our FAMILY outing.

Happy Aniversary

Today we celebrate 7 years of blissful marriage! Yeah to us and to many many more years like the past, it couldn't be better!

Zach has been anticipating football season so he can watch the Longhorns with the newest fan in the family. Payce is set with game day apparel and we thought we would show it off early! Hook em' Horns!

Daddy's Little Longhorn

This weekend Payce played with some of his friends. Adilyn and Zaylee came by for a visit.. We didn't catch pictures of Adilyn and will definitely have to next time but Zach played paparazzi and photographed the famous Zaylee chatting it up with Payce after a late evening dinner and conversation at the hot Le Braun de Rug!!!

A couple of new pictures of Payce. He smiles more and more each day and it melts my heart. He is in love with his new reclining bouncing chair and suprised us by reaching out and turning the wooden bear toys on the front.