I Love Fall

 Fall is such a great time of year.  I love decorating with pumpkins and fall stuff, and of course I enjoy getting to see all the crops.  And we like to see them go!  We have got all our corn gone, chopped a lot of our milo that wasn't going to make grain, and we just have half a circle of milo left to cut.  Justin has been cutting milo all over the place.  I'll be glad when that is over with and maybe we can see him more during the day!  Jaycee did love getting to ride the combine and help Daddy cut the "mi-mo".

This is going to be a little out of order.  I've tried several times to take fall pictures of my children.  I usually hate serious pictures, but Jaycee looks so grown up in this picture.

Sweet Payzlee

 The best I was going to get of the two of them

 Precious

 I had to bribe her that she could get a snack, and this is the only picture I got of her sitting there.  She literally sat there for about 5 seconds and was ready for her snack.  Auntie Dev gave Jaycee a haircut and she got bangs.  I hate bangs, but I despised her looking like a homeless child because she took her hair down all the time.

 This is before her haircut.  I loved her hair before because I could braid it, but like I said before she wouldn't keep her hair in so it has been much better now and is pretty cute!

 Payzlee - 7 month picture

 Sweet sisters - Not sure why Jaycee thinks she needs to sit in her lap though

 I have not blogged about Payzlee turning 7 months.  I'll try to just make a list real quick.
- She says "Mama" a lot, and is still a Mama's girl big time
-Began crawling right after 6 months, but WILL NOT SIT! I really don't think she's going to sit until after she walks.  She just gets furious when I try to make her sit. She can sit just fine, but just refuses to.
-Loves big sister
-Size 6-9 mo clothing
-Sweetest thing I've ever seen (Maybe because her sister makes me crazy!)

We got to go to a pumpkin patch and pick pumpkins.  Jaycee with her pumpkin. 

 Lane or "Mane" as Jaycee calls him got to go with us.  I think it is impossible to get all three of them to take a picture.  I think we did pretty good getting them to all sit there.

 Sweet girl

 "Um why is Sissy's foot by MY HEAD?!?"

 Only one that would take a picture!

Our lives have been pretty crazy or shall I say My life has been pretty crazy.  Jaycee is just at the age where she is just constantly into something.  I am trying to write it all down because it is quite funny by the end of the day all that has happened.  For instance on Friday, our morning started out with Payzlee getting stuck under the toy drawer on our coffee table and I mean stuck.  Poor thing I'm not quite sure how she got under there.  Jaycee is constantly going to the bathroom to fill up cups with water.  I walk into the kitchen and there is Jaycee's stool at the fridge filling up a cup of water.  No big deal.  Later I find Jaycee washing her hands out of the water dispenser on the fridge.  Water was everywhere!  That night Payzlee gets into the cabinet where the baby food is and breaks a jar.  I was cooking supper on the stove.  So I rush to pick up Payzlee and then proceed to hurry and pick up all the glass.  Turn back around and Jaycee had got her stool out of her room and was cooking hamburger meat on the stove.  That night I go into the bathroom for baths and Jaycee had a stool on the counter where she had got something off of the top of the mirror!  Girls are in the bath and Jaycee picks up the end of Payzlee's whale and dumps her out of the back of it.  Payzlee, I, and Jaycee freak.  Jaycee jumped out of the tub while Payzlee is screaming, and just kept saying, "I hurt Sissy."  She was actually sincerely concerned about her, which is a good thing and hopefully she never does it again.  This was not just an out of the ordinary day, this is our day almost everyday!  I don't know what I'm going to do when Payzlee starts to walk!

2 Kids Keep Momma Busy & Crazy

We all know I neglect my blog so we'll just get straight to catching you up from the past almost 3 months.  

We were excited Uncle Bruce and Aunt Roxanne and Cherry and the boys got to come visit for Border Town Days. (Yes, I know that was in July!) Best picture we could get of all 4 kids.

 The girls hanging out with their Daddy probably during a rain when Daddy could actually be at home.

 Payzlee turned 5 months at the first of August.  So incredibly insane that she is growing so fast. I'll be brief.
                                       
At 5 months she was:
-Rolling all over the place
-Loved baths
-Loved the jumper and walker
-Favorite place: the floor
-Love toys
-Love the sandbox
-Infactuated with the TV
-Play with your feet constantly
-Size 6 months clothes, Size 2 diapers
-Like to grab people's hair and faces
-Busy body

We had the turtle race during the fair.  That was lots of fun.  Okay maybe more fun for Mommy.

Jaycee was so funny she loved her turtle, but wouldn't touch it.  She's deathly terrified of frogs by the way.

 Payzlee even got to race a turtle someone gave us.  We had found 5 turtles for Jaycee and her friends, but only one ended up being the right kind of turtle to race.  Luckily we found someone with extras.  Who knew that only one kind of turtle could race.

Payzlee began eating baby food not long after all this.  Jaycee is such a good helper.  She wants to feed her all the time.

 Payzlee turned 6 months September 4.  Jaycee is going through a stage that she will not keep her hair done and she looks like a complete wild child all the time.  It drives me nuts, but what can you do.

 Somebody was happy to be 1/2 years old!

 At 6 months:
-Continue to roll everywhere, but push up to all fours and scoot with her head on the ground.  The doctor said she was a little top heavy for how little she is.
-She has no desire to even try to sit up.  She is far to busy trying to get places
-Momma's girl especially in the evening.  She doesn't want anyone but me most the time then.
-Starting to say what sounds like "Momma".  I'm not sure that she is actually saying Momma or that she means it, but it does sound just like it.
-Weighs 14 lbs 12 oz (23%) and is 27 in tall (87%)
-Size 6 mos, Size 3 diapers
-Sleeps 8/9ish to 8ish in the morning (So blessed with a great sleeper)

She is so photogenic!

Love, love, love this one!

 Jaycee jumped in there and actually sat still enough and even smiled.  I am in love with this picture, and I feel like I will never get this good of a picture of the two of them again.

 This picture captures their relationship most the time.  They really do love each other and it is so sweet. (Although Jaycee for some reason has been having a mean streak toward Payzlee a couple times a day. Yeah, just makes our day so lovely.  Most the time Jaycee loves Payzlee and takes good care of her, but then sometimes she acts as if Payzlee is out to get all her toys!)

 Jaycee's hair has gotten so long, and it looks so pretty and grown up when she lets me braid it.  Most the time she takes her out within 5 mins of me doing it which is so frustrating because she used to be the cutest little girl around and now she looks like a crazy wild woman.  Oh wait, she is a CRAZY WILD WOMAN!  She is definitely two, but for the most part its fun and she keeps us laughing.

 Jaycee and her buddy, Lane riding her train together.

 We had a birthday dinner for Devanee a couple weeks ago.  Jaycee loves her Auntie Aaron.

 Jaycee was a little more excited about cake instead of taking pictures!

 Auntie Aaron and her girls!

 We just started chopping some of our dryland milo that didn't make grain for silage this week.  They are putting it in a pile at our pens so when they were on a break one day we took Jaycee out to the pile to play.  Daddy took her to the top.

 No wonder Daddy is Jaycee's favorite.  He takes her to do all the cool things!

 She had a ball!  She ran around and up and down the pile.  She woulda played there forever if we would have let her.  To top it all off she had the "Mo-mos" right there to go visit!

 Jaycee and her favorite person in the world - Daddy.

Payzlee may be the cutest thing ever, but Jaycee is the funniest thing ever.  She has really began to talk more and more everyday.  Yes she does still speak Chinese, but we are finally able to decipher some of it.  She still calls water - "wong"  Hay bales = "ba-ba"(no idea why she says that) Payzlee = "sissy" Chicken/Ginnie = "Bock Bock" (even says this for our food chicken that we're eating.  It is so crazy to me that she knows that already.  Oh wait maybe we shouldn't have been pointing out which "mo-mo" was ours to eat next.)  Crayon/Color = "tayong" (again no idea)  She puts "ng or ong" on lots of words.
Her favorite phrases: "It's a no-no" (cutest accent ever on that).  "I see you".  "Oh no". "I NEED Daddy". Everything she says she just says in the cutest ways.  One of the dogs killed one of the kittens the other day and Jaycee says, "Cat no mo".  It was so funny.  There are many random things Jaycee says I just can't think of them at the moment.
This past week we really began potty training.  Oh my goodness.  This is the hardest. thing. I. have. ever. had. to. go. through.  I really believe that God is just trying to teach me patience because that is something I do not have, and I really do need.  So maybe at least I will come out with something good from this if I don't go crazy first.  One day she does good, the next awful.  I just really don't know what to do here.  She gets rewards such as stickers and going to go play with the cats, but then sometimes she just throws a wall-eyed fit because she wants those things right then and DOES NOT want to go in the potty.  So I just really don't know what to do with her.  She is so strong willed that it drives me completely nuts.  Oh well maybe this week with go better.

Sorry this blog is all over the place, but these are the major events that have occurred in our lives the past few months.  We pretty much have just been farming and doing all that that involves for the past 2 months.  

Payzlee is 4 months!

On July 4, 2013 we said Happy Birthday to America and Happy Birthday to Payzlee!  Okay, happy 4 month birthday to Payzlee!  I cannot believe that our little baby is over 4 months already.  Where has the time gone??

 She is such a sweetheart and is full of smiles although I did not seem to do a very good job of getting all her smiles in her pictures.

 I have a picture of the exact pose of Jaycee at 5 months and this just melted my heart when I saw how much it looked like Jaycee!

 Now we're smiling!

 Love this baby!

 At 4 months, Payzlee:
-Smiles all the time!
-Hardly ever fusses
-Likes to get her sister in trouble already (She just laughs everytime I have to get on to Jaycee)
-Rolls all over the place.  She began rolling back to front the middle of June
-Just started eating cereal
-Weighs 13 lbs, 3 oz (27%) and is 25 3/4 in tall (93%)
-Sleeps through the night when she feels like it.  One night she sleeps through the night, the next she doesn't.  I'm not sure what her deal is on that.
-Loves Momma
-Starting to squeal and talk
-Size 2 diaper
-Size 6 months clothes
-Still no paci, but is back to taking a bottle finally
-Favorite place to be in on the floor
-Still doesn't care to be held very long
-Has became addicted to TV
-Constantly is grabbing for things and chews on everything!

On the Fourth of July we ran over to Grumps & Nonni's for supper and to do a few fireworks.  Pappy got to come over and join us.

 Grumps and Miss Priss

 Jaycee kept holding her burned out sparkler up wanting it to shoot like a Roman Candle (too cute)

 Nonni and Payzlee

 Jaycee watching the big fireworks with Pappy

Uncle Jake helping Jaycee with her sparkler

 Daddy giving Jaycee poppers to throw on the ground.  Jaycee had so much fun with the fireworks!

Yesterday we went to Lane's first birthday party.  It was a pool party.  

 The girls all ready to go

 Kisses from the birthday boy!  I'm so upset that I didn't get any other pictures with Lane, and Jaycee and Lane are such good little friends!

 Jaycee loving her new floaties in the pool!  Payzlee loved the pool, too.

 I'm pretty sure Payzlee has began teething.  The past few days she has been chewing on everything!  So we got to get out Mr. Squeakers and she loves him almost as much as Jaycee did!

 Getting smothered with love from big sister

 I feel like this picture sums up how Payzlee and I feel all the time.  We have to just hang on tight and go on the wild ride that Jaycee takes us on!  I feel like Jaycee has became a wild child lately.  She is just into everything and is crazy.  She really tests my patience!

 Jaycee's new best friend, Cat.

Nonni found this poor little kitty at Allsup's in Bovina about a week ago.  She was starving and so tame so she brought her home for Jaycee to take care of.  Jaycee has done nothing but take care of her cat.  She wants to feed and water everyday and play with it nonstop.  Its name is Cat.  She wags that cat around all day.  I was afraid the cat would not survive the dogs, but so far it has managed to stay alive.  It lives in a tree quite a bit.  It loves Jaycee too.  As soon as she comes outside, that cat come running for Jaycee.  The cat had survived the dogs and Jaycee, but it lost one life the other day.  It got in Justin's pickup on Wednesday morning and somehow it is still alive.  Justin found it in the fan on the motor and it was tore up pretty bad when he brought it up to the house.  She has a broke leg and her nose isn't as pretty as it was.  I cannot believe that it is still alive after that.  So I am pretty sure that it could end up living forever now.  It was sore for a day and it has been letting Jaycee wag it around ever since.  It just has a hobble along like Whiskey.  Poor thing!  So it'll be interesting to see what happens to this poor cat next!