It's Already a New Year

 Well I'm sure everyone saw our Christmas card or these pictures by now, but I needed to add these.  It is so hard to get a picture of these two together- both smiling, both sitting still, and both looking at the camera.  Maybe I am just way too picky.  But this is the best I could do for Christmas pictures.  I was pretty pleased.

 Jaycee hates doing anything that's not her idea, but I did manage to snap one picture of her.  

I love her eyes!

 And then there is sweet Payzlee.  

 She is such a doll.

I honestly cannot remember what all was going on with Payzlee at 9 months, but I will try.
-Finally got her first teeth right after 9 months old (the two bottom)
-Crawls all over the place like she has been, but no walking still
-Can say No no, go, Joe, Naw Naw (Nonni)
-Still wears 9 month clothes
-Still sleeps 12 hours at night
-Loves to eat!
-She just began to eat almost all table food instead of baby food
-Drinks like a pro out of a sippy cup

This is Payzlee at 10 months!  Love this girl!

She is a mess!

 At 10 months:
-Loves to get everything out of drawers (Mommy just loves that...not!)
-Obsessed with toilet paper
-Likes to pester her sister (Yes she is learning to fight back)
-By morning she has her pajamas half off almost every morning (I'm pretty sure she has been watching Jaycee change and run around naked way too much!)
-Very independent
-She is a dare devil (just what I need!)  She loves to be thrown on the bed, tossed in the air, held upside down, etc.)
-She now has 3 teeth total: Just one popped in on top on New Years Day.
-Favorite food: Asparagus, Green Beans but will eat anything and everything! She is a bottomless pit!
-Still wears 9 month clothes (My kids are so tiny!)
-Has about 3 random curls on her head (poor girl)
-Finally started baby talking quite a bit
-Has a high pitch squeal that she loves to do a lot!
-Loves to make kissing noises and smacks when she eats!

The weather this January has been either really cold, really windy, or gorgeous.  We have tried to soak up as many gorgeous days we can!  

 The girls like to slide together!

 Jaycee is so fun! She loves nothing more than playing outside!

 She needs a bigger slide, but then I might not like her trying out all her different ways to go down it!

 Jumpin!  She looks so old!

 Payzlee is not a big fan of the trampoline although you can't tell it here

 She LOVES to swing!

 Sisters

 Payzlee had enough swinging together

 Jaycee loves to kiss her and try to make her feel better!

Jaycee is such a mess, but I love it and I wouldn't have it any other way!  She is so into changing clothes right now.  She loves to dress up or wear Momma's clothes.  It is quite annoying, but at the same time impressive that she can dress and undress herself including shoes and usually they are on the right feet.  She is so smart!  She knows or can soon figure out how everything works.  She can do any puzzle.  She recognizes everything and everywhere.  She knows where everyone lives, knows where Leals is, or any McDonalds, and knows what everyone drives.  Don't worry if she is ever with someone else she'll be able to find her way to Nonni's or Rhy's and get some enchiladas on the way there!  I have to tell a story from the other day.  I was driving to Clovis,  We were sitting at a stop sign just outside of Clovis and Jaycee started yelling "it's Mane, It's Mane!", and I was like Jaycee what are you talking about?.  Sure enough I look up and see Jaimie drives a white tahoe (just like every other mom in Clovis) turning right in front of us.  Now how in the world did she recognize that?!?  It is just crazy things like that, that amaze me about her.  She wants to help with everything and can pretty much do it.  She loves to help me do everything!  She CAN (key word) clean, cook, do laundry, or organize cabinets or files (haha).  She really does do anything and for the most part is pretty good at it...as long as it is her idea!  Yes she does stress me out to the max, but at the day's end I am so thankful and blessed for her just the way she is.  Although I do wish she was better at listening and doing anything that I want her to do other than anything that is all "her idea".

Snow (Not So Much) Fun

 So it is a winter wonderland here, and it is gorgeous.  No drifts, just a perfect pretty snow.  I was feeling awful yesterday as I saw everyone's post on facebook with their kids in the snow so I decided to get them bundled up and left them play this morning.  They do not have "ski clothes" as I call them so I just layered them.  We put on 3 pairs of socks, 3 pants, 3 shirts to make sure they didn't freeze.  Well all that took about 45 minutes to get done since they were just thrilled to put on that many clothes.  Jaycee was so excited to finally get to go outside that she just ran out the door.  Well she of course fell right into the snow because she did not know that it was snow and she couldn't exactly run in it.  Well she lost her mittens and it just made her mad that she fell.  So needless to say it was downhill from there.

I just had to sit Payzlee down in the snow for her to experience this

Payzlee was quite happy

 Such a sweetie

 Then Payzlee kind of fell over, but she wasn't completely mad.

 Then she face planted and she was irate!

Needless to say we went right back inside!

 Payzlee was quite happy to eat the snow off the floor in the house though!

 Jaycee getting all those layers off!

On a good note, since it was such a nice calm snow, all the cattle stayed home and it is not just awful like usual for Justin.  I can't even remember the last time it snowed this pretty without the wind!  We are definitely thankful for that!

A Month Behind from Here on Out...

I am just going to be a month behind from here on out I suppose.  Sorry, better late than never.  For Halloween Jaycee was a Scarecrow. 

Payzlee was Ghost

Best family picture we can get these days

 Daddy and his ghost

 It had been really pretty until this week so Jaycee has been riding a few weeks ago

 And Payzlee got to go riding for the first time and LOVED it!

 Payzlee turned 8 months this month.  Here are a few of her pictures.

She gets so excited!

 What she does quite often.  Get so tickled!

At 8 months:
-Finally sits!  Just started sitting on her own a few weeks ago!  I know, ridiculous.  It was like she didn't think her body could bend that way.  And she still sits really awkward.
-Still no teeth
-Loves to just cruise around the house.  Army crawling it up.
-She is quite petite like Jaycee was.  She can't gain wait if she wanted.  She. Never. Stops.  She will not cuddle with you.  She does not like you to hold her for longer than 1 minute.  She just wants to be on the move and trying to do everything Jaycee does.
-She pulls up to her knees constantly and pulls up to her feet some.  We have even caught her trying to stand in the middle of the floor several times, but she won't walk along anything she pulls up on.  I can't figure this kid out.  Everything is backwards.
-Wears 9 months clothes still.

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!