Finally an Update!

I know it’s been forever since I actually wrote anything on here. I seem to only find time to post pictures – and even that is a rare occasion!!! So here goes:

We’ve been a busy busy family over the last few months. I started back to work on March 1^st and Kevin seems to have been working like crazy too. Peyton is growing like a weed and no amount of wishing will make that slow down. She has been such an amazing baby - bar these last few days where she has decided to wake up at almost every hour of the night! But even if I have to wake up every hour, nothing beats the smile I get when I say “good morning” to her. That almost makes up for the complete lack of sleep.

...Grandma and her girl...

During her 4 month check-up, she weighed in at 11.5lbs – she’s my teeny tiny baby, being in only the 6^th percentile. I thought she would bulk up once she started on more of a formula diet (since she’s at the sitters now), but apparently not. The doctor said she was fine, since she’s always been on the small side, so we’ll just have to try really hard to get some more rolls on that girl. It might be some sort of battle since she doesn’t really like applesauce and has to be in just the right mood to eat her cereal. So far, she’s only really eaten a good amount of cereal when grandma fed her. I must not have that special touch?! I guess we will just have to keep on trying. I think soon we can try pears and the orange veggies.

We went to Mammoth over St. Patrick’s Day weekend. It was so nice and relaxing. That’s actually when Peyton tried rice cereal from a spoon for the first time. She did okay, but she still hasn’t mastered the art of keeping more of it in her mouth than on her face.

...The beginning of a miserable drive out of town...

...My little snowbunny...

We are also getting ready to go on our first road-trip in our new RV we bought with my parents. The five of us are headed to Pismo Beach over Mother’s Day weekend. We’re hoping for some nice weather, but it seems you never can tell these days!! What is going on in California lately with all this crazy weather??!! This will also be our first trip to the beach with Peyton, and since she seems to have inherited Kevin’s skin color, I have the SPF 50 and 80 all ready to go! (The 80 is for Kevin). I’m hoping she will love the beach, because I do so much. I can’t wait to take her down to dog beach and go riding in our beach cruisers with her in tow. All in good time I suppose.

...Daddy and his little lady...

We are working on Peyton sitting up like a big girl now. It seems she would rather go straight from laying down to standing up though. She can also get her little butt up in the air when she is laying face down, almost like she is getting ready to scoot somewhere. We also need this little girl to learn how to sleep on her tummy!! Every single time she rolls over in her crib, she wakes up and starts crying, which means I wake up (and nearly start crying because I’m so tired sometimes). So those are our two goals this month.

...This little girl loves her tongue!!...

Okay - that's my update for now. I'll really try and keep everyone up to date! Thanks for stopping by!!

Love - The Seymours

Hoppy Easter!

We hope everyone had a great Easter. Our day was filled with lots of family fun....and lots of smiles from this little one.

~ Somebunny loves this little girl ~

Lucky Us!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Kevin and I feel so lucky (more like blessed) to have this little girl in our lives!!

She makes us smile every day. :)

We hope you had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!!

Love - The Seymours

Happy Valentine's!

Happy Valentine's Day from my new little Valentine.
We hope you had a sweet day. :)

I am not really in the mood to write anything (since I get so little time to myself these days - I've decided to not spend the hour Peyton is napping to blog), but I know I haven't written anything in what seems like forever, so I though I would at least post a few pictures of Peyton. Time is just flying right by...just like everyone said it would! Here's our beautiful daughter:

Sneak peek!

The other day, little miss Peyton had her very first photo shoot with Mindy from Blue Water Photog (www.bluewaterphotog.com). Peyton wasn't being very cooperative that day, but Mindy managed to get some great pictures of her anyway. Here is a sneak peek of how the photo shoot went. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but isn't she so stinkin' cute?

Peyton Grace Seymour

Our daughter, Peyton Grace Seymour, was born on November 10th, 2010 at 5:11pm. She weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. She is absolutely perfect and Kevin and I could not be happier. We realize just how blessed we are to be her parents.

PEYTON GRACE SEYMOUR

Peyton seems to be taking after us already. She was one week late (I seem to always be late wherever I go!) and she probably would have hibernated a bit longer had we not been induced. She was happy as a clam right where she was. We were supposed to be admitted on Monday, November 8th at midnight, but the hospital called to tell us that there were no beds available. We were instructed to call back at 4am in the morning to see how busy they were. We called and they were still swamped. They had us call back every 2 hours until 11am when they finally instructed me to come in for a Non Stress Test. So at 3pm we arrived at the hospital for the NST. The NST came back looking fine and we were all set to be discharged and come back the next day, but right before we were about to leave, our doctor happened to walk by our room and Kevin caught her attention. She pulled some strings and was able to get us admitted right then and there (nevermind we stayed in the "admitting room" - the size of a walk in closet - for the first night!). We were just happy to finally be getting the whole process going. At 9pm, they gave me some medication which had to be administered for a 12 hour period. They instructed us that the medication only worked like 50% of the time, and if it didn't work the first time, that we would have to try again for another 12 hours. Spending 24 hours lying in bed didn't sound like much fun, so we were really crossing our fingers that it would work the first time around. At 9am the next morning, they checked to see if I had started to dilate, and I was finally at a 2. I had spent two weeks at a 1, so I figured any progress was good progress. Then around 10am we finally moved rooms and lucked out with a private room. I was having contractions pretty regularly, but they weren't anything I couldn't handle - at first. They started me on Pitocin shortly after and the contractions increased in strength pretty noticeably. For the most part, I was doing pretty good. It wasn't until they would check to see how dilated I was did it move me to tears. It was so uncomfortable! That discomfort coupled with increasingly painful contractions was getting to be too much. At noon, I asked about an epidural, just in case. Our nurse said it would take about 15 minutes to get the anesthesiologist in to administer one. So, I kept that in the back of mind, but I had really wanted to wait it out until I just couldn't take it anymore since I had heard that sometimes epidurals slow labor down. I definitely didn't want that since it had taken so long just to start labor! But around 12:3opm, I had had enough. The nurse checked me and I was only at a 3 (after 3 hours!!!), but I was over it. I needed pain relief. The anesthesiologist came in around 1pm and by 1:15pm, I was in heaven!!! Thank GOD for epidurals! I felt nothing - no pain, no pressure. It was great. I was able to sleep for an hour or two and just relax. Around 4pm, I started to feel some pain (in my butt of all places!). It felt like I had done a million squats and that my buns were on fire. My nurse suggested I move positions so that the epidural could circulate. After 30 minutes, I was still in the same pain, so she decided to check me again. Amazingly, I was at a 9!! Hallelujah! She immediately called the doctor and by the time the doctor arrived around 5pm, I was more than ready. I only had to push for like 5-10 minutes, through maybe 3 sets of contractions. And then my daughter was born..... There is absolutely no way to even describe the feeling that comes over you when someone puts your daughter in your arms for the first time. I am tearing up just writing this. She is perfect and innocent and the absolute best thing that has ever happened to me. After just a moment with her, I could not imagine life without her. I can't wait to share all the special moments in life with her and watch her grow into an amazingly beautiful little girl (just not too fast!). So that's our story. Hopefully, as time permits, I can keep the blog updated about our journey through being new parents and Peyton's big milestones. Here are a few pictures of our daughter. :)

DON'T EVEN ASK ABOUT WHAT HE'S WEARING...LOL

I'M A MOM!

GETTING READY TO GO HOME - SHE INHERITED DADDY'S SMALL HEAD AND HER CUTE HAT DIDN'T FIT!WE'RE A FAMILY!FIRST BATH

HAPPY BABY!