Hello again!

So it's been awhile since I last posted.  We've been busy little bees at our house and it feels like I haven't had much time to myself or to just relax lately.  The past couple of weeks I've been getting used to being back at work and being away from Payton all day.  It's gotten easier, so I have to agree with what everyone's been telling me.

Payton has been growing like a weed!  She has definitely found her voice.  She is "talking" more and more everyday.  Her hand-eye coordination is amazing!  She's reaching for things and can follow things with her eyes without such jerky movements anymore.  Her stamina on tummy time has grown so much.  I can't wait until the moment she rolls over!  She's started giggling, and we've only gotten her to do it when she's really excited.  It's the sweetest sound in the world.  She has her 4 month doctor's appointment coming up and I can't wait to see waht she weighs. 

I never thought I would be so concerned about poop as a mom.  Heath and I have been so worried about Payton's poop the past two weeks.  We've tried everything we know to make her not constipated.  I went out and bought an army of remedies.

And that's only to add to the number of things we've already tried such as apply juice, warm baths, massaging her tummy, taking her temperature and resorting to glycerin suppositories, which I don't think we used the last option long enough.  The night I was driving home from the store after buying these remedies, Heath called me to tell me that she had pooped and it wasn't a constipated poo!  But, we are definitely prepared for the next instance!

Along with being a mommy comes the responsibility of learning how to make mommy things like cakes and cupcakes.  I already consider myself as an average baker, but I'm hoping to change that.  My goal is to be known as the lady around town who knows how to make exceptional baked goods.  So I started my goal tonight by making Red Velvet Cupcakes with homemade cream cheese frosting.  They turned out great!  Granted the cupcake mix was from a box, but I didn't have time to make it from scratch tonight.  One reason being because I also made homemade hamburger and pepperoni pizza with cream cheese for supper which also turned out awesome!  But the frosting turned out wonderful!  I'm sensing a cream cheese pattern here.  One thing's for sure, cream cheese frosting isn't the healthiest thing in the world.  Here's a picture of some of the finished product.

They passed Heath's taste test, which is enough for me!  I was perfectly content with eating the remaining frosting, but I also don't need to weigh 400 lbs.  Not sure what my next project will be, but I'll let you know when it happens!

Yesterday, Heath and I chaparoned the Elmwood-Murdock Junior/Senior prom at the Lancaster Events Center.  We weren't too sure what we were supposed to be doing other than keep kids from sneaking into the bathroom or spiking the lemonade!  Apparently there was once instance where some kids were dancing too close, but we didn't have to be the bad guy.  *Small sidenote, it's so so weird for me to see my brother-n-law Derick 17, going on 18 at his junior prom.  I still think of him as the 13 year old kid I met when Heath and I started dating.*  During the middle of it we went to Linc Care.  I've had this nagging cold for a month.  Background story, I went to the doctor a month ago because I thought I had a sinus infection.  He diagnosed me with allergies and gave me nasal spray and decongestants.  Well, surprise surprise last night the doc gave me antibiotics because I had what???  A sinus infection!  Seriously, I think I know my own body, I get a sinus infections about every year.  Ugh.  Thank you practioners of modern medicine!