First off, sorry for not keeping the site up to date recently. Life has been extremely busy for all of us. I’ll start with an update on the website.. As you can see, there is a new design. What you may not notice is that I have changed the software the runs the photo gallery. You will hopefully notice some improvement on the loading speed of the images in the new gallery.

Paige

Paige continues to improve on her communication skills every day. She holds very mature conversations with others and loves to talk on the phone. She likes to tell her Mommy that “When I am a Mommy I will…” and then say whatever it is that Mommy does that she doesn’t get to do or like to do. (When I am a Mommy I will like my vegetables, or I will be able to drive) Hope told Paige on day that Paige was “pushing her buttons.” Paige looked at Hope very confused and said “Mommy I’m not pushing any buttons.” Some things are still lost on her, however it ends up being quite funny anyway. Paige is learning her days of the week by associating what happens on each day. Tuesday is trash day, Wednesday is water day (at school) Friday is candy day (at the end of the school day, each child gets a piece of candy).

Peyton

Peyton has grown beyond all belief. It is hard to believe that he is only 16 months old with as big as he is. He will pass his sister in size before too much longer. He is now running everywhere and full of energy. He is able to jump, and has a pretty good vocabulary for someone of his age. He will always let you know when he is hungry, or if something is “mine!”

Hope & Chris

Hope is branching out with her skills at work. During the month of May, instead of working on the burn service she worked on the trauma service at ORMC and this month she is working on the ICU team. This will make her a more rounded provider, which is never a bad thing.

I have transfered stations, and now no longer work on the same shift. I now work on the east side of town, which is a little bit of a drive for me, but only having to do it twice a week, it isn’t too bad. I am also now a Paramedic with the fire department.

I believe that the gallery is working again.

Currently the Photo Gallery isn’t working. I will fix this as quickly as I can.

Peyton and I spent the day together.. He doesn’t seem to be feeling well, so the day didn’t go as well as I had hoped, however, he did take two steps for me this afternoon! He seemed just as supprised as I was.

I added 38 new pictures today, so please check them out.. I have also redesigned the website again. Hopefully there won’t be a problem with posts not displaying like there was on the last site.

The doctor said surgery went well. We should be headed home soon.

Today is Hope’s long awaited hernia surgery. Both Paige and Peyton know that something is going on, but neither of them understand what. I took tomorrow off to stay home and take care of Hope and the kids. I’ll do another update after the surgery.

It’s been a while since I have posted, so I figured I’d say something. Peyton is doing wonderful. He is growing very fast. He loves smiling and just spending time with his family. Paige is doing great. Now that she is back in school her vocabulary is expanding extremely quickly. I picked the kids up from school yesterday and got to spend a little bit of time with them, which I really enjoyed.

I have been extremely busy with school, which has been really stressing me out. Yesterday was the only time I got to spend with Paige all week since she goes to bed so early. Peyton on the other hand, I can spend time with after class since he seems to be up until about 9 right now. Between classes, clinicals and work, I feel like I don’t have any time to study, and then trying to spend time with Hope, it is all quickly becoming too much.

Today I added 26 new pictures to the photo gallery. That’s all that I have for now.

Sorry for the lack of posts or pictures from me, but I have added the pictures from February to the photo gallery!

On the 23rd of February, I gave Peyton his first bottle, which he seemed to actually be ok with. He wasn’t satisfied with only one bottle, so his sister gave him his second bottle. Pictures are in the gallery.

We have also moved our website to a different web host once again. This time it is to a much more powerful server that we can upgrade later on if we need to. I have already noticed that our website responds much quicker on the new server and hope that you will to. If you notice any problems with the site, please let us know and we will fix it.

Peyton was born on January 24, 2008 at 4:50 AM. Peyton weighed in at 7lbs 14oz and was 20″ in length. Peyton and Mommy are both resting and doing fine.