My New Rocking Chair....

Check out my "new" old rocking chair that our sweet downstairs neighbor gave me! Maggie is moving next month to the city, so she is trying to get rid of a lot of her excess furniture. She is a painter and paints children's furniture for a living, so she had a couple of rocking chairs lying around and let me pick one out. It is really rustic and antique looking and just happens to be mommy's favorite color! Mom and Dad were planning on getting me some kind of chair for my birthday, but now they won't have to AND it is just another keepsake from our time up here in NY. (Mom loves things with a story :)

Fighting Sleep

My poor little tired and sick baby. Jeremy woke up to Luke throwing up the pineapple that he had from last night's dinner. Jeremy showed me this video this afternoon when I got off work and I was cracking up!  Jeremy said sorry for the quality and shakiness of the video, especially at the end, he was trying to put the tri-pod on while video taping. It's kind of a long video, but so precious AND pitiful at the same time.

Last week of January

We had a "snow" day on Wednesday and all of my patients cancelled, so the Payne family got to hunker down and wait out the snow/ice storm. It ended up not being that bad in our town, so it was just a lazy day at home. Except for the whole shoveling the cars out before it all turned to ice overnight making it impossible to shovel out the next day thing. But, I think Jeremy has gotten the hang of it:) I am so glad that is a "boy" job!!!

Hanging out, reading Luke's favorite book, making his "say cheese" face. Priceless!

So cute! In the winter, Jeremy goes weeks without shaving, so it is a rare site to see him with shaving cream on his face and obviously, Luke hadn't seen it in a while either! :)

"Extended Family" Scrapbook

This is my newest scrapbook project....It is not quite finished, but you can get the idea. It is divided by the Murphy side (mommy's side) and the Payne side (daddy's side). These are just a few sample pages, but the whole idea came about because we live so stinking far from everyone and I want Luke to start learning everyone's names. I still have a couple of pages left of great aunts/uncles and cousins, but my side is essentially done and Jeremy's side will get done when we are down in GA for Jeremy's spring break. I think it turned out pretty well and not only will Luke learn family names, but also relationships (i.e., mom, great grandmother, aunt, cousins, etc.)

Luke "playing" with Leo

As you can see, Luke is trying to "play" with Leo, but he is less than happy about it... And Luke is not fazed in the least! You can also see that we had to put our table on the other side of the gate because of the climbing (see "Crazy climber" blog post if you didn't already).

Do we have a democrat in the house?......You decide!

Can Luke say Obama?....yes, he can!

Martin Luther King Day

Guess where we decided to spend our Monday off..............Yep, the Chuck E Cheese!!! Who knew that this is where the Payne family would end up on the holiday! It was so much fun watching Luke in this hyped up environment. Needless to say, I was even overstimulated by the time we left 3 hours later, but it was awesome and Luke had a GREAT time. 

Luke loved dancing with Chuck E and he actually wasn't scared of him at all, which I was really surprised at since he HATED Santa just a little over a month ago. I guess he is used to the oversized NY rats!  JUST KIDDING! I have only seen ONE rat on the tracks of the subway and I have NEVER seen a rat at our house, of course, we do have 3 cats!..!..!.. Ok, moving on.....

Waiting for the pizza and bread sticks. Yes, we both have on striped shirts, but I seriously didn't plan it that way :)

Luke absolutely LOVED the slide, but he needed a little help going FEET first.

Giving Chuck a ride home. Chuck E was exhausted from all the singing and dancing earlier. Good thing Luke was there to save the day.

Luke's FAVORITE thing today was the skeet ball! Every time he would throw the ball, he would make this little growl/yell. RAH!!! It was TOO funny. (Too bad we didn't have the flip with us.) Although none of his balls technically made it up the run way, he had a grand time trying.

My baby boy is getting TOO BIG!

They even had a green screen that you could stand/dance in front of and it put you up on the tv. We all had a great time and it was so much fun having the day off. We signed up for coupons, so I am sure we will be going back to the "Cheese" some time in the near future!