Rice Cereal...and naughty no napper!

Lately, every time we sit down to eat, Payton FREAKS out if he isn't sitting on either Cole or my lap and when he is, every bite we take he INTENTLY follows the spoon up to our mouths craning his neck so he can see it every second, all while trying to grab the spoon! Needless to say, the kid wants big people food! So just a few days ago, we started Payton on RICE CEREAL! Yeah! He LOVES it! He wasn't thrilled with the first few bites, but each day subsequent, he has done better and better! Here are a few snapshots of the first time he tried some!
Don't mind Mom's Mouth....like the mom on the Incredibles! Cole made it a point to get this in most of the pictures he took!

It was a chore getting around his chubby little feet because he is into putting them into his mouth at the moment, and thought he needed a little foot with his cereal! :)
He tried to grab the spoon every time, of course, so every couple of bites, I let him have a little hit on the spoon!
He did MUCH better than I did! Way to go Payton! Next stop...vegetables!


Lately, every time we sit down to eat, Payton FREAKS out if he isn't sitting on either Cole or my lap and when he is, every bite we take he INTENTLY follows the spoon up to our mouths craning his neck so he can see it every second, all while trying to grab the spoon! Needless to say, the kid wants big people food! So just a few days ago, we started Payton on RICE CEREAL! Yeah! He LOVES it! He wasn't thrilled with the first few bites, but each day subsequent, he has done better and better! Here are a few snapshots of the first time he tried some!

In other news, here's a funny story for you! So ever since we put Lincoln in his big boy bed, he hasn't been the best of nappers! For the past few months actually, he hasn't been even before we put him into the bed, so to compound the problem, we made the switch over! So the other day, he didn't take a nap during the day, and so that night, I TRIED to put him down a little bit early. Like 15 minutes is all! But the problem was, it was still light outside, and I was still watching American Idol! (his favorite show!) So he was FLIPPIN' his lid! He did NOT like that idea. He got out of his bed like 5 different times, so finally, I pulled out the pack n' play, and put him in that to go to bed. He hasn't been able to climb out of that yet, so I figured I was safe! He cried for like 5 minutes pretty hard, then stopped all of the sudden! So I though "Great! He is finally sleeping!" I opened his door, and he was still making a few noises so I said "Are you going to sleep now?" To which he replied "Yeah!" I said "Do you want to get into your big boy bed?" He replied " NO!" (Pretty quickly after I asked him the first question) So I told him I loved him, said goodnight, and shut the door! About 20 minutes later, I had a pile of his stuff that I needed to put into his room because I was cleaning things up a little bit, so I snuck in there and just peeked into the crib and HE WAS NOT THERE! I glanced over to his bed and all I could see was his pop up hamper sitting on the bed, but I could hear him breathing somewhere! So I looked around a little bit more, and then looked back onto the bed, and lo and behold, he had crawled INSIDE his hamper into a little ball- no blankets, sheets, nothin' and fallen asleep! Oh man! I felt like the worst mom! So needless to say, I believe that he was in the hamper when I peeked in on him in the first place, and he didn't want me to put him back into his crib! Man- he is cute,and I felt like the worst mom ever! So I, of course, took a few pictures, pulled him out of the hamper, and tucked him into his big boy bed! He even liked me the next morning! :)