My Little Mouse

This here is my absolutely FAVORITE face that Payton does. He is quite the serious Dude! He always has his brow furrowed, but he sure is cute! He looks just like a little mouse! He is such a joy still, especially in the middle of the night when he is WIDE awake, and we can't get him to fall asleep! No, even that isn't that bad. He just has a little bit of what my mother calls "Heaven Lag." Hopefully he'll learn soon that when it is DARK is when we are supposed to sleep! But until then, I guess we will just have to enjoy him in the middle of the night! We sure love him, and I think that we will keep him!

Time for an Update!

Hello all...I thought that it was time for an update...after all, Payton is now a week and a day old! He is such a has-been! Seriously, he is the biggest joy to our family! Lincoln pretty much stays out of his way, except for when Payton squeeks or something, and Lincoln runs over to him, says "HI PAYTON!!....OH CUTE!!!" It is so funny! He loves his younger brother. Lincolns new things now is that he goes around the house singing Christmas Songs...his Grandma B taught him our favorite one while she was here, and it goes a little something like this..."Wed it know, wed it know, wed it know!" To be sung at the top of your lungs. We sure are liking this 2 kids stuff! Now we don't have to fight over who is going to change the poopy diaper, but WHICH poopy diaper do we want to change! Ahh, the joys of parenthood...here's some new pics of the little whippersnapper.
Lincoln thought it was HILARIOUS when I brought Payton in to wake him up one morning...today he wanted me to put some blankets over the two of them in the crib to make a Hut...so dang cute! By the way, Lincoln is HUGE!!!!
Photo shoot, and Lincoln was a STINKER! He would NOT sit for the camera...what can you do!
What a babe! Who doesn't love a newborn with crosseyes sometimes! I love it!

My Favorites

These are a few of my(Cole's) favorites...enjoy!
Lincoln has seriously been an awesome big brother! We're very proud of him and how he loves his little brother so far.

Days Two and Three for Payton

One more of mom and baby

Just finished his first meal.

Payton Miles Smith!!!!

He's here!!! Payton Miles Smith came out screaming at 7:50 am. He weighed in at 7lbs 9 ounces, 20 1/2 inches tall/long and a head size of 13 1/2 inches. He is a perfect little boy and couldn't wait to start eating. This is Cole reporting, so I'll keep it short and let Mindy take over in a day or two, until then, enjoy the pictures.

My Friend Max

No, we have not had the baby yet, but we sure are excited for Friday morning when we do go in! I thought I would just post a few pics before they get discarded and never seen again! These are just too cute to pass up! We will be keeping you all updated on the baby though when he arrives on Friday morning!

So, when Lincoln was born, Cole and I bought him this little stuffed Dog, and it has been in his crib forever. But just recently, well, actually since we took his binkie away, Lincoln is quite attached to this little dude! Yesterday morning, I went in to get Lincoln up for the morning, and he had a stinky diaper. I walked in and said "Woah! Are you stinky?" He then proceeded to try and convince me that it wasn't HIM that was stinky, but that Max had a stinky diaper! It was so dang cute! So we had to go in and put a new diaper on Max. Luckily, we have some small ones on hand for the baby, so that worked out perfectly! Lincoln thought it was SO funny! Then the rest of the day, Max had to do just what Lincoln was doing. We gave Lincoln a hair cut, and had to pretend to give Max one too, Max ate Macaroni with us for lunch, he rode on Lincolns car all day, and my favorite, hence all the pictures, was that we took Max on a walk, and he rode on Lincolns shoulders the WHOLE time! It was SO cute! This is a cute little bugger...we can't wait to see what the next one looks like in 2 days! YEAH FOR BABIES!


Seriously, you can't get any cuter than this! He was SO proud to carry Max on his shoulders.



He thought it was SUPER cool that he could be on OUR shoulders, and be carrying Max at the same time! What a stud.


And HERE'S MAX!!!!

Putting up the Christmas Tree

I know that many of you think that I am crazy, but I have a baby to get ready for! So the day after Thanksgiving, we went out and got our Christmas tree! It was so much fun! Lincoln loved putting up the tree, and Cole even put the lights on this year! I usually end up having to do it, because I am funny about my Christmas lights, but Cole did a GREAT job! It's his new job! :) Here are some pics of us decorating...


Cole putting up the lights! What a man!!!


Lincoln had a hard time, but he got it after a while! He didn't quite understand what was so cool about putting things on a tree, but he sure loves give the tree a DRINK!!!





It was SO much fun to do this, and we got a great tree! The christmas spirit is abounding now!!!