Peyton still wears a pull-up to bed since once in awhile she doesn't wake up dry. Unfortunately for us, Peyton likes to sleep (and hang out all day) totally naked. So, she was stripping off all her clothes and pull-up every night before she would fall asleep. I tried seriously everything I could think of (zippered one-pieces- but she could unzip them, layering her clothes, having her wear a 1 piece swimsuit under her jammies so it would be much harder to take it off, etc.) and nothing I did worked. She is so tiny that all her clothes slide right off her shoulders, plus she knows how to unzip and unbutton. When I was telling my family about the problem, my brother-in-law Justin said I should duct-tape the pull-up to her. I laughed it off, but then Ashley said that they had to do it when Macie was a toddler. So we tried it, and... it worked! We don't actually tape the pull-up to her skin, we just make a duct-tape "belt" around the top of the pull-up and it makes it so the pull-up doesn't stretch and she can't pull it off.
Jade played in Pumpkin Ridge's Member-Guest Tournament a couple weeks ago. He and his partner didn't win, but they had a good time, and Jade played pretty well. At the end of the tournament, they had a big dinner and the wives were invited to come.
With my friend Kate; her husband Joe played in the tournament.
The weather in Portland was beautiful this weekend, and supposedly the weather at the coast was sunny (which is rare), so Justin, Ashley, Jeremy, Kristin, Jade and I brought all our kids to the beach. We apparently picked the only beach that wasn't sunny. I don't know how that happened. We all had a great time (especially the kids), and it wasn't too cold if you used your towel as a blanket and sat where the wind was blocked.
Peyton and Taryn
Peyton playing with the "big boys", Trenton and Max
The kids wanted to dig a big hole, and soon enough the dads took over and the project became the dads'. Mostly they just stood around and talked, but eventually they did dig a deep hole- deep enough that they couldn't get out without a hand from someone outside the hole.
The kids each took turns being thrown into the hole with Jeremy. They thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Peyton got super messy gorging herself with Red Vines.
I am officially nominating myself for mother of the year this year. Or not. We've had so many little accidents and incidents that I feel astonishingly under-qualified to be a mom. Last month, I was buckling Peyton into her car seat, and I put the car keys in the cup holder of the car seat so I wouldn't lose them when I was buckling her. Well I forgot to take the keys with me when I was getting into my seat, because I shut Peyton's door, walked around the car, and while I was walking I heard a click and a honk. Peyton was playing with my car keys and I was officially locked out. Without a cell phone. I was looking in her window with my hand on the driver's side door watching her play with the keys; just hoping she would press the unlock button. I didn't have to wait long- she pushed unlock pretty quickly and I was able to yank the door open before she locked it again, but I felt pretty helpless. Then a couple weeks later we were getting ready to leave storytime and she was standing by the door. Somehow she pushed the heavy door open just enough for it to catch her little fingers and shut again. Luckily I was able to get to the door right away and there were no bruises or broken skin (or blood). Then that same day we were at Target and I was letting her sign my name on the credit card pad at checkout and she fell out of the shopping cart. I couldn't believe it. I cried, she cried, we were a mess. And then, to cap off our traumatic day, Peyton fell off the chair in my office when she was coloring. Again, no injuries, but seriously I felt like such a bad mom! Then yesterday, we were having dinner at JaNea and Nipper's house and she was playing with her cousins on the play structure. She is pretty fearless and she climbs really well, so she's been able to climb up the stairs and the slide for a long time now, and she's never fallen off. Apparently this time she was trying to climb down the stairs facing outward, and she fell from the top stair, hit her head on the 4th step down, then landed on her back at the bottom of the stairs. I thought I was going to have a panic attack. Our friend Marshall saw the whole thing happen, and he was able to get to her just a couple seconds after she fell, and with the help of daddy and grandma (and a popsicle) she calmed down fast enough for us to realize there was no serious damage- just a tiny bite on the side of her tongue, a cut on the side of her eye and a goose-egg on her head. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. About a half hour after she fell, she wanted to go play again, so we let her, and the first thing she did was run to the slide and climb up it. Apparently she wasn't too traumatized. Like I said, Mother of the Year (at least this month).
She was already feeling lots better by the time bedtime came around. To this day, she'll point to her head and say "Gabey's house. Bonk."
Like I said, the girl loves to climb
We went berry picking and ended up being in-between berry seasons, so there were slim-pickings (literally). We ended up just buying what the farmers had already picked. Peyton loved it all the same.
Like I said (again), the girl loves to be naked.
She narrated this note for Jade.
and with Mom
Siblings (minus Jer)
a tribute picture, to Jeremy
Don't know quite what this face is, but I sure do love it.
She kept pulling up the tulle on her dress and looking through it- it was actually pretty funny.
I put this picture on to show some of the details of the reception (plus the greenhouse), but also because I thought Peyton's face was pretty classic (see below) 
The girls loved jumping to us in the water. Peyton kept wanting to go off the diving board, which was great for her, but really hard for me- treading water constantly.
Peyton doing one of her favorite pasttimes: riding Tink (or trying to ride Tink) 
Peyton loved spending time with her favorite "girlfriend" Aunt Jamie (and Auntie Buttons in the back)
Being a big dare-devil at the park
I think she thought those flowers were hers
