3 - 3 1/2
"Lame." When she does something on accident (drops something, can't get something just right). That one comes from me.
"It smells horrible in here." We passed some weird sewage smell in the car with the windows down.
Started telling me every morning, "You smell nasty. Will you please brush your teeth." I can't even be mad at her because she says it so innocently!
We went to the farmer's market, and they have a doggy day care. She went up to each of the 30 or so dogs and gave them each a hug and kiss. It was so sweet. She didn't want to leave until each dog had gotten a "love".
Cheyanne asked Peyton if she was excited to be a big sister. Peyton said, "no." Cheyanne asked why she wasn't excited, and Peyton said, "because I don't like my baby sister." Cheyanne asked her why she didn't like her baby sister, and Peyton said, "because she's annoying." Oh boy- I am in for a crazy ride when this baby comes.
She has an imaginary friend named Sage. She asked me if I want to have a birthday party for Sage with her, wants to put lipgloss on Sage, buckles Sage into her car seat, helps Sage go potty after she goes, and lets Sage take naps in her crib. She usually tells me Sage is a baby, but sometimes she says she's a big girl, and once she said Sage is a boy. She has told me a few times that her favorite baby doll is Sage, and once she told me that Sage was her baby sister, but the grand majority of the time, Sage is imaginary. She once disappeared for several minutes, and told me she broke the potty because she was changing Sage's diaper. I came to realize that meant she clogged the toilet with a half package of diaper wipes (but thankfully no pee or poop). She also talks to Sage and tells her stories. She pretends to tuck Sage into bed with her binky and blankie, and will shut the door and say "good night Sage, sweet dreams angel, I love you," which is what I say to Peyton after I put her down for a nap or bed. It's really sweet.
She has mentioned another friend named Ray a few times, but he didn't stick around very long.
Her newest favorite thing is to be tickled really softly. She will pull up her dress or her sleeves or the bottom of her shirt, exposing the area she wants to be tickled, and will say, "please tickle me lightly." It's so sweet. I love holding her and tickling her, lightly.
When we were walking in a parking lot, she was telling me some long-winded story, and said, "I was like, I'm so bummed out right now!"
Peyton was talking to me about going potty, and she mentioned about how Max and Ike and daddy "touch their tail" when they go potty. I almost died. I asked her what she meant, and she said that when they go pee-pee, they touch their tail by their bottom. To deflect her, I reminded her that we don't touch our bottoms, because that's where the poo-poo comes out. I could not believe it!
Peyton is a girl who knows her limits (about some things). Sleeping is definitely one of those things. She is a great sleeper, like her daddy. She will tell me, "I'm ready for bed now" or "I want to go to sleep now." Once, she was swimming with all her cousins, and she went to Jade, got him to pick her up, and told him, "I'm tired. I want to go to sleep."
Peyton's high chair has really smooth wheels on it. A few months ago, she picked up the habit of rocking her body back and forth to get momentum, then when she would reach the edge of the counter, she would pull herself along until she ended up where she wanted to be. She totally reminds me of a paraplegic when she does that.
Every time we leave the house, I tell Tink bye. Peyton has started doing the same thing, and now every time she walks out the door, she says, "buh-bye Tinky Winkerson. I Love you!"
Peyton realized that my car beeps when one of the front 2 seatbelts is unbuckled. If she hears it before one of us buckle, even for a second, she'll yell, "Who's unbuckled?"
Peyton is still under 30 pounds, so she still is in a rear-facing car seat. I think because of the visual restrictions this places on her, her other senses have gotten stronger. She can hear me opening a wrapper, no matter how quietly I do it- even if it's just a gum wrapper. She also has developed a keen sense of smell. She'll say "you smell like chocolate" or "it smells stinky in here" (like when we drive by a skunk or road construction). She can smell gum or mints or chocolate on your breath, even if you're not by her face. It's pretty amazing, actually.
We were talking about going on our family camp trip, and I was telling her everyone was going except Uncle Nipper, the triplets and Mutti. Peyton asked if Grandma was going to go, and I told her yes. She thought about it for a minute, then asked, "Well who will babysit Mutti?"
She called cotton candy "poppin' candy."
She called our campground, Honeyman, "Honey mint".
She was asking about our country and I was trying to get her to remember its name. I said, "United States of..." and she said, "Jesus!"
We each got a yogurt parfait, and she ate hers first. I still had mine, and she really wanted to eat it. I asked her if she ate mine, what would I have to eat? She said, "You can eat pickles."
I overheard her telling Sage, "You can't drink from me, because I don't have milk, Sage." (We've been talking a lot about nursing lately.)
She prayed in a prayer "thank you for Sage, and for my family."
She lost her treat privileges while we were camping because she ate a stick of my lipgloss[!] so I told her I didn't want her to throw up, and she couldn't have treats because it would upset her tummy (we're trying "natural consequences"). One of the treats she couldn't have was hot chocolate. Sam was drinking hot chocolate and she said to him, "Oh. Did you not eat lip gloss?"
She was talking on the phone to my mom and said, "Hold on- I'm leaving a message for someone in my office."
On our way home from the park, I asked her if she had a fun time. She said yes, but "I was sad because I couldn't find Sage there. Can we go back and pick her up?"
Peyton and I are in a play group, and one of the ladies in the group recently had a baby, so she hasn't been to any play dates in quite awhile, so Peyton didn't remember her. Peyton walked right up to her and asked, "Why are you black?" She just bent down and said, "That's just the way I am. You're white, and I'm black, and he's brown (referring to her baby)." I smiled at her and told her that was a great answer, and Peyton was totally satisfied and moved on to asking to hold her baby, but I was a little bit embarrassed. A couple weeks later, we were at the grocery store and the man in front of us was black. Peyton asked (so loudly) "Mom, is he black?" I told her yes, he is black. Then she asked, "Why is he black?" I told her that people come in all sorts of colors; she is white, he is black and her daddy is tan. He looked at us and smiled and told the cashier that "that is a great age- so inquisitive!" I was mortified.
Peyton is quite interested in nursing lately. She picked up the word "boobie" somewhere, and since I tell her to call it "chest", she has taken to calling it "boobie chest". She also told me one day that she was going to feed her baby. I asked her what she was going to feed her. She said, "milk from my chest". She then proceeded to pretend-nurse her little baby doll. It was pretty funny.
Jade took to bribing Peyton with treats. I warned him he was overusing the bribe, but he persisted. Peyton picked up on the threats, and would eventually just say, "Well, no treats for Peyton then!" Jade got outplayed at his own little game!
Peyton was driving in the car with my mom and Cheyanne and she said "Why is it stinky?" Cheyanne told her that it could be from another truck or car or the paving on the road... and Peyton said, "Or bears."
Cheyanne was sleeping on the bed and Peyton was trying to wake her up. Peyton was eating her favorite "Noni snack", Pringles, and she put one up to Chey's face and said, "Can you please wake up? I'll give you a Pringle! Here, eat it!" So funny that the Pringle was a big bargaining chip for her.
Our friends came over to see Piper and they brought their two Yorkies. Peyton loved one of them and kept asking if he could stay with us. My friend told her that she would give Peyton the dog if she could have Piper. Peyton agreed. When they were leaving, Peyton said, "Now you take my baby sister and I can have her [the dog]."
Peyton asked my mom, "When is my mom going to the hospital to take her back [Piper]?" (Not a good sign)
We drove past Old Navy and she asked, "Why is it 'old'?"
In Peytons prayer tonight she asked Ashton to be thankful for Dorothy!
At Disneyland, Peyton met Alice (of the Wonderland fame) and the Mad Hatter. At first, Peyton was leery of the Mad Hatter. I didn't understand her hesitation, because he was really nice (and not one of the scary characters). She told me it was because she didn't know why he was "mad".
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3 1/2 - 4
At Sea World, one of the sea lions had a sneezing attack, and Peyton told him "bless you" every time.
At Sea World, we were taking pictures, and Peyton asked me, "Mommy will you take a picture of me and Sage hugging?" Then she asked me to take a picture with Sage.
Peyton told me, "I don't like your black hair." I asked her why, and she said, "Because it's not pink."
Peyton asked me if there would be fireworks at her wedding and I told her that if she wanted them, she could have them. Then I asked her who she was going to marry and she said, "Daddy."
Peyton called Jade and I "my parents" a few times. It makes her sound so old! She also told my mom that she was going to go see her "Modder".
"You have to be kidding me."
Peyton asked what my middle name was, and I told her "Camille". Then she asked, "What's Justin Bieber's middle name?"
November 26- 3.5 years old- Peyton gave herself her first haircut. I didn't know about it until about a week later when my mom noticed that her bangs (really long side bangs) were shorter on one side.
Peyton was playing with my breast pump and I asked her how it was going. She said, "Good. Much better than nursing." I asked her if she was finished and she said yes, "There's chocolate milk in there [the pump bottles]."
"Say cheese." Pause. "Sage- if you want to go to Pump It Up, Jr. with me and my mom and Miss Jaime and Brooklyn, then you got to say cheese."
I put on a pair of black ankle boots with fur on them. Peyton said to me, "I don't like those shoes. You should take them back to Target." I asked her why she didn't like them, and she told me, "They're not very fancy." I still don't know how she knew I got them at Target.
Peyton said a prayer that was probably a good 3 minutes long. Highlights include: thankful for the dentist and that she brushes her teeth every day, please bless her to make good choices, finally, please bless Captain Hook won't fight a lot with Peter Pan, thankful for all the things we have- and stuff.
Peyton was in Primary and told the singing teacher that she thought the kids were singing "WAY too loud".
"I want to get an IPhone for my birthday."
Peyton was saying the prayer one night and she prayed, "Thank you for the different countries we live in [she's heard me say I was thankful for the country we live in], thank you that daddy got a new phone, and bless that Noni will be here for Christmas."
Peyton's favorite Christmas gift, out of all the new presents and things she got... the M&M's and gum.
I told Peyton she needed to go sit in her room for a time-out. A few seconds later, she came back to my room and said she couldn't go to time-out, "It's locked. Bummer."
Peyton made some bad choices, so I put her in time-out. When I went in, I asked her why she had to take a time-out, she told me, "I got into your makeup, and got on the counter, and... what else?"
Piper and I were reading a book to Peyton at bedtime. Piper pooped. Peyton said [very sweetly], "It smells like poop. Will you leave, please?"
I overheard her pretend talking on the phone and she said, "Oh. She's saying like, Peyton looks so cute today"
In the car, she randomly said to me, "You're a nice mommy."
We saw an old woman with grey hair at target, and Peyton [loudly] said, "That looks like the old lady from Rapunzel!"
We were walking outside of Target, and Peyton noticed a bad smell in the air. She said, "It smells like donkey poop." Very specific!
I asked Peyton what she did at school one day, and she told me, "Nothing. We just hanged out."
Our friend babysat Peyton for us one night, and she took her to watch her 17 year old son play competitive water polo. Peyton asked her, "Why does Grant wear panties?"
This is getting bigger. What is? My belly. Do I have a baby in there?
Noni sent Peyton a Valentine's card in the mail. Peyton was so happy. On the phone with Noni, she said, "I was so happy. I don't usually get often mail." She talks like an adult!
Peyton's friend Peyton J moved to Bend. Peyton decided one day that her imaginary friend, Sage moved to Bend also. That night in the dinner prayer, she prayed, "Bless Sage because she moved to Bend."
We were at Target and she saw a 9 or 10 year old boy with a mohawk. Peyton looked at me and said, "Mom that boy is handsome!"
She's a little OCD- she likes to plat "calendar", have "lessons" in her room with her folders, and always talks about "my schedule".
"I love you, mom, but I want daddy, too." Jade had been out of town 3 days.
Peyton got in [little] trouble for something, and said to me, "Are you gonna punch me up?" Who knows where in the world she got that one?!
Peyton prayed, "Bless baby Brewer. And bless baby Jennifer (Peyton's baby doll)."
Peyton has started saying "credit" when she gets mad or frustrated. I think it's a combination of "crud" and "dang it".
Peyton prayed, "Bless Peyton to get over her little sickness, because I have a little fever or something like that." (She had the sniffles.)
We were getting something to eat and she saw an older man who had a long, scraggly beard that was braided into 2 braids. She was staring at him for awhile, and eventually said, "He's got a silly face!" I just said, "Oh, you're right; he has a long beard!" Hopefully that was a good diffusion.
March 12- She swam the entire length of the pool (standard lap-size or olympic-size pool) by herself!!
"I'm freaking cold." Thanks a lot for that word, Pettyjohns.
"We're going to play tricks on people." "Like the leprechauns?" "Kind of. Let's draw a mustache on Cheyanne." "Okay, but I don't want a mustache. Can I have a sticker instead?" "Sure babe." "Okay, but does Noni have a cool sticker?"
"I won't cause any more problems for you." (To Chey when she was babysitting, and Peyton had given her a hard time going to bed.)
"My freaking toe hurts."
April 30, 2012- First broken bone- her right pointer finger got crushed in the accordion closet door. OUCH!
April 30, 2012- Got rid of the binky- for good!
I was eating a packet of Sixlets, and Peyton asked where I got them. I told her they were in my Easter basket. She said, "Oh. Okay. I thought you stoled them from me."
Peyton has been practicing tying and she made a knot with a half a bow and was really proud of herself. That night, she prayed, "Bless Peyton that she can tie. Because I already did." Cute!
Peyton was carrying a full purse and her favorite doll, and came over to me and said, "Bye, mom. I'm going to college." (I almost cried. That day will come too soon!)
Peyton will tell me, "Bye hon, love ya, I'm going to _____." (usually the gym or the store, specifically Target)
"I have NO idea." (Her usual response when she's in trouble.)
"Daddy has a wagging tail like Tinky." (What do you even say to that?!)
Jade was getting frustrated when Peyton was taking a long time to get out of the car. He was talking to her in a serious tone, and she said, "If you're going to talk like that, I'm not going to want to be around you. You're hurting my ears." (That's something we say to her when she is whining.)
We were at a party at Justin and Ashley's house and Peyton came running into the kitchen and said, "Aunt Ashley... The kids... they're eating ALL the candy!!!"
She stole a chapstick from Taryn and was hiding it in her shirt. I asked her what she had, and she said, "It's something that's ours." Little liar!
Peyton says really great prayers. They blow me away. She has such a sweet heart. In her most recent prayer, she said, "Bless Heavenly Father and Jesus." Very precious.
