All About Christmas

I've not been very good at the whole photo dump thing but I thought I better do it while I was thinking about it.  Here's this week's offering... 

 

 

Peyton's 12 Days of Christmas board

I hope he has fun with it.  I think he will.  It starts tomorrow!!!

Peyton is really into gingerbread men this year.  I think they sing songs about them at school and I know he made a gingerbread house - which he consumed almost completely before I even picked him up from Nana's that night...

 

Icing the gingerbread people.  He made boys and I made girls.

Eating them wearing his santa hat that he HAD to have. 

And Ho Ho Ho'ing - I think.

I asked Peyton to clean up his desk on Sunday because it was a disaster.  This is what he did.  Pretty good, I thought.  Everything is displayed.  And that's a shoe hung in front of the lamp.  I dont know why.

 

And, yes.  His calendar is stuck in October...  I think I am too.

My view from the couch last night.  I have yet to take pictures of the christmas decorations so... here's the one that I have.  :)

Randoms from my camera

I found these cuties on Pinterest.  Its bella and pete!!!  Its like they were meant to be together!

Peyton golfing at my work annual Golf Outing.  (he wasnt really golfing!)

Peyton super hungry for pasta one evening.

 

Told ya.

I got to have lunch with Peyton one day when I volunteered at his school.  It was really pretty fun having lunch with a kindergartener!

Peyton and giant bella

I'm pretty sure i've already shown you this one.  If not, its Peyton's last soccer game (ever!)!

Peyton sacked out after Mary Poppins.  It was really fun!  But really late!

Peyton and his daddy playing video games together.

I also have a gillion pics from Thanksgiving but i'll put those all together.

Two weeks in one - you're welcome!

 

 

This year Peyton was a "regular" zombie from the Plants vs. Zombies iPhone game for Halloween.

I think we did okay for our first try.  This was our costume "run through" we did before trick or treating at the mall.   

This was our official Halloween night costume. 

Posing.

Trick or Treat

Aaaannnd we're done!

turns out, peyton likes to pass out candy as much as trick or treat for it.

He was waiting for the doorbell to ring.

Then he went looking for trick or treaters (at the end of the driveway) when we didn't get many.

Waiting...

Why Peyton had a project due the week of Halloween and Open House is beyond me, but he did.  This is his feather for the class turkey.  I bet it will be cute when its done with all the kids feathers.  this feather weighs like five pounds.  His teacher is going to HATE me.  okay thats an exaggeration, but its stinking heavy.

I dont know what he was taking a picture of here but it was on the camera...

Thunder Basketball has begun!!  Nimbus and I were Thundered up and ready to watch some basketball!

Peyton and Bella.

Peyton enjoying a beautiful Saturday

This is how you spend a Saturday evening!  Daddy was watching football in the living room so Peyton played video games in my room while I got the meals planned for the week. 

A weekend full of football and basketball called for a night full of chips and dips. 

Enjoying a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

 

You need this background info before moving on...

Sunday night the Thunder played at 6:00, which is too early for me to push Peyton off to bed.  Generally I do try to put him to bed before they play b/c I don't get to watch as much if he's up and he gets bored.  And he can really use as much sleep as possible.

Plus Brandon was watching the Cowboys in the living room - not making Thunder a priority, but whatev - so that meant Peyton would have to stop playing video games promptly at 6:00.  So I told him he could either play in his room while I watched basketball or he could watch with me. 

 

And THIS is why I have a hopelessly spoiled child:

 

He leaned his little head to the side and said "eye wood lob to watch witt you, momma."

 

Okay.  Keep reading.

I cannot help but think of this child EVERY TIME the announcers mention our new player, Hasheem Thabeet. Seriously.  Every time.  Its just the shirt, but still. 

 

If he starts to play a little better - or at least just endears himself to me - I'll have to find this shirt in my size just to support him.  And whoever makes this shirt.

The requisite laundry and Thunder picture.

But instead of Nimbus in the bed with me, it was Peyton this year!!

And instead of doing much laundry I was growing my waistline.

Peyton and I naming Thunder players during a commercial break.  He's pretty good, actually.  He knew more than I expected.

 

Except that he calls Kevin Durant, Captain Durant.  Kind of hilarious.

This week's photos

We got peyton's school pictures in on Friday.  They are SOO cute!!  This one is fuzzy b/c I haven't scanned it- just took a picture of it on the counter.

Saturday morning Peyton and I beat a Toy Story level we had been working VERY hard to beat.  A couple of years ago we were making all kinds of train track configurations.  This year we are looking up YouTube videos when we can't figure out how to get on Zurg's spaceport. 

Peyton played another great soccer game on Saturday afternoon. 

I saw that the opposing team was all girls and all BIG girls.  I was afraid for our boys.  But our boys whooped them.  I heard the one girl on our team say the final score was 7-0. 

 

And this is what I did Saturday evening.  I got fed up with the dishwasher not working well enough so I took it apart and cleaned it all. 

 

I intended to have it all put back together when Brandon got home but I didn't.  I can't remember his exact word(s) when he got home but it was pretty much "oh what have you done?". 

 

I put it back together and it works great now!  :)

 

Sunday was a busy day for me but Peyton hung out with his daddy and aunt kristine.  Kristine asked me what was wrong with Peyton and I didn't know.  She said she took him to the mall and bought him a cookie and he took it home and gave it to his daddy.  She was very concerned.

 

He seemed kind of run down & football was on TV in the living room so I set him up with video games in my bedroom.  He had a little bit of fever later and, of course, we were out of tylenol.  So I ran out to get some and in the (less than) 30 minutes I was gone, he had turned off the tv and gone to sleep.  He was completely out. 

 

Sure enough, a little bit later, Peyton had a full on stomach bug.  Poor little guy!!

 

So he and I camped out on the couch Sunday night and all day monday. 

 

Today is tuesday and he's at school.  Its after noon already and still no phone call to pick him up.  YAY!!! 

THIS picture I took solely to make Kristine jealous but i'll show you too.  She wanted Earls for dinner Sunday but didn't get it.  But I asked Brandon to bring me some on Monday while I was playing nurse (and allowing him not to) and he brought me a cheeseburger and fried okra.  It was so good.  :)

By Monday night Peyton was feeling good enough to have company.  Pete's company, but still.

And after peyton went to bed Nimbus and I watched some non-animated TV. 

(I watched, Nimbus slept)

And had some much-deserved ice cream.