Singing Fool

Peyton loves, loves, loves to sing. One of his favorite songs to sing is one that his Lollie taught him, the blackbird song. He has even been working on the hand motions.

The Little Chef

I think that we may have a budding chef on our hands!


Peyton and his pal Amelia made yummy cupcakes today at Mrs. Lauren's. I can only imagine the patience he had to practice in order to wait while Amelia had her turn to make the cupcakes too.

He looks quite serious, reading the instructions very carefully.





And then he got to taste his creation!

Breaking News: Important Dates!

So, I never thought the day would come when I could actually say that I have a defense date. All those years of many experiments gone wrong, a few experiments gone right, a million worms sacrificed, data analyzed, tears shed, its finally coming to an end. Sort of. I won't quite be finished in the lab, but I'm defending. Mark your calendars.
Monday, March 29th at 2pm.

For those of you more interested in the graduation ceremony itself, I will receive my hood on Saturday, May 8th.

P-E-Y-T-O-N

Peyton has gotten really good at recognizing letters and saying his ABC's. Each night in the bathtub, we play with foam letters and practice spelling things. This is a conversation that we have nightly:
Me: P-E-Y-T-O-N What's that spell?
Peyton: TOBI!
Me: No, it spells Peyton!
Peyton: No, Tobi!

I guess when we were home at Christmas, he wandered into my sister's room and started reading the letters on a wall hanging in her room - T-O-B-I. At the time, we were really impressed that he recognized and could say all of the letters correctly. We told him that spelled Tobi. So, now he thinks that everything spells Tobi.
Ok, well, I guess we'll keep working on this.

Adventures in the Snow!

We got lots of snow this weekend in NC! We haven't seen this much snow in NC at one time in a few years. Yesterday it was really windy and still snowing/sleeting, but this morning the sun was shining and everything was so beautiful covered in snow. We bundled up in lots of layers and headed out to play. We made a sled out of the top of a cardboard box and we even tried to make a snowman, but it became clear to us that we are true southerners and we don't really know what we're doing. Our house is at the top of a big hill and the road slopes down from us, so it made the perfect place to go "sledding". My mom has been in town, and has had to stay a couple of more days because of the weather, so she got to enjoy the snow too!

Here are a few pictures of the snow:












Here is our attempt at sledding:

Songs and Cheers!

We've been teaching Peyton all of the important songs in life - the LSU fight song and the Saints' song among them.

I think he's already a little tiger in training!



He knows the Saints' song too, but he knows we want him to sing it for the camera and he's only willing to cooperate to a certain extent, so here is a shortened version of the Saints' song:




As the "Pants on the Ground" song went viral, we decided he should know that one too!

A Good Laugh

Its always fun to make Peyton laugh. Every now and then we find something that just makes him crack up. We got the video camera out after I just happened to blow a raspberry and Peyton acted like it was the funniest thing he'd heard all day. We had a good time listening to him laugh so much.