Watch out or she'll spray ...

... and if I could take a picture of myself, you would see that she has good aim!

Sleep Study: Take 2

Last night Payton had her second sleep study ... this time to see if taking her tonsils and adenoids out did any good for her sleep apnea. I don't really know how to put it any milder, but I HATE sleep studies. Trying to do them on young children with all the wires and sensors is ridiculous. I'm waiting for someone to invent cordless monitors ... that person will make millions.

After we waited for TWO HOURS in the waiting room for them to clean the rooms, it was well past Payton's bedtime. So combine that with someone messing with her body and face, well it is not a pretty sight. She did okay while the wires were being attached ... but when it came time to put the microphone sticker on her upper lip and putting the nasal canula in ... I knew we were doomed from then on.

The tech helping us was losing his patience with lack of compliance and pulling the microphone and canula off, but really ... what do you expect from a two year old? After I got her to sleep with everything attached, she pulled the canula out and I just left it. The tech came in around 2am, turned on all the lights and set out to repair the broken lines {the microphone sticker had also come unattached from the wire}. I was SO annoyed ... not because he was repairing the lines, but because he felt the need to turn on the lights and get huffy. The microphone sticker was too big for her lip and was partially attached to her actual lip. Well it pulled some skin off and made her lip bleed. I was frustrated and told him it was too big, at which point he proceeds to tell me he has been doing this for 10 years and he knows how to do his job. What does that have to do with the fact that he is pulling the skin off my baby's lip? GRR. Anyway, we get the microphone sticker and nasal canula back on her and I get her back to sleep.

She tosses and turns all night and I jump anytime she moves for fear that she will pull the microphone and canula off again. I pretty much got no sleep, so I'm not feeling the greatest today. Sigh. Let's pray that we don't need another one of these for a LONG time.

I think she has mastered it

Payton has mastered self-feeding with utensils. Months ago, eating with a spoon used to be about painting the table with her spoon. Thankfully she has forgotten how fun it was to spoon paint and now just eats like a big girl. Here she is eating her yogurt earlier today ...

No, No and Pretty Much No

"No" continues to be Payton's favorite word. Tonight at dinner, I was telling her to eat her pasta. Instead, she was content putting her entire hand in a bowl of pizza dipping sauce and sucking it off her fingers. I probably told her to eat her pasta 20 times, and each time I got the hand (you know, she holds up her hand as if telling me to get lost) and a boisterous "No" in return. She is so cute when she gets sassy!

Potty Time

A few months ago, we bought Payton a potty. While I can't say we have been good about it here at home, she does have potty time at daycare. She definitely has given us cues as to when she needs to go ... she sometimes pulls on her diaper or runs to the potty and stands in front of it. So cute {I tried to tell her she can't stand and pee like her brother}.

Anyway, tonight my sister watched the kids while we went to our adoption agency for our interviews. As Kristie was getting the bath ready, Payton sat on her potty and peed! Such a big girl!! {Note to self: move potty into the master bath and start using it}