Titus

Titus is 3 months old and has found his fingers
(and his thumb). He has gone from our fussiest
baby to the most talkative, happy smiley one we
can remember! He is very content and such a
fun little one to be around (just watch out for
spit up eruptions ~ he also wins the Payton
family spit up award, formerly held by Micah).


Mommy and Titus after bath time. He's growing
so quickly. Soon to be 4 months old in less than
10 days. We are cherishing every moment.

My Ears Don't Go to Sleep...

Every morning around 5:30am, Travis will kiss each of the kids goodbye before he heads out the door for work. About a week ago Isaiah started waking up enough to tell his daddy "I love you, goodbye" which makes Travis' whole day. Two mornings ago Travis kissed Isaiah, but Isaiah didn't wake up, and Travis didn't want to wake him by saying anything because Isaiah was so tired from the day before. When Travis got home from work Isaiah asked his daddy why he had not told him goodbye that morning. Travis explained how he kissed him, but he didn't wake up. "Well Daddy, my ears don't go to sleep so you just need to tell me goodbye." Sure enough, this morning as Travis was kissing Isaiah goodbye, he whispered, "Goodbye, Isaiah. I love you." Isaiah woke up and said, "Goodbye, Daddy. I love you too."
So I guess Isaiah's ears really don't go to sleep!

Isaiah and Hannah walking up to Grandpa and Nana's house after church last week. I was going to take a picture of them walking away from me, but they were about to go out of camera range so I called their names and this is what turned out.

3 of my 4 sweet kiddos. Isaiah told me they were in the middle of playing "tractor tipping" (from the movie, "Cars")

I asked Isaiah to stay inside and keep his eye on Titus (who was in his swing) this afternoon while I went out to water the garden. When I came back inside he had created this picture on the "paint" program on the computer. He enjoys "painting" and is now able to save his work in his own special file!

"I fear that the cross, without ever being disowned, is constantly in danger of being dismissed from the central place it must enjoy, by relatively peripheral insights that take on far too much weight. Whenever the periphery is in danger of displacing the center, we are not far removed from idolatry."
~ D.A. Carson (as quoted in "The Cross Centered Life", by C.J. Mahaney)

Titus is already 2 months old! We are enjoying
his cooing, smiles, and sleeping 7 hours at night!


Micah enjoying Grandpa and Nana's pool with Daddy


Travis' parents came for a visit in July. Titus found a
faithful napping partner in his "Pop."


Once Hannah warmed up to him, Pop became
a great friend and book reader. She's helping him
count in this picture.

Isaiah turned 5 on June 20th! It's amazing how fast time goes by. We celebrated at my parent's home (only 10 minutes away) with a pinata, swimming, a chocolate chip cake (special request by the birthday boy), and a new bicycle. It was a special time. Here are a few pictures of our fun time. I'll set up a link to the album on Shutterfly as soon as I get the rest of the pictures posted there.


Hannah ready to go in the pool

Micah taking his turn at the pinata

3 out of 4 kiddos getting ready for some fun

Don't leave the grandparents out - they had some pinata fun too!