Please help!!!

Peyton has graduated to a toddler bed from a crib. The first month he did great with the exception of nap time. So, he hasn't been taking naps. You would think that he would be so tired from no nap time that he wouldn't have the energy to keep getting up at night too. We go through the old regular routine and tuck him into bed. He must not be like other toddlers that get up 30-40 times. No, he is more like the energizer bunny that keeps going and going, getting up 100s of times. It will go on for HOURS at night. I am getting so frustrated and have tried everything. Including the "Super Nanny" technique of making no eye contact and no talking and putting him back in bed. He laughs and just keeps getting up. I have tried threats and bribery. I have literally tried everything. Please give me some suggestions in case there is some miracle technique out there that I have not tried!

At it again

Peyton is just so full of it these days. Everyday it seems I have more and more to write about him. He has quite the imagination, he likes to play with imaginary bubbles. He will pick them up off the floor and blow them into the air, or give one to me or Jake, or eat them. He also plays with imaginary frogs. He is so funny to watch him jump around following one and then pretending it is under the couch or something. I put Peyton in his room one day hoping he'd take a nap and I could here him saying "Mom, I'm ready to get up now." "YOOHOO!??" "Mom, YOOOOOHOOO?" I was just outside his door shaking my head, laughing. Another thing he told me was, "Mommy, I love you." I said "I love you too." Peyton then replied, "I love you all the way." It was so cute. I guess he thought by saying he loves me all the way he is going one step further from when I say I love you more. LOL

My little ham

Oh, where do I begin? Peyton has been up to so much lately and says the funniest things. I need to document them before I forget what they are. Peyton was talking to my mom and I can't remember what he was talking about, but he said " You know what I mean Grandma." We both just laughed and she she said "Yeah Peyton, I know what you mean". Then we were traveling in the car and Peyton informed me that his diaper had leaked. I at first didn't believe him, sometimes he tries things like that just to get out of his seat. I had just changed him before we left SLC and we had just gone through Heber. So we pull over to change him. I change his diaper and his pants and I said "uh oh, your shirt is a little wet too, should we change it?" Peytons reply was " No big deal mom, it will dry. Don't worry 'bout it." Well, then okay. Sometimes I feel like my child is 2 going on 12. Then he was asking me to hold him when he wasn't feeling well. I told him just a minute because we were in the car and his Uncle Tim said, "Peyton will you hold me?" Peyton said "Yeah" then a few minutes later Peyton said, " Of coarse I will mom!" I said "of coarse you will what?" "Of coarse I will hold Tim." Again we just laughed. To top it all off, my mom has a old Mother Goose book that Peyton loves with all these old rhymes. Well, Buggsy taught Peyton a rhyme of his own and we were all blown away when Peyton recited the whole thing word for word by himself. It goes like this....
Three, six, nine
the goose drank wine,
the monkeys chewed tobacco in the street car line.
The line broke,
the monkeys choked
and they all went to heaven in a little row boat!
That is a lot for a two year old to remember if you ask me. Oh yeah, then we went to build-a-bear where Peyton picked out an owl. And of coarse he dressed it like a cowboy! Then I asked what he wanted to name it. He wasn't sure so I started throwing out some ideas. Mr. Owl? Hooter? Hoot? Then Peyton said "Hoot Willer". We made the birth certificate for Hoot Willer and then left. When we got to the car Peyton was asking where his guy was. I said "Who? Hoot?, your owl?" Peyton said "yeah my owl, and his name isn't Hoot. His names Bobby Shafto" Bobby Shafto also comes from the mother goose book. So the owls name has been Bobby Shafto ever since. My little ham also runs around the house and says "I'm runnin' on my Hippy toes!" I love his expressions and his little voice when he says these things. He is so much fun!

Halloween

A few weeks ago we went to SLC and were staying w/ my brother and sister-in-law and Peyton came down with some kind of stomach flu. Well, we rode out w/ my mom and had no car to leave when he was sick. I felt like crap because I didn't want to get everyone else sick. Well, the bug ran it's coarse and then we came home. Peyton had also picked up a little cough from the virus. Two weeks later the cough was still there, but almost gone and Peyton had been fine since we were out there. We decided to go back out w/ my mom again. What are the chances of Peyton getting sick again....right? We'll apparently they are pretty dang good. We had again been around my brother and sister-in-law and their baby and we were staying at my grandma's house. Peyton was alright at first then his cough took a turn and was croupy and he would cough so hard he would puke. Again we had no car and felt like we were contaminating everyone w/ this bug. I guess my little Peyton is just not the traveling type. We came home on Fri. and he was starting to feel better, then by Sat. he wanted to go trick-or-treating. Our plans for that were kind of up in the air, waiting to see how he felt. He acted pretty good all day and his cough was minimal compared to before. So we dressed him up, just like he wanted and went to Grandparents houses. We informed them that he had been sick and they still insisted we take him by. Then we just came home to rest. It turned out pretty good and I am hoping he is done with these sick bugs for a while. Peyton wanted to be a "cowboy like his Uncle Matt". How'd we do?