Catching up with Peyton

Peyton is two months old now and she is definitely getting bigger. But she is also getting happier. She will actually hang out by herself in her Boppy, bouncer, or the swing for a long time without fussing. Yay! Now if we could just get her to smile more. She's so serious. Grandma de Jong says she doesn't smile much because it takes so much effort to lift her giant cheeks!

So here's what Peyton has been up to in the past few weeks. Sydney has helped Peyton make some friends.

We pulled out the Bumbo and Peyton does a great job sitting in it.

She loves to watch TV. When she's laying on her Boppy, she will always turn her head toward whatever show is on. But she also likes watching with Dad.

Peyton loves to face out when you're holding her so she can see everything that's going on, but she also still loves to cuddle.

Sydney loves Peyton and will give her kisses and hugs every chance she gets. Every time Mom brings Peyton into a room, Syd says, "Ahhh, she's so cute!"

And here's a rare pic of Peyton smiling. She is soooo serious, just like I was as a baby. You have to work really hard to get even a little smile out of her. The only place that she will smile a ton is when you change her on her changing table. For some reason she loves that spot.

She also loves taking baths. She doesn't smile much in the bath, but you can tell she likes it by how much she kicks and splashes water everywhere.

Peyton was blessed last Sunday. There was a big wind storm the day before which knocked out the power at our church building, so church was cancelled and we had to go to another ward in another building for her blessing. But it didn't really matter where we were because the spirit was still strong. Grandma and Grandpa de Jong were able to come up for the blessing.

Grandma has the magic touch.

And here's Grandpa. If you look closely, maybe you can tell that Peyton has blue eyes!  We're so excited to have a blue-eyed kid in our family!