East Texas Angel Network Meet and Greet 2009

Peyton continues to do very well. He stays very busy during the week with all of his activities....Therapy, horse back riding and school. He loves them all! We continue to work on his eating and drinking everyday. This week we were invited to attend the East Texas Angel Network Meet and Greet again. Peyton is a past angel and they all love him so much. They always want to see him. He has a blast when we go. This morning we went and were able to see all of his friends at the office. We were also able to see Neal McCoy, Jack Hanna, Kevin Sharp, Gloria Barron and all of their families. They are all so kind. Tonight we will go to the concert they are having also. The East Texas Angel Network is such a super charity!!

Peyton pulling Mrs. Patsy around.
Peyton petting a snow leopard.

Peyton watching the leopard eat.

Peyton and Neal McCoy

Peyton with Gloria Barron, Baby Joey and Neal. Peyton loved talking to Baby Joey!! We all were laughing so hard. He did not want to leave but we were holding up the line.

Peyton and Kevin Sharp

Peyton and Jack Hanna

Peyton and a little fox

Peyton holding an armadillo.

Peyton and another kind of leopard.

Peyton, Andy and Mrs. Hanna

Tracie, Peyton and Patsy

Peyton playing on Tractors!!!

Peyton has had a great week. It is hard to believe that he is already four years old. Wow, where has time gone? His weeks continue to be very busy and this coming week he will start going to Windridge again to ride Star! He is excited. We have been talking about it all week. His only free day during the week is Friday now. Eating continues to get better all the time. He is eating and drinking well most of the time for us.
Out behind our house they are working on the large ponds. They are making a third pond which means they have large tractors out there. Peyton LOVES the tractors. He will sit and watch them for a long time. Lately when we have gone he has to take his little dozer with him.

Peyton sitting in Mr. Wardlaw's mule while watching the tractors until after dark.

The other day while we were picking up some medicine from the pharmacy Mrs. Allison let Peyton pick out a toy from the toy box. Well, he found these glasses and he had to have them. He calls them his "Wobble Goggles". He got that name from the show Imagination Movers on Disney. One of the guys on the show wears wobble goggles. Peyton is just so funny with these things on! What a mess.

Peyton has finally decided that he wants to get on the tractors out back. Today Andy and I took him out back to get on Mr. Wardlaw's dozer. He loved it!!

When they got off, he said he wanted to go get on Mr. Gatlin's tractor. We took over to it also and he had a blast.

We thought we were going to be finished then. Well Mr. Peyton had other plans. He wanted to go get on Mr. Gatlin's other tractor.

Then Mr. Gatlin's other tractor.

After we finished with all of the tractors out back we went for our usual ride out in the woods. We love doing this. It is so peaceful! On our way back home we passed a few more tractors that he just had to get on!

He has a few tractors at the house that look like this one that he plays with all the time. He calls them "Scoop" from Bob the Builder.

What a fun day our little Peyton had. We are so lucky to have great neighbors that allow us to ride on their land and get on their tractors. What a great place for a little boy to grow up!

Birthday Boy!!!

Well my sweet boy has had a great week. He went to school for the first time on Tuesday and LOVED it! He only has about 5 others in his class. He just walked right in like he owned the place. What a relief. Wednesday was his birthday. We sang "Happy Birthday" all day long. If you ask him he knows he is 4 now. I can't believe it. We had his birthday party tonight here at the house. We had a great time. We had a cookout and the kids played outside most of the night. They had a blast but boy were they dirty! lol Here are some pictures of his party.

The cake...CARS!
Peyton and Miss Kenzie

Peyton Playing outside

Peyton opening his gifts.

Singing Happy Birthday.

Playing in his cake......

Peyton and Mr. Dylan riding on his plasma car. They were having a great time!

Now giving Kenzie a ride.

Finally eating some cake (icing). You see Dylan had to feed it to him. LOL!! He really did eat some and took more than one bite! Thanks Dylan! We love you and your family!

Playing catch-up!

Wow, what a busy month I have had. Sorry that I have not been good at writing updates on my little man. I have been spending lots of time at school.

Peyton has had a great month. He continues to do very well most of the time with his eating and drinking. He still every once and a while decides that he is not going to eat or drink. He is making great progress though. He is still eating very smooth textured foods only. He is not ready for textured foods. He will get there but now is not the time. We will continue to work with him. His weeks are pretty full of things. He is still going to therapy three days a week, M,W,F. This week he is going to start going to Mother's Day Out at our church on Tuesdays. Last week he got to go meet his teachers and see his classroom. He really liked it. He told me all about it when I got home from work. I know he will have a great time and get to meet some new friends. In mid September he will start his horseback riding again at Windridge on Tuesday mornings before he goes to school.

Last night was the beginning of Friday night football. Last night Peyton and I went to the Longview Lobos game and he had a great time. We will be going to more game through out the football season. Some Longview games and some Daingerfield games with Daddy.

Wearing his new hat he just had to have from one of our trips to Walmart.


Helping Daddy shell purple hull peas. He loved helping. He kept asking for more.

Outside enjoying the cooler weather. We have had a few very nice days.

Peyton got a new chair and he loves to sit in it. It

Doing great

Peyton has had a great few weeks. We have been working very hard at getting him to eat and drink for us. He is doing great at it. He continues to be very busy with therapy on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Horseback riding will start up again in mid September. I am getting to ready to go back to work soon. I am not really ready for it but I have to. I have really enjoyed being home with Peyton this summer. This past week has been really crazy for us here. Peyton's Poppy was having chest pains and was admitted into the hospital and on Wednesday he had a heart cath. Doctor said he was very close to having open heart surgery. Thank goodness he is okay now. Peyton was not really sure about seeing his Poppy laying in the hospital bed. He wanted to leave right away. He finally warmed up to being at the hospital.
Last week we also got our original nurse back for a while. Mrs. Melody kept Peyton until he was about 2 1/2 years old. We have kept in touch with her and now she is back for a while. Peyton and Mrs. Mel have a great time together.