There are days that you girls make me so proud, other days that I'd sell you to the circus in a heartbeat, but some days I'm really impressed. Last night was a proud night. It was the Christmas party at our office. I dressed you both up in fruffy dresses, knowing that alone could send either or both of you off the deep end but trying it anyway. Instead, Payton strutted around the house pulling up her dress to show us that she had tights on, as big girls wear, and Parker just grinned and grinned, obviously quite proud of her prettiness. We loaded you up in the car right at 5 o'clock nearing the time you would both normally have dinner. As I've written before, Parker takes her eating very seriously, so expecting anything from her at dinner time is really not fair at all. But instead of a crazy hungry baby, we got a sweet charming grinner who spent most of the evening being passed around never really making a peep. Even when she did get hungry we offered her formula instead of food and she took it happily, even falling asleep peacefully for a few minutes in my arms. Payton was as good as could be as well. At first she was slightly shy, but not in a scared screaming brat kind of way, just bashful a bit, hanging out close to Mom or Dad for a while. Then she warmed up and made lots of friends. The little social butterfly made her way around the party chatting with everyone. She sat with Joanne for quite a while and at the end of the party made plans to see her again, tomorrow, as Payton often does after contemplating her schedule in her head. I did have to talk her into coming home with me instead of going to Joanne's to meet her dog, but even then there was no scene, just a precious little girl who made everyone feel loved.
A side note, I hate that Payton is holding a sippy cup in this picture! She is 95% using real cups, but for travel in the car she still gets a sippy.
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