Minnie Me

Payton has become a little mommy in her world. She has Baby and Dolly and Elmo, and she's obviously not got any more control over her children than I do, because I often hear her putting them in time out for terrible atrocities such as not sitting up or misbehaving or anything else or nothing at all! Sometimes she's living out the daily grind of being a mother, trying to take TWO children to the grocery store, as she is in this video. Ah, and I thought I'd have to wait 30 years for her to understand how difficult it can be! Of course there are also times that I'm so impressed with her, I'll see her with Baby over her shoulder, patting her back working a burp out and she's always adiment that we be careful when we hold Baby and do it just so. She'll work hard to get Dolly dressed with her silly socks and shoes that fall of the moment she gets them on, just like a real live baby I must say. Elmo is always in trouble because he just refuses to stand up, you know, she can't hold him ALL of the time I hear her telling him!

Other times she needs to capture the precious moments and breaks out her camera. I can not tell you how many times in the last few days she's insisted on posing her "children", her grandmother, Oliver, Parker, Jason and/or I. Then we HAVE to say cheeeeeeeese until she clicks the camera. She tells us how good each photo is and we're released. In these pics she's trying to get Elmo and Dolly to pose with Oliver who's trying desperately to hide under the dining room table.