Christmas has come and gone..

      Well Christmas has finally come and gone, and other than my house being overwhelmed with toys it went well. On Christmas Eve we had a little dinner here at the house with my family. We played a few games and I ended up winning nine dollars on scratch-offs! Wooh! lol. On Christmas Day we opened presents here with Payton then headed off to my parents to open gifts. This year was so much fun. Payton loved ripping the paper and actually acted so excited about what he got. (Even though I know he had no idea by looking at the box..) Chad and I got him portable DVD players for the car and a few small toys. He loves watching Mickey Mouse in the car and I can't say I mind it myself! (Car rides can be rough) Chad got me a beautiful blanket with our pictures on it. And as far as gifts from everyone else we racked in! Payton got at least 10 outfits and tons of toys. Chad and I got several things we needed/wanted for the apartment.

 It has been fairly cold outside lately and Payton seems to not care. On Christmas day we actually had a horrible storm with a few tornados and Payton (seeing the weather outside) still wanted out to play..

I found this idea on Pinterest and it turned out great! 

I used it for a centerpiece for Christmas Day and Eve.

The final product.. I loved it, it was our first green (and decorated) tree.

Payton opening his tool set.. 

This is the awesome blanket Chad got made for me! 

And Yes I cried when I opened it..

After opening gifts at my parents we headed over to my aunt's to

eat Christmas dinner and open more gifts..

And yes all of that behind me is Payton's presents. Man it's nice to be a kid..

Luckily at Vidor Elementary they had santa pictures for all of the

kids and Grandma got us up there to sneak one in! It was well worth paying 5 dollars

instead of 40 at the mall considering I knew Payton would

flip out and not want Santa to touch him.

We had Payton's post-check up yesterday from his surgery. 

He loves the teddy bears the Dr keeps in his office.

Dr said Everything looks good we just have to watch him to make sure

the testicle stays down. I sure pray this lil guy doesn't have to have surgery again!!

 Today was the first day we've actually been able to be home with out any errands to run, so we decided to play with everything we go for Christmas. Payton had gotten some finger paint and loved playing with that.

Then when he started getting bored I added some old spaghetti

noodles for him to play with and this was his masterpiece.

I think the biggest hit was this basket ball set my parents got Payton.

(Even though it should have had Chad's name written on it)

They have so much fun playing with this. We can already tell Payton will be

a star basketball player!

Payton's Surgery

      Things have been pretty quiet around the Sims house. I believe my last post was Thanksgiving. Since then, the only thing that has happened is Chad and I finished this semester of school and Payton has had surgery. Chad did very well in all of his classes and only has two more semesters until he graduates! He is getting very excited. In the meantime, He is studying for his PCAT to get into Pharmacy school. I on the other hand, still have forever! But with raising a baby (and a husband lol) I think I'm doing just fine. Also, on the same day Chad takes his PCAT, I will be taking my pharmacy technicians test to become a registered pharmacy tech. I am hoping to get hired on at a local pharmacy in January to make some extra money. I really miss working at the pharmacy.
        On a different note, Payton had surgery last friday (Dec 14th). He had to be recircumcised and have one of his testicles dropped. I feel like he can never catch a break.. He has been in the hospital twice with pneumonia and once with a sinus block. And now after only getting out of the hospital about three weeks ago he had to go in for surgery. But believe it or not even after all of that, he is such a trooper. Luckily, this was just a day surgery. We went in around 6 am and they started the surgery at 9. It was the hardest thing to let the nurses take him from me with him screaming. The doctors were not really worried about the surgery itself but with Payton being born with Apnea they had to watch him being under anesthesia. Luckily everything went fine and he was rolled back to us about 11:30 and we were sent home. Day one was rough. He slept all day from the time he got out of surgery until 6 am the next morning. (Only waking up for 3-5 minute intervals of screaming bloody murder and falling back asleep) The anesthesia seemed to have a lasting effect on him. It wasn't until Saturday morning that it really seemed to be out of his body. From Saturday until today it has still been very rough. He has been very clingy and only wanted Mommy. Which can be a good thing or a bad thing.. You can tell the poor little guy is in so much pain. He has two scars and the one on his belly is a pretty good size. I would post a picture but he won't bring his legs out of the fetal position. Other than that he is doing great. I mean you can tell he's in pain but he will play and watch movies for most of the day.
        On a more positive note because of his scars and pain he hasn't really been able to crawl much so he has started walking!! YEAH!! It only took us 14 months but hey better late than never! About two days ago he learned how to use the push toys and yesterday he actually started walking from one place to another.. Chad and I are so excited. We feel like we have been working with him SO much lately.

Here are few pictures to document lil man's Surgery..

This is as soon as he got out.

This is Saturday morning. He pretty much ate all day considering

 he went over 24 hrs without food..

Sunday Sitting on my mom's lap watching Mickey

Mouse. As you can tell he has been very chill..

 And this is a picture Chad took today of him playing outside..

He is such a cutie!

        Like I said though nothing really new is going on here. Grandpa and Grandma Sims just left for Arkansas and Mom and Dad Sims leave Thursday for Ashleigh's so we will probably spent Christmas with my family. Can you believe Christmas is only 6 days away??!! Holy Cow! I feel like this year has just flown by.
        I probably won't post from now until Christmas so we hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!