DJPayne

Help, I’m stuck

2012-02-04T18:01:00.001-05:00

She was not happy that I grabbed the camera on my way to help her out.

Photos at the Hospital taken by Amy

2012-01-30T18:22:00.000-05:00

Photos Ben took the past few days

2012-01-28T18:57:00.001-05:00

Ben’s Camera is just about dead at this point. The display started going out yesterday and it looks like some of the photos did not save to the card properly. Looks like it is time to get him a new camera… That or we will have to fight with him over who gets to use Lisa’s camera.

Grandma and Grandpa Johnson and Charlie Visit

2012-01-28T17:04:00.001-05:00

Horsie

2012-01-28T16:52:00.001-05:00

Happy Birthday Grandpa

2012-01-28T16:39:00.001-05:00

Evan and Mad meet Mason

2012-01-28T16:35:00.001-05:00

Signing Grandpa’s Bday Card

2012-01-28T15:48:00.001-05:00

Normal size footprint for our kids

2012-01-27T16:41:00.001-05:00

Julie's Footprints

Ben's Footprint

Do we look tired? (Ben Photos)

2012-01-26T17:06:00.001-05:00

More Visitors for Mason

2012-01-26T16:57:00.001-05:00

Hospital Photos by Ben

2012-01-25T09:04:00.001-05:00

Hospital visits

2012-01-24T15:48:00.001-05:00

Whos Baby is it?

2012-01-23T09:19:00.000-05:00

Big Bro and Big Sis

2012-01-23T08:57:00.001-05:00

The Bears

2012-01-21T15:59:00.000-05:00

So who is who?

Mom and Mason

2012-01-21T15:02:00.001-05:00

Mason Edward Payne

2012-01-21T01:35:00.001-05:00

Mason Edward was born at 12:14. C Section. 5lb13oz.

1 more day!!!!!!!!

2012-01-20T18:27:00.000-05:00

Almost here, 2 more days.

2012-01-19T21:17:00.001-05:00

Oh man, Three more days.

2012-01-18T20:30:00.001-05:00

Are we there yet? Only 4 more days…

2012-01-17T18:50:00.001-05:00

5 more days

2012-01-16T20:50:00.001-05:00

Happy Birthday Lynne

2012-01-16T20:49:00.001-05:00

6 More Days

2012-01-15T14:16:00.001-05:00

7 more days

2012-01-14T12:32:00.001-05:00

Snow!

2012-01-13T18:58:00.000-05:00

Someone’s getting excited

2012-01-13T12:11:00.001-05:00

He has been asking how many days are left until Baby Mason gets here. If you ask him, he may show you how many days.

Christmas at Lynne’s

2012-01-12T20:44:00.001-05:00

Crazy Girl

2012-01-07T16:07:00.001-05:00

What a good big brother

2012-01-02T14:44:00.001-05:00

He was working hard to brush her hair.

Happy Birthday Julie

2011-12-31T17:35:00.001-05:00

Candy Cane?

2011-12-25T19:55:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-25T13:24:00.001-05:00

Christmas Eve Presents

2011-12-24T18:49:00.001-05:00

Another Early visit from Santa

2011-12-24T15:51:00.001-05:00

Santa came through the neighborhood on a fire truck. This year he got down and went and talked to some of the kids. Ben was excited, and ran up to him and told Santa he has been a good boy and he wants binoculars. Julie was excite until she got close and decide she still did not want anything to do with Santa.

Ready to go to work

2011-12-23T09:18:00.001-05:00

Yesterday the kids visited me at work while Lisa was seeing the doctor. Ben liked checking out the tools in Brian’s office, and says I have a lot of computers in my office. He just told me the computer desk here at home needs 3 monitors like my desk at work. When I was putting the kids in the van for Lisa, Ben grabbed my ID and said he wanted to wear it like daddy. He would not give it back to me until I said I would bring one home for him. I printed something for him and since I could not find a laminator, I wrapped it with tape. He was excited about it when I got home. This morning he got it and had me put it on his shirt and he said he was ready to go to work. I told him that he could work at home today. That seemed to satisfy him and he plans to wear the tag all day. He keeps holding it out in front of Julie’s face and saying see Ben. If he keeps teasing her, I may have to print one up for Julie too. It is a good thing I brought home another tag holder.

Sugar Crash?

2011-12-19T11:08:00.001-05:00

Decorating Christmas Cookies

2011-12-19T11:07:00.001-05:00

More Cookies

2011-12-17T21:35:00.001-05:00

Baking Cookies

2011-12-17T19:35:00.001-05:00

Santa

2011-12-17T13:44:00.001-05:00

Christmas Outfits

2011-12-17T13:40:00.001-05:00

Blue Truck

2011-12-17T12:59:00.001-05:00

I am a little behind on posts. Brian from work brought this over for Ben the other day.

Angry Birds

2011-12-10T11:11:00.001-05:00

I found out this week that Ben likes playing Angry Birds on someones phone. I went and found an online version of the game and let him at it. He does rather well with it.

Look Rabbit

2011-12-08T07:22:00.001-05:00

Crazy Face

2011-12-07T19:35:00.001-05:00

I do not know where he picked this up, but he was doing it this evening.

Just chilling

2011-12-07T19:32:00.001-05:00

They were just sitting watch TV like this the other day.

Random Photos off the phone

2011-12-04T09:53:00.001-05:00

I pulled the photos off the phone the other day. There was well over 300. Here are a few.

Ben’s Photos

2011-11-26T20:58:00.001-05:00

I think she was cold

2011-11-26T20:52:00.001-05:00

A visit from Karen and the kids

2011-11-26T20:50:00.001-05:00

Ben’s Photos from Thanksgiving

2011-11-25T10:36:00.001-05:00

Folding Towels

2011-11-24T15:16:00.001-05:00

Ben wanted to help me fold towels today. He is a big help.

Happy Thanksgiving

2011-11-24T10:13:00.001-05:00

Ready for snow!

2011-11-19T12:38:00.001-05:00

We went and checked out the new super Walmart. Ben say this set of hat and gloves and got so excited. I ended up buying this for him and he wanted to show Lisa, and he told her he was ready for snow. When we got home he said he was going to wear them all day. I have since convinced him to takeoff the hat, but he has not given up the gloves yet.

How is this for a nice evening?

2011-11-09T10:51:00.001-05:00

Yesterday was our anniversary. My plan was to feed the kids at the normal time for dinner and then have a meal ready for when Lisa got home from work at 11:30. Lisa had promised Ben he could have Burger King for dinner, so I stopped at Lisa’s work to grab some cash on my way to get the kids. Ben was excited to get fast food, he has been begging for a few weeks. We go through the drive through, we are car back from paying and Ben goes, Daddy, I am not feeling good, ad throws up all over himself. I jump out and start cleaning him up. We have to pull up to pay and get the food, then I park and pull him out and get him in clean clothes and clean up the seat as much as possible with wipes. I get him back in his seat, and then walk to the pickup window and as for a large bag or a garbage bag to put his dirty clothes in, and they tell me that they cannot. Great. So I open the trunk, and I have a blanket that I keep back there. I open that bag, it rips, but is too small anyway. After a little thought, I grab the blanket, wrap the clothes in it and throw it in the trunk. Ok, back to Lisa’s work to give her a sandwich and fries, and then head home. I get the kids home, sit them at the table and give them their now cold meals. I go and start bringing everything in from the car, and I hear Ben start crying. He had thrown up again and has diarrhea. Ok, new change of clothes, medicine and clean up that mess. I get the later meal in the slow cooker and then go to get Ben’s clothes in the washer. As I am down there I hear Ben again, he threw up on a couch cushion. I have him strip down to his pull up wrap in a blanket and he lays down, and I give him a sippy cup of water. It is close enough to Julies bedtime, that I send her up there. I strip the couch cushion and take that with Bens clothes for the next load. Lisa had stripped 2 of the other couch cushions earlier today because of a milk explosion and those were in the dryer now. I come back up, finally eat the burger (fries were beyond hope). After sitting with Ben for a little bit, we decide Julie is asleep enough for Ben to get a bath. After his bath, he says he is feeling better now and goes to bed. I go back down stairs, the house is a mess, and so I start cleaning. At some point I hear Ben again, I run upstairs, and more throw up. I clean him up, strip clean and then make the bed again. He just wants to go back to sleep, so I let him. Time to move the laundry and so the sheets and the stuff from the couch goes in. I finish cleaning, and move the laundry along one more time. I made cookies, and then finished dinner as Lisa was walking in. We eat. We were both tired, so after dinner we just crashed.

Yes, it is really for sale

2011-11-02T07:56:00.001-04:00

For those who do not believe that we are selling the truck… go here http://djpayne.blogspot.com/p/truck-for-sale.html

I have also submitted an add to the online corkboard at work.

Happy Halloween

2011-10-31T19:56:00.001-04:00

Happy Birthday Evan–Ben Photos

2011-10-31T19:48:00.001-04:00

Happy Birthday Evan

2011-10-31T19:45:00.001-04:00

There is a pumpkin in there!

2011-10-30T11:49:00.001-04:00

We had cooked some of the pumpkin seeds, so today I took the bag and handed one seed to each of the kids. Julie ate one, but Ben asked, “what is this?” I told him it is a cooked pumpkin seed, then told him to eat one. He goes, “No, there is a pumpkin in there.” What, how does he know that relationship at 3 years old? I am still working on convincing him it is ok to eat. Julie keeps stealing the bag of seeds.

The Lion King

2011-10-29T19:31:00.001-04:00

We went to see the Lion king at Shea’s today. The kids were very excited to go. Everyone enjoyed the show. Julie needed to walk the halls half way through, but Ben’s attention was kept the entire show.

Carving Pumpkins–Ben’s Photos

2011-10-28T21:09:00.001-04:00

Carving Pumpkins

2011-10-28T21:03:00.001-04:00

Truck for Sale

2011-10-24T13:13:00.001-04:00

Well, we have gotten to the point where we decided it is time to part with the truck. Is anyone in the market for a 99 GMC Sonoma?

GG and Grandpa wore me out!

2011-10-15T19:41:00.001-04:00

Arrgh! Pirates!

2011-10-14T21:57:00.001-04:00

We got the kids their Halloween costumes today. They are both going to be Pirates. After we had gotten home and had our naps, they just had to try the costumes on and play pirates.

The Great Pumpkin Farm 2011

2011-10-14T16:28:00.001-04:00

We had promised Ben that we were going to go to the pumpkin farm today. All morning he was ready and excited to go. It started down pouring rain, but that did not lessen his excitement one bit. We ended up going in the rain and got soak, but the kids had a blast.

Paging Dr Payne

2011-10-10T18:33:00.000-04:00

Coloring together

2011-10-09T16:48:00.001-04:00

Practicing for when baby brother gets here?

2011-10-09T14:35:00.001-04:00

Roar!

2011-10-09T13:46:00.001-04:00

He was roaring at me. I do not know why, but I grabbed the camera.

More time on the Computer

2011-10-09T13:44:00.001-04:00

He is really getting good at using the mouse pad. He prefers it to a mouse.

Ben’s Photos–Sunday Dinner

2011-10-03T07:13:00.001-04:00

We had dinner at Mom’s last night. Momma Beck and Joanne Secrist were visiting, so we got to see both of them.

Ben has been experimenting with the camera, and this weekend he has been pressing the playback button and showing the photo right after he take it. Then last night I notice him adjusting the zoom and at some point he turned off the flash.

Photos by Ben Oct 1

2011-10-02T09:47:00.001-04:00

I think the second photo is just so funny. Julie was bending over to get something, and Ben goes, “look Julies butt.” Snap.

Larry’s Birthday cake

2011-10-02T07:53:00.001-04:00

Yum Blats

2011-10-01T14:47:00.001-04:00

Now Ben is starting Projects…

2011-09-29T09:41:00.001-04:00

Sometime yesterday, while I was at work, Ben stunk down to the laundry room, and started pulling up tiles. Yes, they were older than the ones that were pulled up from the mud room and back stairs, but it is the basement and we are not ready to take on this project. I do not even want to think about replacing the basement floor. Does any one want to hire a three year old as a handy man?

Danger!

2011-09-26T20:24:00.000-04:00

"I know what we're going to do today!"

Julie

2011-09-25T15:18:00.001-04:00

Spaghetti!!

2011-09-23T21:00:00.001-04:00

And this is what happens when Ben is in the bathroom…

2011-09-23T20:58:00.001-04:00

Ben and Julie playing cars

2011-09-23T20:55:00.001-04:00

Playing on the Computer

2011-09-14T19:55:00.000-04:00

Ben wanted to check out his videos before we posted them. Then he played around for a while. He is getting better at controlling the mouse.

Rocking out

2011-09-14T19:42:00.000-04:00

Riley’s Bday party at Chuck E Cheese

2011-09-11T12:44:00.001-04:00

Such a Big Boy

2011-09-11T08:22:00.001-04:00

Yesterday I was talking to Lisa about going to the store and taking Ben. Ben says, “wait, my teeth are dirty,” and runs to the downstairs bathroom. When I went to see what he was doing, this is what I saw.

Mud Room Project

2011-09-10T11:29:00.001-04:00

We redid the Mud room and back stairs this week. Lisa and the kids did most of the painting, everyone helped on the removing of the old tiles and I laid most of the tiles.

Resistance is futile, you will take a nap…

2011-08-27T15:42:00.001-04:00

Yes he is asleep like that… I guess he was too tired to get out of bed.

He makes me laugh

2011-08-27T14:19:00.001-04:00

Pizza

2011-08-26T13:20:00.001-04:00

Yesterday we picked up pizza crust and pepperoni at the farmers market. I think about half of the pepperoni disappeared as I was cutting it. Everyone kept coming through and would grab more. Then the kids got to put the pizzas together.

The Buffalo Zoo – Part 2

2011-08-23T17:07:00.001-04:00

The Buffalo Zoo

2011-08-23T16:53:00.001-04:00

We spent all afternoon at the zoo today. Everyone had fun, but it was a long day and Julie fell asleep almost as soon as we got into the van.

Ben’s photos from the day at the Railroad

2011-08-20T19:49:00.001-04:00

Ben was not too interested in taking photos today. A couple of times he was not fast enough with getting his camera out and ended up putting the camera away disappointed with out taking a photo. He thought the guy with the accordion was cool. Then after the train ride, we walked through the little market that was set up in the parking lot, and Ben got some nice photos of a hawk they had there. On the way home we saw some cows and Ben wanted to take some more photos of cow tails, but did not get his camera out in time.

Arcade & Attica Railroad

2011-08-20T19:30:00.001-04:00

Lynne had bought Ben tickets for the train on the Arcade & Attica Railroad for his birthday. So today we all went for a train ride. The kids were unsure of it at first, but ended up having a great time.

Trip to the Johnson’s – Ben’s Photos

2011-08-20T18:56:00.001-04:00