A few weeks later we went on our First Family Vacation! We went to Branson, MO to visit my Grandparents. The drive was approximately 7 hours and I was very worried how Payton would handle being in the car for that long. Aunt Kristi gave us their old portable DVD player and Grandma Jerilyn stocked up on little toys that would keep him busy in the car! He did Amazing! I don't think we had a melt down at all, a few little squeals but nothing major!
The second night of the trip we went to Branson Landing and Payton watched his First fire & water show, he was very interested in it but I couldn't really tell if he was enjoying it or not. After the fire & water show some street performers started playing drums on buckets, trashcans, etc. Payton absolutely loved that! I think he would have watched them all night if we would have stood there!
We ended the evening with Payton's first trip to the Disney Store which he absolutely loved! He had a great time taking all of the stuffed animals/dolls out of the containers and crawling around in the play area. The dolls that they had back by the play area were the seven dwarfs, so we ended up getting him a Doc doll because he loves pulling glasses off of People's faces! On the way back to the cars we saw a clown making balloon animals and no one was in line so Cousin Levi & Cousin Garek got some balloons! Levi got a Turtle and Garek got a Fishing Pole I had to throw in some pictures of them showing off their balloons!
The next day was filled with visiting Great Grandma Janice, Great Grandpa Jerry & Great Great Grandma Macel (You'd think I would have some pictures but apparently I just wasn't in photo taking mode during this time!) that was followed by swimming! This wasn't technically Payton's first time swimming but we'll say it was his First time swimming in a big pool!
He had so much fun swimming that he was completely wiped out afterwards and fell asleep while we were changing his clothes!!
The next morning Payton had his First Krispy Kreme Doughnut, I think he liked it!
Followed a bath with his cousins, it was the first time with all of them together.
That evening we went back to visit Great Grandma & Grandpa (again no pictures, I'm sorry!) and we even got to go for an evening swim!
It was a very fun vacation but the highlight was when Payton took his FIRST STEPS!! I, of course wasn't in the room when it happened but I was told he took 3 steps to Daddy! He has since taken a couple steps at a time but nothing more than that, I'm sure it won't be long!! Just look how big my little boy is getting!
