Not in their mommy's footsteps...

Here's the boys at the nature museum this week touching a SNAKE! If your wondering Pierce isn't wearing a necklace, its his gold medal in the hurdles, aka jumping the plastic cups.

Cute sayings..

Here are a couple funny things Pierce said this week...

On Friday, Jason was working from home, and Holt was down for a morning nap (yes I know I said I gave those up but 4 days this week he was up between 5:15 an 5:30, so that equates to having a morning nap) so I took Pierce out with me to run and errand. After we went to Gardenridge I said, "Pierce, we are going to go on a date, a bagel date. Pierce said, "What's a date mommy?" A date is when you spend special time with someone you care about, like sometimes mommy and daddy go on a date and go out to dinner. When you get MUCH older you will take girls on dates. To which Pierce replied, "Ok, but Mommy, I'll need directions."

One day I was getting Holt out of his crib and calling him cutie and being sweet with him. Out of no where Pierce said, "This is a cute one. (I guess referring to Holt?) I think we should buy a sister one day."

Veterans Park

We went to Veterans Park last week with some friends. They have a great spray ground, the boys loved it.

To nap or not to nap?

I think I’ve finally relinquished Holts morning nap. I know I’ve said this several times before. However, we are on day three with no nap. So I guess our morning outings can start even earlier now! This is good, bad, and sad. Good that we can get up and go and not wait for Holt to wake up midmorning. Bad, because one nap for most toddlers would mean a longer afternoon nap, oh, but not for my little Holt. I usually just get an hour or so at best. However, my biggest concern is when will I shower? And a little sad because this is my only one on one time with Pierce and he relishes in having mommy all to himself during this time.

Pierce has always been an incredible napper. Even up to a month ago at 3 ½ he would sleep at good two hours most days. But every good thing has to come to an end and it is. However, mommy is really having a hard time letting this go as it is her only maybe hour of peace and quiet each day. After getting really frustrated over being scared of the rain the other day then waking his brother up after his only 45 minute nap for the day, I decide the next day that I would turn his nap time over to quiet time. I was so proud of myself when I found him asleep after of 10 minutes of reading books. I was priding myself on look what happens when you give up a little control, but then I remembered I gave him Benedryl for his hives and it was the medicine not mommy’s doing that took him off to la la land.

New Word

Holt doesn’t have too many words yet that we understand well. However, only my son would include the word, TRASH, in one of the five words he will say. Pierce loves it! I think Pop and Gran are a little offended being that he said trash, before he said their names. :)
My aunt called this week and asked me, “How does it feel to have not one but two aspiring trash men?” We are reaching for the top in the Latta household. My mom assures me their aspirations will change when they get older. I’m hoping so, as Pierce also told me that he wants to fight the enemies when he gets older, not my first choice for my little boy.

Holt loves sunglasses, hats, boots, etc. Today he put Chase’s boots on at the pool and then took off my visor and sunglasses and put them on.

Ladies Man

This was Pierce Friday night with his friend Kelly, she lived across the street from us before we moved, and Pierce obviously thinks pretty fondly of her. They watched a movie just like this with arms wrapped around eachother, too cute!

Overcoming old fears, in with the new..

This is Pierce swimming at the pool today. We are still amazed because literally at the beginning of the summer he was scared to go in the big pool and now that's the only place he wants to be. We couldn't believe he wanted to go off the diving board, we are so proud of my him for overcoming his fears!

If only...we weren't scared of the rain. Pierce has this new fear of rain, however it only occurs if its raining at naptime or bedtime. Isn't that interesting? And you can't imagine how scary it is at those times but how much fun it is when we are playing in it outside or even watching it from inside during the day.