Please and Jumping

Holt finally said please this past week and its the cutest thing. He also said Pierce but prefers to call him some version of brother. This is also a video of him jumping. He squats all the way down, jumps, and lands smack on his bottom and it doesn't bother him a bit.

More Birthday Pics

This was my first attempt at a slide show. I tried to put together pictures of Pierce from the past 4 years. Enjoy watching our boy grow!

Happy 4th Birthday Pierce!!

I can hardly believe my baby is 4 years old. Wow..where does time go? Four has really hit me because I feel like there is no baby left and he is turning into this big boy. Pierce is so full of life and has the biggest heart and sweetest spirit, he makes us so proud. I have to tell a sweet story from today. He now has his 'quiet time' in the play room. He had been up there playing for a while and I went up there to read while he played to be up there with him. I fell asleep while he was playing and woke up to him taking the blanket off the couch to cover me up and then he layed down beside me and we both slept another hour! I hope he will always be able to lay with his mommy and be my buddy.
We had a big weekend and birthday day. Saturday we had his firetruck birthday party, he loved it. Mom Mom and Pop Pop stayed the night and took us to the pancake house for breakfast, Pierce's favorite. He got 4 candles on his pancakes. Daddy took today off today and we started it off by going to get donuts. We went to Ray's Splash Planet, the boys had a blast, and then had lunch at Chick-fil-a. Gran and Pop came over for pizza and we opened there presents and his present from Aunt Arturina. You will see his smile in the picture, she managed to fine a game called "Pass the Trash" on Ebay. Its a Milton Bradley game from 1974! We just played our first game, I must say we all enjoyed it, thank you Aunt Arturina and Sandy!!

Dress Up

I am finally uploading pictures from my camera from August on and came across these pictures. I guess this is a boy's version of playing dress up. Pierce came up with this outfit on his own and an hour late Holt recreated it.

Here's a funny Pierce story. Last night when we were getting them out of the bathtub, Pierce was saying somthing about using money to pay a babysitter (you think he's bored with me?). So I said, "You want me to use your money in your drawer to get a babysitter for you guys?" He said, "no, that money is only for broken houses or broken windows." Bless his heart, he broke a friend's window throwing the ball through yhe window several months back. Being my first experience with a broken window and trying to teach a lesson I had him give me a couple dollars out of his drawer of money(being change and dollars that relatives send him), to help pay for the window. Maybe this was a little harsh?

Fire time

We took advantage of a chilly night last week and had our first fire of the year. Pierce loved having fires last year, as it was our first year with a 'real' fireplace. He's been asking all year when can we have one. As you can see from the picture they were both pretty fascinated. And yes we had a fireman on hand in case it got out of control.

Thank you..see post below

Thank you and letting the air out

The first video is of Holt saying thank you. Its not quite words but sounds that mimic the word. Pierce imitates it perfectly. He refuses to say please which is driving me crazy but I can only laugh when he starts to giggle every time I say please. I'm not so sure what is so funny about saying please but he always just giggles when I ask him to say it. The second video is Holt 'letting the air out' of his belly. Jason has been doing this with him for several months and it makes me laugh every time I see it.

Halloween

An attempt to get 7 boys and one girl to sit still for a picture in costume

Here are some pictures of the boys from Friday night. They loved being in costume and enjoyed having three chances to dress up this week.