Friends

Camden had her first playdate with a girl friend a couple weeks ago. Jackie's beautiful little girl, Stella, came over. She is two months younger than Camden, we look forward to watching them grow up together!

The bottom picture is the boys with some of their best buddies, Britt and Chet at our church picnic two weekends ago. Its crazy how similar our boys are and how much they love playing together. Holt and Chet are in the same preschool class this year which is fun.

Off we go!

Monday I came down the driveway and Pierce was at the bottom of our street and had already taken off one side of his training wheels. He then asked me to go get the wrench to remove the other side. I went along with it not anticipating him to really want to learn to ride without them. However, I literally helped him get up on the bike and off he went. And that was that, no more training wheels. I was shocked as we tried this at the beach a couple months ago and he had no interest and I quickly lost interest after balancing him down the street. I guess when they are ready, there ready. Next thing I know I look over at Holt with wrench in hand trying to remove his training wheels. Needless to say, he's not quite ready..although he didn't want to hear this from me.

4 months old

This was my best attempt to get a picture of the three of them together.

Camden turned 4 months old this week. We can't believe its already been 4 months. She is such a blessing and has become so easy going and happy. She loves being outside, her baths, being held, her activity mat, and sitting in her umbrella stroller watching the boys play in the cul-de-sac. She is napping a little more regularly and sometimes sleeps through the night...still trying to master both of these. The boys still adore her. Holt says "mommy Camden Gray is getting bigger and bigger and biggger." If we are going somewhere and I say Pierce is coming to Holt, he's say "and Camden Gray." Pierce is always helping me with her and loving on her. Now if only they could love eachother so sweetly :) Pierce has picked up on the fact that he is older and can try to tell Holt what to do and take whatever he wants from him...Holt's not taking this so well which leads to just a 'few' arguments a week.

1st Game and Movie night

Pierce had his first soccer game yesterday. He did great and had fun out there. Every picture I took of him we was smiling as he was playing. His team won their first game.

The bottom picture is from our 'movie night' last weekend. We have been saying we were going to start doing a movie night every month and finally came through on our promise. The boys went with me to pick out a movie and chose 'A Bug's Life.' Holt watched long enough to finish his popcorn and M&M's and then he was done...as he still will not watch anything for more than five minutes. Pierce had no problem finishing the movie.

1st Days of School

This was a picture from last week. The boys each had the same cookie, however one is a little messier than the other.

Pierce's first day of school on Tuesday

I'm already to go...after seeing Holt in crocs for the entire summer he looked about a year older to me in his big boy tennis shoes and his back pack on.

Camden loves to hold her hands together lately, I didn't want to leave her out of the post.

Pierce started school on Wednesday and Holt had his first day today. Pierce is in TK 4 days a week this year and Holt goes 2 days. Holt had a great first day and mommy enjoyed having some time with Camden. Pierce loves his class and asks when he's going to school from the moment he wakes up..I'm trying to not take it personally. Holt was a little hesitant before we left today but walked right in without looking back, I was thankful because I was more sad about him going than I had anticipated. We will miss our lazy summer mornings where we could stay in our pj's till lunch if we wanted, our fun outings, and lack of schedule. However, I am looking forward to hopefully getting Camden on some kind of schedule (whatever that may look like between drop off and pick up), having some one on one time with each of them, and maybe even being able to clean my house and tackle some projects on some mornings while Camden naps.