Ginger Bread House

Pierce has been asking all month to do a ginger bread house. My mom bought him a Wilton kit last week so we embarked on making it today. We started it when I put Holt down for a nap this afternoon, thinking it would be an hour activity and then Pierce and mommy could have our quiet time. Well, we completed it at 8:30 tonight. Who knew you had to let parts of it dry for an hour and then two at at time before you could complete it. Pierce loved decorating it and we both enjoyed the left over candy that we just couldn't find a place for. I do think it was a wise choice to do it when Holt was down, I can only imagine the mess and fighting that would of evolved.

Video Two

so i realized this is really dark after i watch it but try to look for Holt's movements if you can...

Latta Christmas Show

This made my night tonight. I was out walking and came in to this performance by the boys. They were on stage (we will have to work on our stage lighting next time) and Pierce was practicing his song for the Christmas show they are doing at school. I have been begging him to sing it for me for 2 weeks now and then I come in and he's doing it for daddy. It made me melt. The second video is of Jason rapping and Pierce going along in his mircophone while Holt dances. I wish you could see Holt dancing better, if I can get them to do it again I will retape.

Thanksgiving, Spaghetti, Chewing, and Lesson Learned

Check out Holt's nose, only Holt could get the spaghetti up his nostril..

Brody pushing Holt

We went to Durham for Thanksgiving. The boys enjoyed playing with their cousins. We did attempt to get a picture of all of them but that didn't turn out so well.

How can a child chew food in his mouth for literally 15 minutes straight without swallowing it while at the same time eating macoroni and cheese from the center and swallowing that part? Pierce is my 'good' eater of our boys these past few months. He almost always tries what I put on his plate and will always eat at least part of his vegetables and fruit. However, he has started this new thing where if he doesn't like what he's eating he chews on it FOREVER and it totally grosses me and Jason out. We will be playing in the den 20 minutes after dinner and see there is still a wad of food in the corner of his mouth, GAG!

Lesson learned...

I took the boys to the nature museum last Wednesday and then we went to the prk to play afterwards. It was pretty cold so we drove up to the park. After we had been playing about 30 minutes I notice lots of police officers in the parking lot with vest on. So I ask another mom what they are doing. She says "they are doing a license check right in front of the parking lot and using this lot to pull people over in." Great..since I didn't bring my wallet, therefore I don't have my license. The lady is with her family and feels sorry for me so offers her husband to drive my car out and then I can drop him off around the side. I say that ok, thinking oh they'll leave soon or I can figure something out. Well, one by one everyone leaves the park except this one family and they are still checking every car driving past and coming in the park. So I relent and ask for help..the wife says she'll drive my car out since she has her license, her family will follow us down the street and get her. The whole time we are getting in the car Pierce is saying "Mommy are we going to go to jail." So I quickly give him a snack hoping he won't repeat these words when they stop to check her license. They ended up not even stopping us, I guess they figured who would drive out of here without a license. The sweet lady told me her husband is a DA and he said they probaly would of given me a ticket and made me wait for someone to pick me up so I did appreciate the 'lift.' All that to say..always keep your license on you.

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!!