First Day of School 2014

On Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, Pearce started school in the 2.5 year old class at Bethany United Methodist Church.  This year he is going on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Tuesday, it's from 9:00-1:00 and Thursday, it's from 9:00-12:00.  I was a little worried about how he would do on Tuesday because we did not get to meet his teacher before school started.  We missed Meet the Teacher because we were in Little Rock.  I just kept talking to him about Ms. Dawn and how nice she is and how much fun he will have at school.  On Tuesday morning, I got Pearce up at 7:45 and he watched a show for a little bit while I got his breakfast and lunch fixed.  Then, he totally shocked me and got dressed with no protests at all, went outside with me so I could take a picture, and then got in the car with absolutely no protests, either...totally unlike him!!!  He talked all the way about Ms. Dawn and asked me to drive faster :)  He kept saying "We there yet?"  We got to school and he walked like such a big boy until we reached the front doors and then he asked me to carry him.  I put BB in his backpack and told him we needed to keep BB in there to keep him safe.  As soon as we got to his classroom, he said he needed BB :)  I gave him BB and then Ms. Dawn greeted us with a big sweet smile.  She talked to us for a while and then Pearce walked in...with his little mouth turned down, but no tears!  When I picked him up at 1:00, he was so excited to see me and Ms. Dawn said he did great!  Pearce told Ms. Dawn bye and Pearce talked and talked the WHOLE way home.  He talked about school and Ms. Dawn and a lot of other random stuff.  I could tell he had a great day!  On Thursday, again, there were no tears at all and BB stayed in Pearce's backpack the whole day.  Ms. Dawn said there were a couple times during the day that Pearce asked for BB, so Ms. Dawn would get it out and let Pearce love on it for a bit and then she would put it back in his backpack :)  Since school gets out early on Thursdays and they don't eat lunch there, I've decided that we will stop at the park and have a lunch picnic on Thursdays.  We met Elizabeth and Brice there and the boys had so much fun playing together and Pearce was definitely worn out by the time we got home.  I'm so thankful Pearce is able to go to Bethany!  It's such a great little school and Pearce has loved since starting last year!

First Day:  2 years, 7 months old

Second Day

Our Little Rock Visit

Pops and Mimi invited us to fly to Little Rock last week, so of course we said yes!  I was excited to see how Pearce would do on the plane this time with him being a little older and much more opinionated now :)  He did really great!  This was the first time I didn't bring his car seat OR stroller.  I just kept telling  him he had to stay right by me because there are lots of people at the airport.  He was so good!  I brought all kinds of snacks, toys, and the iPad for the airport/plane ride and ended up not using hardly any of those things!  On the flight from Austin to Dallas, he just sat in his seat and looked out the window and talked and talked :).  On the flight from Dallas to Little Rock, he slept :)  We also had great luck finding other moms with toddler at the airports and Pearce and those kids had fun playing together.  At one point, he was playing with a one year old little boy...just playing peek-a-boo with him and showing him his toys...but then Pearce got out his stickers I had brought and started putting the stickers all over the baby!!  The baby loved it and thankfully, the mommy did too! Oh, Pearce even got to meet the pilot and push tons of buttons in the cockpit when we got to Little Rock!  Pearce was so excited when he got to see Pops and Mimi!  We had fun going to Chuck E Cheese, Altitude (which is a trampoline play area), playing in the hose in the back yard, watching movies, and playing in Pops' office.  It really was funny how much Pearce loved going up to and playing in Pops' office...he loved playing with some animal figurines, going through his desk and finding all kinds of goodies, and jumping on the couch up there :)  Oh, Pearce would also tell Pops to give him a book to look at and Pearce would pretend to read it...so funny!  On Thursday night, we met GG and my friend Chrissie and her little girl, Sydney, at All Aboard to have dinner and watch the trains chug along overhead.  Pearce had so much fun with everyone and was very excited to see GG!  After dinner, we walked to Baskin Robbins and got ice cream.  Pearce and Sydney played and played together outside.  I got to spend some time with just Chrissie on Friday night.  It was so great to be able to catch up with her and I'm so happy she lives in LR now because I will get to see her a lot more often!  On Saturday morning, we went with GG to the Discovery Museum.  Pearce had so much fun just walking around and exploring everything.  GG and I loved exploring, too!  This is someplace Pearce will love going to each time we visit!  GG got Pearce a fun set of robot blocks that he can stack and hang and do lots of fun things with.  He has loved playing with those.  On Sunday, we went to church with Pops and Mimi and I know they loved showing Pearce off to their friends.  Pearce did not cry at all when we dropped him off at his class, which I was so happy about.  We left Sunday afternoon and once again, Pearce did great on the plane.  He was asleep in my lap before we even took off!  Can't wait to visit Little Rock again!!