Summer Fun

Summer has been so fun!  We stay up late, sleep in, and just have fun not having any type of schedule!  We've been traveling quite a bit, too.  Pearce mostly wants to just go swimming, but sometimes we go to the park....although it has been really hot lately.  He does like to take evening walks in the stroller and sometimes we stop at the school playground for a bit :)  We got together with Heather, Claire, and Cade for roller skating which was really fun!  Pearce is the type that if he doesn't know how to do something the first try or two, he gets really frustrated.  He got pretty frustrated with skating at first.  I told him he could either cry about it and just sit and watch everyone, or he could keep trying and have fun like everyone else.  I left him at the table and skated around the rink one time and then he had a changed attitude....and pretty soon he was skating fast and having the best time and did not want to leave!  Pearce does a little sticker chart where he gets stickers for doing things like following directions, using nice manners, being a helper, etc...  When we gets 5 stickers, he gets to choose something fun to do or get.  He has a cup that's filled with different ideas that he gets to choose from.  One reward was going to Blue Hole.  He LOVES Blue Hole which is a natural creek in Georgetown, but there's 3 different levels and each level goes from really deep, to really shallow.  We had fun exploring and swimming and watching teenagers being stupid jumping off the cliff rocks into the water....yes, I told Pearce that those kids were being stupid because that's really dangerous!  He also earned water balloons.  He kept seeing a commercial for water balloons that are really easy to fill using the hose and these also make colored water, so I got those for him and we had a water balloon fight!  Pearce insisted on wearing Daddy's safety glasses because the kids on the front of the box have some on :)  We are having a great summer so far!!!!!