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!!!!!

4th of July 2016

Our July 4th celebration was so fun and relaxing!  We slept in and just took it easy during the morning.  Then Pearce and I went swimming at our neighborhood pool.....we've only been to our neighborhood pool one other time since we always go to the club pool.  It was really fun though because there were lots of people there.  Pearce is such a little fish and I honestly can't believe what a great swimmer he's become this summer.  He does not want to wear his floatie at all anymore.  He swims back and forth to me, around me, jumps in to me, and tries to dive down to get rings he likes to throw.  He still cant make himself go down by himself, so I just push him down and then he pushes himself off the floor to come back up.  So proud of his swimming!  In fact, just last week, I had the thought that he could probably save himself if he needed to....I don't want to feel too confident about it because I know things can change quickly and I will still always be with him while he's swimming, but, I feel pretty good about his ability to swim!  So, after swimming, we got cleaned up and then went to Milburn Park for the celebration they were having.   Next year, we will def go a little later because even though there were lots of bounce houses and rides, the lines were really long.  We waited for a big slide, but that was it.  Pearce and I got sno cones and then we just sat on our blanket with Daddy and played around there.  I got him some glow sticks and glow necklaces, so he had fun playing with those.  Once the fireworks started, Pearce loved them!  He had a glow want and kept pretending like he was making the fireworks go off :)  It was a really good show and lasted about 20 minutes!