THE PEARCE FAMILY: May 2009

Top Ten May 19th- May 26th

10. Jaxon has his spring concert at school and does such a good job they are so cute up there and sing so well.
9. We babysit the Niece and Nephew so my sister can go on a field trip.
8. Grin works again on the sprinklers he finds the hole in the pipe but now all the pressure is breaking one of his other "fixes" will it ever end
7. We have a Wasatch Back Ragnar relay BBQ to talk about our legs and to get pumped up. I am the only one from my van that ends up coming including my hubby who ended up working late so me and my 3 kids plus my nephew I ended up babysitting last minute went to the BBQ it was fun thought to chat with everyone but a little crazy. Thank goodness it was outdoors and there were enough other kids to keep them all busy.
6. Jaxon plays baseball on Tuesday and Thursday they are starting to look a little better if he would only pay attention when he is in the field.
5. Soccer ended but next week we have a makeup game and practice so it ends without really ending
4. I try to find a babysitter for Friday night last minute and it doesn't work so we put the kids to bed and tried to watch a movie we both fell asleep have way in aren't we exciting.
3. We go to a guy that Grin works with house for Sunday BBQ we have fun getting to know them. The people we can relate to in the car business are few and far between so the ones that can need to stick together. They have a little 5 year old boy and the boys have a ball playing with him.
2. I have seven kids at once in my backyard 3 of them are mine but still crazy is this how the whole summer is going to be? yikes!!
1. My little sister brings the cutest little stork to our House and door ditches to tell that she is expecting a baby. Congratulations Debbie!! We are soo soo excited!

Our Saturday stories

Funny things the kids said the last few days and both had to do with "saturday's"

On Saturday after Jaxon had already eaten 1-1/2 waffles, several pieces of bacon and milk. I had just got it all cleaned up the conversation went as follows

Jaxon, "Mom I am starving"
Mom, "You just finished eating"
Jaxon, "but I am still starving"
Mom, "I don't have anymore food for you until lunch"
Jaxon, "you better stock up on Saturdays mom because I am going to be really, really, really, really, really, really,... hungry on saturdays so you need lots of food."

On Monday Gavin was on the potty and yelled his usual Mommy! I'm done! so I went in to wipe him he is depending on the day doing a little better at wiping himself so the conversations went like this.

Mom, " I thought you were going to wipe you own bottom these days"
Gavin, " not on saturday's mom"

Ella "the little girl"

So I think that I have a baby but she just isn't anymore. I usually put her hair in pigtails or she wears it natural curly but I blow dried it this morning and I couldn't believe how much hair she really has and how grown up she looks when you blow dry it. I had to take a few pictures but she wasn't really cooperating so they aren't the best but the whole point was the hair so no worries. I know I am bias but what a pretty little thing she is. We just can't get enough.

Jaxon's "Spring Sing"

We are in to it now all of the recitals, ballgames, and year end field trips, field days, and class programs. Jaxon just had his last week and they did such a cute job. Ella decided to drop my little camera a few hours before the event so I didn't get any video. I am so sad but am hoping I will find a mom who did film it and get a little from them. Anyway they sang songs about all the months of they year hence the posters that I did for them (they are the small spec in the center of the stage. (I believe too small but I just did what I was told) you really could see them though and I was at the back. Jaxon played an instrument for one of the songs that looked like a xylophone but he said that it was bells. They all did such a cute job and we were so proud of him. He sang is heart out the whole time.

Jaxon is in the red and white stripe on the left

I had to take a few pictures of the posters just to remind myself that I shouldn't say I will do something before I know exactly what it is.

Jaxon playing the bells/xylophone I told him that is what he gets to do because he is playing the piano bribe bribe bribe!

Singing but enjoying it is the questions?

The whole Burton Elementary 1st Grade

Jaxon's Piano recital

I finally got Jaxon's piano recital to upload.( the recital was on April 21st) We are so proud of him he doesn't exactly love the whole piano thing but when he gets a song that he likes and get to the point that he can play it pretty well he gets pretty excited. He even played this for show and tell at school a couple of days before the recital show and tell was "share a talent" so it was perfect practice. I just can't believe how big he is getting and how well he is doing. (when he puts his mind to it) I particularly like the bow at the end that's my Jaxon!!

Top Ten or so For April sometime to May 19th

I forgot to add the biggest top ten of all for me anyway I ran the Salt lake half marathon on the 18th of April and felt really good. This was my second Half marathon I have run I ran syrcuse last year (not one a would recomend) and I think that I am getting the itch for a whole one but it really depends on how my run had gone on any particular day whether or not I really believe I could do it.

10. Ella climbs out of her crib
9. I make posters for Jaxon's program at school takes me a week I am either really slow or go overboard
8. fix sprinklers in the yard or try to they still don't work right we found another hole in the pipe it goes on and on
7. Jaxon baseball twice a week soccer twice a week and piano lessons once a week
6. I accidentally spill oxy clean in Ella's eye long story spend two days at the doctors but she is fine it only took $330 worth of medical bills to find that out
5. spend a day at thanksgiving point with friends
4. go with Jaxon to his year end field trip to the discovery gateway
3. still volunteer each week at jax school and do art start once a month can't wait for school to be done
2. in charge of the April's singing part of music makers (play group) I am glad I don't have to do that every month
1. Grin turns 31 and we give him rock band for his birthday now we have started down the list of people we can invite over so we can rock so so fun. We also celebrate many other birthdays in the month of may so we had lots of trips up the road to Paradise and down the road to American Fork
0. Grin gets a new Job still for Ken Garff but now he is selling Nissan's in Ogden a 15 minute commute and seems to be a lot less stressful for him.

Spring Windows

So I was going to get better pictures of these before I posted them. The daytime just has too much reflection but I will be doing new windows before I get back down there to take a night time pic so here they are. We did a cherry blossom tree in the back with my old bike (I had no idea it was so antique looking how sad) in the front windows we did a flower and grass back drop with swings hanging from the ceiling they were so fun to do and I can't wait to do the next ones I am really starting to get into the flow and look forward to the creative relief every 6 weeks.

Tricycle rides

I went out to check on Gavin and Ella the other day and they were riding the tricycle together Ella found a perfect spot on the back of Gavin's bike she holds up her legs and holds on. I thought it was so cute. I was a little worried about her feet but she did such a good job and they have such fun riding around.

Girls Night meets daytime fun!

In April our girls night was a girls day with the kids at Thanksgiving point and I just had to show the cute pics of my favorite ladies with our cute kiddies my Jaxon and Ashleigh's Addi are in school so they aren't there but what fun we had letting them run around. and seeing the beautiful tulips however I didn't get very many pics which makes me sad but the ones we got (the group shot thanks to Jamie) are great fun. I have known these ladies at least since collage and Jamie and I have known each other since we were the size of the little ones so hard to believe how time goes.

Gavin was offered licorice and this is what he picked for himself seriously

A spring day at the Park

A month or so ago well April 19th to be exact on Sunday afternoon it was such a beautiful day we decided to go throw the ball around at the park get Jax hitting and practicing for baseball. We had such a great time letting the kids play being together as a family I love it when Grin is there and I can pull out the cameral instead of just follow the little one around making sure she doesn't kill herself. I love taking pictures I just wish I had the time to learn how to do it better. Anyway people were flying kites and having picnics and it just made us so excited for the summer to come. life is so much easier when you can entertain you kids with the outdoors. Gavin spends hours watching the Ants, Worms, or potato bugs anything that is crawling along and Ella is right behind him.

"The Cardboard Rocket" or house

Our new dining room chairs came in 3 gigantic box's. One box when to hauling all of the packaging out but I thought I would hang on to the other boxes for the kids to play with. For several days Jaxon wouldn't do anything with them he kept say that he needed his dad to go get some wood so he could build a tree house with them and I kept telling him they were to play with but couldn't last forever and the key to having fun is to make do with what you have get creative right? Well he finally gave up and started cutting away trying to make the two boxes one so it would "fit all of my friends". Finally he talked his mom into helping (lets face it it didn't take much coaxing this is right up my ally) anyway they had such great fun making and decorating this "hut" and have played in it like crazy over the last week or so. (I tried to tell Grinner that the chairs were even a bigger bargin since we got at least a month worth of playtime out of the boxes which is priceless). Anyway, they particularly enjoyed decorating it with markers and Ella really got into it I about died when I went out to see more marker on her than the house. They are washable markers but I was still in a panic one of my favorite outfits but the washable came through for us this time and after some overnight soaking we got it all out. She is truly the messiest kid that I have had so far. Nothing seems to make it were it belongs.

Ella covered in marker she had fun though

Jaxon working hard on making windows and putting his mark on "his side"

Jaxon got his own side but Ella and Gavin had to share they didn't seem to mind thank goodness

Our cute cardboard house

Ella climbs out of her crib

Ella is now 22 months old and has recently decided that she can climb out of her crib. So I put her down for her nap and either she climbs right out or when she wakes up she climbs out but either way we go to get her up with a fabulous surprise. I really didn't realize that she had so many things in her room that she could get into but as you can see below there is enough to make a nice little mess. After about a week of this I have started keeping a much better ear on the door and try to get her as soon as I hear her but she is quick and quiet. I just can't believe we are already embarking on this next step with her all of my not so favorite stages. The next step is potty training AAAHHHH!!

Ella and her bows

So my little Ella is getting so big. She is saying so much and playing so cute and being a girly girl. She is into dresses lately and I can't dress her in her room without her insisting on picking out the outfit so I usually distract her with "diego" or "curious George" while we dress and get our hair done. She really quite enjoys getting her hair done as well. On this day I was gathering the things we need to get do her hair and I said "Lets get some bows" she started running to her room yelling "bows, bows", and came out with these in here hair. they are the flowers that are on her curtains I velcroed them on so that I could launder them and she decided they would make great bows my favorite is that she new exactly where to put them and becuase of the velcro they stuck. What a cutie!

Half way through the year Grin changed Jobs. He still works for Ken Garff but is now the Used car manager at the Ken Garff Nissan dealership in Riverdale. He is loving the change and has started going to Auction to buy used cars. He is really enjoying this new aspect of the job and has had the opportunity to travel to Pennsylvania a few times to an exclusive Nissan Auction. He is now the 1st counselor in the Elders Corm and loves spending time playing with the kids and teaching them sports and watching as much sports as he can football, Basketball, Baseball, Golf, Hockey, Tennis, Poker, Soccer, (did I miss any) pingpong? if it is on Espn it is worth watching am I right?

As for me. It is pretty much same old same old. Clean house house the house by 10 am the next morning it is dirty again. I have Jaxon in joy school with the neighborhood kids and will be the teacher next month. We "remodeled" the storage room it started out putting some shelves in then I decided that we should put floor in, then we put in a water softener and a new water heater. My quick small project ended up a huge major project and cost way to much money but in the end my glasses come out of the dish washer clean for the first time and I am a little more organized which makes me happy. I got a new calling a few weeks ago and am now the primary chorister yikes never complain about your calling because it could always be worse. Teaching relief society was torture but at least it was only once a month now it is every week. The kids are a true joy though.

Jaxon started the 4th grade this fall and is doing amazing . He is crazy smart and can read at a 6-8th grade reading level. I gave him my old alarm clock after Grinner won me an Ihome and wakes himself up every morning. He gets up, gets dressed, makes his bed, unloads the dishwasher, reads and sometimes gets his piano done. This of course doesn't always happen smoothly but he does pretty good. We went to his SEP conference however and learned that he doesn't turn in his work that he does. He read probably 4 books that quarter at home and he had turned 1 in and it was the one I had read to him. My little brother was like that and almost didn't graduate because of it, what a nightmare we are working hard to rectify that situation as quickly as possible. He is playing on a competetion basketball team (The Davis Starts) and a comp baseball team (The Sox) and has practice or games almost everynight year round but he loves it and is always happy to go and willing to get his other jobs done to do it most of the time it makes for great leverage. He is getting so tall and before I turn around he will be taller than me. I bought size 10 pants for him for school last spring and we got them out for school and they are too short so he has been flooding around for months new pants "Merry Christmas Jaxon". It is so fun to watch him grow and develop into who he is going to be.

Gavin is now 6 years old! He is in Kindergarten and having a September birthday the oldest in his class. He is not "in love" with school but I don't have to convince him to go everyday either. He has discovered video games and I have had to spend a lot of my time monitoring how much time he has spent playing them. He still has middle child syndrome and you would think that I being a middle child myself would do better at making sure that doesn't happen but he still seems to be the kids that doesn't get his homework done and isn't reading as well as he should at no fault to his own but because mom seems to be running around after everything else. His sweet little personality I am afraid is reflecting this and he spends his life looking at the world with "the glass half EMPTY" I actually put a glass in front of him and asked him "Gavin, when you look at this glass what do you see, is it half full or half empty." his response, "half empty". I am praying that it is a 6 year old phase some of his friends moms say the same thing that the girls will cry in a drop of a hat etc. Gavin doesn't cry that quick but he lashes out yelling not nice things at us like "I hate you's" and "your the worste mom in the world" or this is the worst day ever" "stupid idiot" well you get the idea. I don't want this to be negative but want to write how he actually is so that someday we can read back and laugh at this funny faze our sweet Gavin went through right? On the switch side (it is kind of like living with Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde) he is the cutest big brother to Kennedi and to Ella most days to. But he will spend hours playing with Kennedi from the day she was born giving her kisses, and talking to her in baby talk. Now that she is 10 months he pushes her around the house on her push toy and sits around playing with her for hours kissing and loving her. He is truly the best baby sitter and my heart just leaps out of my chest when ever I watch him. He is going to be the best sweatest dad. My sisters little girl has been his favorite for ever now and I kept wondering if we would be as cute with his own sister as he has been with her but he is just as sweet and loving. How so much love and tenderness and hate and rage can come out of the same child in a matter of hours is beyond me but I am learning quickly that he just "feels" more than the rest of us and we will all adjust accordingly and search for ways for him to utilize that gift.

Ella is now 4 years old!! I was so excited when we found out that Ella was going to join our family I really needed a little more estrogen in this house full of boys and boy did we get it. There is no "tom boy" in our little Ella she is Girly Girl to the core. We have a trunk full of dress-ups in her room (however rarely are they "in the trunk") and a Mirror above it were she spends hours admiring herself and "possing" in front of it. Then she keeps asking things like. "Do I look beautiful in this mommy" or "am I more beautiful in this mommy", or "do I look cute or no?" of course the answer is alway "Yes Ella you look beauiful in everything". but she just keeps asking. We are constantly in a state of imaginary play, princesses and mommies, dances, and tea parties. She loves to dress up in moms shoes and wear princess dresses. She is constantly wanting a friend to play with and they will play house and pretend all day. I LOVE IT!!! it is such a great balance from the "lets wrestle, fight, shoot each other etc." we just eat her up. She is in preschool and loves it. she can write her name so well and knows every letter and its sound ( and has known them for over a year) and recognizes them all the time when we read. She loves to pier over my shoulder when Gavin and I read and she hurries and repeats the words after him like she is reading right along and truthfully she does about as good as he does. That's a girl for you right!

Kennedi Rose Pearce came into our family on February 11th 2011. She became the 3rd Hone Grandchild to be born on that day (strange). She has grown so fast and becoming such a fun and integral part of our little family. She has such a sweet demeanor and is always smiling at people. She is really quite the flirt and we spend most of our outings with people standing around talking about how cute she is and telling everyone around them things like. "Have you seen this baby", "come look at this baby", "She is the cutest thing, you have to see this baby", "look at those big blue eyes" While she just smiles and smiles like she is telling them "I know I am cute and you should all notice". It is really quite fun for me and Grin because we reallyh get a say in how they look or act right! She is crawling all over and getting into every thing she is a typical 10m old baby and we wouldn't trade her for the world.