THE PEARCE FAMILY: March 2010

A Picnic in March

So Gavin is a bit of a ladies man. Plays with the girls way more than he does boys. Part of this is because there are just simply more girls but when given the choice he loves the girls and gets along with them so well. One day his friend Jaynie and him wanted a picnic so I sent them out with some snacks and they layed there blanket out and sat on the blanket for such a long time just talking like the were two grownups so so cute.

Easter Windows

New pictures of Windows a little better than the snowing daytime ones:)

Count down to Paris!!!

So I am on the count down to the Day I head across the sea to Paris, France. I have never in my life gone this far and I am SOOOO excited. a dozen things have gone wrong making me wonder if I should really be doing this but here I am anyway on day 13 starting to pack my bags. We have to fit everything we need for 9 days in a carry on and a backpack so it is going to be tricky and there are so many things that you have to have I don't think about like an adapter for the electricity. But I am about done with the shopping and am starting to figure out how to get it all in. There are two things I am struggling with shoes ( they say that I should only bring 2 but I might live if I take three) and accessories the problem with this is I don't accessorize all that often because I have kids hanging on me and I have no were to go but I won't have any kids and I will be going all over so I should get to accessorize am I right so I will take what I can fit. Anyway if any of you world travelers have any tips let me know. I am very sad I will be missing Easter with my family but everyone keeps telling me that it is only once and it is OK so I keep telling myself the same thing so I will start believing it other than that I can think of nothing Yeah the countdown it on!!

Joyschool Fieldtrip

The kids are all thrilled with getting to touch the snake

Getting ready to pet the He was really pretty cool!

watching the fish

Another Field trip with our Joy school has come and gone. We went to PetsMart to see the animals. I have to admit I have never been in PetsMart or any other pet store. After spending the morning there I did not get any revelation on getting a pet. They had a hairless rat (I can't figure out what would be going through people's minds to buy that, "sorry if you are one who loves them") snakes, birds, fish, cats, etc. and I spend the entire time wondering how I can avoid ever having anyone of these animals in my house. How will I ever survive my kids begging for pets like these. The kids had a blast though and I think that maybe I can

March

Yeah!! we have survived February just barely. I really start to get down in the dumps come February I am so tired of the Snow and the Cold. But March comes and we have a few beautiful days to make up for the cold ones. I go running and loose the beany and maybe one of my 3 layers. And the end is in sight hallelujah!! I survived my 32nd birthday not a real big event but Grin and the kids took me to dinner and Grin fixed my diamond which had a bent prong and come to find out needed all new prongs I guess that happens after almost 10 years of Marriage. So it is now as beautiful as the day I got it yeah!! The kids are getting out in the sunshine which is great except with spring sunshine comes spring Mud every pair of socks the kids own are now brown from the mud and wet grass because we can't seem to keep our shoes on.

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.