She's 5 months now, and I'm just getting around to adding her to the blog?!?

Here she is...Paisley is very into dressing up. I know everyone thinks it is me, but she had a really bad day at school not long ago...and it was because Daddy didn't put on matching socks for her. Her outfit choices vary each day, although she does go to daycare during the week she gets all dolled up. Paisley's favorite accessory is her bracelet, Nana got her. She has been voted "best dressed."
Just this week she has begun rolling over. She can go either way but does not care to be on her stomach for long periods of time.
Not to your surprise, but she is a bit spoiled :)
In our house she goes by the name "sweetie pie" and Pierce calls her this all the time. He is obsessed with her and tries to get in bed with her and read her books. SO far he can only read her one book that he has memorized but she enjoys it. He also tends to her needs, he gives her a pillow and "cobers" (covers).
Pierce will be moving up to the preschool room this week! This room has the 3,4 and 5 year olds in it. HE is very excited to back with his friends, Ronnie and Alex.

This lady needs to go to bed so good night, and hopefully I can post again soon.

WOW the time has gone by fast!

Pierce is now 18 months old now!! He weighs about 26 lbs and talks like crazy. Since we last blogged, Pierce has surpassed many milestones. He is a great dancer and performs for others anytime the music is on. Pierce is still in "school " full time and absolutely loves it. Pierce has many friends in his class and can pronounce all of their names. Pierce is a very good artist and is always bringing home paintings from school. His favorite friends are 2 little girls, Izzy and Anna. He talks about them non stop. Recently he has become obsessed with anything Elmo including his diapers. We had an incident the other day when Big bird was on the diaper and not Elmo. Pierce threw a bit of a fit about this and proceeded to pull out all of the diapers till he found one with Elmo on it.
He can repeat anything you say and loves to talk on the phone. He can say Hi Momma, Hi Dada, Bop Bop, Dee Dee, Nana, Granny, Papa, Jackson and Carson without being prompted. Our latest word is MINE and is not a favorite of mine nor Reece's.
Pierce loves to read and will ask you to read to you by bringing a book and sitting in your lap.
Just a quick update on how is he doing, he was diagnosed with Asthma and is on inhaler treatments throughout the day time. He is doing much better with the inhaler now and will hopefully grow out of it. Other than that our household is busy planning the big wedding! We hope to see everyone this weekend!  Love you all and good night!

Pierce's First Birthday

Hello to everyone. We have made it, the first year has come and we have graduated into the toddler stages. Pierce is growing faster than we ever imagined possible. He mastered walking 1 week before his first Birthday. He is currently cutting 2 more bottom teeth and says a few basic words/sounds. He says Momma, Dadda, BA BA, which is either Bird or Bop, we can't decide. Everytime Pierce picks up a toy car or is in his little car he makes car noises which he learned from his cousin Deacon. He loves pointing to everything and babbling.
Pierce had a wonderful first Birthday with all of his cousins and family in attendence. Pierce had a monkey themed party complete with monkey cupcakes and party favors. For his Birthday he got a ball pit, wagon, riding car, books, toys, blocks, clothes, and a very cute beach towel from Aunt Renee.
Pierce recently started school at a daycare/preschool and is in a class with 4 one year olds and 4 infants. He is learning to have family style dinning and practices saying his prayers before meals. Pierce participates in daily activities within the different learning centers in his classroom. Pierce's teachers report he is their best student when it comes to nap time and sitting in his chair at the dinner table. Pierce sleeps on a cot at school and the teachers say he is very good at laying down by himself and falling asleep. Pierce has also gone without a bottle the past few days and so far hasn't missed it much. Hopefully we have done way with the bottle since the school won't allow any one year old to have one.
We are very proud of Pierce's accomplishments and thankful we have found him a fantastic daycare where he can learn and feel safe!!
Enjoy the pictures!!!

First hair cut

In a few weeks, Pierce will be celebrating a big milestone...his FIRST BIRTHDAY!! I put together a slide show of some of the pictures throughout the year and emailed them to everyone in my address book. It has been a very busy year! It doesn't seem like Pierce should already be one! Dee Dee and Bop Bop took him to get his first haircut last week. Pierce was as good as we could have asked him to be under the circumstances of scissors, clippers and everyone trying to keep him still. Pierce has been enjoying the nice weather over the past few days, and has been strolling in his jogging stroller, and went to the park to play on the swings. We are still working on teaching him to walk. He is able to walk short distances, about 3 steps and then he gives up. He is very quick at crawling and loves holding on the walls to get around the house. We will be taking Pierce to a daycare for the first time this week. It is at a lady's house and there will be 2 other boys his same age. We have been training him to fall asleep on his own in his bed, and have been successful thus far. We hope this helps at the daycare but we are a little scared he may not want to nap due to all the excitement. Pierce officially hates baby food and prefers to eat what everyone else is eating. He is off of formula now and we are trying to transition into eliminating the bottle from our lives. We will keep you updated on how that goes. As spring approaches, many things are changing in our lives and we are looking forward to what this next year may bring. Birthday party information is soon to come...

Christmas and Recent Pictures

Hello to Everyone!! Thank you for being so patient, I haven't had much time to sit and upload all of these pictures until now. We all had the best Christmas ever, Santa brought Pierce clothes, toys, an Elmo and book and his favorite toy...Scout, who is a talking dog. Christmas time was very busy for us, we had several houses to go to but fit everyone in!!

Pierce updates:

He has 4 teeth now, the top two have finally made their long anticipated appearance after causing a lot of pain! Pierce is pulling himself up on everything and is learning to balance, but has not yet tried to walk on his own. He is very good at pushing his toys around the house but is still a little timid to let go. Pierce loves pulling up on the dryer door when helping with the laundry and the dishwasher door as he is in charge of the silverware. Pierce is very good at saying Mama but has not attempted to say anything else lately, he does scream and make odd sounds but no new words yet. Lately he has been trying out different laughs, if he hears or sees anyone laughing he will try to laugh with you. Pierce is doing very well at sleeping through the night again but is not fond of nap time any longer.

The greatest story we have for you all, is the other night Pierce dumped the entire basket of socks out and starting throwing one of his socks across the room. He then would crawl over to the sock as fast as he could and put it in his mouth and shake his head from left to right. He did this a few times, and the only explanation I can come up with is...he has observed Lupe, (my Dad's little dog) and seen him do this with his stuffed animal. It is by far the funniest thing we have ever seen!! That is all for now, we will talk to you all soon! ENJOY the pictures!!

RECENT NEWS!!

Hello everyone. There are so many things to update you all on about Pierce!! Since we last posted, Pierce celebrated his First Thanksgiving and met his Granny and Papa Barnes! Pierce had 2 Thanksgivings this year, he went to his Great Grandma Dillard's house and then celebrated with the Tarwaters. Pierce was so full of mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes he had to take 2 naps that day!!!

We have officially put up all the Christmas decorations and hired Bop Bop to help with the outside lights on the house! Pierce said he was asking Santa for toys and clothes!!

He is officially outgrowing every clothing item he owns! Even though he is approaching 9 months old, he is wearing 12-18 month old clothing!

Pierce mastered crawling and pulling himself up. He is getting very brave and tends to attempt balancing on his own when he pulls himself up.

Lately Pierce has been showing us his dance moves..he rocks back and forth when sitting and claps his hands together.

I think that about takes care of everything up to date..we are 2 weeks away from Christmas and Pierce will be busy shopping for everyone on his list this year...

Monkey see monkey do

Hello hello to everyone! We have been so busy around here we haven't much time to post to the blog. Everyone is doing well, Reece has been promoted to Manager of Arvest Bank in Nixa, and we have both been trying to keep up with Pierce rolling around the house. Pierce has 2 teeth now, bottom front ones, that he loves to show off when he giggles. He has yet to master crawling, but gets around by rolling everywhere. Lately he has learned while sitting up, he can use his feet to scoot backwards. His favorite time of day is still bath time, where he now sits up and splashes water everywhere and thinks it is funny.

We have finally updated both cars with new car seats..this was a big step that has taken longer than should have. Reece and I are so jealous of Pierce's luxury car seat, Pierce looked so comfy in his "my ride 65" we contemplated letting him sleep in it the first night.

The Blackwell Halloween party was a success, Pierce showed off his monkey costume, and cousin Deacon joined us and dressed as a Pirate. Pierce and Deacon played together all last weekend, they are now buddies. Deacon, 2yrs old, can not understand why Pierce doesn't walk and so he tries to pick Pierce up.

That is all for now, we love you all!!

HAPPY FALL TO ALL!!

Fall is finally here, and Pierce is loving the extra decorations around the house to play with. So far we have only lost one little porcelain pumpkin. Little Pierce is now saying his first word...DRUMROLL PLEASE... It was "MAMAMA." Reece is trying so hard to get Pierce to say Daddy but he is having no such luck when MAMAMA is being screamed all the time now. Since we last posted to the blog, we took our first family road trip..a long 8 hours in the car. Suprisingly Pierce did very well and slept most of the 8 hour trip to Grapevine, Texas. We had to take the "Bird" with us. She is our lifesaver and is still watching Pierce for us; she is Pierce's Great Grandma. Reece gave all of us the grand ole tour of Grapevine and we were in town for his 10 year High School reunion. We all had a great time and Pierce and I hinted to Reece we would enjoy living there one day. We are all looking forward to our first Halloween costume party at Aunt Renee's house and we will have the camera ready for some "ghoul" pictures.

They says it's your Birthday..It's my Birthday too!

Pierce celebrated his half Birthday this past week! He is now officially 6-months old! It is so hard to believe that he is already so big, it seems like last week that we were making the trip to the hospital for the BIG ultrasound. My how time has passed by so quickly. Mr Birthday boy celebrated his big day with a chocolate covered strawberry and got a new car seat and plush blocks that make lots of noise!!

UPDATES:

Pierce is still a little wobbly when he tries to sit up. His bottom teeth are almost visible, he has not been a happy camper lately and nothing seems to ease his teething pain. Pierce is very active and babbles constantly. Lately our biggest hurdle has been getting Pierce to take naps during the day, he sleeps about 11 hours at night but refuses to nap during the day.

What happens when Mommy is sleeping...

Hello everyone! Thank you for all of your comments. We have been busy these past couple of weekends. We finally have up all of our Fall and Halloween decorations in the house and Pierce of course has matching seasonal clothing that he loves wearing!! We finally bought a high chair this weekend and boy was Pierce excited. Now he can sit at the table and eat with us and has a new play area for his toys. So as I was napping today I couldn't help but hear a commotion in the living room, Pierce and Reece were watching the Cowboys game, and Reece was in charge of the baby...as you can see in these pictures, Reece was a little preoccupied with the game and lunch time was a little messy!!! Oh Reece! Updates with Pierce, he now sits in his high chair, still a little wobbly and can't hold himself up but we are working on that. Poor little guy tries so hard to crawl, he has mastered what his legs are suppose to do but cannot figure out how his arms are suppose to help and raise his upper body. He is constantly rolling over and loves jumping up and down in his "entertainment center" we call it. We are also trying to master holding on to a cup and he got a new green cup this weekend with handles, he loves chewing on it and throwing it across the room. Pierce also has a "johnny jumper" that he swings in rather than jumps, he also does a little dance with his feet and it sounds like he is tap dancing..it is hilarious! He is such a growing boy!!

Pierce is 5 Months old now....

Pierce has hit a few milestone since the last blog! He is now able to roll over, grasp on to everything including hair..ouch, suck on his little toes and stands with a little help. He is always smiling and now has the cutest little giggle. He discovered he could cough and stick out his tongue. Pierce's latest obsessions are looking at himself in the mirror, splashing water in the bath, and watching tv. Pierce is fascinated with everything outside and loves swinging on the porch with his Great Grandma. There is not a vegetable that Pierce doesn't like, he loves eating and it shows....he now weighs 17 pounds!!! Pierce is very excited for fall and is trying to decide what he wants to be for Halloween........