National Grantham

I’ve been meaning to put this on the blog…yet another story about how cute and sweet Pierce is.

Pierce has started coming home everyday with flowers in his pocket for mommy. He will run up to her and dig in his pocket and hand her a handful of the little flowers that grow on clover saying, “Mommy! I got you some flowers!” It’s the cutest thing. The first time he did it, I picked him up at school and we headed home. I didn’t even notice his right hand was clenched tight the whole time. When we got home he ran up to Heather and opened his fist. In his sweaty little palm he had these wilted and crushed little clover flowers. There is no telling how long he had been walking around holding them waiting to give them to mommy. I guess he didn’t think to put them in his pocket so he had just been walking around with them in his hand all afternoon. Now, he not only brings flowers home for Heather, but he also has become quite a rock hound and brings home whole pocketloads of pyrite/quartz rocks everyday. He will give those to both Heather and me.

Speaking of rocks, every night at bedtime we get in his bed and I make up stories to tell him. We’ve been telling this whole “series” of stories about dragons for the past few months that are loosely based on “The Water Horse”. So there is always an egg that we find, Pierce takes care of it and it hatches into a dragon. The dragons are all different colors with different colored eggs and each color dragon has a special power (one grants 3 wishes, one gives him a superpower of his choice, you get the picture) and that is the part where Pierce gets to add his input. His wishes are all really goofy, like he’ll wish for M&Ms, ice cream, and hot dogs. Anyway, I picked him up from school a couple of weeks ago and he came running to me digging in his pocket. He pulled out this egg shaped orange rock with a crack in it and crystals all in the crack. He  was so delighted, he had found a dragon egg! So just like in the stories, we put it in a little box and it’s sitting in a drawer by his bed, waiting to hatch. I made up a story about orange dragons, and how when they hatch, they become a stuffed animal that you can sleep with every night. Now I just need to find an orange, stuffed dragon.

Josh

Everything is finally back and in place from the great blog crash of 2006. So, if you want to relive some of the fun, check out the archives over on the right. They go all the way back to the beginning again, August 2005. Some of the photos and videos need to be re-uploaded, but everything else is in tip-top shape.

Josh

Pierce gets a sheet filled out by his teacher everyday telling us what they ate, what they learned, what kind of mood they are in, when they pottied…all that stuff. There is also a “notes” section at the bottom for anything interesting that happened that day. We got his sheet on Friday and immediately noticed there was a ton of writing in the notes section, and over onto the back of the sheet. It was from Miss Rebecca and read,

“One of the other boys was mean to me today, and Pierce stepped in and told the boy ‘Miss Becca is nice to you, so you should use nice words with her!’ Pierce also told me that he wants mommy to walk to the candy store with him. Also, Pierce woke up from his nap a little early and sat and talked with me for a little while”

That’s my boy! He is such a good guy. I love hearing this kind of stuff. Makes me know we’re raising him right.

Josh