The Cousins with Santa!

The Hinsdale Family stayed with us for a few days before Christmas and we had so much fun. The little girls had a blast and Pearce LOVED her cousins so much.We did have to wait for a while for Santa so Pearce got to enjoy her first carousel ride (I think dad had fun also !)and chow down at The Cheesecake Factory. Needless to say Pearce was entertained all day by Bates and Anna-Pearce.

PEARCE LOVED SANTA TODAY !!

We had a great time visiting Santa today at the mall . Pearce was really checking everything out very carefully but decided that this white bearded guy was pretty cool. She was adorable (if the mom says so herself) and laughed pretty hard at him. My parents came with us and I think they enjoyed the experience as well .


We are so excited for Christmas and look forward to being with our family. Fran and gang will be here on Friday ... followed by Matt's mom and Kevin Christmas eve ... followed by Aunt Amanda and Uncle Jarrod on Christmas Day -- little Pearce will have quite a crowd for her first Christmas. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with your friends and family!! We hope Santa is good to everyone!!

Pearce and Sophia at Lunch!

Today, Pearce had a GREAT time at lunch with her friend Sophia . I thought it would be neat to see how much both girls have already grown up ... they are so cute to watch interact with their baby talk. We look forward to many fun times with Sophia!! Hopefully Ryland can join us next time so the girls can fight over him :)

The New Visor !!

My advice to anyone who has kids is get one of these visors ASAP .... get your kids used to wearing it while they get their hair washed and your life will be so much easier. I am very lucky to have an older sister and mother who give me LOTS and LOTS of tricks which this is one of them .... it is AWESOME !! Also, you can see that Maggie has now decided that she wants to be involved in the bath as well -- its like having two children some days !! Even though there are MANY days I want to kill Maggie (today being one of them) she and Pearce are the best of friends and we just love to watch them interact!!

Opening a Present from Great Grandma Weese!

As you can see Pearce tore into the gift that Great-Grandma Weese sent her last week .... it was her favorite thing ever , a book. We love reading to Pearce and she enjoys "pretend" reading or whatever you call it that she attempts to do with the books!! Thanks Weese for the great bedtime book!!

Random Pictures ....

Pearce is 10 months old !!

It's so hard to imagine that 10 months agoI gave birth to Pearce. She is such a sweet and happy baby growing up way to quickly. She now has a couple of words to her vocabulary ... the latest being "Bye-Bye" when she waves at herself!! So, we are officially tired because she is crawling all over the place and starting to really pull up. As you can see in the pictures she LOVES the computer -- we have decided that she will know more than us very soon. Each day brings a new challenge but many joys ... honestly, we would not know what to do without Pearce. We are very excited for the holidays and look forward to being with our family!