Week 47 (12/1 - 12/7)

Lots of pics...

Pierson loves Peek-a-boo... we can jump out from anywhere and he just smiles so big and starts laughing. I love his precious laugh!

As I said last week Pierson finally started crawling up on all 4's (as opposed to his army crawl)... well his knees started to get really red and sore and on Tuesday night he started doing this:

He was going all over the place in this little "monkey" crawl and Drew and I could not quit laughing!!!

Pierson LOVES taking baths! he has so much fun splashing the water and playing with his bath toys!

And we always keep a few pacifiers in his bed at night so if he loses one off the side of the crib he can find another... I set him in his crib to go get his PJs and came back and he was trying to fit all 3 in his mouth :-)

Pierson has an obsession with pushing things around the house... laundry baskets, chairs, toy cars, anything! Here he is pushing his table around the living room... silly little guy!

On Wednesday I had to go on a business trip to Midland for 2 nights! It was my longest time away from Pierson yet :-( Both nights I called Drew after work and he would put his phone on speaker so I could talk to Pierson and hear what he was doing. I just had Drew leave the phone on speaker as he was feeding Pierson and doing different things because I missed him! Drew was also so kind and took several pictures each night and e-mailed them to me when Pierson went to sleep... it made it a little easier! I was so ready to see them both when I got home on Friday!

Here's a pic of Pierson heading to bed while I was out of town

He just loves pushing this thing around... he also loves to lift it up and turn it upside down!

He's crawling towards the tile...

And then decides to monkey crawl!

He also likes to play with my fitness ball (because obviously I'm not getting any use out of it) :-)

He likes to hit it really hard and also likes to push it around the room. I have to keep a good eye on him or he'll tumble to the ground :-)

This pic was JUST before he picked up that cup and dumped water all over the table and himself... I didn't anticipate it QUITE soon enough :-)

My silly little man!

And there's that tongue again... I think he learned it from my sister *wink*

And he discovered that the dishwasher makes a really neat noise...

when he bangs on it extra hard!

Yep... he's definitely a boy! He LOVES banging on anything and everything! He's just so much fun!!

Week 46 (11/24 - 11/30)

Well I was still sick on Monday so I stayed home from work and Drew ended up taking Pierson to daycare to try to keep him from getting sick before Thanksgiving. I think it was a 24-hour bug because by early afternoon I was feeling much, much better so I went and picked up the little man around 3 (it was killing me to be home without him).

Hanging out in the laundry room

Hollering at Shadow

Well Pierson never got sick… but poor Drew started feeling bad in the middle of the night Tuesday and stayed home sick all day Wednesday. My sister got to town on Wednesday and Drew was feeling a lot better by the evening but we didn’t want to chance getting anyone else sick so I took Pierson out to my parent’s house to hang out for a while. Oh… Pierson finally started crawling on all fours that night, too! He has been army crawling for a few months, and didn’t really have motivation to crawl on all 4’s… but tile and wood floors get so cold on his tummy and he just took off on all 4’s. It was amazing! He’s become quite the pro quite fast :-)

Thursday was Thanksgiving and we headed out to my parents house for the day. It was my parents and sister and Aunt Kay and grandpa and Drew’s parents and his sister and grandma and then my Uncle Bill that lives in Florida. It was such a fun day with lots of family! And we only had to eat one Thanksgiving since both of our families were there… so it was perfect! My Aunt Kay loves to cook Thanksgiving so she prepared the whole meal! It was FABULOUS!!!

My Aunt Kay showing my sister how to cook a turkey... my sister is taking after my grandma and Kay and becoming quite the good cook!

Siblings!!

My dad and Kay

Drew's Grandma Joyce and GoGo

My Grandpa and my Uncle Bill

Admiring that cute little fella

Sitting down for Thanksgiving

(I didn't bring my zoom lens so I didn't get everyone... bummer)

Pierson's Aunt Christi (my sister) and MiMi

Walking around with Aunt Christi

Having some water with his Thanksgiving meal

Pierson eats at a different time than when we had our Thanksgiving meal... so he just snacked on some cranberry sauce and a roll... and then we fed him some more later. He wasn't a fan of mashed potatoes this time... he obviously doesn't take after his momma in that regard!

Yummy!

Friday was the infamous “Black Friday.” My sister, my mom, and I have a tradition of looking through all the circulars on Thanksgiving day and making our lists of what all we want and where we’re going to go. Then we get up early on Black Friday and hit the stores as they open… then later in the day we all go and get a pedicure together! It’s been our tradition for the past several years… I didn’t really find much worth getting up well before dawn for… but it’s tradition and I couldn’t miss out so I got up anyway. I did however meet my mom and sister at 5… rather than 4:30 like they did :-) Friday night we had a bunch of friends over… some that live in town and others that were in town for Thanksgiving. It was so much fun hanging out with everyone!! Saturday my cousin Gary and his wife Kim and their two kiddos Max and Kyra came up to my parents for the afternoon. It was so fun watching Pierson with Max and Kyra! And that night we watched the OSU game at my parents and hung out with my sister before she headed home on Sunday. I love when she comes to town!!

Kyra and Pierson playing

Kyra giving Pierson a hug when he was upset... she is just the sweetest!!!

Pierson watching Max play on the back porch

And Kyra blew bubbles on the other side of the door for Pierson... He loved it!!!

Showing Pierson where all the bubbles were

Who needs fancy toys when you have measure cups, spoons, and plastic bowls!! My mom always gets out this stuff for Pierson and he goes crazy banging it around.

He would take the spoon and put it in one of the measure cups, then switch hands and take it out, and then do it all over again. He did it for the longest time and we just cracked up! He was definitely entertaining himself!

Our little man after a tasty (messy) Biter Biscuit!

Week 45 (11/17 - 11/23)

Well it’s been a while since I’ve updated… I don’t know where the time has gone! Here is the update from the 45th week (wow… 45 weeks!!!!). Well on Mondays our friends Britney and Ryan are in town so they came over on Monday night. They ended up staying well past midnight and even though it was a work night it was so much fun hanging out! We always have so much fun when they’re in town! And since Tuesday was my birthday Drew even let me open one of my presents when they were still there because it was after midnight so it was officially my birthday (he NEVER lets me open early so I was super excited). Drew and Pierson got me this big “thing” that is a decoration for the wall in between our living room and kitchen… I LOVE it! They also got my a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet! I’ve been getting into photoshop and digital scrapbooking and so this will really help when editing! It’s so neat! It’s basically a mouse that you hold like a pen… it’s awesome! I also got a new video camera from my parents! It's soooooo neat! It's for Drew and I's birthday and Christmas presents... and I've already taken tons of video! I just sit there and play the videos back after Pierson goes to bed and I just crack up!

My sister sent these balloons to me at work and thought that Pierson would enjoy them too when I brought them home… He had so much fun with them!!!

My friend Micheala sent me these flowers, too. They’re beautiful!! I can’t wait to reuse the vase at Christmas time!

Well on Friday I took off work and Pierson and I just hung out all day… I love those days! He is just so much fun to be around and his little personality is constantly making me laugh!

One of his new favorite things is standing at the back door or window and banging on it. He loves to watch the dogs outside and holler at them when he sees them run through the yard.

He must just like hitting glass... because he's discovered my china cabinet and likes to bang on it too :-)

Earlier this week his teacher told us that he pushed this little chair around the room with him several times. Well on Friday when we were hanging out he tried to do the same thing with our kitchen table chair. It was so funny because the chair is so much bigger than he is and he just pulled it behind him as he walked around the table. I didn't get a pic but I did get video... I'll have to post it another time when I get it downloaded from my video camera.


On Saturday morning Drew got up really early and headed out to my parents’ to go hunting. He ended up shooting a buck so Pierson and I drove out there to congratulate him and hang out with my parents while they got the deer “ready.”

Here's his deer hanging from the tractor

Drew with his deer... way to go honey!

And leaving my parents this is what I had to drive behind before Drew turned off to go to the meat market... GROSS! His eyes were still open so it looked like that deer was just staring at me!! Ugh!

Saturday night Drew’s parents babysat Pierson for us. Drew and I had tickets to the Vintage O-State wine tasting and auction. We headed to Tulsa to the event and we didn’t really know anyone else there (an acquaintance and a friend’s parents) and I’m not a big fan of wine and we weren’t really bidding on anything and they didn’t have a dinner… so… after an hour we decided that since we were dressed up and had a sitter we would go have a good dinner. We headed to PF Changs and had so much fun just hanging out and chatting.

Drew and I before we headed to Tulsa

Sunday I started getting sick so we just lounged around all day.