Our Little Boys Growing Up!

(Photo: Pierce on slip-n-slide at Hudson's birthday party)

This was a monumental week for Pierce. He learned to swim without floaties, and to ride his bike without training wheels. Can you believe both in the same week?

Swimming - We didn't think Pierce would EVER learn to swim. He didn't want to wear floaties, but every time he would try and swim, his feet would start at the top, and slowly drift downward...which you can pretty much figure out, his body followed right behind. We would encourage him to just wear the floaties for a little longer, but in his usual "Pierce-Style" he resisted. You gotta love him for his tenacity! This week while swimming in our backyard with neighborhood friends, he just took off and started swimming - under water of all things! By yesterday, he wasn't only swimming, he was diving for dive-sticks at the bottom of the pool. We surprised dad when he got home from work, and he couldn't believe it!

Bike - Pierce and Sierra both have really nice bikes, several razor scooters, Sierra has an electric scooter, and Pierce has the newest thing on the market an Asphalt Fusion Sport Board(which is virtually a skateboard/scooter combined). So, needless to say, they have many options when playing with friends. Which has probably been a big reason why Pierce has never attempted to ride his "nice" Mongoose bike (pegs and all). One evening this week, while Pierce was playing with one of his best friends, Will, he jumped on another friends bike (that doesn't have training wheels) and tried to take off. The first few attempts were a little rocky...but Will quickly jumped to his side and cheered him on. As I was cooking dinner, Will ran in the house screaming "PIERCE IS RIDING A BIKE WITHOUT TRAINING WHEELS." We dropped what we were doing, ran outside, and sure enough, there was Pierce on the sidewalk riding away!! He decided to try his own bike, and without training wheels, for the first time, the ole Mongoose took a spin around the block.

I've gotta say, Mom & Dad were pretty darn proud of Pierce this week. Not too many 5-year olds learn to do all of that in 7 days. Leave it to our little guy to do it. He is pretty amazing, kinda cranky sometimes, a little spoiled, and just down right SWEET! For my birthday he took me to see Kung Fu Panda and told me 1,000,000,000,000 times that he loved me.

He had me at hello :)
KB