Better late

The time came, and went, for Cole's to go to school. I'm a little late blogging it, but these pics were too cute to ignore. Here he is, anxious for his first day of school. He already has the vocabulary. Trent's Dad gave a suggestion for the vegetable garden they work on together and Cole replied, "I concur."

Here is the bus stop rock!

Cole was so excited to get on the bus for the first time. Notice the cute sign the bus driver had out to welcome the kindergartners...

I went to the school so I would be there when the bus arrived. It was quite a wait, the bus was a half hour late! Here is Cole getting his name tag from Mrs. Oakeson, who is also in our ward, so I'll be able to check on Cole's progress and behavior every Sunday.
He was so excited to go in to class. For the first week though he continually told us he was bored. This was because he had to sit on the rug all day...sounds comfy to me. After they were settled into class and into a schedule, the children were rotated through what Cole calls stations. Some of these are Legos, toys that link together and magnet boards. I was worried that Cole would be too bored, the little genius knows some multiplication already. (Wish I could say I was responsible for that, but it's all thanks to the Montessori he attended last year.) I was second guessing our decision to hold him back, but now he's been in school for a few weeks, he loves it and I'm glad to have him home for half the day. I think he is enjoying the relaxed atmosphere and loves recess. So, we're all happy!

When will I get over it?

Okay, so the first one to tell me about the Twilight Saga was Trent's cousin last Mother's Day and then my sister-in-law also told me about it, so I figure I better finally read them. One day at Costco I was able to get the third book in hardback, but they didn't have the first or second. Well, I ended up borrowing the first, loving it and then I found the second in hardback at Walmart, loved it. Loved the third, bought the fourth and thought if I could just get the fourth read, I would be over the obsessive compulsive tendency to hibernate in the basement, hiding from Trent in order to read.

Well.....Trent was out of town this weekend and I finished the fourth book easily. BUT....now I just want to reread them starting at the beginning, the first one....the only one I don't own a copy of! Any suggestions? My house really needs my attention! Maybe Janna can help me...oh no, I forgot she's got issues....read all four in a week-or was it all four twice in one week? My mom says she waiting to start until she goes on her trip....will she even be aware she's on a trip? Is it a little silly that I actually want to use the iron on decals that came with Eclipse and I totally want to be a part of Team Edward?

I thought everyone was just silly to be so blown away by these adolescent volumes, but allas, I've joined the crowd. I'm also rather depressed-no new volumes to immerse myself in, better go find book one tomorrow!

DONE!!!!

Started yesterday night.....stayed up til 3:30.....a little this morning.....finished after the boys went to sleep.....12:30 COMPLETED BREAKING DAWN!!!!!



Yep, that's about all I accomplished while Trent has been away for the weekend. I'm happy, ....the house is not.....

Summer

I have so enjoyed having a large RV garage. This may be a strange thing to appreciate, but I do. It's so nice to have a place to throw all the boxes I haven't wanted to tackle from our move a year ago. (I am still missing my two crock pots though-very frusterating---Trent must have boxed those...) There's space for the old furniture that I don't really want to use in the new house (Trent's glossy black laminated dresser!--with bright beautiful gold automotive style trim!) I can also store my travel trailer, snowmobiles and four-wheeler inside (out of sight!) Then there is the extra room for Chris's boat and Gus's boat, Aarons four-wheelers and Chris's snowmobiles.

And here are some pictures that were made possible by our open key policy with the boats!

Me and Trent on the tube

Trent and Cole on the tube have SO much fun.

Our friends Becky and Brynn

Our friend Chris jumping the wake

Yep, that's me wakeboarding after about 7 years of doing nothing....

Teaching Cole to drive the boat.

Memory

I was looking at pics and came across Cole's graduation ceremony for Montessori at Riverton. It was pretty amazing. The kids had memorized parts to a program written for the fourth grade level. These kids are three to five years old! Cole memorized, "And speaking of peace and love, have you looked at the newspaper lately? There's a lot of poverty, hunger and crime out there. I wish more people would care about one another, be givers not takers. Let's sing a song about how it should be. This is what our program is all about." We practiced for WEEKS. He was very good at it. The day of the program he practiced a bunch and was all ready to go. At his turn though, he kind of shuffled up to the microphone very sheepishly. I could tell something was up, this wasn't him trying to be funny....he could remember his part....to our church talk! As he walked all he could think of was "Hi! My name is Cole Pearce and I'm five years old. I am grateful for Jesus Christ because he sacrificed for us, I can repent when I do wrong." Wouldn't that have been funny?!

What a summer

I had to look back at pictures to remember the order and all we've done. Then decided who cares about the order. Our first hike by our new home. We hiked up to the Bell Canyon Reservior. Took the fishing pool. Not a nibble.

Thanksgiving Point. Having Psoriasis has one benefit-but boy is it hard to get in a uv light treatment every day with two kids!

The new carousel at Hogle Zoo. Definitely a hit with the kids.


















These are just a few of our Summer adventures!

Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro?

Well, Cole's stick out. Really out. They are twenty-five millimeters from his scalp. Normal is 15-18. They were corrected to 10! Don't worry they will relax...I hope. Now they are non-existant. The surgery center was great. The nurse came out and introduced herself and got a giant post it note for Cole to draw a picture on. GIANT. About 3 feet by 2 feet. He drew a dog head, then needed to follow it up with the body on a second post it. They posted these on a door and still had them up days later. \

Cole was pretty scared when he realized they would knock him out. We got the drugs in really quick though and then he got really loopy! They started calling him Dr. Cole and dressed him in some scrubs and gave him his own blood-pressure cuff and gas mask. By the time they took him back for surgery he was just grinning and giggling.

He recovered very well that afternoon at home. The hardest part was that he kept throwing up, but he was a champ about it.

Before:

During:

After:

He looks pretty sharp now, although it took a little bit to get use to his ears being less obvious, okay so now you have to search for them, but he is so proud of his big boy ears. I had a hard couple of days because his ears seemed to be part of his personality, but I'm glad we did it before he started at his new school. Now that another of Trent's traits is removed, it's also one more point for me in the who does he look like most contest!