Cloverbuds

Cloverbuds kicked off at school in September.  It's an afterschool program that meets  twice a month, basically learning gardening and doing 4H work.  We are hoping to plant a garden at our house next year so daddy hopes that Pierce learns lots!  Pierce was excited that his buddy Grayson was doing it too.

Last week, they cleaned out the beds tried some raw sugar snap peas and sugar snap crisps.  He said the crisps were gross but the raw ones were good.  Who knew?!?!

FIRST TOOTH!!!

Pierce's first tooth finally came out on Sept. 22nd! He was so, so very excited!! He's been asking for two years when his first tooth would come...just a month or so before his seventh birthday. I told him he will probably loose several very soon.

After Mrs. Lindsey tried to pull it over the weekend, he hopped off the bus that Monday afternoon with tooth in hand!  I'm a little sad I missed the moment.  He said he pulled it out in class!  Ha!

Obviously, it needed to come out!

His teacher sent him to the nurse and she put it in this tooth shaped necklace.  He proudly put it under his pillow that night for the tooth fairy!

Loot from the Tooth Fairy!

End of Summer

In September, we took a weekend visit to Grandmomma and Granddaddy's house. Pierce and Madison had lots of end of summer fun swimming in their pool! Madison was sweet to play with Pierce as long as he wanted.

Pierce had his first loose tooth that had been super wiggly for a week or so.  Aunt Mallory's sweet friend, Mrs. Lindsey, works at a dentist office and tried to wiggle it out!

Leading the Pack

Pierce was excited to help lead the team after their game against the A's.  The boys have really gotten into high fiving the other team!

Old Man

My child got on the bus this morning as a six year old and got off an old man!  He greeted me in his old man voice and said, "hey there, little lady".  Ha Ha!!  He got to pick this out for good behavior at school.

Sparring

Since Pierce has been promoted to orange belt, this means that he starts sparring in class. He was very excited for his equipment to come in and suit up.  They only spar in class one day a week and we go twice a week.  It always rotates days so we won't get to do it each week.  Here's a bad phone pic from the first time: 

He's the shorter one in the middle with the red head guard on.  He loved it with his first partner, but not so much with the next one.  His next partner was a little aggressive and didn't back down the way he was supposed to.  I was worried he wouldn't want to spar again the following week but he was ready to get his gear on and try again!  He won't let us get his loose tooth out so maybe this will take care of it!

Go Braves!!!

We registered Pierce for fall ball and he was really, really hoping that he would be on the Braves team. He was sooooo excited when I told him he was!  He also got a jersey that was a little too big because he insisted on having #5  just like his favorite player for the Braves.

He's really loving this season I think, mainly because it's coach pitch rather than machine like at SMP.  So far, he's gotten several hits and is even paying attention more to make some plays out in the field.  We are also loving that it's not nearly as competitive as SMP.  A friend laughed and told me, "it's like you never even moved" since we are already on a new team.  We have already met some very nice families, but missing all our Hoover buddies at the ballpark.  Hey, you don't make new friendships sitting at home!

One thing we have noticed living in a college (football) town is this...no weekend games/practices, if a game falls on a weeknight that AU plays it is cancelled, and no late games.  Win/win!!

Pierce was excited to lead the pack to shake hands after their last game against the A's!