Saturday, February 4, 2012

Power

This week was all about power. The power to explore. The power to experience. The power to grind Mom and Dad down and bend them to my will.

So, let's get started. Mom was great and took me to the big equipment show downtown Thursday. Not only did I get to ride a shuttle bus (something I fell in love with in Florida last year) ...
... I got to drive a big, powerful tractor ...

... a big, powerful combine ...

... and pretend to drive a big, powerful sprayer. However, as every safe farmer knows sprayers have chemicals and those aren't safe for a young farmer like me to be around so I didn't put the sprayer through the paces like the tractor and combine.

The day was capped off with another shuttle bus ride. Awesome!

Today I said goodbye to my amaryllis plant. Dad kept singing some old song about turning that I didn't get but he seemed to think the moment when flower farmer Pierce said goodbye to his crop was meaningful. I didn't have the heart to tell him that it was fun just to throw something away.

After it was in the trash both Dad and I decided that we just had to stand around for awhile and get our wits about us.

Mom suggested I help make cookies and I jumped at the chance! Add butter ...

... then, when she's not looking crank the mixer to its fastest setting! Ha! What a rush. Mom said a couple of things I didn't catch ...
... then just grabbed my by the head and gave me a kiss. (Sometimes she does that when she doesn't know what else to do.)

My friend Anna came over for a bit this afternoon and after we walked her home I helped Dad shovel.
I also helped Mom with her snowman.
I think she did pretty well, thanks to me! This is one powerful snowman!
Good job, mama llama!

Later!


Pierce

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Travel

Travel seemed to be a good theme for this week's blog.

Mom put this picture on Facebook and got such good response that I thought I'd put it here as well. Here I am wearing the jammies Mom and Dad got me when they traveled to London a few months ago. Mom says that I'm ready to marry my princess. Dad asked for a helicopter ride. Anyway, I'm really cute. I get it.
Wednesday Mom and I took Dad to the airport. I was in my car seat so I couldn't really give him a big hug so I just squeezed his head. Safe travels, Dad!

While Dad was traveling Mom and I drove to Iowa City to hang out at the kid's museum and spend the day with Kristen and Lauren. The first thing that happened upon our arrival was an emergency call.


Lauren and I loaded up and traveled to help.

After getting back from the rescue we traveled through our imagination using instruments from the music room.

Pierce Miller - Alaskan bush pilot!

Thursday wasn't even a regular day at school - I got out early to get a haircut from Becky. Friday Mom sprung me early and we traveled to Robin's house to meet a bunch of new kids. Estee has four kids, Robin has two and then there was me. We had a blast. I even got to put on a bit of a concert.

Group photo! Estee traveled from South Dakota for the visit and this was the first time Mom, Robin and Estee had been together since Robin's wedding. They spent a lot of time talking about the fun they had at the Blue Ribbon Foundation back in the day.

After Robin's we traveled to pick Dad up and spent the rest of the night on the couch watching movies. Saturday was a much needed lazy day at home but things got pretty lively in the evening. After Lawrence Welk and a couple of Coldplay videos I was ready to rock! Grandma Maggy and I watched Coldplay at ACL a couple of weeks ago then Mom taped their Saturday Night Live performance for me. I was inspired to write ...



... and write some more, until I was inspired to do something else.





Today we traveled to church. Mom taught Sunday School while Dad and I were greeters. I wore my favorite new sweater (thanks Grandma Maggy!) and got a lot of compliments.


I think that's it for now, gang.


Have a great week!


Pierce