put me in, coach!

dear coach mack brown,

i'm ready to play quarterback! i know colt mccoy is really good, but if he gets hurt or has to finish his homework, i am ready to suit up! just call my daddy if you need me, and i'll keep practicing in the meantime. bye.

ben matthys

hello! i didn't really send that letter to mack brown (mommy says i'm too little), but i will save it for a few more years when i get bigger.

whew - we've been pretty busy lately and i don't know where to start! we just got back from Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg (TX), where we spent the weekend with daddy's family - it was so much fun! i got to see mimsie and grandpa and lots of cousins, aunts, and uncles - the usual crowd. there sure was a lot of shopping, but it was nice to be outside and there was a lot of good food too. i like those matthyses a lot. :) mommy took a few pictures but i'll have to post them in a few days because they're not on our computer yet.

now we're home again and getting back into our routine. i just love crawling around and going from sitting to crawling to sitting to crawling, over and over again. i've bumped my head a few times, but i'm trying to learn not to do that so much! i love baths - here i am in the bathtub the other day...

i love to practice walking with mommy or daddy's help. and i love getting into magazines and piles of blankets. i'm already starting to find out that life is not fair sometimes - some of the most fun things to get into are apparently off-limits to little boys: remote controls, dvd player, speakers, wastebaskets. i find this to be frustrating and unfair, so i will keep trying to check these things out and maybe one of these times i won't get in trouble, or maybe mommy will be on the phone with aunt elaina and won't notice... i don't like to misbehave, but sometimes i just like to play with new things, you know?

i guess that's about all for now. better go work on my running game...