good fun...

as promised, no explanations needed... presented in the order they were taken... see lots more at www.picasaweb.google.com/rachel.lehman. enjoy!! :)

still little enough...

hello again! the construction work across the street is all done and so we're back to finding things to do on our own around the house. that's how i ended up in the toy tub again (solving a rubik's cube)! but of course mommy thinks it's adorable that i am still just little enough to fit in there. but then mommy said we could go downtown to the children's museum, and so i hopped out right away to get dressed - that sounded like fun!!

here i am outside the building - cool, huh? austin is neat. beamee got our family a membership at the museum for my birthday (thanks beamee!) and so mommy and i met some friends there this week...

here i am playing with some switches and buttons...

hooray for switches and buttons!!

and here we are playing with a super awesome thing - it was a giant, backlit board with lots of holes, and you move around the plastic colored cylinders to make designs and patterns. way cool. and now mommy is really looking forward to when i'm old enough to play with a lite-brite!

that's all the pictures from the museum - we were busy playing a lot and didn't take too many pictures. but we'll be going back for sure and will keep you updated on other neat things we find and learn about there.

back at home i like to play with little cars and say "vroom vroom" over and over again. mommy gave up on centerpieces and decorations for the coffee tables long ago, so i have free reign with my cars on those...

yikes - sorry about the dust on the table in that first picture. that's one of my chores around the house and clearly i'm behind on that - how embarrassing! i'm still in my "handful" phase but i try to be a good boy when possible. for example, when i am asleep or eating, i rarely fuss then. it's just those other times that i tend to require a bit more attention. :) oh just kidding, i'm a good boy, but we definitely stay busy chasing each other around here. we've been going to several library storytimes, and that's a lot of fun. and i can always have a good time in the backyard...

um... that's really about it for us. this weekend we're going back to the giddings ranch for a memorial day party to see the big matthys family - including mimsie and grandpa - yahoo!! i am SOOOO excited to see them and know it will be a lot of fun playing and getting into trouble with my cousins too. be looking forward to a variety of red-neck photos next week when we return. :) bye!!

family photos...

ahhh, aren't we so cute? :) the big lehman family had portraits taken during our trip to san antonio a few weeks ago, and here are some of the results! there are more at the end of the blog and online at our picasa albums. just wanted to share... :)

so coolest thing - the neighbors across the street are having work done in their backyard, so mommy and i have been going outside lots and lots to watch all the construction trucks come and go! there are dump trucks, front loaders, cement trucks - it's awesome! here's me staring in awe as the truck rumbles along...

there's not a lot of action on the streets of the 'burbs (counting the number of minivans that drive by is only exciting for so long), so this has been really great to keep me occupied throughout the day. mommy pulls out the lawn chair, snacks, and toys, and we pretty much hang out in the driveway and watch. :) totally cool.

here i am playing in the mulch bed in our front yard. that's a lot of fun too...

it's been getting really hot here already (90s everyday) so we play outside in the mornings and then sometimes later in the afternoon while we wait for daddy to come home. but when it's super hot, we try to stay inside... and that usually leads to trouble... here i am getting into some things in mommy and daddy's bathroom... toilet paper sure is fun!!

and i have discovered the simple joy of flushing the toilet... over and over and over again... i even figured out to flush it and then go play with some toilet paper until it stops running, and then i immediately get up to flush it again...

mommy thought this was hilarious the first few times, but its humor seems to be fading a bit and i'm only really allowed to do it once in a while now...

last weekend we went to a wedding in houston where i was a very good boy and got to stay up until 11:00pm and eat cake at the reception - yum! on the way home, we stopped at the ranch in giddings to play with wyatt and gracie and see uncle larry and aunt rox. here i am on the tricycle... look mom, no eyes!

other things... i really, really love milk. here i am a little perturbed that mommy is trying to interrupt my milk drinking by making it into a photo shoot...

but then i decided to give her at least one cute shot. pay no attention to my pants, which could possibly be confused for capris, but are clearly not since those are for girls. all my shorts were dirty and so mom had to roll up my jeans for outdoor play...

i love pickles and strawberries, but not watermelon, which is very sad to mommy because that's one of her favorite foods. i'm wearing size 6 shoes now - whoa! i've started to throw a few temper tantrums, which mommy and daddy were not prepared for this early - yikes! i'm just testing out my independence, though, and don't mean to be a toot on purpose... i'm still pretty good most of the time and can usually at least be appeased by being picked up and comforted, or given food. :)

okay, that's enough for now. i think a digger just pulled up across the street so i better get outside and see what's going on. here are some more of those pictures from san antonio... bye!