my new playroom!

hi. i have a new friend - his name is fred.

say hi to everyone, fred...

this is my new playroom! i love it. mommy does too! she likes to play in there with me a lot.

pete is the pelican hanging on the wall. and there's doc from brent, and the horsey from beamee, and ben the duck that lauren made for me and named after me, and helga the hippo, and albert the alligator, and snowball the penguin from austin... i have lots of fun with my friends. i don't get in trouble for biting them (which is unlike when i bite mommy and daddy), so that's good. and whenever i finally decide to crawl i'll be able to knock everything down from the cube-shelves, so that will be great.

one of my favorite things is the life-size (okay, almost) map of the United States, so i can learn all the capitals and so that we can put pins in all the neat places we go as a family (courtesy of beamee, yes!). and there's also a lovely frame of vince young, courtesy of daddy and grandpa. you don't think it quite matches the rest of the theme? sure it does, just ask daddy. it actually matches his cowboy hat quite nicely. :)

anyway, that's what i've been up to. i'd like to give a shout out to paula if she's reading this. :) and in 2 days i'll be off on another plane ride - woohoo! we're going to NC for aunt aimee's wedding, so that will be really neat. i can't wait to see my family there and show everyone all my teeth (heh, heh, heh...). any day now hopefully i'll start crawling, but in the meantime i'll just keep banging on things, drooling, standing, chewing (i love cheerios!!), swinging, rolling, biting, dropping, laughing, screeching, and missing (everyone). bye! (p.s. this is the fraggle rock doll from aunt kara. he's trying to escape - get it?) :)

at the ranch...

hellooooooo ladies (and everyone else, but especially the ladies)! wanna come over to my crib around noon and play? :) just teasing - mommy caught me being cute in my crib the other day and so we're all having a laugh about this picture... (note the cardboard still zip-tied to the rails!)

in other news, we had a great time at the ranch last weekend! there is always a lot of fun stuff to do there, and i had a great time with my cousins and aunts and uncles and mimsie and grandpa, and... everyone! here i am with powdered doughnut on my face, contemplating life's deep questions...

and here i am with daddy - i sure do like him... and in case you were wondering if i got my hairline from mommy or from daddy, i think this picture pretty much answers that question!

and here we are fishing in the future swimming hole - there really are fish in there, but we didn't get any bites that morning...

and here is the hat club in the hot tub!! :) note the giant propane tank, the young kids driving the giant "mule", the camper (where 7 of us slept at night), and the barn in the background - this is not your average dude ranch... :)


and here i am giving my thumbs-up approval of the "pool" - it was a nice break from the heat...


and here i am eating daddy's hat, because they clearly aren't feeding me enough actual food...

and here are some cute pictures that mommy took of me on the backyard swing - i really like to swing! (adorable bug outfit courtesy of beamee!)

that's all for now... bye!

balloon...

helloooooooo. well, i'm teething again. number 6! these two front teeth on the top really are giving me some trouble! i handled the first one okay (that was a couple weeks ago), but it gave me a fever, which i had never had before. and it just wasn't very nice. and now this other one is giving me a runny nose and the sneezes! weird. i didn't sleep very well last night, but i'm handling it pretty well today. boys have to be tough. but it certainly isn't very fun.

balloons, on the other hand, are definitely fun! our local grocery store, HEB, gives out balloons to little kids and even some 7-month olds, and i really like to bring one home and play with it. here i am checking out my latest balloon...

and here's what i would look like if you were inside the balloon and i was trying really, really hard to eat you...

and here's exactly what i look like when mommy says that balloons are not for eating...

and here i am again, clearly being neglected in my time of need while mommy continues to take pictures.

and finally, here's me and my sippy cup. i love drinking water. i really like to hold the cup all by myself. i think i'm such a big boy, but i don't even realize that water won't come out unless i tip the cup. but i'd rather do it on my own... except when i really want some water, and then i like mommy to help me. :)

this weekend is labor day. i don't know what that means but we're going to see my matthys relatives at the ranch again - yea! and my favoritest part is that i'll get to hang out with daddy for 3 whole days in a row. yessssssss!

i'll report back again next week. bye.