general hi...

hi! well, we had a great weekend at the ranch in giddings, as expected! i was a great napper, even in my new environment, and i slept the whole night at the hotel too - yahoo! mom was so happy with me, she kissed me 97 million times instead of 96 million (okay, so i can't really count that high, but it seems like that many). :) i really enjoyed meeting more relatives, and i especially liked my little cousins. there are so many of us (4 under 8 months, plus an adorable 2.5 year old) and we are all so cute - yeah! i'm so sad to report that my mom failed miserably to capture any good photos of us all together. :( she was so busy holding the other babies that she forgot about the camera altogether, which is so unlike her! i apologize on her behalf, and you'll have to just take my word for it.

other things going on include that i am really excited about our next trip, which will be to indiana next weekend! we are becoming quite the traveling crew, and i'm excited about going on an airplane. my uncle scott is a pilot and flies all the time, so i'm pretty sure i'll like it too. otherwise... it's so hot here that we haven't been able to spend as much time outside, which is a bummer. i like being outside a lot normally, but i practically evaporate in this 90+ degree weather, so we are only outside on our way in and out of target lately. :) we need a pool...

okay, that's about all for now. i will close with a picture of my huge biceps. i've been working out...

four months old...

wow - i'm four months old already - i can't believe it! and mommy and daddy especially can't believe it. sometimes mommy says it feels like four years... i'm not sure what she means by that... in any case, i had a doctors appointment a few days ago and i weigh 17 lbs 4 oz! whoa. i'm 25 1/2 inches long, which is pretty tall for my age, but still, that apparently is a lot to weigh at four months old. check me out!

mommy is threatening to replace one to two of my meals each day with a slim fast shake, but that doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

we're going to try some rice cereal instead, and as long as i keep impressing them with my development and smarts, i think i'll be okay. mommy says the only real bummer about it is that it's hard to find clothes that fit me. my torso is really long, and my tummy is a little chunky, but my legs are really short. so it's hard to find things that really fit well all over. luckily since it's 400 degrees here in texas already, i can just wear a diaper most of the time when we're at home anyway.

this weekend we are going to visit the Little Matthys Ranch in Giddings, TX. i'm really looking forward to that! lots of people from my daddy's family will be there and i'm especially excited about meeting all my new little cousins. we'll have great fun, and i'm sure there will be some stories to tell after, so stay tuned next week! and in the meantime, happy memorial day to all of you! i'm not sure what that even means, except that daddy will get to stay home on monday instead of go to work, so i'm in favor of it. bye!

my first trip to the park...

hi! mommy and i made our first official trip to the park yesterday - - and i had so much fun! our neighborhood has a really nice park just down the street from our house, and even though i'm still pretty small for most things there, we thought we would try out the baby swings. at first i wasn't so sure...

but then once i got swinging a little bit, i really liked it a lot!

the weather was nice and not too hot, and we had a great time there. i can see myself wanting to go back to the park a lot. then last night we went to a Round Rock Express baseball game! (they are the AAA team for the Houston Astros.) daddy's work was having a party there, and so we went and had a lot of fun. normally i am asleep each night by 8:00pm, but I got to stay up late past my bedtime, and i was a really good boy. :)

okay, that's all. bye!