Hanging with the cousins (and Nana & Grandpa)

Let's go back in time to Summer 2009. Mom and I (and Hinny) went to MO to see some kin. We had an awesome time. We played and ate good food. Cousin Andrew and I had a little cousin-rivalry going but we worked it out. In the pics you can see us playing games and playing with very cool toys.

We were back over Thanksgiving. Stay tuned for more recent pics of that adventure.

I was on the Dark side... for Halloween

Look at me. I was Capt Rex the storm trooper for Halloween. At some point, I think it was "Directive 68," Capt Rex and the rest of the storm troopers went to the dark side. I am in this clone trooper outfit. And Ty, my friend, was Aniken Skywalker. And Alex Rogers was a tiger. My brother was little Yoda. Check out his site for pictures of him. Funny looking, he was.

Swimming at the Shipley's

We had a great time celebrating Labor Day with Jenny and David. Grandma and Papa were there and enjoyed their time as well. Hinny was silly. But he and I rolled down the hill in their backyard. It was fun. In fact, Mr. Shipley found my army man in the grass and was kind enough to drop it off the next day. Little did he know the army man collected vital reconniscene (sp? hey, i'm only five).

Hanging with Reppy

Here we are after church, and after a big meal at Five Guys. Nana and Grandpa are in town and they took us out to lunch. We are down town having a good time: looking at dogs and homeless people. Don't we look sharp? We are happy to not be homeless and to be so nicely dressed.

Eating at Stevie B's

Dad took me and Reppy to Stevie B's during Boy's Night. Then we went to Chuck E. Cheese and looked in the video store window. Fun times. Here I am with a big plate of food. I used to eat tomatos by the dozen. Now, like my brother, I can take them or leave them.

Notice how I eat those little corn-on-the-cobs. I eat them like big corn!

Eating

Look at me eating a slice of pizza. I was raised on pizza, but now can take it or leave it.

My gymnastics teacher

Hi. Here I am with one of my gymnastics teachers. I am missing gymnastics this fall. Monday nights aren't the same without it.

Typical Monday = Dad rushing to pick me up, get me changed, and arriving at the gym by 5:20 PM. Then we do our thing while he talks to Henry's dad, or John and Lauren's dad and mom, or all those other moms and dads. I finish up with "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn out the light," and run to dad who quickly puts on my shoes and jacket. And then we hit Moe's for free kid's night. Now it's just Moe's on Monday nights. Maybe I'll do gymnastics again in the spring.

Summer cut

Tuesday was annual "summer cut" day. Mom took us to our usual place to get shorn by the usual stylist. Unfortunately Patsy wasn't working or our hair would've looked a lot worse! Hinny really wanted a cut like Reppie's #2 cut of last summer. If Dad was in charge, we would be looking a lot different in this picture.

What's the reward to being patient and letting someone cut your hair? Right, a sucker. See Repp teaing me with it.

Assuming identities

Look at me, I’m a Power Ranger (this is a Power Ranger costume, right?). I had a great time at my buddy Andrew’s house the other night. He has lots of cool costumes. I was Spiderman as well. Mom and Dad and Andrew’s folks talked about how they could start a toy swap business and make a lot of money just rotating toys among a small set of families. Every two weeks = new toys!

Andrew was one of my soccer buddies and we’re looking to get more play time before the summer is over.

Summer swimming

I've been doing a lot of swimming this summer. If I can't make it to the pool, I don my goggles when taking a bath.

Hopefully I'll get some swim time while in Missouri next week. Instead of school, I'll have all day to swim with my cousins and assorted kin folk. See ya. The water's getting cold.