The beauty of fall

This is outside of UT library. Now Austin really cooled down. We are enjoying fall now. I had been nice in Ray's birthday party. I didn't cry or did anything unreasonable for Ray's gift as I knew that it was Ray's brithday party. Dad converted my bed a little bit. Now it is firmer and more comfortable, so I slept better now.

Dad's careless actions in one day

After we had a tour in UT campus, we went to Hula Hut for lunch. After lunch we saw two gigantic turtles, two monster catfish and a bunch of mellow at waterside. Then we went to Austin Nature Center. A old gentleman met us in the parking lot. I was interested in his two dogs. He chatted a little bit with me.

Then we need to go so he said something to dad and mom. It was fairly noisy as the parking lot was right under highway route one.

Dad thought he said something like: have a good day etc.

So dad replied:"You too."

While we left him, mom told dad:"What he said was: Tony is very cute."

When we returned our car, dad accidentally locked key in the trunk while he was putting stroller in. Their phones were locked in too. We had to borrowed a hiker's phone in the trail to contact for help. Dad's friend Mr. Daniel saved us. Then we had a lobster party at his house. Dad and Mr. Daniel had two bottles of wines, which was a little too much for dad. Accident like this was a pretty scary thing if you were with kids. Maybe wine could help him relax a little bit.

A fishman's waterloo

This weekend we had a hike in brush bend. There was water excess so we went to check this section of brush creek. There were lots of shells on the bank resulting from the rain flood last week. Tony picked up a stick somewhere on the ground and bubbled fishing. We had a lot of fun there. Dad took a lot of photos. Then, an accident happened. Tony felt down into water with his head and body but two legs out of water. He was struggling to get himself out but no success. It all happened in two seconds then dad saved him out of water by pulling his two legs. It was a cold day but fortunately mom had a backup set of clothes for Tony in our stroller. You can never get too much baby stuff prepared while on the way.

Pictures could say it all.

After fishing,

Before fishing,

Physical development update

Tony is 29.5 pounds now, while Ray is almost 45 pounds. Tony is pretty lean and athletic. It is definite not easy for Ray to get stuff out of Tony's hand. Tony moves like a running back. He even could have a few faked moves while Ray was chasing him for toys in his hands. Tony also can throw and catch football, while his catching distance is only 2 foot away with a perfect throw.

Way to go!

Olson Meadow

The power of a model

Tony started asking going potty himself at an age of 21 months, a much earlier age than Ray, thanks to Ray being a daily model.

Tony likes picking dress himself. He really likes Ray's dresses, like spiderman sleeping T-shirt, etc. If mom and dad picked something not his taste, Tony insisted on taking them off for some cool dresses he liked.

It has been a while that Tony moved into Ray's bedroom. Their beds are at two sides of their cute room. So now dad's bedtime story can serve two at once with dad laying on the floor right between their beds. Tony often got out of his bed in the middle of nights and slept on floor. Mom and dad had to put three layers of wool-carpet, two layers of comforters and a bunch of pillows on their room floor just in case. This set up an ideal place for building a castle for fun. So now Tony and Ray's favorite prior-bedtime activity is building a castle with pillows and sheets. Nowadays what Tony blubbers mostly is 'daddy, build a castle'.