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'.

Ice hockey

Austin welcomes an ice hockey team this year in minor league, Texas Stars. Dad's company got some free tickets for preseason games. Then we made a trip to newly built Cedar Park Center to watch our stars battle San Antonio Rampage.

Nice center. Great view on ice court. What impressed us most was player fight a lot. Half of our memory on the game was two guys throwing punches to each other while the referees stood next to them watching. On court scene was so much more vivid than TV scene.

In dad's view, it could be a way to toughen up kids, but it might be too much. It is pretty rough even in grown-up standard.

All right, we had our Ice hockey experience. Wish they do well in this inaugural season.

More than holding his own

Tony eats stuff slow, but not when Ray was eating the same thing. If they are sharing the same bowl, Tony eats like he has been starving for years and his two hands always cover the food while his mouth is full. If they each are having their own bowl, Tony would quickly finish up his, then go after Ray's bowl.

Then we will hear Ray yell:"Hey, baby."

Life moves on

After a long drought, Austin finally got some rain, pretty serious rain. It is cooling down now, which makes us feel that fall is on the way. Ray starts counting how far Hollowen is. Tony finally hang monkey bar now after turning down dad's attempt for so many times.