Playtime before gametime

Matt had a big day today! He got his second haircut at the barber shop. I think we were all 3 so traumatized by the first one, it took us a good 10 months to go back. Matt watched as his daddy got his hair cut and then sat in Nick's lap to get his own done. After the initial fright of the clippers, he calmed down and the whole barber shop got to watch Noggin on tv while Matt got his hair cut. He did so well and he actually looks like someone made an effort to cut his hair. It's not his usual cut on the run in the bathtub cut that I give him!

He played outside tonight with his sand & water table while he and his daddy talked about the upcoming USC game. His favorite thing to say on Saturdays is "BOOTY!" (the USC quarterback), followed closely by "FIGHT ON, DADDY!". He's becoming quite the little fan even though all the games have been passed his bedtime. He watches bits and pieces of the recorded USC games on Sundays so he can see his favorite quarterback throw the ball.

Here they are modeling their SC shirts and playing in the sand.

Check out those haircuts! I can't believe what a big boy Matt is turning into!

Since tonight's game started right at 7, we watched the intro to the game, and Matt said "night night, Booty!" while waving at the tv. Things like that bring tears to his daddy's eyes! Don't get me started on our little lefty quarterback in the making and what it does to Nick when Matt throws him a spiral!

Playground!

Matt's newest favorite thing to do is play on the playground! Recently we've made a couple of trips to some of the indoor play places around town since the weather has not permitted much else. He has loved it and enjoys exploring the whole place! I end up getting quite a workout trying to keep up with him. Here are some pics from our trip earlier last week.

He's getting a couple of new teeth in, can you tell?

His favorite thing to do is combine toys. Unfortunately for him, the toys do not always combine well, like a riding toy inside a closed playhouse.

He is always one step ahead of his current activity. He stayed on that dog only long enough for our incredibly delayed camera to catch him riding it.

He explored the top of the pirate toy last, and thankfully made a gracious exit when we headed off to our first library story time. He waved at the entire place and yelled, "bye bye, playground". The other moms in the place got a big kick out of his grand exit.

Here's Matt this morning when we went to play on our neighborhood playground. It's the only shot I could get of him while still for at least 3 seconds. He borrowed a car from a boy at the playground and explored all over, driving the car on the bench, down the slides and over the bridge. Then, after about 30 minutes of playing, he walked on the sidewalk toward the street and said, "all done, playground". I had to convince him to get back to his stroller so we could walk home.

25 weeks & a trip up to Dallas

Over the weekend Matt & I took a trip up to Dallas to visit with family and friends, while Nick was with family in Tennessee. We stayed with Grandpa & Granny (No pictures again! I am so bad about that.), but were able to get together briefly with Matt's cousins and my brother and sister-in-law. Unfortunately, I waited a bit too long to get them all together for a picture. It was very cute how all of them tried to cheer Matt up to take the picture while he tried to let everyone know just how far past his bedtime we had pushed! He had been working on saying their names for a while, so it was good to see him able to practice in person.

Figured we'd update the prego belly pics since we hadn't taken one in about 6 weeks. Here's the latest belly! I am feeling huge, and looking back at my pregnancy with Matt, I am bigger. We'll have to wait to see what the doctor says about the big belly on Friday!

Pool party

We had some friends over last weekend for one last pool party for the summer. Matt slept through a big portion of it, as usual. I can't complain about our good sleeper, but I felt bad he missed out on some serious playtime! He managed to slip right into the mix though and seemed to have a good time with all of the kids.

Kirk and Skyler look on as Matt, Abby and Luke play in the sandbox.


Matt learned how to make it impossible for me to get all of the sand off of him before he went inside for the evening!

Matt & Abby hung out for a little Nemo watching time. Notice how Abby is holding Matt's hand! They are too cute together, even with their glazed over looks!

Matt decided to fight the more aggressive hand holding technique Abby tried.