sitting

rowe's new favorite spot is coot's kennel. he loves swinging the door back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

chasing

rowe loves to play 'chase'. here he is chasing me through the bathroom. he is so funny when he rounds a corner and spots ya'. simple pleasures.

reading

this is rowe's favorite book as of late.

tunnels

curls

curls on babies have always gotten me. rowe can do just about whatever he want, but he better hurry because it is so dry out here his hair doesn't stay curly for long:-)

movin'

sweet laci, our 15 month old neighbor let rowe borrow her walker and rowe has been loving it. there is a "spin" wheel and that is just about heaven for ole rowe. as regards to driving this contraption, i wouldn't recommend being in his path...he has been crashing into things like crazy.

eating

robin & i were talking about rowe's personality last night. since andy and i are both second children, we were wondering if rowe would adopt those characteristics or assume the first child personality. in regards to eating, he is for sure the 1st born. he wants what he wants when he wants it and he wants to put it in his mouth :-) there are only a very few things that rowe will allow you to feed him...pudding is one.

hoping

here is the view from rowe's high chair. the chair is what you can sort of see in the left side of the pic.

watchin'

this is rowe's tv-face. martha ann gave us the baby einstein about water and rowe is pretty darn entertained by it, for at least five minutes:-)

swinging

we had such a sweet day at the playground yesterday. i think andy had just as much fun as rowe.

pups

andy's business partners

hungry

i'm not quite sure what is going in here, but we made sure that is came right back out.

more

here are a couple more shots of rowe just playing in the yard, spinning those wheels.

wheels

if i am ever in need of a distraction for rowe, all i have to do if find something with wheels on it. he loves them. he will just spin, and spin, and spin those wheels for as long as you will let him. my brother might have a 4-wheelin' partner in the making. here he is spinnin' away.

hair

rowe's new favorite person is lindsay walker. she was my roommate my 1st year at the ranch, six summers ago. she has a heart of gold, and an even sweeter spirit. rowe's favorite thing to do with his new favorite person is to 'do her bangs,' as lins calls it. here he is styling away.

sassy

this kiddo thinks he's such a riot when he sticks his tongue out. i think he has a bit of sass in him - i love it. he must have gotten that from andy.

ready

we have been trying to help andy get ready for duck season. we were for sure more in the way than anything else. rowe loved climbing in and out of the goose blinds. he even had his camo jacket on in support of opening day. there were also some fake corncobs to entice the geese, which rowe enjoyed as well.

shots

our chef at the ranch is just awesome. his food is amazing, he is super nice, plus he might be rowe's favorite person other than andy. speaking of andy, he has become so good at shooting food. i'm totally biased but i think he is amazing. these shots are for a little blurp on wray, our ched, in a video or something, not really sure of the details, but i know that the shots are beautiful. the food is as good as it looks, too. bon appetite.

snow

we had snow on lagarita this morning. it is the mountain range that sits at the end of the ranch's valley going towards creede. we don't have very long shoulder seasons here. it usually goes winter, winter, winter, winter, spring, summer, summer, summer, fall, back to winter.

goose

this kid is such a trip.