Man of the house

When Ba's not around, William does his best to fill Nang's shoes by wearing his drawers and using his toothbrush.

Astros game

Kip and Kristina invited William (and by default, Nang and me) to the Astros game, and William was excited about it for 2 days beforehand - the first thing he asked about in the morning and the last thing he mentioned at night was baseball game and some combination of Kip, Tina, and Sadie, their dog who William assumed would also be attending the game. It is a tough life for William. He's been to three baseball games - two in the Diamond Club (great seats behind home plate) and one way up in the nosebleed section (10 rows up behind home plate). What's next? A box at a Texans game?

Haircut

Big Dub has been a little shaggy for awhile. Last night after his shower, he agreed to let me give him a haircut. This morning, he wanted more cut off in addition to getting his 'do wet, adding mousse, and blowing it dry. Definitely Nang's son!

Cereal snacking

Tonight after his bottle of milk (yes, I KNOW he is too old for a bottle - you can tell him this news), William announced he wanted a cookie, opened the pantry, and came back with the oatmeal. He's sitting on the couch eating raw oatmeal, and he shared with his Mama. Tasty.

Dorothy's sunflower

We're lucky to have two MVP neighbors on our block - Dorothy (known to William as "Doraty") and Kelly (AKA Uncle Mac).  While Uncle Mac has been having a busy summer, and we haven't seen much of him around (William's still wearing the safety glasses Uncle Mac gave him on truck clean-out day), Dorothy's good-neighborliness has been working overtime.  She planted a big sunflower near the lovely telephone pole in our front yard in an attempt to distract her view from the technological eyesore and the tremendous weed growth we've been harboring.  Nang and I have been ridiculously excited about it blooming, and this week it erupted!  We enjoyed it for a full 2 days before a hoodlum walked by, wacked the flower off, and stole it.  Awesome neighborhood.  Now we have have a headless sunflower stalk, and we are MAD.

RIP sunflower

First fish

William and I joined some of Mimi's side of the family at the lake for a reunion.  

 Jeffery landed this fish, and let Willy (the name he prefers when fishing) help him reel it in

We found the perfect Cars-themed, kid-sized fishing rod on a trip to Walmart, but Willy hopped out of the cart to pick the pink, flower-covered Barbie-themed pole.  Back at the house, he took off to find Papa and catch some fish with his new, manly fishing pole.  

Papa tried to convince William to touch the fish by kissing it himself, but William remained skeptical

First movie: Brave

Nang, William, Mimi, and I ventured out for William's first movie theater experience on Sunday morning.  William made two requests: that we go see the elephant/lion movie (Ice Age: Continental Drift, a movie with mammoths and a saber tooth tiger) and that Nana join us.  We honored neither of these requests.  Nang, Mimi, and I vetoed the movie choice because we wanted to see Brave.  Fear not, little man's Om Noi has been chomping at the bit to take Minh to see the new Ice Age movie, so neither will miss out on that special experience.  But Nana's trip from New Orleans was too long for her to make the 10:05 a.m. showing on Sunday.

William enjoyed his theater experience - the BIG screen, BIG chairs, and LOUD audio.  But the movie did not hold up to the others he watches at home (How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda 2, Tangled, Toy Story 3), and couldn't hold his attention.  It didn't help that the previews started 30 minutes after the listed showtime, and he was almost over the novelty of the auditorium by then.  But when the lights went out, the enchantment continued a little longer...until he couldn't sit still anymore, and had to sit in Mimi's lap, then climb all the way down our row lifting all of the armrests along the way and laying out on the seats, running around and around and around the row, telling us about "the Guy" sitting at the end of our row, and ultimately settling for standing up in the row behind us and talking to us or standing in our row, licking the railing in front of our seats.  Mmmmm...I'm sure they clean that after every showing with something antibacterial.

 You DON'T sneak milk into the movies?

We maaay have been more excited than he was

 Patiently waiting, waiting, waiting

The show begins!