Yee haw, indeed.

Today we (that is, Matthew and Penny - James is in Mexico City with his SMU buddies right now) went to Roundup on the Range, just 15 minutes or so from our house, with Amy and Jaime and their daughter Sofie, who's 6 weeks older than Matthew and was sporting her pretty pink cowboy boots. Matthew looked decidedly handsome in his "New Sheriff in Town" T-shirt - the only remotely Western thing he owns. Of course, I forgot to bring the camera and the camcorder, but thankfully Jaime did not. :-)

(check out the too-short jeans Matthew is wearing - the only ones that fit him around the waist are about an inch too short - if they fit him lengthwise, the waist is too big and they fall down when he runs around, which is funny to watch but not funny when he trips over them and bawls.)

We saw a herding dog exhibit, US Marshalls, a chuckwagon cook-off, a petting zoo, lots of Western saddles and a band that we know, The Ackermans, play a few songs. We went into the petting zoo and, true to form, Matthew refused to pet anything but attempted to kiss everything. Then he and Sofie ran around in the chuckwagon field and climbed on haybales. They traded toy cars. Sofie tried being friendly but Matthew wasn't interested. He mostly wanted to push his stroller, of course - that's pretty much what he wants to do to anything with wheels, including the stagecoach that went by and the ice cream truck. And he didn't freak out when Jaime picked him up, which I fully expected him to do. It was hilarious - he just gave Jaime a look like, "Who the hell are you? Ahhh... who cares?" and was happy to be carried over to the stage area.

We got home at 1:15 or so, which is normally naptime, so I quickly fed him lunch and whipped him upstairs. He slept from 2:15 to 5:00 when I woke him up, so he wouldn't be too out of whack on his sleep schedule. We had a quick errand to run then it was home for dinner and bedtime. We are both pretty tired tonight!