The highlight of my month, every month, is walking into Valerie and David’s house, sitting down on the floor in the living room, and watching our grandsons Elliott and Samuel crawl across the floor, faces beaming with massive smiles, to attack me. They crawl and climb all over me, Sammy grinning and Elliott grunting with glee, and it’s the greatest thing in the world. They can’t walk yet or even stand up on their own for more than three or four seconds, but they know how to get a fistful of my t-shirt and climb up to my shoulders in a blink. I love these little guys.

We got the ten-monthday pics a couple of weeks late because Val and Dave were in Phoenix for a family wedding on Dave’s side. But here they are, ten months old, eating real people food in tiny bites, figuring out their more complicated toys, attempting to jump out of their high chairs, and playing chase with me on our hands and knees. They know how to open doors and cabinets, they love popsicles and bath time, and they’re both just incredibly cute and smart. Elliott is looking more and more like Valerie, while Sammy continues to be his daddy’s identical mini-me. And it’s all super fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They’re moving into a new house in a couple of weeks; still in Jenks, a little bigger, a lot nicer. And a working fireplace!

Carrie-Anne has her annual checkup at M.D. Anderson in Houston in two weeks, I’m leading a GCR mission trip to Brazil June 10-18 and C-A and I are going on a long vacation the last week of June, so I may not see the boys again until their birthday party the second week of July. Maybe.

The Rangers just completed a nine-game stretch against the three teams with the three worst records in the major leagues: the Astros, Rockies, and Angels. I was hoping Texas would go 6-3 during this span and get back into first place in the AL West. More realistically, I was expecting the team to go 5-4. Instead, the Rangers lost all three series and went 3-6, getting swept by the Halos while their fans were chanting for the sale of the team. Yeah, Seager and Wyatt are still out with injuries, but this offense is putrid. I’ve never seen a team leave double-digit men on base the way these Rangers do night after night. Texas is four games under .500 and two-and-a-half games back of the A’s. Kumar Rocker is on the hill tonight as The Silver Boot Series resumes  in Houston.

Go Rangers.
Allan