June 11, 2009- Pecos is taking swimming lessons for two weeks. I know what you must be thinking- "what kind of lessons does a 2 1/2 year old really need?" But they are great because one of us goes in the water with him and it is actually a 'get used to the water' lesson.
Pecos says he can swim like a perch. For the most part Pecos likes to do his own thing- until his teacher comes around- then he is Mr. Showoff. He turns into a kicking and bubble blowing master.
And in addition to swimming he is learning to spell. The first lesson I was sitting on the edge of the pool and Casey said I should move back because Pecos only wanted to come over to where I was. My reply was, "He doesn't want me, he wants this T-O-Y." Well, that was all it took for Pecos. Now when he gets in the water he yells "I want that T-O-Y!" Everyone thinks he is a genius but he is really just a copycat!
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In mid-June Miss Chickie hatched two baby chicks. She'd been sitting on a nest of about 10 eggs for a few weeks and we were so excited that she ended up with a couple chicks to add to the growing flock. 
And here's a recent pic of the proud papa, Denis the Wonder Rooster (refresh your memory here- http://theworrellfamily.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-range-rooster-ranch.html).
Pecos has been spending some time lately with his best cowboy buddy, Jace. These two just can't get enough of playing Cowboys & Indians and riding their stick horses. Pecos has grown so fond of Jace's sitck horse, Ginger, that he sometimes can't even leave her outside when they take a break to watch a little John Wayne.
Mimi and Paw Paw visited us over Father's Day weekend. They even hauled live crawfish and gulf crabs for us to boil and enjoy. They were some of the best we've had in a long time, especially since they were here and we didn't have to drive 9 hours to enjoy them!
And our most recent adventure was visiting Sea World in the 100+ degree heat. There are enough places to splash and keep cool so it was not too bad. We'll be making a few more trips before the season is over. The battery on the camera went out so not too many pics of it but we'll get more on our next trip.
Of course, everyone expected Pecos' parade entry to be a horse or a tractor. So if him in a race car wasn't funny enough, his driver (Casey) crammed into the car with him made it hilarious. 
I think they were by far the most photographed entry in the parade. And we won a third place ribbon for our entry....considering we don't have ties to any of the founding families of the church we were pretty proud of ourselves. Pecos spent his time on the parade route alternating between waving, throwing candy and checking to make sure his ribbon was still tied onto the car. Casey spent the entire parade route trying to lay a scratch. Now we begin work on his parade entry for the 
I grabbed my camera and waited for something funny to happen....Pecos had to investigate how the hose pipe works (that's water hose for those non-Cajuns that need a translation). He thought it was so funny he did it over and over again. Of course he got wetter than the horses!
