Alex the Hutt

From Brad.

The beauty of digital cameras is that you can instantly identify bad pictures and delete away. However, sometimes we forget to do this. When Alex was born, he was 6 lbs 13 oz. This is compared to his brother Peter who came out a mere 6 lbs even. I always had Alex pegged as a power slugging first-baseman who struck out too much, but also led his team in RBIs (a good baseball website will help you ladies make sense of that last sentence). As just a 2-month old baby, he was a chunk. A healthy chunk. So much so, when I took this picture below...

It was named the “Alex the Hutt” picture.  Why you ask? Let’s switch from baseball to Star Wars. In Star Wars episode 6, we are introduced to a spacelike slug creature named Jabba the Hutt.

Can you see the resemblance? I guess Jabba isn't wearing any diapers, that's an obvious difference.

But how times have changed. Alex loves to run, laugh, play baseball, ride his bike and anything else that's active. He does love to eat but you wouldn't know it from this picture...

He's a skinny one. We often get criticized, admonished, encouraged (let's assume the best with our local friends here) to feed him more. "he's too skinny! Let him eat more!"  Well, he's a Morello, we're not too worried about him. :)