Because what's cuter than a baby in a hat? Nothing.

This picture doesn't show it very well, but Isaac is wearing his special camouflage hat given to him before his birth by my good friend Autumn who correctly noted that no grandson of my dad's is properly equipped unless he has some camouflage in his wardrobe. It is a particularly timely photo in that my dad and brothers just returned from their annual man-trip to deer hunt in West Texas. All my memories of my dad and brothers hunting together when the boys were little involve Aaron and Ryan talking so much that if you stood on the porch of our cabin in Duck Hill, Mississippi, you could hear their voices echoing through the trees while the sun came up in the early-morning cold. Somehow this stealthiness failed to snag them even a single deer in what I would estimate was a decade of childhood hunting trips. The fact that dad kept getting up at 4 a.m. and taking them out anyway tells you a lot about my dad.

Apparently, his patience has paid off, as I gather that the boys are much better hunters than they used to be. Last year, Ryan got a big buck, and Aaron's son Clark is the only baby I know who has the taxidermied and mounted head of a prize buck on the wall of his beautifully-decorated nursery. (No really. Kelly wrote about it here in what is quite possibly my favorite blog post in the entire history of her blog except all the ones with pictures of Clark.) This year after the first day of the hunting trip my sisters and I received an ecstatic Facebook message from Aaron recounting how he got a monster buck, the kind people would pay big money on a professional hunt to find. (I am just quoting directly here. It is beyond me why anyone would do any of this, much less pay to do it, but I think that may be about gender.) I am sure Kelly is still hearing about it.

The guys better enjoy their hunting awesomeness while it lasts. I have a feeling that when Isaac and Clark start joining them on hunts, their kill number is going to drop right back down to zero for a while. But the boys have that coming. And they will get to hunt with the cutest deer hunters the world has ever known, so that makes up for a lot.