The Viehwegs: Mount St. Helens

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Mount St. Helens

We decided that since Josh had a few days off we would do some sightseeing. Since Mount St. Helens is relatively close we headed up there. It is a nice drive and everything is of course sooo GREEN. We were only able to visit 2 of the 5 visitor centers/observation points since it is the off season but oh well.

Here is Keegan outside of the visitor center and museum. He was just happy to be out of the car. The museum was really neat. We all had a good time going through.

This is from the 2nd visitor station further up the canyon. This is the Toutle River Valley. This is one of the areas that was most damaged by the eruption. According to the museum, a mudslide/flood that reached

200 feet in height came rushing down this valley.

Back behind the mountains you can see is Mount St. Helens. ( do you see it?) lol It is a rainy cloudy day and it is snow covered. So while we can say we have BEEN TO Mount St. Helens, we can not say we have SEEN Mount St. Helens. We did drive further up the canyon hoping that the clouds that were covering the top 2/3 of the mountain would disperse. However, they did not.

We stopped at some overlook spot from which you could see the dam that was built to hopefully stop future flooding in the event that the mountain decided to mis-behave again. No picture of the dam but I did think this tree trunk looked cool. Oh well

So even though we didn't actually get to see the whole mountain it was still a great day. The museum was really informative and had great pictures and a movie that you could watch, so it still felt like we were seeing it. I think Keegan was a little disappointed though. I'm pretty sure that he was thinking we would be seeing molten lava oozing down a mountain when we told him we were going to see a volcano. After me telling him that the snow covered mountain up ahead was the volcano he asked "mom, does it still work?" and "is it going to be erupted today?" I love the way his little mind works.

And here is the day it decided to snow here. It isn't really that much and it didn't stay too long. If you had been here to see the news that night you would have thought it was 2 feet not 2 inches.

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*Keegan* Funnies

"Mom, do you know how I see things? There are little guys in my head taking pictures of what I'm looking at and then they send them to my brain"

Early this morning Keegan came running out of his room with a shoe in his had and yelled "MOM there's a bug in my pants!!" I asked "there's a bug in your pants?" He responded, "not these pants, the ones on my floor, I saw it, and thought it was a running arrow, but it's a bug"

Uncle Jon works at the Costco that George Bush was doing a book signing at. Keegan was talking to Jon on the phone and I told Keegan to ask Jon if he saw President Bush. Keegan quickly ask "Jon, did you see a president in a bush?"

He's been saying this for a while now but it still makes me laugh. If you say to him "You don't say" he ALWAYS responds with "OH, I'll say alright!"

Today Keegan told me "Watch out mommy, I'm coming in hot" he then jumped from the coffee table to the couch. When I asked him if he even knew what that meant and he told me "it means I'm going really fast and it will be hard to stop"

When I was unsure of the pool temp he didn't hesitate and jumped in. When he saw that I was still standing on the side he said "jump in mommy, it's refreshing"

Keegan and his best bud had a bit of a disagreement and Keegs ended up with a 1 inch gash in his head. (He's fine) But when I asked him if he was mad at Evan he replied "No, but he sure was mad at me!"

Not a "funny" but just a note, while we were in Mexico Keegan learned to say his "K" and "C's". So he no longer calls himself "Teenan" and Koda is no longer "Toda" It was such a shock to hear him ask us how was "MexiCO" not "MexiTo"

I have resorted to washing Keegans mouth out with a tiny bit of soap when he argues. Afterwards I was talking to him explaining that arguing isn't good and that the soap tastes yucky right?? He looked at me and said "Well, it doesn't taste GOOD"!!

The other day Keegan fell out of my mom's really tall truck. When he was asked if he got hurt on the truck he said, "No, it was the ground that hurt me"!

**Warning, not really funny, but still so funny at the time, maybe shocking is the right word**

Keegan dropped the "F" bomb today, totally random and so unlike him that I didn't believe he actually said what I thought he did. I actually made him say it again to see if heard him right. So despite me and Josh laughing we had to tell him it wasn't funny and that if he ever said it again he would go to time out for a long long time.

He got a watch for Christmas, if you ask him what time it is he often says "here, you look at it" It is a digital watch and will read the #'s individually if there is a 3 anywhere in the time he thinks they are E's So the other day it was 4 "E"7

Josh was helping him put on the ONLY pair of pants that actually fit and don't fall down. Keegan doesn't unsnap the snap and was struggling to get them over his keester so he said "my butt is too big" If you have actually seen Keegan you know that is NOT the case.

He often asks me how fast different animals can run, he usually wants me to tell him if it is faster or slower than Koda.

I told Keegan his drawers were falling down, he turned to me and said "What???? my drawers???" he then immediately ran upstairs and pushed in his dresser drawers.

Keegan asked if Grandpa Dan was up in heaven? I told him yes. He asked if he was up in the stars and clouds? I said yes. He then asked, when he is done in his rocket can he come back down?

Keegan got to meet Elmo at Sea World, he ran up and gave him a huge hug. Afterward he told me that "I gave Elmo a hug and didn't even poke him in the eye"

When his finger nails get to long he tells me he has "girl nails"

While on vacation, he asked if we were going to the beach that day, I told him "No we are going to Sea World today" he started to cry and then told me he didn't wan't to go to Sea World that he wanted to go to Wal-Mart.

While out one day a little girl called to her mommy and Keegan turned to me and said "Mommy she said your name"

I had asked Keegan for another kiss this morning and he replied "Nope, only one kiss today."

"Mom, there is something in my flip-flop!!" I ask, what is it? Get it out. He replies "my foot"

"Pa" is going pee, but he doesn't need my step stool betause he is very tall."