The Viehwegs: October 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween 2011

We were so excited that we had our own neighborhood to Trick-or-Treat through this year. Keegans friend Draco and his family joined us.

Here is our little Ninja. He wanted to be the same thing as last year with very specific instructions that he needed a new sword.

I sewed him a bag for his candy.

He made a haul and this was just through our little neighborhood. We were only out for about 90 min.

On to the pumpkins!!

It's our thing, we do it every year. My dad always carved pumpkins with my sister and I when we lived at home and we kept up the tradition. Wish you were here Dad to carve with us, you always had the best designs.

Here are 2 of Josh's, they go together well, don't you think?

Wile e Coyote

Road Runner-Meep meep!!

And Pink Panter

I did a Welcome "sign"

A regular Jack-o-lantern

And a skull

I liked this one because it was EASY and fast

And here's Keegan's pumpkin. He did most of the cutting by himself, including the hair on the top. He still however, hates to clean out the pumpkin

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Funny Little Man

Funny story, last night I slept in the spare room so that I wouldn't keep Josh awake with my stupid cough. This morning Keegan gets up and sees that I'm not in my bed. He heads downstairs and sees that I'm not there. I keep quiet telling myself that I will get up as soon as he yells for me. But instead of yelling for me I hear him turn on the TV, get a yogurt out of the fridge and get a spoon. A while later I hear him coming up the stairs and talking to himself saying "I guess I'll get dressed now, I hope I can find my dinosaur shirt" He goes in his room and I hear him looking for the outfit he wants and getting dressed. As he is looking for his shoes I ask him what he's doing and he yells "Where are you?? I thought I was alone!" Now I wish I would have stayed quiet, makes me wonder what he had planned next, bike ride perhaps?

Later I asked him if he was scared and where he thought I was. He said he thought I'd gone to the store and he wasn't scared because he knew I had to come home to put the groceries away.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Viehwegs Come to Visit

"Pa" and grandma Viehweg came to visit!

We did as many things as we could pack into the weekend

We went to the Grays Harbor Lighthouse

Tallest lighthouse in Washington 3rd tallest on the West coast.

Josh, Tari and I walked to the top and got to see the fancy Fresnel Lens

Here's a pic from the bottom looking up.

After the lighthouse we went to the beach, this wavy log is the only pic I took. I got too involved (as did Josh and everyone else) with picking up sand dollars. You know when you go to the beach you hope to find one or two that aren't broken? Well it seems Washington is the mecca for perfect sand dollars. We came home with more than 60 UNBROKEN sand dollars. I think I'm going to make some (not all 60) ornaments for my Christmas tree!

One day we stayed in town and went to Tumwater Falls, this is the water fall that they used to grind wheat and for the "famous" Olympia Beer.

On Sunday we headed up to Seattle too see the sights and find some good clam chowder. We did both!

Keegan and Pa posed in the sculpture near the Space Needle

Space Needle

And of course we went to Pikes Place Market.

Which is where we found the 2nd best chowder I've ever had. YUM!

What a fun weekend!

Monday, October 3, 2011

Biggest Fish of Josh's Life

Josh caught his biggest fish to date.

26.5 inches long and weight after being gutted was 7.5 lbs

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."