Cake and Toys

ONE

Can you believe it??  How is she already ONE?!

Here are a bunch of pictures for the family.

We're keeping Keegan busy this spring.

Right now Keegan has something going on 4 days a week.  He has soccer on Mon and Sat and then because we decided that he really needs to learn to swim (it is a life saving skill, not just my sport of choice) he'll be doing that till he gets better at it.  

This was at practice last week, not sure what he's doing here but he looks goofy

 And here's what happens when you goof off

 Waiting for his turn

 Not sure what this is but he looks cute in his REAL Gear

 Dull moment....

 And the beautiful view I had! (to the West)

 And our view to the East....thunder and lightning on it's way

 It got REALLY REALLY dark, soccer ended early and on our way home it got so dark you would have thought it was 9:30 at night!  

 Now on to the pool, here's this cutie playing while we watch her brother swim.  

 Practicing his side breathing

And here's a video that is sideways because I can't figure out how to flip a video.  

Keegan is loving all of it!

11 Months

 I CAN NOT believe how fast time has gone, the next time I take her pictures like this she'll be 1.  It makes me so sad.  Anyway, it will also be nice because she's so mobile now it's REALLY hard to get her to sit still long enough to snap a few pictures.  

Not too excited and won't look at the camera.  

 Would rather play with all the toys in her room instead

 Completely lost her mind and crawled out to the toys in the hallway where she plays when I'm in the laundry room. 

 Drug her back into her room, she loves to make funny faces. 

 You can kind of see her hair is trying to grow.  

 This is the face she makes after biting the stuffed animal.....or Koda 

 "Yep, I just tasted the owl" 

 Talking to me, probably yelling

Next time she'll be 1, I may need to be medicated for that day.  A couple of you know how well I handled it when Keegan turned 1.......it wasn't pretty.  Thank goodness Tyler will be HERE so I won't have to call him at a horrible hour of the night again freaking because my baby is ONE!  

We have a crawler!

10 months!!

Here's my best attempt at some "official" 10 month pictures  I looked and looked for her sticker that is supposed to be on her shirt but they've disappeared.  

Here's the only picture where she was looking at me and not trying to escape.  

And then next 2 she's hatching her escape plan

Weekend, why are you always over so fast?

It was a quiet weekend, spent some time geocaching around the city, including the huge park up the road.  

The boys went to a movie

This little girly figured out how to get herself into a sitting position while in her crib

 You can see how excited she was at this accomplishment

 Keegan got a new bike!  His old one was too small and the chain wouldn't stay on, he says "This new bike was built for speed!"

 Always excited to see her brother!

 Watching him ride

 Chewing on dad's strings 

And tomorrow it's back to school for Keegan and Josh starts his training for the ICU.

SEVEN

He's SEVEN!  And what a great seven years it's been!  

Keegan got to go to the Lego store in Bellevue for his present from us.  I told him he could pick out whatever he wanted.  So we drove up there and because there wasn't any major traffic and somehow it's closer than I imagined we got there 45 minutes before the stores opened.  Pure torture for a kid who's been waiting to go to this store for over a month!  

Waiting....waiting..........waiting.

We wandered around the mall a bit while we were waiting but he kept getting antsy that we were getting too far away from the Lego store. 

By the time the store opened there was a little crowd all waiting for it to open,  There were probably 6 kids standing there waiting.  Any time the employees came near the door they all got excited that MAYBE it was time.  

Once they opened Keegan calmly walked in and picked up the box he's had his eye on for weeks and announced that he was done.  It was a $20 set and when I told him to go pick something else (meaning more) he got upset that I was trying to make him pick something different not realizing that I mean go pick out something MORE.  This is his birthday present from us after all.  In the end he got another box the same size and also a smaller set.  I picked up for him the Lego Christmas ornament for next year and also a ton of a certain block to make a display for all his mini-figures.  He was one happy boy and as we were walking out of the store he told us that now all he wanted to do was go home so he could play.  

A little Keegan funny

This is just a little Keegan story that made me chuckle.  My friend drives Keegan home on occasion, if it's raining or Carleigh is napping.  She lives close and has been a life saver.  Well last week when she drove him home she notice that Keegan's teacher had circled something on his homework and put a question mark next to it.  He had ended 2 of his spelling test sentences with an !  So she said to him, "it looks like Mr. Edwards was confused about your sentances" To which he repiled, "I know, I just wanted them to be exciting" (said while shaking his head) I love how his cute little mind works, I love that he's having such a great time in school.  His report card came home last week and his teacher had written in that he is "at or above grade level in all subjects"  Makes this mama proud.

9 months

 Baby Girl is 9 months old!

She sleeps through the night, she loves any kind of food you give her although, he doesn't love peas, she's trying to crawl but is getting really good at going backwards, hopefully soon she'll move forward.  

High Chair Project

After finding out the Keegan's high chair that I'd saved had a pretty serious recall as well as the one my friend was going to give me I decided that I was going to find an old wooden one with no plastic parts that would be recalled. 

So after looking for MONTHS I found this beauty on Craigslist, I was so excited that it was in my own city, not somewhere so far away that it wasn't worth the drive.  So then I find out that the person selling it lives ON OUR STREET!  So perfect!

Here it is before, it's solid wood, sturdy, and in great condition.  The whole time I was looking I had the perfect color in mind for me to paint it.  A light buttery yellow. 

So I found the perfect yellow, it was exactly what I had been wanting and......... I hated it!  It was the color I had imagined but ended up looking wrong.  It looked like an old chair with the original paint from the 60's still on it.  I couldn't have that for our baby girl.  So....

I shocked everyone and went PINK.  It is now perfect for Carleigh and as you can see she loves it.