Memorial Day....& a Penguin

A 3 day weekend with lots of sunshine and family--Keegan had a great Memorial Day! He went to  a zoo, a museum, a cool castle with places to hike/climb, and spent hours outside!  Keegan's Uncle Ethan also dressed like a penguin. Words are few as we have lots of pictures!

         
                              Family picture at the top of the castle!

                                   Coloring with a brown rock

                                       Loves loves loves the outdoors

                             He is a seriously awesome hiker/climber!

                                     Inside the castle with Nana!

                              Random picture of Keegan sitting on the potty..apparently cold

                                        Sharing popsicles with Charity

                                 Throwing rocks with Daddy & Nana

Every kid needs a pudding snack before bed...and a Thomas sticker on their head..and a goofy face

       And here we have a penguin, other wise known as Uncle Ethan, talking with Keegan

                       This picture makes Mommy's day routinely

Checking out the penguins with Uncle Ethan & Aunt Megan

                        Petting some sort of large hairy animal

                                           This lion was awesome

                               Watching the lion with Megan

                                   Mommy & her favorite little guy!!

                      Mommy came out of the bathroom to find this

 Anytime Keegan wasn't eating or sleeping he wanted to be outside swinging...in fact one night Keegan  sat straight up in bed while sleeping and said "mommy swing??" and then went right back to sleep

And thus ends our picture show of the weekend. Keegan, as always, had a fantastic time and is looking forward to more fun! This weekend his Great Aunt Rita will be in town and Mommy has some serious yard saleing to do along with a going away party for some good friends!

Train Tracks.

If you will recall a recent blog was titled "W". That was Keegan's obsession at the time. This blog is titled "train tracks". Yet another obsession. Except this obsession is seriously excessive. Mommy is aware that a 2 year old should encouraged to talk, however, lately she finds herself bribing Keegan to stop. Mostly because he is on repeat: "train tracks", "see the train tracks", "look, train tracks", "train tracks train tracks train tracks." You get the idea. In 15 minute ride to day care he probably says "train tracks" 100 times. He turns everything into train tracks--yellow lines on the road, grass, sidewalks, whatever. Anyway. Mommy actually bribed Keegan with a popsicle tonight to stop saying it. He didn't get the popsicle.

On to pictures.

Last year Mommy tried to give Keegan a popsicle to help with teething..he hated it..this year he is totally addicted to them!

 Over the weekend the outdoor mall had a "Family Adventure Festival" day which Keegan went to with his friends

This is when all the other hundreds of kids were sitting quietly watching people from the zoo show animals...Keegan is dancing and Charity is taking notes on how to push her Mommy's buttons

   Keegan scored a Husker flag...we boo'd it but let him carry it anyway

 Playing in the rotating water ball....it was a challenge getting him away from this

                Summer is finally here! It got hot and we all needed a water break

 He wanted the prizes this dude was giving away but this was as close to a high 5 as he got

   
                                   Loved spending the day with his friend, Faith

                                     Love summer days with the family!

                               Keegan decided he wanted his face painted

Fun in the sun wears a guy out! Mommy stopped for chicken nuggets at McDonalds for lunch and when we got home to eat them Keegan begged to take a nap instead of eat....mark that one down folks

Mommy and Daddy braved going out to dinner with the boy who turns into a devil the MOMENT we enter a restaurant...luckily he brought a train and turned nearly everything into "train tracks!"

Cinnamon Rolls!!

                          Just reading a book while eating some cereal this morning

Drawing...what else...TRAIN TRACKS...with Daddy

It is so crazy to look back at last summer (which seems like last week) and see how much Keegan has changed! Every day new things come out of his mouth and he is speaking in longer phrases, occasional sentences, and way too much! He knows his ABC's and can count to 14, is proving to be quite the kicker with a soccer ball, and is obsessed with basketball hoops. Not as obsessed as with train tracks, but feels the need to point out every single one we see on a drive. Keegan is growing like a weed lately and with a new buzz cut looks like a little boy and doesn't have too many signs of his "baby years" left!  He has a lot of fun stuff coming up: Memorial Day weekend at Nana and GGs, a visit from Great Aunt Rita, house hunting, and fun in the sun all summer!!

Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day to all you hard workin', fantastic mamas! Keegan especially wants to give hugs to Grandma F, Nana, and of course his own Mommy :) He is so so lucky to have the gals in his life!

Mommy spent most of the weekend with other mamas, sans kiddos, running a race. The Market to Market in Iowa started in Jefferson and ended in Des Moines for a total of 75 whopping miles...all running. 7 runners, 17 exchange points, and a whole 'lotta fun landed these gals disqualified due to being TOO fast!! Long story but it's true. We finished in 10 hours and 45 minutes and smiled most of the way. Mommy may have said a few not so nice words the last 3.5 miles but whatever.

             
                                         Friday night getting psyched up

Starting line! Go Pavement Princesses!

   One of the exchange points: Renee is in pink coming to hand off to Cari in pink

 Random shot of all the people waiting at one of the exchange points....some of the runs were so pretty!

 This is on Mommy's last leg, also the final leg of the whole race. Part of the reason for this picture was it was a peaceful, pretty run...the other reason being it gave Mommy a reason to stop for 2 seconds

 Crossing on the dam in Des Moines...you can see the state capitol in the background

     After the race picture of the family members that ran: Kay, Mommy, Cari, & Tracy

Aunt Cari has way more pictures of the actual race so see her blog if interested! 

Mommy got back home on Mother's Day and took a nap with Keegan followed by a trip to the zoo and out to dinner. 

Checking out the giraffes...he woke up from his nap asking to go see the giraffes

                                          Why hello baby elephant

         Keegan talked Mommy & Daddy into a train ride around the zoo

And finally, last year around this time Great Aunt Rita was at the zoo with us and had a good idea to take a picture every year by this elephant statue

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Daddy took a video of Keegan flying his first kite this weekend but youtube is being uncooperative at the moment. Hopefully we can post it soon.

That's all folks. Happy Mother's Day to all. Mommy sure does feel like a pretty lucky one and thinks Mother's Day should be a day for us to realize how lucky we are that our babies picked us to be their Mommies! So, thank you Keegan for being my baby boy--I love you to the moon and back!