I'm 18 months old!

Keegan is still growing and changing like crazy...here are a few tidbits from the last month.

• The other day I gave him his "lovey" and he said "thank you, Mommy" without my prompting him at all. So sweet!


• At his 18 months doctors appointment he weighed 25 lbs 8 oz. and was 32 3/4" tall.


• He still loves golf, but has moved onto football and "baball" (basketball). He has a football and runs around and wants to tackle you or throws himself on the ground for a touchdown. Keegan can say "touchdown, tackle, catch, throw and football." We got him a little basketball hoop for Christmas and are really excited to give it to him!


• He still isn't really into veggies, but will eat any fruit. He is especially enjoying bananas, frozen blueberries and satsuma oranges right now.


• Keegan is also obsessed with Wii. If he sees the controllers he will pick them up and say "Wii, Wii" because he wants you to turn it on and let him play. He likes the tennis and boxing the best.


• Mamo (Jason's Mom) got Keegan a plastic snow globe last year and a nativity house this year that both play Christmas music and he loves walking around playing the music and dancing.


• His FAVORITE song is The Black Eye Peas "I gotta feeling" and every time we get in the car he says "peas, peas" and when the song is over he will tell us "more." He also likes listening to football in the car and asks for that too.

It is amazing to me the things he likes and he is very adamant about what he wants and when he wants it! He is starting to maybe show a little bit of the terrible two's and has developed a loud "NO" yell.

Snow

Yeah, the first snowfall of the season! I was so excited to take Keegan out in the snow since this is the first time he could really experience it, since he was so little last winter. Getting him all bundled up was an experience, he was not loving putting his snow overalls on over his jammies, then his coat, boots and hat and we decided to skip the mittens so he could touch the snow. Out we went and no reaction or excitement from Keegan at all! I think he had fun walking around but he could have cared less about the snow unless it was on his boots and then he was mad and wanted it off!
We ended up going out twice and I think the second time he had more fun and would actually touch the snow. He also started saying snow, but it sounds like he is saying "no."

Santa

We took Keegan to Skagit Valley Gardens to get his picture taken with Santa last weekend. It's something they do every year and the proceeds go to charity, so we thought we would go there instead of the mall this year.

Despite waiting an hour and a half to have his picture taken we had a lot of fun. They have a big store with tons of decorated trees and displays and Keegan loved wandering around and looking at everything. They also have a cafe there and Keegan got a cookie which kept him happy.

I thought Keegan would do okay with Santa since I had been talking to him about Santa and showing him pictures and then while we were in line we took him up and showed him Santa and Keegan was waving to him. Yeah, not so much....I put him down next to Santa and he instantly burst into tear and starting calling for me! So sad, so Jason and I sat down with him, not that it calmed him down much. I guess I won't be getting my cute smiling Santa picture after all!

We're still here....

Geesh, somehow the entire month of November snuck by with me not taking pictures or updating our blog! We normally take a few hundred pictures a month (I know, it's crazy!), but somehow this month we only took 34 and all but 9 of those were taken yesterday and today! Keegan just wants to look at the pictures of the "baby" on the camera when we have it out, so it's hard to take pictures since he is trying to get behind the camera.

We had a great Thanksgiving and, of course, took no pictures. Keegan didn't eat anything Thanksgiving-ish except for Chex Mix and pie...that's all healthy right? Keegan also happened to get a cold right in time for the holiday!

Here are a few pictures of him playing with Jason's swimming goggles....I will try and do a new post in a few days about all the other stuff Keegan has been up to.














Couldn't get him to turn around with the goggles on....

Wanting to see his picture on the camera

Trying to throw the goggles at me...and then this defiant, little face!

Halloween

This post is a better late than never one since it is way past Halloween! We had a fun, but really busy Halloween taking Keegan trick-or-treating to 6 different relatives houses so they could see him. He sort of figured out what it meant and definitely enjoyed the candy....he loves kit kat's. I tried teaching him how to say trick-or-treat, but he would not say it at all that day. Thanks to my Mom for rescuing us and making Keegan's scrubs, so that he could be a doctor! I ordered some online, but it ended up that they were lost, so she stepped in and made him some last minute. We got no good pictures of him with his stethoscope on since he didn't like having it around his neck.....
































Keegan with his cousins and extended cousins!

Wordless Wednesday

Pumpkin Patch

Saturday afternoon we headed to Schuh Farms to check out the pumpkin patch. We met up with Mac, Krista and Tanner there and let the kids run around checking everything out. Keegan loved the riding lawn mower they have for the kids to play on, going down the slides, looking at the cows in the field and, of course, the pumpkins.

I could tell Keegan has been spending a little too much time outside at Nanny's house when he went up to a little pumpkin, picked it up and tried to take a bite out of it! My parents have apple and pear trees at their house and one of Keegan's favorite activities is to go pick them off the tree or pick them off the grass and eat them, so I guess he thought pumpkins were kind of like that too!

I'm 16 months old!

I thought I would bring back this post since I haven't done one in a few months. Keegan is now 16 months old and my chubby, little baby has been replaced by a walking, talking toddler. He continues to amaze me everyday with all the things he is learning and doing. He has an amazing vocabulary and is picking up at least a word or two a week. Some of the new words he knows are:
Nanny-what he calls my Mom
fish
nose
toes
eyes
juice
baby
The list seems to go on and on....I would guess he knows about 25 words.

Keegan still loves to golf and has expanded on his golf habit. He now wants to look at Jason's golf magazine's and find the balls and clubs (he doesn't know how to say club, but if you ask him where it is he can point it out). Keegan has also now merged his two favorite activities...tv and golf. He asks to "watch" and then when you turn on the tv he says "ball" telling you he wants to watch golf! Jason, of course, loves this so they watch golf together. So much for trying to not have the tv on!

Keegan still loves "doggies" and can find a dog anywhere we go. He is also really into reading books and his favorite is Jamberry. He is starting to run, which is scary for me to watch since he gets going and then careens out of control and falls, but I guess that's how they learn.

Keegan has been so much fun the last few months with all his new skills, but the toddler part of him is definitely starting to show. He knows what he wants and it has to be his way! He is also getting really particular about his food, like what he wants to eat and how it is served (cut/taking bites). Keegan also wants to feed himself now and gets frustrated if you try and help him.

He is such a happy, sweet boy I feel lucky to be able to be home with him!

Farm Tour

Skagit County had a free farm tour last weekend and the weather was beautiful so Saturday we took Keegan to Golden Glen Creamery. We forgot our camera, so we don't have any pictures from there, but he loved playing on the tractors, seeing the cows, taking a hayride and, of course, eating his body weight in cheese curds. He also learned to respond to "what does a cow say?" "Moo!" Pretty cute! Now when ever he sees a cow he says "moo."

Sunday we decided to go out and see a few more farms since we had so much fun the day before. We went to visit the alpaca's, highland cattle and an apple orchard.

Golf Fanatic

Keegan has become a golfing fanatic! He loves watching golf with Jason and claps along with the spectators on tv, but he really loves golfing in real life.

It all started with a snorkel Jason's Grandparents gave Keegan. He would use the snorkel and a plastic ball to golf with, or if he couldn't find that it would be spatulas, bottles of lotion, pretty much anything...he's kind of an addict!

Now we have upgraded him to his own 2 plastic clubs and practice golf balls (they are like wiffle balls). He spends A LOT of his day golfing inside or out. He is amazingly good for his age and makes contact with the ball most of the time when he swings for it. For those of you who have not seen him golf in person, he actually holds the club correctly and swings it like you really would, but he swings like a lefty...not Dad's first choice! I have video of him golfing I need to put on the computer, but for now I captured a few pictures of him golfing on the patio the other day....




























































I forgot to mention when I originally posted this that Keegan also tells you to "watch" (he really says watch) when he is golfing and then will clap for himself after he hits the ball and expects you to clap for him as well. We are proud parents of our little golf fanatic!

Labor Day Boating

On Labor Day my parents took Jason, Keegan, me, James and his new fiancee Becky out on their boat. It was a beautiful day and we headed off to Saddlebag Island. We had lunch on the boat and then took the dingy onto the beach. My Mom taught Keegan how to pick up the pebbles on the beach and throw them into the water, which he loved, and now wants to do every time he sees any rocks...thanks Mom! Then we "hiked" around the island, a short 15-20 walk with some minor bushwhacking. Keegan got to wear his life jacket for the first time and had a blast on the boat and even missed all his naps for the day and was still in good spirits!

Ready for a ride....

Keegan is beginning to climb...oh the fun to come! If he can get onto low furniture he will, or if we are laying on the floor he will crawl on top of us, but he found a new thing to climb on this weekend...Tug, my parents dog. Tug was very mellow and just sat there while Keegan climbed onto him and sat down like he was ready to go for a ride!

Dancing Boy

My Mom received two musical cards for her birthday and Keegan loves playing with them and carrying them around her house dancing with them.....

Ambulance

Last Friday night we had a BBQ over at Mamo and Papa's house with Jason's family. Uncle Joel was working on the ambulance that night, so he and his partner stopped by so the kids could check out the ambulance. They all loved it and had lots of fun checking everything out. They put the headset on Keegan and I was laughing so hard I started crying....his expressions were just so funny! The only bummer was all the kids did NOT want them to leave and Keegan, Lydia and Addy each had their own meltdown.

Play Date!

Today Keegan and I had a playdate at our house with Emily, Torance and Jaxon. It was lots of fun for the boys to play together and get to visit with Emily. The boys are less than a week apart in age so it was interesting to compare them in growth and development. They are both pretty cute and definitely all boy! They loved banging on the drum, throwing balls and playing with Keegan's golf club.

Two Couch Potatoes in a Pod

In the last few weeks Keegan has become obsessed with watching tv. If he sees the remote he picks it up and tries to hand it to us while saying "more, more, more." He gets so excited if you actually turn on the tv for him and then goes to the couch, pats it and says "more, more, more" because he wants you to lift him up so he can sit there. Jason and now Keegan have become my two little couch potatoes in a pod! They love sitting there watching tv and hanging out.

I don't especially love this phase of wanting to watch tv all the time, but what do you do? I've been really limiting when he actually watches versus when he wants to watch and am just keeping my fingers crossed that this stage passes quickly!

Also, check out his new hairdo! I went and got his haircut last week by Auntie Bridget at the new salon she is working at, pretty nice!




















I don't think I could have posed him this way if I had tried!

Ready to Laugh?

This is what I saw when I went to get Keegan up from his nap....totally crazy hair! He had a bath before I put him down, so his hair was still wet, but he has never had hair like this before! I was laughing so hard I had to leave him in his crib to go get the camera. I was already planning on getting his haircut this week, but I think this just reinforces that I need to get it done!

Ocean Shores

We went to Ocean Shores last weekend with my parents who were there to celebrate my Mom's 60th birthday! Happy Birthday Mom! It was a lot of fun and pretty decent weather for hanging out on the beach. Keegan absolutely LOVED playing on the beach and when we got the the beach for the first time he said "wow", such a cutie! He loved playing with all the buckets and shovels in the sand. He rarely sticks anything in his mouth anymore, but it was all sand, rocks, sticks, and beach grass in the mouth this weekend! Keegan also loved "chasing waves" with my Mom holding him. Despite the long car ride and some pretty sleepless nights with Keegan I think we will try and go again soon since he had so much fun!

We've got a walker!!!

Keegan is now walking (and has been intermittently for the last few weeks)! It has been amazing to watch him walking more and more everyday as his confidence grows. He can go around corners and stand up without holding onto anything now. He is also loving getting into all our cabinets too!

I'm excited for him since this opens up a whole new world to explore and a lot of new things he can do, but in another way I'm sad that our baby is growing up so fast!

Funny Face

I found this picture of Keegan from the beginning of July and it cracks me up. He was on one side of our french doors and I was on the other.....

Dinner with Dada's Friends

Last weekend the Ash's hosted a BBQ while they were in town so that we could all get together, meet Merrick and catch up on life. It was pretty hot, but lots of fun to see everyone, have all our kids playing together and Ryan made some pretty tasty ribs!













All the guys and their kids



















Keegan playing in the car




















Tanner, Keegan and Weston



















Keegan playing tee ball and Tanner and Weston on the trampoline.

Ketchup

Keegan has discovered ketchup and he is loving it! He loves "dipping" food now and wants to dip using ketchup, marinara sauce, BBQ sauce, salsa or anything else he can get his hands on that we are eating. If we are home I just squirt ketchup on his tray, put and a bib and let him go crazy. Normally he uses his hands first to just scoop us as much ketchup as he can before actually dipping any food into it. This makes for a pretty messy dinner, but I guess that is the fun in being a toddler!


































Keegan is also busy trying to learn how to use a fork. He is really good with a spoon depending on how thick the food is and if it will stay on the spoon from the bowl to his mouth, but the fork is trickier. He is great if you put something on the fork and hand it to him, but he rarely actually gets something on there himself unless he just sets it on the fork with his hands.