IT'S PAPA'S BIRTHDAY!

WE LOVE YOU!

my little slugger

Happy Weekend Everyone!

I'll be working on learning how to walk at this place called Springtime Tallahassee. Hope to see you there!

prisoner of war

Life with boys....dungeons, prisons, pirates, bad guys, and swords...what more can I really say?

5/6 of a year

Keegan is 10 months old!

Since his illness, he has thinned out a little bit which is helping him crawl and learn to walk. I really think it was all the baby fat that was slowing him down earlier. He also does this sort of thing where he scoots along the floor using his right foot to push off. He does this so much that he has a permanent water blister on his big toe. He is so agreeable and mild-mannered. He just goes with the flow and is such a pleasure in our lives.

Likes: Dancing, laughing, clapping, signing -- especially "milk", taking a bath and singing the Allison Bath Song along the way, practicing walking and then applauding his own efforts, crawling (a.k.a. mopping my floors with his white onsies).

Dislikes: Anything to drink besides milk from the "source". He'll wait all day long until I get home without so much as a sip of anything else.

Vocabulary: dadada, mamama, bububu (brother?), all done.

Thoughts about mommy

I saw this on Facebook, but thought it would be more appropriate to post here. If you have kids of your own or have ever had kids of your own or have ever seen kids in your life, you'll understand that this is an awfully long survey for them to sit for. It cost me 4 jelly beans and a twenty minute game of Hot Hoops to get their cooperation.

1. What is something mom always says to you?

Gavin - you love us

Logan - you love us

2. What makes mom happy?
G - you saying you love us
L – when we play nice

3. What makes mom sad?
G – fighting
L – when we fight

4. How does mom make you laugh?
G – saying funny words when we cry
L – when you say funny words like when you say, well, I can’t really remember.

5. What was mom like as a child?
G – movie, the little toaster (?????????)
L – a princess (good answer, Logan!)

6. How old is mom?
G – don't know, 15 or 50.
L – don't know, 21. No! 31!!!

7. How tall is mom?
G – 30 or 31. Does that make sense?

L – I really don't know. How many more of these questions?

8. What is mom's favorite thing to do?
G – read and check news on the computer
L – read books

9. What does mom do when you're not around?
G – play with Keegan and read
L – mop the floors

10. If mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
G – don't know (Actually, he doesn't understand the question, and being the well-trained school psychologist that I am, I cannot bring myself to break standardization and re-phrase it for him).
L – for being your best friend

11. What is mom really good at?
G – reading the news and cutting coupons
L – writing words

12. What is mom not very good at?
G – papers (???)
L – Cooking. Like sometimes you burn yourself.
G – NO! Mommy IS good at cooking.
L – Mommy’s not good at baseball then. Yeah, not at all.

13. What does mom do for her job?
G – work at your school
L – talk to people that are sad because that’s what a psychologist does

14. What is mom's favorite food?
G - broccoli

L – ramen noodles and p-sketti.

15. What makes Mommy proud of you?
G – happy
L – when we play nice and when I play t-ball and when I read to you.

16. If mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
G – don't know, a newsman (Again, he really doesn't understand the question).
L – you'll be on TV on the army show and you can win some money (Can you guess what he's talking about?)

17. What do you and mom do together?
G – read and play
L – play games.

18. How are you and mom the same?
G – don't know
L -- don't know. Geez. This is so boring. How many more?

19. How are you and mom different?
G – we don’t have the same flip flops
L – cause God makes us different, so we are.

20. How do you know mom loves you?
G – cause daddy telled me
L – from being proud of us

21. Where is mom's favorite place to go?
G – Wild Adventures. Can we go there today?
L – Wild Adventures and Universal Studios

Little Leprechauns

Great things come in small packages

He's the smallest one on the team, but his confidence makes up for it! He doesn't have a clue that they're towering over him. In case you're wondering, he had a check-up the day after this practice -- doctor says he's between the 25th and 50th percentile. Part of the reason why he looks so small here is that he barely made the age cut-off. Ok, so that's not entirely true. He DID NOT make the age cut-off, but Jay is extraordinarily good at calling people on the phone and persuading them to do what he wants them to do (think back to his RPOF days...), so I had him call and get Logan on the team. Unfortunately, this means that some of the kids on this team are almost turning 8(!!!!!), but note the puffed chest and pride exuding from my little Cub!

A well-check, followed by a not-so-well-check

Keegan's 9 month check-up!

2/25/2009

Height -- 29 inches
Weight -- 23 lbs, 12 oz.

I'm assuming, by the look on the nurse's face, that both numbers are off-the-chart.

Unfortunately, this smile didn't last for long. The following day (Thursday), Keegan was running a fever and pulling at his ears again. The "tummy issues" were soon to follow (I'm sparing you the graphic details here in an effort to maintain readers) By Saturday, we were back at Urgent Care, since my kids do not get sick enough to go to the doctor unless it's a weekend. Another round of antibiotics for a child that already hates to consume anything besides breast milk. On Monday, I realized it had been a LONG time since he had nursed or had anything at all to drink. Well, really he only nurses. Again, he pretty much hates anything else getting near his mouth. Maybe he likes pizza, but that's pretty much it. So, no water, popsicles, pedialyte, etc. Of course, since he wasn't nursing, he wasn't wetting diapers either, so in we went to see the pediatrician to assess for dehydration. Finally, today (Wednesday), I have good news to report....he's nursing happily again and seems to be getting back to normal, but it was tough goin' there for a while. I'll have to take a picture of him this weekend to show you how thin he looks, especially in the face. His baby fat is starting to disappear and he looks more like a little boy now.

why I don't wash my windows

Can you guess the culprit?

rebel without a cause

In Logan's attempt to rebel against us (I know, he's only 4!), he insists that he loves the Florida Gators thereby successfully crushing my dream of raising three Seminole sports stars/magna cum laude graduates/future doctors and lawyers. To retaliate (and because it's easy and cheap to find around here), I frequently dress him in Garnet and Gold. Check out this Seminole Polo sweater. You can't see the little gold Polo horse, but it's just too cute when he wears it.

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