Keegan and his cutie babies...

Last weekend (or was it the weekend before?) we cleaned out the storage room in the basement.  It was a lot of work, but Keegan found some interesting things.  One was a box full of my old beanie babies.  We went through the beanie babies and Keegan wanted to keep some of them.  Mainly he wanted all of the cats, a snake, a greyhound, and some other misc ones.  He lined them all up on a bookshelf in his room and there they sat for a couple days until he decided he needed some of them to sleep with him.

First was Hissy the snake, then Scat the cat.  For a few more days those two were his "cutie babies" and he took them everywhere.  Then he decided Scat was lonely; so he got Prance the cat and Meow the cat added to the mix.  Then while out at Macy's this weekend he fell in love with a small stuffed reindeer which he dubbed Rudolph (even though his nose is black we are supposed to pretend it is red because maybe it just got dirty).

So now he is walking around the house with Hissy, Scat, Prance, Meow, and Rudolph...quite the armful.  He has been taking care of them with his vet kit, building them houses out of tinkertoys, and generally making sure they get taken care of...he even had a picnic for them all.

The yesterday he decided they needed to come with us when we left to run errands.  Lyle and I were like, pick two to bring along the rest can stay home.  Keegan got all tearful and said the ones that got left behind would be lonely.  Finally I got his Transformers backpack and told him he could bring them all if he stuck them in the back pack.  Keegan then said he was worried that people would think he was funny because he had a backpack and wasn't going on a trip.  I told him no one would think he was funny, I carry a purse so he can carry a backpack.  Issue solved.

Then when we got to Best Buy he had to bring the backpack full of cutie babies in the store with us.  We had to zip up the backpack before we left the car so that they wouldn't get too cold.  It was getting a bit crazy, and although I don't mind accommodating some strangeness from Keegan; getting the backpack of cutie babies set every time we got in and out of the car was getting a bit bothersome.

Thank goodness Keegan decided the cutie babies were tired when we got home, so they needed to go stay in bed when we went to Keegan's friend's bday party in the afternoon.

But that wasn't the end of it.  That night Keegan made sure all his cutie babies were in his bed all tucked in and I was cleaning out his dresser drawers of old baby stuff he doesn't use any more.  I asked Keegan if he wanted to keep any of the small blankies or wash cloths for his cutie babies.  He scoughed at me and said "Mommy all my cutie babies can use the toilet, they don't need diapers."  I explained that these weren't diapers but washcloths and blankies.  Keegan brightened up and said "Oh, yeah.  My cutie babies are kind of dirty and they do need a bath!"

We read some books and then Keegan climbed in bed.  He lined up his cutie babies and then picked up Hissy and wrapped him in a washcloth.  Then he said "Mommy, I am wrapping up Hissy because he has a cold and I don't want him sneezing on me."  Stifling laughter I said "Okay, that sounds like a great idea.  Now are you done with your cutie babies so I can tuck you in?"  He looked at me very seriously and said "Well mom you don't need to tuck me in.  You see I have to wash my cutie babies."  I said, "okay but make sure you get to sleep soon."  He said "Okay, I'll try to be quiet, but you might hear some scrubbing down here..."

He is so funny.  Lyle and I listened for scrubbing over the monitor that night, but if he did scrub he did so quietly because we didn't hear much.