Keegan Graduated....

Okay, so, long time no blog. All I can say is that I've been really busy. We were camping with my parents the weekend of Sept. 21st. We got tons of use out of the framed Kelty Kids backpack we bought. That's a very nice backpack! The next week Lyle and I went up north on vacation, Keegan stayed with my parents. It was nice to be able to sleep in and spend some time together without the little man dictating our schedule! It was also nice to come back and see Keegan again. Although it was a little overwhelming to go from the quiet laziness of being up north to the craziness of having Keegan around again. My parents are going camping again this weekend but I think Lyle and I are going to skip out and get some stuff done around the house.

The whole family (me, Keegan, and Lyle) are going to South Dakota next week with a couple of our friends. Ruby is going to stay with my parents and the cats will defend the house in the only way they know how. So it's been busy, busy, busy! Good news is that all the trim is *finally* done in the basement! All that is left to do is put in shelving in the closet and put up drapes. I also need to order frames for some of the artwork that we got to put down there.

Well, back to the title. The Monday before we left to go up north we were informed that Keegan had graduated from Infant A to Infant B. What is the difference you ask? Well babies usually get moved into Infant B when they start to get too mobile to be with the little babies; generally somewhere between 9-12 month of age. But not our little monster; no he got moved in there at 7.5 months of age. Apparently he was pulling things over on himself. He was also being, what they called "very social" with the 3-6 month olds. This translated to the fact that he was taking the little babies' toys and relocating them to where the other little babies couldn't get them. Infant A also isn't really set up for walking. So Keegan was making his teacher a nervous wreck because he kept pulling himself up on things, letting go and trying to walk, and then falling over and hitting himself on things. So, now he is in Infant B. This is a much nicer setup for him. There are lots of neat things to crawl on and hold onto and lots of soft things to fall on.

Then there is the food. In infant A he got rice cereal, a jar of fruit or veggie baby food, and a snack (cheerios or crackers) along with his bottles. Yesterday when I picked him up it said that he had eaten "Sirloin with mashed potatoes and gravy". He had two snacks one of cheerios and one of crackers. I was like geez the kid is eating better than I am. Thus he has been started on eating meat. We tried to give him some beef with gravy last night (BB food of course) and he really hated it. He made the worst faces. So I tried some of it....I hated it too. We threw the remainder of it out. That was the nastiest stuff ever!

A couple other Keegan updates. On September 21st Keegan brought home his first art project. It was a green piece of construction paper with different colors of sparkley marker scribbled on it. Very modern art let me tell you. Of course it is up on the fridge in a place of honor :-)

Keegan also has been starting to stand without holding onto anything. He will pull himself up on something and then let go and try to walk. He can only stand like this for a few seconds and then it's plop back down on his bottom. He can get across the room but he's not really crawling yet. He kind of pushes himself around the room on his belly; I think it would be less effort to crawl but he'll figure that out eventually. It's been really neat to see how proud of himself he is when he does something new!

Anyway, there's an update for ya'll. Hope everyone is doing well!