Yes, folks Keegan can now open doors all by himself. Granted we have lever handle style doors in our house (as do my parents) but that being said he can open the doors. I usually make sure the doors are locked but that won't stop him for long. At my parents' house he has figured out how to unlock the door and open it. It's great that he is learning but a bit scary as well.
We can also tell that Keegan has a longer memory now. When we drive past Old Navy he yells "ball!". He remembers that there is a vending machine that sells super balls there. If we go into Old Navy he runs up to the door yelling "ball, ball, ball" and then he makes a bee-line to the back of the store where the balls are. This tells you one of two things; either his memory is improving or we go to Old Navy too much ;-) He also remembers where people are. So when we drive up in front of my parents house he starts yelling "gamma, gamma". It is kind of cool that he remembers that stuff.
Next topic... After experiencing a rainy camping trip with a toddler we decided that we would start looking for a pop-up tent trailer. I've learned a lot about tent trailers in the last week. They are called pop-ups, tent trailers, travel trailers, and many other numerous names. They are, in general, about $6000 for your basic bottom-of-the-line trailer, but can go up to $15000. We wanted to spend between $2000-$4000. So we started looking for used trailers. Well we found that trailers don't lose their value all that fast and, while the used tent trailers were larger for the same $6000 price tag, they were also ratty inside and older. We also learned that for some reason there are a lot of nicer tent trailers in the price range we were interested in Milwaukee, WI...why, we will never know. We finally found our "dream" tent trailer on Saturday at North Country RV. They don't sell pop-ups but they had a couple they had obtained for trade-in and they wanted to get rid of them. So for $3500 we got a 12 foot, '95 Jayco J-series 1207. It is in great condition; it's just old. So while the interior decor will make you wince and force you into flashbacks from the 90's...it is very clean and in good condition. No rips, tears, or stains. We pick it up on Thursday. Keegan thought it was super awesome, and there is room for Ruby too. It was kind of a surprise purchase but we were having so much trouble finding something that met our requirements (in condition, size, and price) that we jumped on this deal.
Let's see...of course Mother's Day was Sunday which was hectic but nice. We went to the Breast Cancer Walk at the MOA and then saw my dad's parents. Then Keegan had swimming lessons and we went out to dinner with my parents. It was fun; I got some nice Mother's Day presents. I was happy because on Saturday night we went to the Albertville Outlet Mall and I got to buy a new dress and a couple of shirts. I always have a great time buying clothing :-)
We also took Keegan for a ride in his bike trailer again on Sunday. This time it went a little bit better. He only cried for half of the ride, then he decided he was going to have to live with it and enjoyed the view. I am still a little nervous with the trailer behind me but I think I am getting better with it.
We just have so many fun outside things to do this summer! Camping, boating, and biking...there's just not enough time to get it all in. We've only had the boat out once so far and that also wasn't really popular with Keegan. Hopefully he will get used to it! Anyway, here's hoping to more wonderful weather to come.
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