A Day At Woodland Park Zoo

Today we had Keagan and Mommy fun day at the zoo in Seattle. We hadn't been there since I was about 3 years old.

 





 There were lots of cool caves to climb in and explore.

 Mommy looked at the animals. I found lots of big rocks to climb.

 There were also great places to play peak with fake animals - like this fox.

 The zoo was full of very helpful signs.  It's too bad many of the animals (including that porcupine) were all sleeping.

 The bears were awake though. This one kept walking right at us - but turned around when he got to the swimming hole.

 As fun as that class sounds - we decided to skip it.

We also got to ride on the carousel. Mommy didn't like it because she got dizzy standing backwards watching me.

There were also lots of great places to run around - but I may have gone just a little bit too far.

Videos

So I have about a year's worth of videos that no one has seen. They're not in any particular order - but some of them are kinda fun.

Keagan's 4th birthday party at the Everett Children's Museum (one of his favorite places ever!).  Mommy went overboard with the "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" theme.

Keagan checking out the scooter he got from Uncle Jim & Penny.

Keagan - just being Keagan.

This is back home in North Dakota and one of Keagan's first ever boat rides. He wasn't that interested in the fishing part - but he liked to hold his hands in the boat spray.

New Bike

I got a new bike.  I had a lot of fun riding around with my friends around the condo complex.  I wanted to ride my bike the 2 miles to school by myself the next morning - but for some reason Mommy said no.

Last Random Update For Now

 Keagan got a new shirt that he wants to wear all the time now.

 

 We went to a community Easter egg hunt. They had a ton of eggs - but it was absolutely pouring.

But we did run into a couple friends there. Armel and Isay.  They go to Keagan's pre-school.

 There are a lot of kids Keagan's age living at our condo complex.  They run around all by themselves almost every day.  Mommy comes out and watches sometimes so I can play too.  This is just a small group of the condo kids.

 Mommy found a new website that is supposed to help get kids to do chores.  It worked for one week.

 

 We went to Uncle Jim's for Easter again this year.  We had an Easter Egg hunt. It was too cool for the hot tub (plus Mommy didn't bring my swimsuit) - so I just sat on top of it.

 On one 'Mommy and Keagan Fun Day', Mommy asked if I wanted to go on the monorail or to the top of the Space Needle. Much to Mommy's surprise (and her wallet's) - I chose the Space Needle.

I'm not a big fan of that outer ring - but it was still fun to be up there for a while.

 I had my first eye appointment too.  Mommy got worried when I told her that my eyes are sometimes blurry on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays (but never weekends). The doctor says my eyes are fine.

And we had pre-school graduation pictures taken. I start Kindergarten this fall!

Other Random Stuff

 Went to my favorite place - The Everett Children's Museum. Did a little digging for dinosaurs.

 

 This is how I eat breakfast most mornings in Mommy's room.  That position looks like it absolutely hurts.

 We checked out the Family Fun Center in Tukwila.  The games and rides were fun - but this is Keagan's favorite. It's called the "Frog Hopper". It goes way up in the air and then shakes the kids like crazy and it hops up and down. Keagan laughs so hard it sounds like it hurts.

Keagan wrote his first book at school.  He told his teacher what to write - and then he wrote the pictures.  However, Mommy had to fix part of the story when he got home because the teacher wrote "trees" instead of "trains" on a page.  How in the world did she ever make that mistake with him?

My Little Picasso

Keagan and I tried something new on a rainy day.  I found a place where you could pick and paint pottery - and then have someone else clean up the mess. I was all about that!

Keagan chose a guitar bank.  Mommy painted a big plate with his handprints.

And here's the finished product a week later after they had fired them.  Mommy's didn't turn out quite like she wanted - but Keagan was pretty happy with that bank.

Sesame Street Live & Renton Safety Fair

The day before Mother's Day, Mommy surprised me by getting tickets to Sesame Street Live.  We had pretty good seats.

There were lots of singing and dancing puppets.

I even got some cotton candy. I was only allowed to take a few bites though. Mom says there's too much sugar and I get crazy.

But since I woke up at 4am - it was really hard to stay awake sometimes.
After that, we caught some lunch and Mommy found out there was a safety fair at the Renton Community Center - so we decided to check that out too.

There was a lot of cool free stuff and games - but I really wanted to get my face painted.

I got a dinosaur.  You can kinda tell it was her first & last dinosaur of the day.

And of course I had to get a train.  This one turned out pretty cute.

Grandma & Grandpa Came To Visit!

Grandma and Grandpa went on a cruise and then ended up at our place for 3 days (it's better than 2 days, ya know).  Just because they were only here a short time doesn't mean we didn't have lots of fun

 

 Grandpa and I played with Grandma's I-pad.  The I made them both play trains with me.

We played trains a lot.

 Then we played on the Wii.  I love to go cow racing!

 Of course, I kind of insisted that Grandma make some cookies.

I even helped.

Time To Catch Up (Again)

The Story Of The Missing Teeth

Keagan's teeth started pointing in all different directions last month.  During his last dental visit, I told the dentist that Keagan had to keep his teeth until mid-June so he'd have teeth for Joe & Emma's wedding.
The dentist took one look at his teeth and said, 'Yeah, that's never going to happen.  Those bottom teeth may not even last until the end of the month'.
Then at 1am on the Saturday before Easter ...

 He was very excited and came screaming into my room. Once I calmed down from the scare, we took pictures and I convinced him to go back to bed.

The tooth fairy didn't come that night, but...

The Easter Bunny came the next morning.

 

And so did the Tooth Fairy.  She traded his tooth for $1.50.  He was very excited.  Then as Mommy was getting ready to go to Uncle Jim's for Easter, Keagan brought me the dollar bill and said that he wanted me to have it because he wanted me to have something special too.  No matter what I said, he wouldn't take that dollar bill back.  It's now safely tucked away in my jewelry box.

 

Then, at 5am on May Day....







the second bottom tooth fell out.  He got $1.50 in quarters this time from the Tooth Fairy. He decided to keep all of those.







Mother's Day

Keagan made me a card at school. 

It's a hand flower.

Inside is a picture of Keagan painting a picture of us playing soccer.  It also says "Happy Mom Day".  I told him he did a really nice job writing that all by himself.  He then confessed that he had some girl at school write it for him.  Well, it's the thought, right?!