Evan on November 20th, 2008

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Evan on October 29th, 2008

Here are words that Keegan says at almost 1918 months old, in no particular order:

Mommy
Daddy (but he likes to call me Mommy)
Grandpa (it doesn’t quite sound like that, but it’s clear what he means)
gabay (his made-up word, like baby Zoey’s bipth)
ball
baby
please
gilk (milk)
pie
hi
bye
mine
up
doggie
book
pod (iPod)
hat
Oh-wee or Wee-wee (Zoey)
apple
ice

Signs:

please
thank you
more
milk
water

That’s all we can think of right now.
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Evan on October 5th, 2008

The other day Keegan stood up by himself for a second or two in the yard. Tonight after dinner in the living room I demonstrated pushing up from a bear walk to standing with my feet wide apart, and he immediately copied me. He then started standing up repeatedly, and then even taking a few [...]

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Rona on September 15th, 2008

We all went to the Puyallup Fair yesterday with the Hesses. It was a grand time! I haven’t been there in years! Keegan was amazed and didn’t take a nap for the longest time, until he just plain conked out around 2pm (he had been up at 8). Zoey went on rides for the very [...]

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Rona on August 20th, 2008

We just had a very busy couple of weeks, Brassapalooza Trumpet Camp, Evan went to GenCon in Indianapolis, and Evan’s parents were here for a week to help us out. During this time, Evelyn, Earl, and I took the kids to the portrait studio to get some pictures done. I haven’t done pictures at the [...]

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Evan on July 26th, 2008

In case you were wondering about the bluesy strains coming over the baby monitor a while ago, no, Keegan’s nap didn’t “take,” and yes, apparently Zoey left a harmonica in his crib.

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Evan on July 21st, 2008

Yesterday we moved Keegan’s crib into Zoey’s room—now Zoey & Keegan’s room—and he spent his first night in there with her. He had trouble falling asleep in the new space, and then woke up at Time I Can’t Remember From Lack Of Sleep in the night, but Zoey slept fine, which was my main concern. [...]

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Rona on July 6th, 2008

Yes, well, we haven’t ummmm, blogged in a long while. Sorry about that. We will try and do better. I know there are many, many drafts of blogs almost ready to go up…

Anyhoo, Keegan is now 14 months old! His first made-up word is “Ga-bay”. I don’t know what it means. Zoey had her first [...]

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Evan on June 5th, 2008

I finally got the photos of Keegan’s first birthday party posted to flickr, so without further ado (or any actual blogging) here they are:

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Evan on April 25th, 2008

Last night Keeg slept from 9pm to 7:30am. Woo hoo!

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