Some New pics

We have had a very busy few weeks here at the Keen household. It seems like the going just never ends. Its mostly good though. In the past month and a half we have done some fun things, and Miles keeps reaching for those milestones. Miles is eating cereal now, as you can see from the picture, and he just started sitting up today. He can't sit up for long, but he can for a bit. Then he gets lazy or wants to reach something and he just tips right over. The doctor says as soon as they can sit up, crawling is close behind. We've also done a couple of fun trips to the children's museum in Naperville and Brookfield Zoo. Maggie has some adorable little friends and we have done playdates with them to each of those locations. I am looking forward to trying to get her out to the Sheddaquarium and possibly the Chicago Children's museum at Navy Pier. We'll see though. Enjoy the pictures!

Potty Words from a Pretty Girl

I am learning more than ever that I need to be careful about what comes out of my mouth. While certain words are fine for me to say, despite the fact that they are not swear words, they aren't so fine for Maggie.

For example. I will have to be careful what Drex says in front of my daughter on 103.5 FM. Because now she keeps repeating, "My sister is a skank?" Preceded or followed by a gasp of horror.

Also, today she was yelling at the dog, which she does frequently now. Only today was the first time I heard her refer to the dog as both the FRICKING dog and FRICKING animal.

Skank and Frick, you will be missed, but I will have to leave you out of my vocab for a while. Its been nice knowing you. Please keep in touch!

A few new pics

Potty training time

So we have been casually introducing the potty for some time. However, Maggie is quite the stubborn girl, and of late has been refusing to even sit on the darn thing, much less do any sort of pottying on it. So, today I made the big jump. I decided that once we got home from the YMCA, she would be in big girl underwear the rest of the day. To my utter suprise it worked! I expected to be cleaning up at least one puddle, but she kept them dry all afternoon. Then I began to worry that she was holding it too long, and that couldn't be good for her, so I made her sit on the potty for like 20 minutes. No results. So I just let her run around the house sans pants for a bit. I was busy feeding Miles so I figured if she had an accident I would clean it up. She was running around and then I heard her in the bathroom. All of a sudden she came out yelling, "Look Mommy, I made yellow." Sadly enough I have heard that many times and come running to nothing. Today though, I was a proud Mama. She did make yellow! And I hope this is the start of her being excited to use the potty. Lord knows I'm excited to get her out of the diapers, at least during the day! Hooray Maggie!!!

Some things about trips with 2 year olds

Apparently two year-old children like to sleep in their own homes and not at hotels. I sort of expected this, but I did not expect the extreme we experienced either. Last summer we went to Iowa for a trip, and as long as Maggie was in bed with Mommy she was fine. This time, not so much. Jeremy and I started off with her in the bed between us. She thought it was so much fun that she didn't want to go to sleep. After at least an hour of telling her to be quiet, lay down and sleep, we got fed up and put her in the pack n play. She cried for 15 minutes straight at least. Then we put her back in our bed, and she fell asleep shortly thereafter. Which put us at about 9:30pm. Not too bad right. Until we are jolted awake at 11:30pm by a screaming hysterical child, yelling, "I want my eyebrows, I want my eyebrows!" She wouldn't calm down for me or for Jeremy. The scream not only woke us up, but startled Miles. Which led to a hotel room of panic as we tried to prevent all the crying from waking everyone else in the hotel. Maggie then began to cry for a nutrigrain bar and goldfish which she just held onto as she stared at the tv. It had been turned on as some sort of calming device. So for about an hour Maggie gazed into space gripping her "cookie bar and goldfish." At some point I said can I take those from you. Sure she says, and lays down and is out in less than 2 minutes. She woke once more at 1:30, apparently sitting up and seeing us still there calmed her enough for her to lay right back down. She then fell asleep horizontally across the bed, head on my legs and kicking Jer the rest of the night. But thereafter Miles thought it would be fun to wake up and eat every two hours or so the rest of the night. I am not so sure if I should look forward to our trip to Michigan in June or just cancel it. :) Give me a little time to recover and we'll see.

The Grocery Store and Broken Bathrooms

If you want to make sure you remember everything important at the grocery store, be sure to bring your two year old daughter. I brought mine with me to Walmart. Having forgot my list at home on the counter, I struggled to remember everything I wanted to purchase. I said out loud, mostly to myself, "I think I'm forgetting something. I just can't remember." To which Maggie replies, "Hmmmmm, I know, CHOCOLATE!" Perhaps she was right.

Also, be sure to involve your daughter in the trashing of the bathroom. Tonight, when I pulled the shower curtain open, the towel bar somehow managed to fall off the wall. Maggie watched in horror as the hanging radio crashed to the floor. To which she replied, "MOM! Piece a crap! Look what you did. You break the radio. Why you do dat? This is TERRIBLE." She's right. It looks terrible, and it sounded even worse when it happened.

I'm not sure what I would do without Maggie's guidance. Perhaps she should take over the job of being mom.

Life with a 2 year old

So the past few weeks have been interesting and challenging with a 2 year old and a baby. Sickness seems unavoidable, and keeps creeping up on us. But we are battling it like the best of them! Maggie is forever saying funny things.
Since she got this cold, her nose was running and she told me, "Mommy my nose is crying."

Also, when we were at Duncan Donuts, Maggie told me she liked extra cream and extra sugar in her coffee. Its yummy good. Apparently I order to much Dunkin Donuts coffee, because she knows how I like it.

Kids are great! My daughter is more fun every day, and my boy just amazes me. I'm adding new pics for your enjoyment!


This is a picture of Maggie shaving with her yogurt.



Maggie looking angelic after a bath.



Maggie changing the sheets and playing with Daddy!


My boy getting so big and handsome.


Look at that smile!

Pics

I haven't posted pictures in awhile and Miles really is getting big. He's 2 and a half months old already. Its really unbelievalbe. Here are some pictures of the cute little guy. And Maggie is pretty silly so I'll share some pics of her too.

Sickness

So our house has been full of germs and sickness the past couple weeks. It all started with Jeremy getting a really bad cold. Somehow it managed to be 2 weeks after he was sick and almost better that Maggie and I got sick at the same time. She ended up spiking a fever that lasted 4 days, and we both got the stuffy nose, runny nose, sneezing, wicked cough thing. Then we are both getting better finally after about 2 weeks, and we think Miles is in the clear right? Wrong. He starts getting a stuffy nose, so I figure if thats all it is, then he just won't get it as bad as us. Then he starts coughing, and tonight he gets the fever of 101. I feel like we just can't all seem to shake this. I'm so worn out by everyone being sick around me. Its starting to depress me and I am so sad to see little Miles so sick. So pray for us if you think of it.

GOT IT!

Mwa ha ha! I got it! It can only hide for so long. Enjoy the smiles.