Here is my little Valentine after he got up from his nap. He came downstairs and saw that I had made sugar cookies and his eyes lit up and he yelled out "Tookies"
He quickly ate one up and then using his baby sign as well and speaking he kept saying over and over,
"More Tookies Please"
Keegan was patiently waiting for me to bring him his dinner last night. Then once I gave it to him he wouldn't eat any of it. This is the new thing for him. He crinkles his nose and says "no tank you" anytime we try to feed him anything but toast. Uggh he used to be so good about eating. I am guessing it is just a phase.
Some cute things he is saying and doing now:
When we walk down into the garage Keegan is quick to follow saying " I tumin, I tumin"
During the Christmas season when we would rock Keegan before laying him down he always wanted to look out the window at the neighbors Christmas lights, but he called them "pretty" so when we rock him now he still says that he wants to look at the "pretty" but then when we open the curtin he can see they are gone and so he will say "Merry Missmuss all done"
Since it has been cold season we have had the humidifier on in his room and he will not settle down until he has turned the "midifer on"
Before we can come downstairs he has to go around the upstairs and close all the bedrooms and bathroom doors.
Matt has had a cold for a couple of weeks and has a terrible cough, so now when Matt is coughing Keegan will first say "Daddy otay?" then he will follow it with an "eeewww"
His favorite thing is to get mommies chapstick out of my purse. So his secret valentine gave him his own large chapstick today and he is in heaven.
I can't hardly believe he will be 2 in just 2 weeks. What a joy he has been in our lives. Every day is something new and we love it.
Today I had my emotional button pushed to a limit I do not like to be at. I'm to train on a new tool set here at work with a new trainer. We had planned on this week for training but my engineer wanted me to stay where I'm at for a bit longer. I told my trainer that I was going to be available after my break for a little to get a head start. Well, I got back from break and I saw that Heather sent me an email about Mason and that Damon had updated their Blog. So, I was reading them and he came up to me and asked if I was available. I asked if he could give me 5-10 min to finish reading the email and blog. He asked if it was work related. I said no, but it's very important to me and that I would be ready in just a min. He went off saying that I have to start my training. He was being very arrogant about it. I replied by telling him what the emails were about and he still went off about me being off break and I should start training. He just has no Heart. I told him to leave. I understand that it was not work related, but you can't just read a sentence or two of an email and blog about what's going on with Mason and then leave without reading it all. It's just to close to my heart. To me Family Comes 1st! Well, this really tore me up. It was like a stab in the heart. Mason is such a special little boy and I miss him dearly. I can't imagine seeing him right now, but all I want to do is be by his side and talk to him. After a few emails from my dear wife I settled down, but something has changed in me now. I'm that much more eager to find that cure for Juvenile Dermatomyositis. Please, if you are reading this and don't know about the Cure JM foundation just visit http://www.curejm.org/ and read the Smedley Blog and make a donation. A cure is out there, we just have to find it and this take $$.
I miss you Mason. Stay strong and we will see you soon.
Love Uncle,
Matt
I have been reading alot on my friends blogs about how good they are doing with their food storage. My mom tells me to get stuff all the time. I am always thinking about it but I never really do anything about it. I will pick up things here and there and we have a shelf out in the garage to store a bit but I always go down and use what we have. So it really has been on my mind alot lately and when I went to Winco tonight they had these Hamburger Helper twin boxes for $.98. Wow what a good deal! This is a lot for hamburger helper that I don't intend to use anytime too soon, but at least it is something to put on my food storage shelf and it didn't break the bank. It's a start in the right direction. I wish I had someone to search out all the great deals and then I could read about it and go to the store and get it. I don't get the paper so I never have coupons and I don't know how everyone finds good deals and free stuff. I don't have time or at least don't want to take the free time I do have to look all that stuff up. I need a good deal on diapers. Especially now that I am going to have 2 in diapers. Well I will let you know when I find another awesome deal. Thanks for all the inspiration to those of you who do a good job on your storage and encourage the rest of us to do the same.
While Matt is in California helping out with the Cure JM foundation Convention and Marathon, Keegan and I are enjoying our weekend together at home. Although we haven't been able to do anything too exciting since daddy has been gone because Kee has been a little under the weather. But he is feeling better today. We made this little video for daddy today because I know that he misses Keegan. Keegan wasn't in a very talkative mood but he does miss his daddy and keeps asking for him.
Love you babe. I know it is hard being away but you are learning great things and will be a great support to Damon, Mason and the family and the rest of the Cure JM community. We will see you when you get back.
XOXO,
Keegan and Mommy
Keegan got this sketching board (I forgot the name of these things) for Christmas this year and it has been one of his favorite gifts. He calls it his draw and he plays with it for hours every day. The other day I looked over and he had drawn this smiley face all by himself. I was so impressed. Since then we have been practicing on smiley faces and he has gotten pretty good. He can now draw faces with ears, hair and a neck. He is my little superstar.
The scrapbook and rubber stamp classes that I go to started again this month. I went the other night and we were given materials to make a project. They have changed the rules a bit. Instead of making a card or scrapbook page you can make any craft project. They are no longer left at the store to be voted for, but instead you are entered into a drawing for a gift card. So now winning is not based on talent but luck. This is not one of my best pages but I am a little rusty. This is however one of my favorite pictures. I started an 8x8 album for Matt about 3 years ago and I have only done 3 pages. So I decided to make this an 8x8 to go into his book. The items that we had to use were the round flower piece, the red floral paper, 3 small heart brads and a small piece of white ribbon that has valentine on one side. I turned the ribbon over because I didn't want to use the valentine part of it. I used all the items although you can't really make them out. I took this picture with my phone and the camera on there is not so good. I just love scrapbooking but it is so hard with Keegan. He likes all my items as well and they end up all over the place. So I try to do it when he is asleep but he never sleeps long enough for me finish a project. I did get this one done today but not while he was asleep. Matt came home shortly after I put Keegan down and the dogs were upstairs and went crazy when they heard the door open, so naturally it woke Keegan up. Grrrr....... If Matt would let me I would be giving two dogs away. Since he was home he was in charge of Keegan until I could finish. It was fun. Hopefully I can get back in the grove of things again and I can get some of my creativity flowing again.
