Busy Saturday

Keaton had a very busy Saturday.  He took the bus to the grocery store...

To get food for camping...for some reason the food didn't taste very good at this store...

It was a long drive but he made it.  After setting up the tent he did some exploring and found a bunny...good thing he didn't see the giant bear in the background...

I guess his camp fire must have got out of control because the fire department had to come...they did let him drive the truck...

Busy Saturday at the Seattle Children's Museum.

Summer Picnic's

A few weeks ago we went to TJ's work picnic and we were quite impressed...a big company definitely puts on a much fancier picnic than the small companies I'm use to working for.  Keaton loved the little kid bouncy house since it combines his two favorite things...bouncing and climbing...without getting hurt!

He wasn't a fan of the giant hamster bubbles or what ever they are called but I thought they were pretty fun.

Good picture of father and son.  Maybe we will be going to another one of these picnics in 20 years when our son is running the show over there at Microsoft instead of dad.

Then yesterday we went to another summer picnic out at Lake Wilderness.  When someone turns 65 in the Morgan family we have a big family reunion/picnic that summer.  It happens quite often when it's a family of 9 and this summer it was James Morgan who we were celebrating!



And when there is 9 brothers and sisters that means there are lots of cousins and second cousins and so on and so on...it's hard to keep it all straight.  I have found that the older you get the more important family becomes and the more you appreciate them...they drive you crazy sometimes but a lifetime of memories makes it worth it.

Here are some of the second cousins...I think these are all second cousins :)  Keaton was playing "duck duck goose" in the right picture and had a huge grin on his face the whole time. Luckily no one picked him since he wouldn't have known what to do :)



We even had a pig, I think this was a first! I kept the picture small in case anyone still reading this wasn't prepared to see a giant cooked pig :)

I guess the sign of a 17 month old having a GREAT time is when he comes home with cuts and scrapes showing that he played hard and had fun.  Luckily it already looked much better the day after when I took the picture, although we have already got one comment from the check out lady at Safeway.

And totally unrelated to Summer Picnics but here we all are at the SummeRun & Walk for Ovarian Cancer.   Thank you to everyone that was part of it in one way or another. We walked (very slowly) for Leah Morgan and Kay Stalder. They were teachers, wives, mothers and friends with big hearts who made the world a better place for everyone who's paths they crossed.

More Kids Stuff....

Casper Babypants is a very, very popular Children's band.  Once you have kids you some how know about these things (probably part of what they put in the IV in the hospital to get you ready to be a parent). He played at the West Seattle Library this morning and we were told to get there early so we did.  Waiting in line was a really hard thing for Keaton.

We were then all crammed into this room (where in my opinion there were way too many people and I'm sure violating many fire codes).  Keaton doesn't do real well when he can't move around so he wasn't too happy for most of the show.

But then he met some friends in the back of the room who were doing interesting things and it got fun for him. There was two boys laying their heads on the ground, which Keaton was fascinated by and even joined in at one point.  He stands on his head a lot, hopefully it's not something we should be concerned about :)  He decided he would also try to sit on their heads and bounce on a little girl's legs.  They were very nice to him and tolerated it all.

So overall I wasn't that impressed with Casper Babypants and all the hype I had heard.  We saw another, less popular kids band a few days ago and I thought they were much more entertaining.  They had bubbles, confetti, puppets, more than one person in their band, and most importantly....room to dance! 

I think Keaton's new obsession with riding/sitting on things started a few days ago when he fell in love with the horse at Chucky Cheese.  He wouldn't go on any of the rides we thought he would like (the cars and trucks that move and make noise). He only wanted to ride the horse.  Since then he has been caught trying to ride the dog several times....and now small children's today. 

Rockin Out!

Keaton loves to dance and loves music!  There is a big festival happening this weekend in West Seattle, West Fest.  We decided to go check out a kids band, The Bears Upstairs.  I've never heard of them but it was pretty cute.  They had bubbles and confetti and little puppet bears....and music!

Keaton was a dancing machine, even tried dancing on his head at one point.  Everyone always made fun of my dancing skills so hopefully Keaton's are better (although I think he learned from me so he might be in trouble).

And when you go to a concert you have to flirt with girls...which Keaton definitely did!

He even tried to get up on stage many times, he's becoming a hard core groupie early on! Good thing security was watching (aka me).

But after about 30 minutes or so he was ready to move on to the next thing......and this kid moves fast!

This is the weekend of concerts because Sunday night a good friend of ours, Will Wakefield and the Congress Hotel, is playing (but I'm pretty sure it's 21+ so Keaton can't come).  Then Monday a very popular kids band, Casper Babypants, is playing at the West Seattle Library.  I've heard a lot about this band and the lead singer use to be part of a band I liked (The Presidents of the United States). I think I've even been to one of their concerts.  I've got a feeling Keaton will really like it.  Maybe we can even talk Grandpa Morgan into coming with us. 

Summer is Here!

They are predicting 80's for the next week in Seattle...it most likely won't last a whole week (since a week of 80's in Seattle is very rare) but a few days will be nice.  We tested out the Lincoln Park wading pool a few days ago and Keaton loved it.  My phone also tested it out and barely made it out alive (TJ spent hours drying it out).

We went back this morning but forgot that it didn't open until 11am.  So we got to play on the playground and make some new friends.

Keaton spent almost the whole time playing where the pool was being filled.  He has a cup at home and does the exact same thing when the bath tub is being filled.  I guess this was just a giant bathtub to him! 

Summer's in Seattle are so short that you have to get out and enjoy every minute of the nice days.....because you never know when you will get another one!