Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

I have some catching up to do. Here are some of the fun things for the last couple of weeks.

[Bode Updates]

Bode has started singing again, and we usually walk out of his room at night listening to him sing to himself Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star or the ABCs. On the airplane ride home yesterday I looked over and he was doing head, shoulders, knees and toes, with the motions and everything.

Bode is loving the pool. He still doesn't like to put his head underwater. He fell in off the pool steps last week and went all the way under, came up sputtering and spent the rest of the week bragging about he had gone under the water by himself.

Bode is becoming annoyingly observant and logical. As we hauled things back from the beach, he didn't want to carry two shovels and wanted Mommy to carry one of them. Mommy told him her hands were full and Bode proceeded to reach out, grab one of her hands (which was empty, but things were hanging on her arm) and pointed out that this hand wasn't full.

[Keegen Updates]

Keegen is a maniac. So loud and crazy, it is fun to watch.

He loves to climb on chairs and must have fallen off them at the beach at least twice a day, but was undeterred.

Keegen knows the signs for food, milk and more and uses them frequently.

Keegen loved the beach, everything from spending hours in a small wade pool we dug (jumping, dumping dirt on himself and sitting) to scooping up jellyfish on the beach with a shovel.

[Bode, Keegen and Dad at the pool]
Lately Bode is all about the muscles. He will frequently come up to you, flex his arms, point to his elbows and say look at my big muscles. We were at the pool, playing on the steps that go into the deep pool and he went over and grabbed one of the exercise foam weights for the pool. He started pushing it down into the water repeatedly (took some effort for the little guy) and told me "Daddy, my muscles are getting bigger and bigger. Soon they will be big and have hair on them (like Dad's do) and then I will get a hair penis". These statements stem from our discussions about why he doesn't have pubic hair and daddy does.

[Bode and Dad in Bode's room getting ready for bed, 3 days after Mommy kicked the door down]
Bode says to me "Daddy, you need to fix my door. Mommy locked two doors and we were stuck in here. We had to find a way out, so Mommy kicked the door down, (with a reverent voice) she is VERY strong. Daddy, you aren't that strong like mommy."

[Everybody at the beach]
Bode started using some new phrases last week, my favorite is:

"Daddy, can you get me a flavor? Will you get me a cookie?" (translation: Daddy, can you do me a favor?)

He also started saying "I am sick of being in here" (referring to the car, the airplane, etc.). I am not sure where that one came from.

The house we stayed in had a pool table and when we walked in we told the kids, that is the "pool" table. An hour later Bode came up to me and asked if he could go play river. After some clarifying questions I realized that pool had become river and that was one of their favorite games.

[Bode and Dad in a changing stall at the store]

Bode really wanted to be in the stall with me while I was trying on some pants. When he saw that you could lock/unlock the stall door, he decided he would be in charge of that. Everything went well until he got bored, unlocked the door and threw it wide open while I was standing there, between pairs of pants, naked from the waist down. Ashlee swears no one saw anything, but I am sure I heard some impressed oohs and aahhhs.