Kegan's First Halloween

Well, Kegan is sick again. I suppose she just never has gotten better, just waxes and wanes between bad and worse. She is now on breathing treatments and some oral steroids for her new wheezing cough. It is going along nicely with her ear infection which has had for 2 months. Albuterol is pretty funny stuff. It is like Kegan crack. She gets pretty hyper with it, but is happy for the most part.
So since Kegan isn't 100%, we tried to enjoy some of the Halloween festivities before she turned into a pumpkin. We lit our jack-o-lantern Kegan and her Daddy carved last weekend and Kegan and her Dad enjoyed some yummy candy. Her first piece of candy was a 100grand bar. As you can see she enjoyed it thoroughly.

Yummy chocolate!

Uh, Oh! Too much dancing with slippery candy.

Splat!

That's ok. I have more!

Kegan enjoying her candy!

You can see the sugar high begin to flicker and fade....going, going, gone!!

Let the post-candy meltdown begin!

So we decided to quickly put Kegan in her costume and send her on her way to score some more candy. Not like we didn't have plenty here, but we had to let her experience the Halloween magic of neighbors handing out goodies just because you are cute.

Yeah, this is what we started with. Guess how long the trick-or-treating lasted?

Kegan quickly came home with her big score! She made it to one house and was done.

Kegan quickly took to the tootsie pop, and whoever said taking candy from a baby was easy, didn't meet my baby! We had to strip her down and let her have at it. She ate almost the whole thing. Even tried out some of the wrapper. She gave that part back later....fun!

Kegan is Big Stuff

Kegan is officially a big girl. She got to ride forward facing on her way to school. She was super excited to see everything up front. Guess now we can actually use the video system in the car. Hope it works since we have used it maybe 3 times in the two years we have had my car. Little miss hot stuff!!

Sunday Kegan cheered the Cowboys on to a win while wearing her shirt bought for her by Aunt Sherry.

Go Cowboys!

In the background of this picture you can see Kegan's favorite toy....not the baby doll, the medicine bottle. I put some candy corns in it and it makes the best shaker. Kegan loves it almost as much as the rattle she stole from Ava.

Trying to help mama take pictures

Kegan's Nanny Jennifer will be so proud to see Kegan loving her baby....sort of. She does it so good, but I can't seem to get her to perform well for the camera. She really is so cute whenever she comes across her doll, she stops to sit and ah, ah, ah and pat her baby. She even will give it a kiss every now and then.

The Texas Country Reporter Festival

Since it was a beautiful Saturday and we had nothing planned to do, we ended up at the Texas Country Reporter festival in Waxahachie, TX. It is about a 40 minute drive from us. Madison and I attended 2 years ago and there were some pretty neat vendors there. The town is pretty neat too. Some really nice old homes. So we called up Uncle Aaron and we were off shortly after lunch. One of the first things we came to was a horse to pet. Kegan wasn't very thrilled about it at all to my disappointment. I thought she would think it was a really big dog or something....because she really likes to pet dogs and cats.

Reluctant to pet the horse

Do I really have to touch this thing?

Ooooh, that's really soft, like a really good pillow!

On this one we learned that it is true that when you lean on a horse, it leans back.

Next, we were off to find the kettle corn. The kettle corn here is possibly some of the best in the world. We ate some of that and washed it down with a huge glass of sweet tea. Both of these Kegan enjoyed thoroughly. Then we moved on the the New York hotdog guy. This guy came today with 1,000 dogs and at 4:00, we were buying 2 of the last 5. I would never eat a hotdog with onions or sauerkraut, but for some reason it all goes beautifully on his dogs. He runs a little stand off some random highway and people come for miles to get his dogs...for good reason too. As Kegan's first hotdog....she absolutely loved it. What is it with kids and hotdogs? I got 2 bits of mine and she ate the rest.

Shoveling it in

Impatience!!

Little Miss Piggy!!

Finally slowing down, really, how much can that tummy hold?

She even enjoyed chewing on the foil wrapper, that was good and all until we realized she was gnawing little bits off with her piranha chompers.

Protesting that I took her foil away for the picture.

Fall Festival Fun

Friday night was Fall Festival at Kegan's daycare. We were a little concerned because it started at 6:30 which is Kegan's bedtime. We couldn't miss it though because it was her first opportunity to wear her Halloween costume.....which is really cute. To help combat the screaming meanies, we headed to Chili's for a great supper. Kegan loves the mushroom jack fajitas. She ate three strips of chicken and a bunch of mushrooms. She also downed a cup of squash I brought from home. And of course, no Chili's meal is complete without chocolate molten cake......yummy!!! We all helped devour it.....I think Kegan ate the most. By the time we got back to school, Kegan was getting pretty tired, so it took a lot of effort to get her interested in anything.....especially posing for pictures.

Refusing to look at the camera....too much other stuff to look at!

I promise Kegan did eat a bunch, but the belly is part of the costume.

Finally a few smiles!

Again, not looking at the camera.

Kegan finally looks at the camera, but Daddy isn't....can't win.

Fall Fun!!

Today Madison and I finally m et with a lawyer to have our last will and testament done.....It was suprisingly easy. We were referred to a great lawyer by our financial advisior. We were in and out in about 30 minutes....whew! Since it went by so fast, we had the rest of the afternoon to spend with our "cutie pie". The weather was gorgeous, so we headed to the park down our street. Kegan enjoyed the swing first. There was a rogue neighborhood dog chasing a rabbit in the woods, so we figured it safer to keep her off the ground. Swinging was fun until she started trying to escape.

Wheeeeee!

This is fun!

Planning her escape!

What, I'm not doing anything?

Sitting in the rocks.

Oooooh, pretty!

Tasty!

Want some?

Why can't I eat them? They look so good.

Time to go! Tired baby.

So you think you can dance Dallas!

Friday night Madison happened on some tickets from work to the "So You Think You Can Dance" tour. We were so grateful that Aunt Sherry was able to babysit last minute....a thousand thanks to you!!!! It was really nice. A dry wall sub from Madison's work had a suite rented and it was catered by Wolfgang Puck. We had our own private balcony to watch from. It was really neat. The pictures aren't that great since we were a good distance from the stage, but there were big jumbotrons that you could see better from. It was a great show.

Saturday I had to work, so it was a long day for me especially after staying up late for the show. I survived and made it home in time to see Madison giving Kegan her bath. Who is this curly headed kid in the picture?

Sunday, Madison got to watch Kegan while I tried to take a small nap. I had to go into work that night. I don't usually work nights, but I had to switch with someone to have Monday off to go with Madison to get his cancer cut out of his neck.....by the way, it went fine. So while I was napping, Madison decided to fold some clothes and as you can see, Kegan helped.

Dressed up at the doctor!!

Today Kegan and I spent the day on the town running errands. We started off trying to finally get professional pictures of Kegan for Halloween. I had her all dudded up in a super cute Halloween outfit her Aunt Alex made. We started off by stopping in at Nordstroms to get Kegan a black pair of shoes to wear with her outfit. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a black non patent leather shoe in a size 3. No one makes plain shoes anymore. After we had the outfit complete we headed to Babies R Us only to find out the next sitting available was after her doctor's appointment. Not knowing how'd she look after he tortured her, we opted for Sunday instead. We did however, find lots of other things at Babies R Us to keep us occupied. Actually, the doctor thing turned out great. Kegan got her tear duct stent removed. I snapped a few pictures in the office while we waited. She did really well. We were out of there in 15 minutes. The doctor just made silly noises and quickly yanked the stent out with a tweezer....that's all. No fussing or crying. I don't know why she's so good for Dr. Norman. I need a straight jacket just to get her eye drops in. Thank goodness we only have to do that for 3 days this time.

This was the first picture attempt with her in my arms. As you can see my arms just weren't long enough to get all of Kegan in the picture.

Kegan was real excited when I sat her in the chair by herself!!

But then we started playing and it was all better.

This is Kegan playing the sharing game. She likes to hand stuff back and forth and say "thank you" or her version of it which sounds more like "ta".

More playing around.

I finally got her distracted enough to quickly put her bow back in. I think she knew something was up....what do you think?

She enjoyed looking out the window and pulling at the blinds while waiting...also a favorite past time at home.

Officially ready for Dr. Norman full of all her cuteness!

Since the stent pulling was really nothing, her eye looks totally normal. She had a little extra tearing for a few hours, but looks great. Now we get to battle her at home to put drops in....yeah! And, Kegan is teething again. Isn't she too young for molars? She has been chewing on all her sippies, toys, and pacifiers today. She even got one of her first good spankings for biting me really hard on the face....it was the only way I got her to let go! She was giving sweet kisses, then decided to go piranha on me....geeze!