Keegan Bailey: Adrenalin Junkie

Ok, so we have been away a long time. I am sure that no one really missed us much, but if anyone did, I promise to update on our very full summer very soon.  In the meantime, a couple of Keeganisms to tide you over.  In the photo above the boys had just won victory in a monumental tug of war with MuShu, a Pug we are taking care of for a week. Adrenaline junkie that he is, Keegan loves to be chased, even by dogs that outweigh him 2 to 1. Just look at that face, and in the one below.  Sheer joy.

If any further proof of junkiedom is needed, consider the following.  Alden has a bunk bed in his room, and the upper bunk stands about 6 feet at the mattress, a bit higher on the side bars around it.  I was putting the boys to bed in Alden’s room (they both sleep on the bottom, double mattress because Keegan can’t stand to be alone in his room), and was busy putting Alden’s pajamas on with my back to the bed. Suddenly, I heard this loud THUMP! on the floor behind me, followed by Keegan shouting “I DID IT! AND I DIDN’T EVEN DIE!”

He had jumped from the top bunk, by standing on the chair rail around the bed.  When he does that, his head almost reaches the ceiling.  It just busts me up that a three year old stands there, thinks that he might actually die, and does it any way.  Heaven help me, and keep him from high places.

He continues to be the great character in our family, and says something almost every day that leaves you grinning from ear to ear.  Wish I had written them all down, but here are some samples:

Kathleen brought home some Pirate Booty the other day. Keegan opened it and began to chow down, stopping only to exclaim, with two fistfuls of booty in hand:  "Pirate Booty really rocks!  Mom, you are the best. I love you!"

When he is really happy, which is usually after eating, or particularly when we have a family ice cream fest, he will run around and kiss each one of us, and say, with as much conviction as a little body can muster, “I love you Mom! I love you Dad!” and so on to each member of the family (visiting dogs included).

He also has a tender heart.  About a week ago he caught a spider in his room, and let it go outside. As he did so, he said, “Now it is in the sweet, sweet day!”  That is so typical of him, in that he loves the outdoors with all of his very big heart, and joys in finding creatures great and small.

He is not always so kind though.  As Kathleen and Keegan went to the doctor's office a while ago, they came upon a long hall. Breaking free of his mom’s grip, he ran pell mell, turning for just a moment to shout “See you later, Loser!”

And don't even think about getting in his way when he is tired.  When he needs to sleep, you just have to let him, when and wherever that may be.

Last night, after a full day in which he must have yelled "MuShu!" a thousand times while they ran about, he went to bed only to find Mushu laying on the blanket next to his pillow, which kept him from getting in.  His only words: "Somebody move the Pug!"