A New Smile

Remember my most recent post about Keegan's first visit to the dentist and my joy about his clean bill of dental health? Yeah, well, I blogged too soon.

Easter weekend, Keegan fell and knocked his two front teeth loose. This prompted a panicked call to the dentist on Easter Sunday and a return visit to Dr. Matt's office earlier than expected. One of the loose teeth actually came out at breakfast before we headed in to see Dr. Matt. When we got there, they did x-rays to make sure the whole tooth had come out and no other damage was done.

We found out his other top front tooth was loose and would likely come out early too. Dr. Matt assured me that it is not uncommon for pre-schoolers to fall and lose a baby tooth or two early, that the x-rays showed his adult teeth waiting in the wings and that probably the only inconvenience we would have to endure were some front toothless smiles in school pictures over the next few years.

So, here you have it, Keegan's new smile #1.

And his even newer smile #2, after his other front tooth came out tonight.

Say Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!

Keegan had his first dentist appointment today. While we were in the waiting room, he kept asking me about every 2 minutes, "Is it my turn yet?"

When the dental hygienist, Miss Kim, finally came out and called his name, he didn't hesitate to get up and follow her back to the exam room, but then when she started to ask us the preliminary health history questions, Keegan replied "No, no, no! Don't talk"

He finally occupied himself with one of the toys they had in the room so I could answer her questions. Then, it came time for him to get in the chair so he could get his teeth polished. No interest. To try and entice him, Miss Kim asked him, "Do you want a new toothbrush?" To which he nonchalantly replied, "No thanks, I already have one". Good point. Smart boy.

Then Miss Kim busted out with the cake batter flavored tooth polish. At that point, Keegan decided that she was pretty cool and he did great the rest of the appointment.

After Miss Kim polished his teeth, Dr. Matt came in to check for cavities. Fortunately, there were none. He just had to scrape off a little tartar build-up. When Dr. Matt was done, Keegan proceeded to tell him, "My papa is Matt too...But I don't say Matt, I say Papa. Only mommy says Matt". Have I said this kid is hilarious?

I was pretty excited about the cake batter flavored tooth polish, even though I wasn't the one getting my teeth cleaned. But right up there was the token they give patients for the "Treasure Tower" so they can pick out a toy after the appointment was done. Keegan was pretty excited about putting the token in the treasure tower, but then once the spinning top he selected came out, he decided he didn't want it and stuffed it back into the tower opening. Oh well. 

Dr. Matt, Miss Kim, and the rest of the staff were great, in case anyone is looking for a pediatric dentist!

 


Welcome message by the front door - nice touch!




Cake flavor tooth polish is da bomb!



Say Aaaaaaahhhhhhh



Treasure tower



Hide & Seek

Keegan has been into playing Hide & Seek lately. He especially likes to play when Matt is getting home from work. Keegan hears the garage door opening, he abruptly stops whatever he is doing, looks at me with excitement in his eyes and says, "Hide! Mommy, I'm going to hide!" And off he goes.

The first few times, Matt would come into the house, and loudly ask, "Is Keegan in the closet?" or "Is Keegan under the bed?" or "Is Keegan in (insert location)?" To which Keegan would reply from wherever he was hiding, "No!" With some practice under his belt though, he's been getting better at hiding a little more quietly.

Here are a few of the places he's been hiding.

If he can't see you, you can't see him!

3!

Look who had a birthday this week!


"I'm 3!"

We celebrated last weekend with a party at a gymnastics school where the kids got to run around and play on the equipment.

Keegan on bars

Henry showing us how a snake slithers

Petra on rings

Sylvie on trampoline

Sadie in the foam pit

The adults got to play too!

Airplanes!

Peter & Brook relaxing in the foam pit

Keegan introducing the foam pit to Aunt Steph

And of course, a birthday party is not complete until you have cake!

California Christmas - Just Like Old Times

We spent Christmas 2012 in California at Grandma Wee's.  Thankfully, we encountered no travel delays and Keegan did great on the flight out and back. We got him his very own carry-on bag just for the trip (trying to teach him my travel motto - if you want to bring it, you carry it!) and he loved being able to roll his bag through the aiport, just like Papa!

He had just one little moment on our flight out where it seemed like his ears were bothering him during the descent to Chicago. He spent the first part of our layover at O'Hare in a funk, but the 2 1/2 hours we had to wait for our next flight to SFO gave us the chance to eat, walk around, find the airport clinic to get some pain reliever for the ears, and bump into Santa!

Put all those things together and he was feeling much better!

We had a nice quiet Christmas morning where he and cousin Renne got to open their gifts.

 

 

  

And then at lunch time, family - including aunts, uncles, many of my cousins, and their kids - began to arrive. I think my mom hosted 50+ family members on Christmas Day and I am always amazed at how effortless she makes it all seem.

Loved that we were able to snap this family photo of almost everyone in attendance, thanks to my brother who climbed a ladder to place the camera tripod on the roof! Just bummed that Matt and Keegan were napping at photo time.

Grandma Wee and her sisters

Cousin Lucas & Dylan teaching Keegan how to play Mario Bros.
 

  

There was lots of catching up, seeing how much some of my cousins' older kids have grown, meeting new babies in the family who were born after our last visit 2 years ago, laughing, noise, and in general what might be best described as large family celebration chaos! It was Christmas like old times, as I remembered it growing up. And of course, with enough food to provide everyone with take home leftovers to last a few weeks!

Indiana Christmas

Since we were heading out of town on the 24th to spend Christmas in Cali (pictures to come in another post) and Grandma Jody and Aunt Steph were off to Tunisia on the same day to visit Aunt Bev, we hosted the Donovan side of the family for an early Christmas celebration and dinner before we all took off on our respective travels.


Can you tell that everyone was thrilled about me snapping pictures?

Before we celebrated Christmas at home, Matt took Keegan shopping and when Matt asked him what he wanted to get me, he replied "A yellow present". When asked what he wanted to get Grandma Jody and Aunt Steph, he stated "Orange present". When Matt was telling me about their father/son Christmas present shopping excursion, he said he was stumped at first about where they were going to go where they could find presents by color category. They ended up at Pier 1, where the sales clerk was very kind and patient and walked Keegan through the store asking him what kind of things we liked.

The gift selection results which Keegan did all by himself: a cute little cat mug for Grandma Jody and Aunt Steph which had a little mouse figurine inside the bottom of the mug.



"Do you see the mouse Grandma?!"

 

And for me, a bright sunshiney yellow happy face mug which now ranks in the category of one of my all-time favorite Christmas gifts. Ever.

Keegan was once again showered with gifts and one of this year's gift themes seemed to be "things that go".

Motorcycle from Uncle Scott

Hot Wheels ramp from Aunt Steph

Scooter from Grandma Jody

And I didn't get a picture of the roller skates, also from Grandma Jody. I think we are ready for spring!

Making the Rounds

While we were in Ohio, we also visited one of my best friends from grad school and Keegan's godmother, Auntie Patty.

She hosted us for a sleepover where there were yet again more Christmas presents to be opened!

When we got up in the morning, she busted out with her fancy juicer and solicited Keegan's help to make some fresh squeezed OJ. Keegan was excited to help and even more excited to taste the end result. Yum!