A few pics of our little Walker, Texas Keeley!

Luken likes to join in on the action and run circles around the house. Keeley keeps up as best she can!

4th of July pictures!!

We were fortunate enough to be invited to our friends Denny and Shelley's house to celebrate the 4th of July this year! We went over to their house in the afternon to play and BBQ! Luken and Keeley got to play with their daughter, Olivia, and had great fun! They play extremely well together!

Luken, on his way down the slide, while Keeley tries to work her way up!


Our little walker!


Whoa!!!!


Beautiful girl!!!

Luken and Liv, making their way around the yard.

Our lovely little princess!!!!!!

My turn!!

Luken, loving the tricycle!

Silly kids in the bounce house!

He's such a pushover!

Hey, can I play??

Hah! Tackle!!!!

Keeley cried every time Denny looked at her, ha ha!

The kids, going to the mall! ;)

Ms. Keeley trying out the tricycle.

Mom and Dad!

Hey, let us out of here!

Later, I took Keeley home to go to bed (she was sooooooo tired from not sleeping well for about a week) and Todd stayed back with Luken and the gang for fireworks. I was really sad to miss Luken's first fireworks viewing, but I'm so glad he and Todd got to share the experience together.

Luken told me about it when they got home. He said there were green ones that were stinky and gross! And lots and lots of orange ones! And his shoes light up like fireworks, too!

Later, Todd filled me in a bit more: Luken thought the fireworks looked like "spiderballs" (Luken's name for the omnidroid from The Incredibles ) so apparently he wouldn't shut up about spiderballs and The Incredibles the whole time!

It was a late night, and Luken didn't get to bed until about 10:30pm. He slept a whopping 15 minutes past his normal wake-up time Thursday morning, ugh!!

A wonderful 4th, though! Two thumbs up!

I took many more pictures, but couldn't post ALL of them here on the blog, so if you would like to see all 50 (out of 150 I felt were shareable, ha ha!) then click here: http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k38/lukeeley/2007-07-July/2007-07-04-4th_of_July/?action=view&slideshow=true

(Side note: Sorry about the terrible formatting above - I copied and pasted some text from another place, and I've tried inserting paragraph breaks 3 different ways, and it keeps squishing it all back up, so I give up!!)

Keeley's a WALKER!!

Woohoo!! She started putting 4 or 5 steps together on the 3rd of July or so, and on the 4th, she was tearing it up - outside on grass even!! Today she's been padding all around the house, steadying herself when she gets a little off balance, or standing right back up again if she falls!

It's so cute - true toddling!

The unfortunate downside is she isn't sleeping very well, and I suspect she's just too excited about her newfound ability to settle down and rest. I hope this will be short-lived. She needs the sleep and mama needs the downtime.

I think she's getting some real words now, too. She can say "mama" and "dada" but I can't really tell if she's saying the words deliberately. However, when Todd came home from work this afternoon, as soon as he opened the door and stepped inside, she shouted "dada!!"

Luken is a little put off by all the attention on Keeley's milestones, and is acting out a bit. Ugh. I think I'll try to dig up some short videos of his first steps tomorrow so he can see how excited we were for him, as well.

I am working on 4th of July pictures, but I HAVE to offload some files from the laptop, as I have filled 80 gig to the brim and cannot work in Photoshop until I clear some space. There are some cute shots of Keeley walking! And perhaps I will get around to posting a video sometime soon, as well, but don't hold your breath, ha ha!