The Keene Family

This week JT has been extra hungry... that can mean a growth spurt, a big milestone, or both. It turns out, this week JT figured out that he has hands and started looking at them and using them to suck on... AND he figured out how to roll from his tummy to his back. Fortunately, both events have been caught on tape for your viewing pleasure. :) We've also been enjoying the jogger stroller this week. I went for my first run since last November. It was hard but felt great. We also took a nice walk along Lake Washington in Coulon Park, and JT loved being able to sit up and look around.

This week JT turned two months old. He had his checkup at the pediatrician's office and was proclaimed a healthy boy. He's 13 pounds (75th percentile) and 24 1/4 inches long (90th percentile). He was very brave for his big shot and only screamed for a minute or so after the nurse pulled the needle out of his thigh. JT, my mom, my grandma, and I had a nice picnic lunch at Flaming Geyser park this week. The weather has been so nice. We got a four-generation picture and even stuck JT's toes in Green River (he wasn't impressed with the temperature and let us know!). Jim, JT, and I invited Jen and Asher out on the Skagen's boat with us this week to enjoy more nice weather. Asher and JT were in high fashion with their life vests (thanks to Cole for letting Asher borrow his) and sun hats. We swam, skiied, and ate pizza on the lake. Not a bad way to spend your weekday afternoon! Sometimes JT likes to look out the window and Jim wants to watch TV. They've worked out a sy...

Recently JT discovered that there is something else in our house. Let's see... there's the lady that feeds him, the guy that plays with him, and something else . This week JT has been closely watching this other thing. He sees it go by, all black and blurry, and then it moves in closer. JT also got to touch the black thing with his hand, and it was soft and furry. He was pretty impressed. Someday he will realize that big black furry thing is our dog, Slider. This week while I was cleaning, JT decided that he would like to be held, not sitting in his bouncy chair. Okay, I can vacuum with one hand. Part way through the downstairs, the excitement was too much for him... by the time I sat him down to clean under the couches, this is what I had left: a little man in a big chair. :) He's turning into quite the party animal (that's what I call this first picture below). He loves to look around, so the first Flip Clip is of JT trying out his BebePod. The second clip is of his f...

As some of you may know, Jim and I absolutely love our Flip camcorder . (We both bought one for each other for Christmas so we could take videos of JT!) Of course, we've taken many small videos of important events in JT's life so far: coming home from the hospital, on the beach at Banks Lake, play time, and more. I decided to start posting some short clips on the blog. I'll call it Flip Clips. Our first clip shows JT sneezing and smiling. Don't let him fool you; he actually has a gigantic smile that he will flash at you, and the one in the video is pretty small comparitively. Thank goodness, we discovered that JT just needed a different type of binky. It started like this... ever since birth, JT has loved sucking on Jim's pinky. We had tried Soothies pacifiers, and sometimes he liked it and sometimes he didn't. I had tried my pinky, and he never wanted it (my pinky is about the same size as the Soothies). Then one day I remembered that Jim's pinky and my thu...

My parents sent me their pictures from our camping trip and I couldn't help adding these two... This is how we get Slider to go swimming... by carrying her in. JT was fast asleep in his life jacket, so he crashed on the picnic table for awhile.