A walk in the park

Here is Kieran with the Busby children... don't you just love the faces of the three little ones and then Lottie's crazy grin?! Kieran actually looks a little annoyed in this shot ;) Tori walked the kids down to Memorial Park to meet Rick and I. We were both completing murals with our art clubs for the annual Jefferson City Jazz Chalk festival. It was a lot of fun and great to have Kieran join us. However, he was rather unhappy when he realized he wouldn't be allowed to make additions to our murals.

September

Kieran had his first (and hopefully last) case of strep this month. It was pretty awful that first weekend. I picked him up on a Friday and he had a fever and it just kept getting worse- especially at night- he was spiking at 106*... pretty scary. Since it was the weekend, we waited to see our pediatrician until Monday. Dr. H. swabbed his throat and sure enough- strep. It's sort of weird because I have never had it and I don't think Rick has either. Poor baby- hopefully this isn't the beginning of a nasty trend. The doc put Kieran on the pink stuff (ampicillian) and he was so much better by the next day. Poor little thing was wiped out though- he slept a ton. He even was dragging himself to his crib and trying to crawl in- a first for KP.

A funny and incompetent parent side note... when I took Kieran to see the dr. I brought along our thermometer because I was worried it wasn't very accurate. I explained how we took his temp both on his forehead and in his ear. He asked to see it, wondering how one thermometer could do both and then said, "Oh- there's a cap." and mommy said, "what cap?" Turns out I had been using it wrong the past 18 month- figures!

It's been a busy, busy month! Kieran is thriving at daycare with Tori and her twins. They play, they dance, they hopscotch, they build with blocks, they go on walks... they have all sorts of fun! Kieran never cries anymore when I leave, sometimes he waves good-bye and sometimes he can't be bothered ;) When Tori brings Lottie to school and sets Kieran down to come see me, he bypasses me entirely and makes a b-line for the gym to hang out with all the big kids! He has grown up so much over these past few weeks- it's pretty amazing.
In the above pictures you can see Kieran having fun with a label- he loves tape too. It's funny how many toys he has and yet what really get's him excited are things like tape, labels, lids, remotes, kitchen items and random bits of trash. A new favorite game for KP is to show me something he knows he's not supposed to have (like a squished cricket) and then take off running- squealing with delight all the while... that is until I catch him and take it away (or he eats it- depends on who's faster!)

These photos are from taco-night. Rick makes AWESOME tacos and fresh guacamole. As you can see, Kieran loves taco night too!

Okay- so not a Kieran picture- but one to let you know he hasn't run the cats off just yet! Although- even Gracie has learned to get up on things these days. Kieran's enthusiasm for cats and all creatures really- is pretty intense.