girl baby

last night before i went to sleep, my mommy told me that meg was going to have her baby and that i'd get to meet it in the morning. she asked me if i thought it was going to be a girl or boy and i said girl baby. turns out it was a lucky guess! because this morning my papa and i drove to the hospital to find my mommy (who had gone to the hospital first thing in the morning) and to meet my new buddy. i thought it would help to call out to the girl baby so that we could find their room...."maeva....where are thyou?"

"self portait"

innagural time-out day

for the first time in my life .. my behavior pushed my mother to the point of giving me a time-out. i am still in the midst of my terrible twos - so i figured i would start pushing the boundaries to see how far they go. my sassy-ness today had me nodding my head yes to the question, "do you want a time-out?" until i knew what it involved and then i realized that i wasn't too fond of them. i admit to having a short term memory (or else the terrible juices were just flowing freely because) i actually received 2 of them just today! ........ however, tonight after my bath, i took the little "tock" off of the counter in my room and told my mom, "i want a time-in"

lussi is FOUR

my cousin lussi turned 4 back in march - but she was in utah at the time, so i didn't get to go to her birthday party. well, they are finally back at home and last weekend she had another birthday party that i got to go to! it was so much fun with a super-cool-not-missing-a-thing-CANDYLAND cake, and a dora mermaid scavenger hunt, a pinata, and yummy meal. i really like to give compliments these days, so before we left i made sure to tell my mommy (who then made me tell cory & kara) that it was a nice party.

happy birthday uncle kai!

"happy dir-bay kai!" from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

look who came with the snow - kai!

riding horses with great uncle terry

practicing guitar with framma

singin' from guitar-book w/framma from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

i vacuum everywhere & everything ...

silo's vacuum from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

evening concert

cello & xylophone concert from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

the easter bunny!

the easter bunny came last night! i was so excited to see if he had come, that i went to the front door first thing - instead of just checking my easter basket. my easter basket was filled with a bunch of different eggs filled with different treats like goldfish and teddy grams and pennies and jellybeans and m&ms.... he even hid little candies all around the house -that silly easter bunny! it took me a little while to catch-on, but i did manage to find them ALL ... i ate a bunch, too!

who would have thought?

who would have thought that we'd have nearly 3 days of straight snow after getting a glimpse of spring with 40+ degree days leading up to the storm? granted, it wasn't a blizzard, really - more of a constant soft snowing from friday through sunday morning. i took advantage of it - with hours of snow-playing in the back yard everyday. staying out until my snow-gear became soaking wet. i think that's a good sign that it's time to go inside.

that took a while

my mama and papa finally painted my room...well, at least one wall in my room (& touched-up another.) once the decision was made to paint one wall a color, there was a three-way competition going on between blue, green and yellow. as you can see, yellow won-out :as it often does with my parents - heavily persuaded by my papa... our house up in duluth was also painted bright yellow many years before i was born and my papa was even driving a bright yellow (spray-painted) truck when he first met my mama: so you can see it runs deep - not that i mind, though. i like yellow too, despite it being a hard word for me to say.

washing dishes with mama from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

make this funny face from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

pushing papa from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

i broke my head

see this cool bracelet? i got it when i went to the radiology department at children's west last week - to get my head x-rayed. it confirmed that i fractured my skull. no kidding. doesn't that sound drastic?!? to be more specific, it is a "linear fracture" that will basically heal itself and is pretty much the best way to break your head.... because despite the utter panic i felt about my mom FREAKING out after i fell backwards off of my stokke chair (i was being a bit of a monkey, reaching far for something on the table & when i came back to sit down, my feet had happened upon the seat and my butt happened upon the back of the chair and in a split second i went down, backwards.) and despite my head hurting - i really have been totally fine and normal since it happened. no signs of anything really wrong except for my bruise - which will again, heal itself.

this marks the third major blow to the head i have experienced in my short little life. (one: trip down the stairs at Ma-Tu's house before i was a year old. two: face plant on an outdoor patio that chipped my two front teeth while on vacation in Finland last summer. and now three: squashed melon in the dining room while being a monkey.) i'm taking it as a sign that i'm a little "head-heavy" -- or perhaps that i'm a "tough-guy" -- either way, i'm pretty glad that i'm as (lucky and) resilient as people often say that kids are. (and you can be certain my mother is glad, too - although she hates when i make light of the situation - because it was perhaps her most terrifying moment of parenthood to date.)

best friends

best friends from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

counting

counting from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

one morning i woke up and told my mom, "this is my thumb. these are my fingers. one. two. three. four. five." -- she tried to get me to say it again - this the best i could do. i still get the numbers mixed-up a little bit - but on this particular morning i was golden!