memorial day weekend

memorial day weekend was a mix of activity. my momma had a work meeting on saturday morning (and she got to go on an airplane!) and then she and papa went to a wedding on saturday night - so i got to spend the evening with my auntie PHON! we went to visit marin and markda in st.paul and we had SOOO much fun! i sure was tired that night. on sunday we went to the minneapolis farmer's market and i ate one whole ear of corn all by myself, for the second week in a row! (living-up to my nickname silo-corn) we spent monday tending to the garden and general spring cleaning of the garage and house. my PA-TU came for dinner.... i really like this picture of us together!

me and papa are ready for warm weather ....

maeva's first visit to my house....

i was so excited that meg and jeremy and maeva came to our house for dinner on sunday. they had been out running errands, and my parents just knew they could use a hot meal waiting for them on their first real day out as a family. i got to watch meg change maeva's diaper. i was mesmerized by her and knew to be very gentle. i wanted to show her all of my favorite toys but had to show meg instead ....... did you know that maeva starts with M?

my bilingual-ish singing tongue

alphabet song from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

"what dat spell?"

for the past several weeks, i've been pretty intense about letters and how words are spelled (well, at least what letters different words start with)...i know how to spell my name and can identify every letter in the alphabet .. regardless of the order. (i'm still working on singing the whole alphabet song, though -- that timing/speech/coordination thing is a little hard for my bilingual-ish tongue.) you can see (below) a couple videos my mom took of me putting together an alphabet puzzle....one of my favorite past times. i should also give props to SUPER WHY - the pbs cartoon that has really gotten me interested in letters and words.

alphabet part01

alphabet - part01 from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

alphabet part02

alphabet - part02 from keo boun pheng on Vimeo.

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.