Fall days and young love

The weather has been amazing although it definitely feels like fall; cool crisp mornings and warm afternoons.  We've been trying to take advantage of every last ray of sunshine before the rainy season starts and the gloom of winter sets in.

Keenan has really been enjoying school again and his teachers tell me that his Slovene is really good.  Whenever I hear Keenan speaking Slovene it gives me warm fuzzies, not sure exactly why since I usually have NO idea what he is even talking about.  I guess I'm just proud of him!   He has been insisting on riding his bike to school, I finally gave in.  I had to reroute the path we take so that we're not on the main streets as much.  Even though we walk and bike on the sidewalks it still stresses me out...all the what if's I guess.

Picking up Keenan in the afternoons now takes 3 times as long due to Van wanting to play in the sandboxes with all the other kids.  It feels kind of mean to let him see all the kids playing and not let him, so I gave up.  What else do we have to do anyways.

Keenan and his girlfriend Sara are still very much in love.  They are constantly holding hands, touching, walking with their arms around each other and kissing.  Yes, kissing; on the cheeks and occasionally loud smacking on the lips kisses.  I seriously didn't think I would be dealing with this when he was only 4 years old!

Here's the two lovebirds playing out in our neighborhood

 Van got a turn too.  He wants to be a big boy so bad!  Everything that Keenan is doing Van is right behind him wanting to do it too.

Keenan's girls...

Keenan seems to be quite the ladies man, already at 3 1/2 years old!  At his preschool he has his girlfriend Sara and his backup girlfriend Lara. And heaven forbid I mess up and call one of his girls Tara.  All the girls in his class have similar sounding names Sara, Lara, Tara (all pronounced the same except the first letter) then there's Nana, Mila and Manca.  One day both me and Sara's mom were picking up our kids from school and while we were laughing about their little romance we watched them.  Sara told demanded that Keenan pick some flowers, with a goofy grin on his face Keenan was obedient.  They held hands and giggled and everytime we said "OK, it's time to go" Sara would hug Keenan then plant a big kiss on his cheek.  It was all quite cute.

Another time Keenan told me he gave Sara a flower while they were outside playing.  I asked him what her response was, he told me she threw it in the sandbox but then got mad when another little girl tried to claim it as her own saying it was her special flower from him.

Keenan tells me all the time that he picks flowers for Sara and Lara because they are his girls and in return they hug and kiss his cheeks.

One morning while dropping Keenan off at school another little girl named Manca came running over to us yelling Keenan's name.  Keenan doesn't even look at her but goes straight for Sara.  Poor Manca, she looked so sad and the teacher told me that she'd been waiting  for Keenan to arrive.  Keenan told me he doesn't like Manca, she is NOT one of his girls.  We had a small conversation about being nice to EVERYBODY.  The next day I made Keenan say hi to both Manca and another little girl named Nana, they both blushed, giggled then ran away.  Is being the foreign kid in preschool a bonus?

While we were in Vienna Keenan told me that he missed Sara because he loves her so soo much.  Everytime I say that something is nice or cute Keenan's response is "but Sara is REALLY cute" or "but Sara is REALLY nice."

All I can say is WOW, REALLY??  What's he going to be like as a teenager?