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Showing posts with label swing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swing. Show all posts

May 30, 2011

Swinging

Van LOVES swings, he usually starts out by laughing constantly for the first 5-10 minutes then he is able to relax and just smile... with a few more giggles thrown in here and there.




He scrunches his nose up a lot when he smiles, I think its so cute!  I tried getting a video of him laughing but of course he wouldn't cooperate!

May 9, 2011

Keenan and Sara

This is Sara, she is Keenan main girl.  We found out not too long ago that she lives in our neighborhood so today we went over to her house to play.
 
 I love the way Sara is looking at Keenan in this picture... he's trying to look macho.

 Keenan claiming his girl.
 I thought he was going to kiss her but he didn't.
Van got to come too, he enjoyed the swing.  Yes, I know his hat is folded up funny but it's a little big and kept getting in his eyes.

 Van laughed and made lots of joyful sounds, I think you can see his excitement in his face.




June 17, 2008

Walk through the park

Monday was another Ukrainian holiday. Which one I'm not sure but, Eric had the day off so we went to a nice park. Keenan did NOT want to get off the swing!




















The park overlooks the Dnipro River. There is a "funicular" (cable railway) to get down the hillside plus plenty of walkways and stairs to get to some nice paths by the river. We didn't do down we just walked along the upper part.
Here is the back side of the Monument to Prince Volodymry. This was the first sculptural monument erected in Kyiv in 1853. I believe the monument honors this man for baptizing the people of Kyiv.
Here is the "Arc of Friendship". It was built in 1982 to honor the union of Ukraine and Russia. I've heard at night that it is all lit up with the colors of the rainbow. Underneath the arc are statues which I don't have pictures of because the day we went there and stood underneath it we forgot the camera.
Keenan loves playing with Sierra. Sierra on the other hand...well she tolerates him. Here is a picture from when Keenan was only a few weeks old and one from now. I can't believe how much he's grown! And yes... we're planning on getting his hair cut soon. Hopefully his haircut won't take as long as mine did. Everybody warned me that the beauticians here like to take their time... they weren't exaggerating! It took over 4 hours to have mine highlighted and trimmed. Granted she did come to the apartment late, so that Eric would be home to watch Keenan but, at 11:30 at night I finally had to tell her ENOUGH!