I am realizing, now that Neils and Burke are at school how overlooked my Keane Beane tends to get. His brothers are very vocal, thrive on attention, and are very good about asking for it in appropriate ways so I try to reward that by offering it when it’s asked for. Keane is my mellow child. The ONLY mellow child, I might add. So I am purposefully posting his next, when my first impulse was to post all about his big brother and his latest adventures. So here’s more about my little boy who is perfectly content to remain a little boy.

Keane is my most tender-hearted boy, which is really saying a lot since all of my boys are quite tender-hearted. He LOVES cute little animals and all the cute little Pokemon, and frequently chastises me for killing his “cute little pet fly,” and cannot understand why I don’t want him to leave food out for a cute little mousie, or any ants that may have wandered in. He loves his Mommy, and loves to be right by her side helping and snuggling and just being wherever she is. He loves to be silly, in fact I am not sure I have a single happy-faced, non-silly photo of that boy. He is a fantastic climber, and often gives the other moms at the park heart-attacks.

But I am quite used to it and I know he is careful and sure-footed and perfectly safe even in the highest perches.

He loves to do “stunts.” Here are some of his latest:

He cracks me up!

He is very smart and knows his alphabet and the sounds they make and is interested in building words. It’s so refreshing to have a child who WANTS to know this stuff! He loves to do “school” with me and will start a preschool co-op in a few weeks to help with classroom etiquette. I’m still in denial about him being in Kindergarten next year.

All that said, Keane loves to build and play legos, and sword fight and play video games and heroes.

That’s our Keane!