The week in review

Kira started daycare this week. At first she was a little clingy to me, but, by the end of the week I was able to leave her alone for a few hours while I went out for a leisurely lunch. She seems to enjoy being there, and there is a boy that is her age - I think they are becoming fast friends.

Also, Kira's walking has greatly improved. She is trying to walk everywhere that she goes now. She will crawl to an object, pull herself up, and then walk around. Each time she walks, she breaks out into an enormous smile and starts talking to herself. She is also starting to "talk" to us. She says "uh oh" (which sounds more like hee haw), and if you say belly to her, she will pat her stomach. She also seems to have learned who Momma and Dada are, she says Dada when Jon gets home from work, and she is always saying Momma when something is wrong...

This weekend we are heading to Mexico for Mike and Vanessa's wedding. They will be married in Cabo San Lucas on the 24th. It will be a lot of fun to be on vacation with the whole family again, and I'm sure that Kira will love all the attention that her Aunties and Uncles will be giving her. I'm just looking forward to the sunshine! One last hurrah before work starts up again.

Kira Update

Just thought I'd let everyone know that Kira has now fully recovered from her flu. She was hit and miss most of the week, but she has gone more than 48 hours now without any "incidents", and seems to be back to her usual, happy self. She is still regaining her strength, her walking progress was affected by the flu, but she is trying to re-learn it all over again. 

Now Jon and I just have to get healthy and then we will be ready to hit up Mexico for Uncle Mike + Auntie Vanessa's wedding on the 24th!

Jon's on the internet!

Jon was interviewed quite a bit while working at Comic Con in New York last weekend.

Click here to see one of his interviews, he is describing the video game that they are working on now. It is supposed to be out this June.

And this is Jon on Youtube.

Back Home Again

We have returned home from New York. I had a great time touring the city and visiting with Cheryl and Bel, I'm not too sure how good of a time Jon had as he was working 90% of the time. Oh well, he managed to get out and tour/eat/shop all day on Monday, I think the NBA store will survive the economic downturn because of him.

When we returned home, we learned that Kira had been quite ill with the flu while we were gone. Mom and Charlie opted not to inform us of just how sick she was, so coming home was quite a shock. The poor little thing had a fever and was losing fluids out of both ends all weekend. She was kind enough to save a little taste of it for when I returned, I think that it was punishment for going away. I took her into the doctor, again, and we were sent for a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia; we haven't heard anything back, so I assume that it was negative.

Today, Kira is a lot better. She is still losing fluid out of one end, but she is slowly getting her energy back. She is laughing at times, crawling, and eating like crazy. She is supposed to begin her daycare integration tomorrow, so hopefully she will be okay to do it. 

As mentioned, Jon was busy working most of the weekend, here are a couple of pictures that I snapped in the very brief time I was there...

This is Cheryl standing in front of the massive banner promoting Jon's video game. I believe that the banner was 4 storey's high.

This is a group of people lined up to demo the game, apparently there was a very long line the entire weekend. This photo was taken 10 minutes before closing on the last day of the show.

While in New York, Bel, Cheryl, and I, hopped the train out to New Jersey to visit with Julie and her daughter, Eva. Eva is 20 months old and is super cute. Here is a photo, she was trying to grab the camera out of my hand, so this was the best one I got.

Thanks again to Mom and Charlie for taking care of Kira while we were gone, sorry that it wasn't everything we hoped it would be. And even sorrier that you caught her flu, Mom. Next time we'll make sure she isn't sick, she's a lot more fun that way.

Live...from YVR

Right now I am sitting in the Starbucks at YVR getting ready to head out to New York. Since Mom insisted on having me here super early for the non-existent customs line up, I have some time to kill and thought I'd fill you all in on Kira's progress in the last week.

She is not fully walking yet, but wherever she goes, she trys to get there by walking first, failing that, she crawls the rest of the distance. Each time she starts to walk, she gets a huge smile on her face, she really is excited about this new talent she has discovered.

This week she has been battling a bit of a cold. She's got a bad cough, and is sneezing a lot. The good part is that she has been sleeping a lot more because of it; unfortunately, she wakes up a lot more because of it. This morning she managed to "expel" the mucus back up, she seemed a lot happier and on her way back to normal when I left for the airport. 

She will be staying at Grandma Tracy's and Grandpa Charlie's this weekend, I'm sure she will be spoiled rotten and will not want to return home with me on Monday. 

Hope everyone has a great weekend, I'll post some pictures from New York when I get home. 

Walking again

Here is a much better video of Kira walking. Jon was able to distract her while I caught her on camera.