Kira's Glasses

We got her glasses today. At first she kept ripping them off, but we started distracting her when they were put on, so she only realized they were on when she tried to rub her eyes. We'll see how things go over the weekend...

Weekly Update

Here are some new pictures of Kira

I think she may have her "it wasn't me, look at how innocent I am" face mastered already...

Getting ready for a walk out in the snow

This picture was hilarious. We went out for dinner that night, and Kira forced herself to stay awake until almost 9:00. She was so exhausted that she crashed in the car immediately after we left the restaurant. When we got home we had to change her diaper and get her into her jammies, she slept right through it - normally she'd wake up crying. The funniest part was when we took her clothes off, she rolled over and positioned herself like how she would in the crib...except she was on her change table. Even when the flash went off to take the picture she didn't stir. And she was snoring the whole time time too.

Not too much has happened this week. Kira has continued to add new foods to her diet - cheese, prawns, egg, rice, chocolate pudding (hee hee) and mangoes. She was a little slow to start, but she seems to be embracing eating off the table now. 

She has continued to improve in daycare, and, much to the delight of Elaine, has dropped her 2nd nap during the day. She will now nap only once per day, usually in the early afternoon. 

She also has the daycare-itis. That is, she's sick, a lot. Right now she is battling a cough and runny nose, as well as a runny bum. Seems that her and Shane (the little boy a week younger than her) are sharing their germs back and forth. But she doesn't really seem to notice that she is sick, so it makes our lives easier, especially since she is sharing her germs with us. 

Next weekend Kira will be having her first birthday party. It should be a lot of fun to see her eat the cake and play with her cousins. Speaking of cousins....happy 3rd birthday to Kira's cousin, Nicholas! He turned 3 on March 12. And happy 2nd birthday to Kira's other cousin, Marcus! Today is his birthday. And, of course, happy birthday to Auntie Erin, who turns another year older tomorrow. Wow, March is a busy birthday month...

My daughter, the bully

Kira has really settled in to daycare now. She is sleeping regularly, and gets along with the other kids. So I thought...

Today when I picked her up, her clothes were covered in chocolate and her hair was all sticky. Elaine (the daycare provider) told me that Kira had stolen the chocolate cereal from one of the older boys while he was eating it! Apparently she is a choco-holic...wonder where she gets that from. 

After telling me that little doozy, Elaine went on to tell me that Kira had also just stolen a bottle from the little boy and proceeded to drink over half the bottle before the little boy starting screaming (Kira and Shane have the same bottles, so Elaine didn't realize Kira had stolen his until it was too late). 

As if that wasn't enough, Elaine then told me that Kira had stolen one of the older girls bottle yesterday! She had a little bit out of it, but the little girl managed to take it back before Kira had too much. Good thing too, it was filled with real milk. At least we know now that Kira will be ok with real milk.

I can see this kid is going to be a real handful, I think that the power battles are going to begin very soon. The funniest thing about all this is, she can manage to hold a bottle when it's someone else's bottle, but she still won't hold her own bottle! I don't understand this kid...

Couple of things

Couple of things I forgot to mention in the previous post.

Kira is now walking full time. She hasn't learned how to pull herself up yet without the aid of a wall/toy/person, but she is walking everywhere. And she is walking fast! She is trying to run now, it's pretty funny. As a result of her running attempts, she is covered in bruises, but she keeps trying.

Kira is also learning to climb. She climbed up a flight of stairs while we were on the cruise last week. At home, she is climbing on her toys, chairs, and attempting to climb out of the bathtub. 

She also seems to be understanding a lot more of what we are saying to her. She understands the word "no", but that doesn't mean that she listens to you when you tell her no. Yay. She also understands peek-a-boo, high five, and where's daddy/mommy. She is learning more and more each day, and I think her going to daycare with the older kids will help her progress very quickly.

I had Kira fitted for her glasses on Friday. There are only 4 pairs of glasses to choose from for her young age group, I chose the least ridiculous looking ones. They will be delivered in about 2 - 3 weeks, so when she has them, I'll be sure to post pictures for you. 

Finally, we wanted to say a big congratulations to Bryan + Liv, who welcomed their first baby, a little girl, on March 1. Baby Aubrey was born at 9lbs and made her mom work extra hard to get her out. But it was worth it, she is a beautiful little girl! 

Mexico and the week in review

Here are a couple of pictures from Mike + Vanessa's wedding in Cabo last week.

The bride being walked down the aisle by her brother and dad.

The newlyweds!

Kira really enjoyed the ceremony...

This week Kira started daycare full time. So far she is doing very well. She has a lot of friends there that she is excited to see when she gets dropped off. She is still fussing at times, but I think that she will do really well there.

We also took Kira for her quarterly eye exam this week. The news was not good. It seems that her eyes have deteriorated quite a bit, she will now require glasses right away. I am going to take her there tomorrow and will post some pictures of her when she has them. I feel so guilty for passing her my poor vision gene, hopefully she won't be stuck in coke-bottle glasses for life like me. 

Live from LAX

We are heading back from our Mexican cruise. It was a lovely trip, lots of sun, lots of drinks, and lots of money spent. The wedding was in Cabo San Lucas on Tuesday. It took place at a restaurant over the ocean, with the mountains and beaches as the backdrop. The ceremony was small and intimate, all and all, a beautiful wedding. Congrats to Mike + Vanessa.

Kira enjoyed the cruise and all of the attention that she received. Everywhere she went people were commenting on how cute she was, to which she responded with a huge smile. She also learned that if she waved bye bye to everyone, she would get even more attention. Smart kid. 

DUring the trip she learned to hug on command (much to the delight of her aunts and uncles), and she started saying "Deck" (because we rode the elevator a lot as we were on the bottom deck and the food was on the top deck). She also discovered a new favourite food, french fries. She would get quite demanding at dinner and would only settle once 

Right now we are sitting in LAX. Our flight doesn't leave here until 5:30pm...we arrived back from our cruise at 7:00am. Thankfully there are a lot of family and friends here to help keep Kira occupied and happy. It will be a long day of traveling, but we are very much looking forward to getting home and away from 24 hour food.