The past couple of weeks have been quite eventful. Kira returned to her gymnastics, got sick, started saying "please", and started her swim lessons.

She still loves going to her gymnastics every Saturday morning with Daddy. She gets to sing and run around without fear of hurting herself. She is getting better at walking across the balance beam, and jumping by herself. It's also helping to boost her social interaction with other kids.

Thursday night we drove out to Maple Ridge to go celebrate my Uncle's 70th birthday. I picked up Kira at daycare and we began the long trek out to Maple Ridge. I'm not certain as to what happened exactly, but all of a sudden Kira began to "expel" everything that she had eaten. After a quick clean up, I determined that she was indeed fine and that she had likely just gulped too much water too quickly. We were just crossing the new Golden Ears bridge when the rest of the dinner made its way out. It was horrible, the poor kid just sat there while I struggled to figure out where I was and how the quickly get to my cousin's place. Thankfully my Aunt met us in the driveway and kindly cleaned up the car while I ran Kira up to the bath. Kira was totally fine after that, she ate more dinner and played with her cousins all night, and has been fine since. I hope that she isn't developing car sickness...

Today, Kira had her first swimming lesson. I had been dragging my feet in signing her up because everytime she goes near a pool she screams and cries, but I don't want her to turn out like me (who can't swim much at all and has developed a fear of swimming), so I dragged her out there - kicking and screaming - through her first swim lesson. She calmed down when there was singing and liked moving her free arm around in the water (the other was tightly wrapped around the back of my neck). We are going to keep taking her there, I'm hopeful that in a few weeks she'll be very comfortable there. I'm going to try to take her to drop-in swimming on Friday so that come Sunday she's got that one extra trip under her belt, and hopefully she won't disrupt everyone else.

Finally, Kira has started to say the word that Jon and I have been waiting for - Please. Of course, she says "peez", but whatever, it's close enough. It only took her about a day to realize that saying "peez" would get her most anything (within reason). She uses it a lot now, even with her grandparents. Now we just have to get her saying thank you...

Settling in...

We have unpacked the last of the boxes now and are feeling much more at home now. Today we ordered the last piece of the puzzle, our dinette set. I am so excited to finally be able to have a table with chairs in my house. It's sad that we have never had enough room in our condo's before. The table we ordered seats 6, but has a built-in leaf that will extend the table to 8, so there is enough room for us to host Thanksgiving dinner this year! Hooray! My mom is going to come over and (hopefully) let me help her cook. I think that she is excited to have 2 ovens to use.

Kira is doing very well in the new house, she has found lots of places that she can play in and around. She is growing and adding more words to her vocabulary. New additions include oh dear, no, papa, poo-poo (ha!) and ta-da. This evening she also began to attempt singing her abc's. The only way I knew this was because she was trying to sing along with me and then finished by saying "yay" like I do. It was pretty darn cute. I'll try to grab a video of it one day, but have to do it when I'm not singing, cause no one needs to hear that!

She hasn't gotten any new teeth yet, she still has the 12. I thought that she was getting her canine teeth last week, but it turns out she was only getting a cold. Poor little thing. There were a couple of sleepless nights, but she seems to have kicked the worst of it now.

Kira is back at her gymnastics on Saturday mornings again, she really does love it. This week she figured out how to jump up on her own, she does this a lot during the day - especially when she is walking from one side of the house to the other. And she has discovered her love of dancing, unfortunately, she has inherited her mom's sense of rhythm...none. Hopefully she'll improve on that as she gets older.

Here are some pictures of Kira...

Playing peek-a-boo with Mommy + the camera

Testing out Daddy's computer

Singing at the gate...

Dragging Daddy's PS3 box around the house. She pretends that it's her bag, she takes it to the front door, and then back to the TV room. I wonder where she gets her ideas...

Nap time with Daddy. She is sleeping next to her bed, on the floor. She was playing with the books, then just fell asleep. So cute.