Sitting on Mommy's stomach - she is smiling because she's jumping up and down on my stomach

This one is for everyone that knew me when I was Kira's age. Apparently, I used to lick the butter off of buns, which resulted in butter all over my glasses. Kira does the same, except she does it with Nutella. Sigh.

This is Kira putting the DVD into the playstation and then taking it out again. It's a great game for her, but she won't get to play it again - Daddy wasn't too impressed. Hee.

The week that was...

I won't lie, this week sucked. Kira is teething, sick, and seeing things in her room. This has resulted in very little sleep for Kira, Dad, and Mom. Poor little thing, she is not sleeping well but she is very happy while she is awake. She had a great playdate with her friend, Kieren. He is such a cute little man, he and Kira had a great time playing with her toys. I was a little concerned as she has entered the stage of not wanting to share her toys, but there were no problems.

To try and cure her fear of the shadows in her room, we moved her bed 90 degrees, so it is against a different wall. We also changed out her guard rail so that she can see out from her bed, tonight it seemed to work - hopefully this trend will continue.

She continues to grow and I'm fairly certain she is going to be a very clever girl when she gets older. On Wednesday she found a cd on the floor by Jon's computer. She picked it up and ran into the living room, where she proceeded to put the cd into the playstation, and then eject it. She was very proud of herself and kept exclaiming "oh yeah" and "oh wow!" I was shocked, I have no idea how she learned this as we don't ever use the playstation when she is around. Jon reminded me of one time where we had left a dvd in the playstation which ejected when she hit the button. That happened a while ago, so how she remembered that is beyond me. I have a great video of it which I will post soon.

This coming weekend we will be heading to Victoria to go meet Kira's newest cousin, Conner. He was born on Wednesday weighing in at a little over 7lbs. It's funny, a few years ago I was wondering when people in my family were going to start having kids, there was a serious shortage of young ones after all, and now we have 3 nephews, 1 niece, and, of course, 1 daughter.

Heading towards "terrible two's"

Recently Kira has developed a bit of an attitude. Ok, so this isn't really recent, but she is much more expressive with the attitude lately. If something does not go her way, she says "no no no no no", and sometimes she will shake her finger at you simultaneously. Lovely. We are doing our best to take care of these little outbursts, but it will be a long uphill battle I'm sure. This one is a stubborn little thing. Today, she wanted to get something out of her stroller, but I would not let her. She started pouting and pointing at the stroller trying to win me over that way. When that didn't work, she turned to full out crying. She caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror, then continued on with the tantrum while staring at herself in the mirror. It was so funny, I had to laugh - which only made her cry harder when she snuck a peek at me.

Anyhow, here is a picture of Kira from the aquarium on Saturday.

This week my sister will be having her baby boy, she is scheduled for a section on Wednesday. We are all very excited to meet the newest addition to the family, and I'm sure my sister will be excited to have this pregnancy over with.

Videos!

In the video above, Kira is "tickling" Jon. She loves to make people laugh. You can also see at the beginning of the video that she likes to tap on the chair seats to indicate that she wants you to sit there. It's hilarious. If you try to sit in the chair opposite the one she has chosen for you, she will start saying "no no no no no".

This is Kira's new kitchen that she got from Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Tracy. It's an early Christmas gift, and she loves it. She has one of these at daycare and she takes things out from the bottom and puts them in the top cabinets and then back again all day long. She now likes the "pour" water for Jon and I to drink and will bring us cups. We taught her 'cheers', though she doesn't say it quite yet.

Kira had her H1N1 shot on Tuesday, she barely even noticed it. She will have the follow up booster on the 1st, hopefully things will go just as smooth then too. This week we will be going to Eliana's 2nd birthday partyl she is the daughter of my friend Wendy. Eliana had the privilege of being born on the greatest day of the year, Nov 17. We missed her birthday party last year as we were in Malaysia, but I am very much looking forward to seeing Kira play with Eliana again.

As you can see, Kira was a darn cute penguin for Halloween this year. We went over to our friends place, they have their house all decked out for halloween, it was amazing! I wish we had taken photos of the place - lots of people on the street were! Kira wasn't overly thrilled with the whole concept of halloween this year. She was clinging to Jon and I like her life depended on it. After a short while she warmed up a little and went up and down the stairs of the house most of the night. I have accepted now that she doesn't like chocolate (honestly, is she even my kid??) but it appears that she has some love for the salty; she devoured a small bag of chips yesterday and then a small bag of cheezies today! That said, she'd still take fruit over the junk and I guess I'll be ok with that.

Jon took Kira in for her 18 month vaccinations last week, she did very well. She apparently barely cried and was happy as anything for the rest of the day. Just when I was thinking how wonderful it was that the shots were finally over, the doctor tells us to come back next week for her H1N1 vaccination. D'oh. Oh well, it's for her own good, we'd be very upset if she got sick and we could have prevented it. And yes, I'll be getting mine then too - the doctor didn't give me a choice either. I'm curious to find out of everyone will be taking their kids for the shots...