Spring comes early!

Thanks to the beautiful, warm weather the last week or so, we have been able to get Kira out of the house and playing in the park and school yard across the street. This is great for her as she is able to play with much more of the playground equipment than she was last summer. She is also slowly starting to recognize letters and numbers, and loves to run around and find them on the concrete (in the school yard). Yesterday, Jon and I took Kira on a bike ride around our neighbourhood. We didn't go too far as neither of us were too keen on hoofing it up hill, but Kira throughly enjoyed herself. We stopped off at a park, and when we tried to take Kira out of her bike seat, she pushed the lock back down - indicating that she did NOT want to get out and play, thank you very much. So, we kept riding. She has a knack of always getting her way...

Here is a picture I grabbed of her in her bike seat on Jon's bike. We take her glasses off when we ride as she has taken them off for no reason before, and we don't really want that to happen while we are out riding. You can see how her eye turns in without her glasses.

Last week Kira had her eye check-up, we were told that despite her eye turning in without her glasses on, her vision is doing well. It hasn't gotten worse, but it hasn't gotten better. She will be seeing the specialist at Children's Hospital at the end of next month as they are now monitoring her lazy eye to see if an eye patch or (gulp) surgery are going to be required in the next couple of years. My brother and nephew both had/have to use the patch, and my brother and I both had multiple eye surgeries when we were kids; so I guess this shouldn't be surprising news for me...but it is a lot harder on this side of the fence. When I was a kid it was cool to have surgery cause you got ice cream!! But, being the Mom, well, let's just say it will take more than ice cream to console me if she needs to go for surgery.

On a lighter note, her 4th incisor tooth came in last week, hurray! So, all we have left is the 2 year molars, which, at her rate, I figure will come in when she is close to 3. Ha.

Here are a couple of recent pictures of Kira from the playground and our house. She says "cheese" now when the camera is on her, very cute. The words are slowly sneaking up on us, not much longer before we have a talkative little lady.