Gymnastics Pictures

Hanging on the rings

Jumping on the trampoline with her new boyfriend

Climbing the ladder into the ball pit

Hanging out in the ball pit

Heading down the slide

This has been a busy week for Kira. She attended her friends first birthday party last weekend, she had a lot of fun and played very well with the other kids -- even sharing with them (thank goodness). We had her gymnastics again this week, but I didn't take photos as she managed to lose her glasses at daycare (!) and was a little cranky during gymnastics, likely as a result of a headache from not being able to see properly. We ordered her a back-up pair of glasses and daycare managed to find her glasses the next day, thankfully.

Today, we went over to Victoria for Nicholas' 4th birthday party. Kira played on the ferry the whole way over, then played with ten 4-year old boys and 1 girl her age with no issues (she even attempted to play simon says with them, so cute), and then played for most of the ferry ride home. Poor kid is exhausted! It was a lot for her to do in 10 hours.

Here are a couple of pictures of Kira that were taken this week...

Playing with the car at her cousin Nicholas' 4th birthday party

Bath time with cousin Marcus

Her new way of checking out what we are cooking

Vegetables?? Boo!

Hiding under her umbrella from the bubbles

The Olympics are over (sigh) and now things are starting to get back to normal. Kira's gymnastics started up again on Wednesday evening, she has graduated to the 2 year old class now, so we have to take her a different time. Most of the kids in her class are 2.5+, but she didn't even seem to notice. She had a blast with all the "older" kids. I'm amazed at how much difference a few months in age can make, some of those kids are potty trained, talking in sentences, and able to do some pretty remarkable things. As for Kira, well she blew me away with her progress. I haven't taken her to gymnastics in about 3 months (Jon has been taking her Saturday mornings while I sleep in, heh), so I was shocked to see her walk up to the rings, grab them and then lift her legs up and start swinging. After that she walked up a ladder and jumped into the ball pit --- she couldn't figure the ladder out last time I was there and was terrified of the ball pit! She also stepped up to the balance beam and walked across it on her own! That was the first time she had done that, so the smile on her face was extra wide. I will try to take some videos next week when we are there. The best part about this new class is that the teacher is a friend of mine from soccer, she just started her job yesterday and was very excited to see Kira in her class; Kira took an instant liking to her.

This weekend begins the month of birthday parties. We have one every weekend, all month! This weekend it is our friends daughters 1st birthday party. Next weekend is Nicholas' 4th birthday party, then the weekend after is Marcus' 3rd birthday, and then the last weekend is Kira's 2nd birthday party. Phew! She is going to be partied out, but it should be a lot of fun for her. Maybe she'll even start eating cake.

Here are a couple of pictures of Kira with her umbrella that she got from Uncle Simon and Auntie May - she loves walking around the house with it but still won't use it outside for some reason...she's a strange kid sometimes.