Kira had her first trip to the dentist this week. They counted all of her teeth (she has 20, so all of her teeth are in now) and even managed to polish 2 of her teeth before she rolled herself off of the seat - she was not a fan of the toothpaste. She did enjoy all of her stickers and toys that she got to take home after her appointment, especially her new toothbrush and toothpaste.

Her words are improving dramatically. She talks a lot, but for some words it is challenging to understand what she is saying. She has started working on pronouncing words correctly all of a sudden, it's wonderful. She has difficulty with S, F, V, and X; now she can do the "S" sound and her favourite word to say is "Yes", which she pronounces "Yesssssssssssssss". It's a nice change from "No".

She has turned into a 3 year old though, her time outs have been increasing and we can count on at least 1 temper tantrum per day. When she's not having a meltdown or whining about not getting her way, she is a very happy kid and continues to help us out with little household chores like laundry and grocery shopping. Grocery shopping is one of the only activities that Kira and I always do together and she loves it. I look forward to it too as it is a great bonding time for us, and it's nice to have some company along for the ride.

Kai's cold seems to have gone away. The runny nose and cough are lingering, but he has returned to being a happy and playful little boy. I feel bad because we got him healthy again just in time to give him is 4 month vaccinations, so now he's going to be feeling crappy again for the next couple of days. Poor kid can't buy a break.

At his appointment today, the doctor noted that his weight gain seems to have slowed quite drastically. He has dropped from the 75 - 90 percentile to the 25 - 50 percentile in just 2 months. After a lengthy discussion about his feeding, the doctor concluded that he seems to be self-weaning and advised that I stop nursing and we feed him exclusively from a bottle going forward. I am kind of bummed about this as this is the same thing that Kira did, however, Kira was only 4 weeks old, so at least we were able to get a few more months out of Kai. His health and growth are far more important than my pride...hopefully he'll start to put on some weight quickly.

With everyone being so sick the last few weeks, we haven't really taken any new pictures....I'll see what we can dig up and put some pictures in the next post.