Kira loves to play with her little brother. Here is a great video of her making him giggle

Kai has started to "cruise" around the furniture. He hasn't figured out how to stand up on his own quite yet, but he is able to move along the couch to his toys. He also loves to try and steal food, here is a video of him making a move for Daddy's grapes.

Today I took Kira and Kai to get their eyes checked out. Kira has been going for these exams twice a year since she was 6 months old. I have terrible eyesight, so I have been careful to get the kids examined regularly.

Kira takes after me, she is far sighted and has a slight astigmatism. Today's check up went very well. Her prescription has remained the same for the last 18 months, which is a good thing as it means that she should have no problem getting laser-eye surgery when she is older (I am in that small percentage of the population that laser eye surgery is ineffective for, sigh). Her eyes have been doing so well that she now only has to go for annual examinations, hooray!

Kai has his first examination today. I was prepared for the news that he'd need glasses, just like his sister (Kira was 11 months when she got hers); but, it turns out that his vision is very good. The doctor feels that he will be near-sighted and likely won't need glasses. Even better, he doesn't need to come back for another year either! Hooray again!

All in all, I'm excited that, so far, my kids vision is pretty good. I am hopeful that when they are adults, they will be able to see properly when they wake up in the morning without having to put on their glasses, and won't have to fuss with contact lens etc.

I swear, this isn't a photoshop picture, they were actually playing together. 

Sitting up on his own and playing drums on the toy box

Sometimes the toy box is more fun than its contents

Well, it didn't take long for him to figure that trick out...Kai is crawling now. He quickly progressed from yelling at his toys to come closer to him to moving closer to his toys. He hasn't figured out how to move his legs yet, but he will happily army-crawl around the house now. He gets so excited when he finds me in other rooms, he beams from ear to ear and giggles with pride. So cute. I've moved past the "omigod he's crawling" terror to "ok, now he can find me wherever I go, so this is good". He will be 6 months on June 9, time is actually going by very quickly now, hard to believe that I will be back at work in 3 short months.

Kira has found a new love - spelling. Grandma Rose taught her how to read "cat", and from this she now reads mom, Kira, and Dad. She will spell out the word to your first and then say what it is, kind of like a spelling bee. She loves it. She is such a smart little girl, I hope that this continues as she gets older. She can count to 20 now too. I have no idea if this is typical of 3 year olds, but it doesn't matter to me - she is happy to keep learning and we are happy to keep teaching.

Kai is learning how to use the computer at a very young age

He is also a typical boy and loves to have the remote control