This month has seen Kira begin pre-school, which she loves, and Kai begin daycare, which he is still getting used to but seems to enjoy. I have also returned to work, which I am surprisingly happy to be back at; four days in and I can barely remember being away for almost 10 months.

I managed to sneak away for a quick trip back to Ontario before returning to work. I was able to catch up with some good friends as well as their kids. It was nice to live like I had no kids, but I missed them terribly. When I returned home they were there to meet me at the airport, there were tears shed - all mine. Sigh. I used to be tough, these kids have made me into a big softie.

While I was gone these two seemed to develop exponentially. Kira all of a sudden can sing 5 songs in their entirety and Kai is damn near walking. Here is a video of Kai using Kira's suitcase to walk around the room.

Preschool is really helping Kira's language development. Besides learning a bunch of songs, which she loves to sing to us, she is beginning to speak in proper sentences now. It's remarkable how quickly she picked all of this up.

Both kids are now in gymnastics on Saturday mornings. Now that Kira is in the 3 year old class, she is able to do the class without a parent supervising, so it freed us up to bring Kai along. Kai does his baby class (which is really just letting him crawl and climb everywhere without fear of him hurting himself when he falls) while Kira plays in the "waiting area", and then she goes to her class right after while Kai plays in the waiting area. I'll try to grab some pictures this weekend.

In the meantime, here are some pictures of the kids...

Ready to come along with Mommy on vacation

First day of preschool!

Picture taken by Kira in the backseat of the car

She sure loves taking pictures