Birthday pictures!

As promised, here are the pictures from Kira's first birthday party...finally.

Her first bite of birthday cake

Hmm, this stuff is pretty good!

...the aftermath. What you can't see is the icing in her hair + ears. 

Her musical Charlie Brown birthday card, she still loves to hear it play.

Opening gifts, with a little help from her cousins and daddy.

Showing off her new sunglasses and headband. 

I have no idea how these things stayed on her for so long.

Updates...

Apologies for the long overdue post, it has been a hectic couple of weeks for us. Last weekend we went to Kael's second birthday party (Kael is my friend Maya's youngest son). Kira loved being around the older boys, she followed them around everywhere, and stole their toys, which got them in trouble. 

On Monday Kira developed a slight fever and runny nose, nothing too serious. By Monday night, she was still feverish and very clingy. She was up most of the night screaming, crying, and just downright angry. Poor little thing. Tuesday, she was extremely clingy at daycare, still feverish, still angry, and now very, very tired. To get her to sleep Tuesday night, I ended up driving all over the lower mainland. It's amazing how many cars are actually on the road at 4:00am...Fortunately, her fever broke early Tuesday morning, and she is now back to her normal self. We can only assume that it was teething, she never developed any other flu-like symptoms. Hopefully, one day soon, she'll get tooth #3.

Developmental wise, Kira is doing very well. She is walking, running, running into walls (hee), and beginning to climb -- just this evening she climbed onto her zebra toy, although, i think she was a little shocked that she had done it. Keeping the glasses on her face is a daily struggle, she figured out that taking them off is a great attention tactic. Smart kid. She can understand things we are saying (especially "no", but still no luck at getting her to listen to that one), I think that she is eager to speak, but, for now, she is doing it in her own way - a lot.

She has also developed her fathers appetite. She eats everything you give her - as long as it isn't vegetables. Just like daddy. And go figure, she loves meat. This is a very good thing, as just a month or so ago, she was only eating bread and dried fruit. Yay daycare!

And, congrats to Auntie Erin, who just became an Auntie (again). Her sister gave birth to a baby girl yesterday.

Babies everywhere!!

Just found out that my sister is having a baby in November this year! That means that there will be 2 new nieces or nephews coming into the family this year. (Jo is due in the summer)

So exciting!!!

Pictures from Kira's birthday will be posted this weekend. Many thanks to Simon for being the photographer.

Yay babies that aren't mine!!! Hee hee.

Kira's Glasses

We got her glasses today. At first she kept ripping them off, but we started distracting her when they were put on, so she only realized they were on when she tried to rub her eyes. We'll see how things go over the weekend...

Weekly Update

Here are some new pictures of Kira

I think she may have her "it wasn't me, look at how innocent I am" face mastered already...

Getting ready for a walk out in the snow

This picture was hilarious. We went out for dinner that night, and Kira forced herself to stay awake until almost 9:00. She was so exhausted that she crashed in the car immediately after we left the restaurant. When we got home we had to change her diaper and get her into her jammies, she slept right through it - normally she'd wake up crying. The funniest part was when we took her clothes off, she rolled over and positioned herself like how she would in the crib...except she was on her change table. Even when the flash went off to take the picture she didn't stir. And she was snoring the whole time time too.

Not too much has happened this week. Kira has continued to add new foods to her diet - cheese, prawns, egg, rice, chocolate pudding (hee hee) and mangoes. She was a little slow to start, but she seems to be embracing eating off the table now. 

She has continued to improve in daycare, and, much to the delight of Elaine, has dropped her 2nd nap during the day. She will now nap only once per day, usually in the early afternoon. 

She also has the daycare-itis. That is, she's sick, a lot. Right now she is battling a cough and runny nose, as well as a runny bum. Seems that her and Shane (the little boy a week younger than her) are sharing their germs back and forth. But she doesn't really seem to notice that she is sick, so it makes our lives easier, especially since she is sharing her germs with us. 

Next weekend Kira will be having her first birthday party. It should be a lot of fun to see her eat the cake and play with her cousins. Speaking of cousins....happy 3rd birthday to Kira's cousin, Nicholas! He turned 3 on March 12. And happy 2nd birthday to Kira's other cousin, Marcus! Today is his birthday. And, of course, happy birthday to Auntie Erin, who turns another year older tomorrow. Wow, March is a busy birthday month...

My daughter, the bully

Kira has really settled in to daycare now. She is sleeping regularly, and gets along with the other kids. So I thought...

Today when I picked her up, her clothes were covered in chocolate and her hair was all sticky. Elaine (the daycare provider) told me that Kira had stolen the chocolate cereal from one of the older boys while he was eating it! Apparently she is a choco-holic...wonder where she gets that from. 

After telling me that little doozy, Elaine went on to tell me that Kira had also just stolen a bottle from the little boy and proceeded to drink over half the bottle before the little boy starting screaming (Kira and Shane have the same bottles, so Elaine didn't realize Kira had stolen his until it was too late). 

As if that wasn't enough, Elaine then told me that Kira had stolen one of the older girls bottle yesterday! She had a little bit out of it, but the little girl managed to take it back before Kira had too much. Good thing too, it was filled with real milk. At least we know now that Kira will be ok with real milk.

I can see this kid is going to be a real handful, I think that the power battles are going to begin very soon. The funniest thing about all this is, she can manage to hold a bottle when it's someone else's bottle, but she still won't hold her own bottle! I don't understand this kid...

Couple of things

Couple of things I forgot to mention in the previous post.

Kira is now walking full time. She hasn't learned how to pull herself up yet without the aid of a wall/toy/person, but she is walking everywhere. And she is walking fast! She is trying to run now, it's pretty funny. As a result of her running attempts, she is covered in bruises, but she keeps trying.

Kira is also learning to climb. She climbed up a flight of stairs while we were on the cruise last week. At home, she is climbing on her toys, chairs, and attempting to climb out of the bathtub. 

She also seems to be understanding a lot more of what we are saying to her. She understands the word "no", but that doesn't mean that she listens to you when you tell her no. Yay. She also understands peek-a-boo, high five, and where's daddy/mommy. She is learning more and more each day, and I think her going to daycare with the older kids will help her progress very quickly.

I had Kira fitted for her glasses on Friday. There are only 4 pairs of glasses to choose from for her young age group, I chose the least ridiculous looking ones. They will be delivered in about 2 - 3 weeks, so when she has them, I'll be sure to post pictures for you. 

Finally, we wanted to say a big congratulations to Bryan + Liv, who welcomed their first baby, a little girl, on March 1. Baby Aubrey was born at 9lbs and made her mom work extra hard to get her out. But it was worth it, she is a beautiful little girl!