Teeth!

Forgot to mention that a bunch Kira's teeth have cut through the gums now. Turns out she was so angry a few weeks ago (remember the all night drives to keep her asleep?) because she was getting 4 teeth! They have all cut through her gums within the last 10 days or so.

She is totally fine with them now, thank goodness!

Hopefully the next teeth don't come in a giant bunch again...

Lots going on

The past week was a very busy one for Kira...

Tuesday, we went to go visit my friend Wendy and her daughter, Eliana. Eliana is about 5 months older than Kira; her and Kira have always gotten along well - even when Kira was a newborn. Now that they are both a little bit older, Eli shares her toys with Kira and gives her hugs. They have seemingly important conversations, but no one else can understand them. It'll be fun as the two of them grow up.

Eliana + Kira. Yes, they have matching sweaters from their Auntie Sofie.

Wednesday, we went out to Cloverdale to visit with Grandpa Randy, Uncle Jeff, and Auntie Erin. On the way there, my car got a flat tire -- in possibly the worst intersection. It was so busy, and I had about 1 foot between the tire (front drivers side, naturally) and the street where cars were whizzing by at 80km/hour. Great. And, of course, I was by myself with Kira in the car. After making a few phone calls so people would know where I was should anything happen, I set out to change the tire. No sooner had I jacked the car up, there was a nice man there to help. He said he was deaf (which was good because Kira was screaming in the car!) and he had the tire changed in 5 minutes flat. He put all the stuff away, waved, and was gone as quickly as he arrived. What a relief. After that, we had a wonderful visit with everyone, and I enjoyed a lovely glass of wine :)

The week wrapped with birthday parties, engagement parties, and lunches out. Kira charmed everyone that she met. She has learned how to wave hello now, and does it all the time! Strangers LOVE this and she just keeps waving and smiling at them. It seems that she has returned to her normal, social, happy self, thankfully.

Kira also learned how to climb on the couch this week. She is very proud of herself, and climbs up all the time now to just sit next to us. She already knew how to get down off the couch, so hopefully she remembers not to walk right off, though I fear that is bound to happen...

We got Kira a few new items this week. One is a baby seat that has been attached to the back of my bike. I am going to try and bike to work more often now and pick Kira up from daycare on the bike. She even has her own little bike helmet! We'll see how this works out as the summer carries on.

The other item is a little potty. We aren't aggressively starting her potty training, but Jon mentioned that she has been doing #2 quite regularly for the last month, so we will try putting her on the potty around "the time" so she can poop in the potty. We'll see how that goes!

More exciting news!

The most unbelievable thing happened this week ---- Kira started holding her own bottle! I'm too shocked for words. 13 months, but she's finally holding it - most of the time.

Her 3rd tooth is growing in, number 4 is still in the gum, but it's bulging out. Today I thought I felt the beginning of number 5 as well, but I can't be certain. She won't let us touch her mouth right now, it's very sensitive.

Otherwise, Kira has been doing very well. She is back to her normal self, laughing, running, eating like crazy. We have been taking her to the park in the evenings, she LOVES the swings! She runs around from piece to piece in the playground, and enjoys being outside. We are trying to encourage her to walk more places outside and not rely on us carrying her. It's a work in progress.

This week Jon bought himself a car. We will now have 2 cars - the Subaru that I bought a couple of years ago, and Jon's Audi Avant A6 Wagon. He is very, very excited about this car. When we get it, I'll take some pictures. It is being shipped in from Ontario. 

Hope everyone has an excellent weekend!

Woohoo!

She finally got her 3rd tooth!! The top right tooth cut through the gum and is starting to come in. The 4th tooth is not far behind. Hopefully the rest of her teeth won't take so long, because if she keeps getting her teeth at this rate, she'll be getting her baby teeth until she is 10 years old...

Here is a little video of Kira eating her pasta dinner tonight - she loved it, but she wasn't too happy with the cleaning process that followed. Hee.

Another week gone

This week Kira had her 1 year check-up and shots. She weighed in a a whopping 18lbs 12oz, which is pretty light. She is in the 50th percentile, but that's where she's been pretty much since she was born. She is 27 inches tall, about the 80th percentile. Hopefully she'll be tall and slender her whole life!

Other than that, we have been dealing with Kira's cold as it works it way out of her system. She battled a fever on and off all weekend, along with a runny nose, and a cough. She was very clingy, and very sleepy. Poor little thing is just getting pummeled with colds. She seems to be back to her normal self today, she's even laughing again. As a result of her cold, she developed a rash (we were told it was a viral rash) over most of her upper body and part of her face. It didn't seem to bother her at all, but it certainly alarmed us! 

Kira's aunt, Joanne, had her ultrasound this week, and found out that she and her husband are having a little girl! I'm sure Marcus will be an excellent big brother when his new sister arrives this summer. We are all eagerly anticipating her arrival.

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.