Kira having a very important phone conversation...

Note how she even looks at herself in the glass door and dances while talking...priceless!

Forgot to mention!

Forgot to mention that we received 2 offers on our place! So, if the first one doesn't go through, there is a back-up offer that will come into effect. Fortunately, it appears as though the first one will go through on Friday, and we will be moving out at the end of August. Now the househunting will begin...

Also, Kira added a new word to her vocabulary today - "hi". She uses it at the proper times, but it sounds more like "I". Took us a little bit to figure out that she was saying hi, it's pretty cute. I'll try to get a video of it.

Her new fave game

Kira loves going in and out on our patio, here's a video of what she does....

Phew, what a week!

It has been a crazy busy here the last week or so. Jon's family arrived from out of town for Simon and May's wedding, so we were busy with shopping, eating, visiting, eating, and eating. Kira loved seeing everyone, she barely slept while they were here because she wanted as much time with them as possible! I think she may remember the spoiling that she received from them while we were in Malaysia last year. Heh.

So, the wedding was on June 6, unfortunately, I wasn't able to get any pictures of the ceremony (or Kira) because I was watching Marcus + Kira in the nursery of the church during the wedding. It provided a lovely distraction for them and made life a lot easier for me!!

Here are a couple of pictures courtesy of Bel

Simon getting his "sports" manicure before the wedding

Simon + May cutting the wedding cake

Marcus getting the extreme close-up at the reception. His outfit was adorable!

Kira has been doing quite well despite the lack of sleep. She is starting to try to speak more, she has dropped "ding", and now says "done" for everything. She will sometimes say "O" for hello, and will use Mama/Mom + Dada properly. She tries to say her name as well, right now it's Ra Ra. Too cute. She hasn't gotten any new teeth yet, but they are trying to come up again...I can't wait till this stage is over.

Here are a couple of pictures from her bath tonight.

Next week my brother is getting married, Kira will be the flower girl, so we'll do our best to get some pictures or even a video of her attempt to walk up the aisle...should be interesting!! Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the lovely weather.

Talking?

It seems that Kira is getting closer to forming words than we first thought. She has started to say "ding", very random word...She also says "done" and the is beginning to form "thank you". I think for the most part it is still words only parents could understand, but it's something! It should be fun to see what she comes up with in the next few months.

Kira also just started climbing up the slide herself. She runs to the slide when we get to the park, will climb up the stairs, then stand up like she's the Queen or something; then, I'll sit her down and she pushes herself down the slide, jumps off, and repeats. She loves it and will do this for upwards of 30 minutes, or until another kid wants to play on the slide.

This weekend is Simon + May's wedding (yay!), so I'll be sure to post some pictures of Kira in her little dress, and with her extended family.

Enjoy the sunshine!!

Weekend again, already?

Wow, time is flying past. Kira turned 14 months old this week, she is turning into a full fledged toddler now. She's constantly got us on our toes, she runs around the house, gets into things she knows she isn't supposed to get into, and finally has a smile full of teeth!!

The last couple of weeks have been somewhat uneventful, yet packed with activity. We have placed our house back on the market again, we aren't anticipating it actually selling for some time, but nonetheless, we are trying. We are hoping to move closer to our daycare, the extra time in our commute is starting to wear on us, and neither of us want to switch her out of the daycare to something closer to work/home (not that we even have that option right now anyhow, we are STILL on waiting lists!), so we will pack up and move out...again.

Kira is doing very well. No new teeth to show off yet, but she is happy, giggly, and just a fun kid right now. This is a great age for sure. We are in the midst of getting her off of formula totally. She has been having 1 -2 formula bottles a day for the last month or so, and now we have been formula-free for 3 days! Hopefully that will keep up and we can save that $100/month. That's a lot of beer we could get for that money! :)

Here are a couple of recent pictures of Kira...

Sleeping Beauty

Mmm, cow.

Her new hat.

Long time no post...

...Or so Charlie told me yesterday.

Things have been a little bit hectic around here the last few days. Jon went to London last week for work, while he was away, Kira and I kept ourselves busy.

Saturday, we attended a wedding shower for Erin, she will be getting married to my brother on June 20. Kira had fun running around and playing with her cousin Megan. They had nice little chats with each other, although no one else could understand a word of what they were saying.

Megan + Kira

That night, Christina, Clinton, and Nicholas were over. Christina and Clinton had tickets to the hockey game, and Nicholas was going to hang out with Kira. He was such a great little man, he took care of Kira, made sure she didn't do anything she wasn't supposed to do, and gave her lots of hugs and kisses - he will be a wonderful big brother later this year.

The next day was Mothers Day. We started the morning by playing in the park with Nicholas, who picked out some lovely flowers for my sister for Mothers day. Next, we went to my Mom's place where Jeff + Erin made us all brunch. Kira had her first taste of French Toast, she loved it, naturally.

Later that evening, we went out for dinner with Jon's family. We went to a Thai/Malaysian restaurant, Kira had her first taste of crab fried rice...she loved it so much! She ate as much, or more, than me! She must have had a plateful of it. Too funny.

Jon got home Friday afternoon and immediately went to pick up Kira from daycare, he missed her a lot. Kira is very happy to have her Daddy home again, it's too bad that he has to leave for Vegas on Monday though. At least this time it's only a couple of days away.

We got a bike seat for Kira to sit in so I can take her for bike rides, she's not too sure about it yet. She likes it when we are going downhill, but will usually fuss when we are going uphill, because I'm slow...not used to having the extra 25lbs on my back tire! This is a picture of Kira in her bike helmet - too cute!


Kira is doing very well, she is discovering new talents everyday. This week she figured out how to open the drawers on one of her dressers, she then proceeded to put all of the clothes from the drawer, into the dirty clothes bin. She likes to brush her teeth and her hair by herself (we do it again right after she is done), and she has learned how to climb in and out of the bathtub. Hee. She is at the early stages of forming words now; one word she loves to say is "Phone". She will say that every time it rings. It's pretty impressive.

Kira had her eye specialist appointment a week ago, she passed her tests with flying colours. Her eyes are not getting worse, so the prescription that she has is the correct one. With any luck, her eyes will continue to improve and she won't need glasses when she gets older. Her next appointment is in a couple of months. She will be returning to the specialist every six months until she is 3 years old.