Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day everyone!! Hope that you had an enjoyable day.

We have been busy actively looking for a house, the market is crazy busy right now so we haven't had much luck --- will keep you posted though. It's a daily "struggle".

Want to pass on our congratulations to Georgina + Mirek, who welcomed their beautiful daughter, Natasha, into the world last week (the exact date escapes me, sorry Georgina!). You are my hero for surviving the epic struggle, I hope you are enjoying the reward.

Also, we found out yesterday that my sister will be having another boy! So this means that we will get a niece (hopefully very very soon for Jo's sake) and a nephew this year. Lucky us!

We have some new Kira pictures that I will try to put up this weekend.

Another Wedding Weekend

So this past weekend, my brother, Jeff, and his girlfriend, Erin, got married. I was able to take some pictures of this wedding as Jon was looking after Kira...so here we go!

This is Nicholas looking oh so adorable with his spiked hair + tie. He was the ring bearer.

And my little darling flower-girl...showing off her panties, as usual.

Aww, aren't they adorable?

Erin barely made it through her vows. This was just before she shouted "I'm going to finish them!" at the Reverend.

She made it through, and they got married! Hooray!

Kira + Jon enjoying the show from a distance. 

For the record, the dress was filthy long before the ceremony began.

In the limo on our way to the reception. There was much celebrating to be had.

Auntie V + Nicholas.

After the wedding, we attended the gift opening at Erin's parents place. Man did those 2 get spoiled! Made me want to get married again...without all the stress of planning a wedding though.

That night, I was able to sneak out and attend a Coldplay concert. Jon kindly stayed home to take care of Kira on Fathers day, I figure we are now even for him going to London on Mother's day.

It was a good show, and an exhausting weekend. Congrats to Jeff + Erin, I hope you enjoy your honeymoon down the coast. Can't wait to hear about The Price is Right!!!

And another Congrats to Maya + Chris, who celebrated their 6th anniversary on June 21, Happy Anniversary you two. Can't believe it's been 6 years already, where does the time go?

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!!