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Kira found this balloon in her room; it was given to her the day we brought her home from the hospital and is still inflated! She loves it because it's attached to a stick, she is waving it all over the house. Thanks Dusit + Kim!

She really loves playing with Daddy's toques. They are a source of endless entertainment for her.

Looking adorable in her Christmas dress, accessorized with Mommy's purse.

Looks like we may get a Christmas at home this year! It's been a full year since I "tried to burn the house down" (as Jon says). Here is our place decked out for the holidays...

Our new tree, all the gifts underneath are for Kira, she is spoiled rotten by friends and family. We didn't buy her anything...

That is an ornament that Kira made at the Radical kid's party this year, they are stickers that she stuck on. You can still see the backing of the sticker just under the gingerbread man.

Long time, no post

Merry Christmas everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts, I have been very lazy lately and thought that maybe Jon may step up and write something...guess not. Heh.

Kira updates; she is adding more words and phrases every day, I think that we may be close to her communicating (couple more months-ish). She says Oh boy, oh yeah, and is very good with "no". I have a great video, will try to post later this week. We recently hid her bottles from her in an effort to get her to drink milk from a sippy cup or cup; but my darling child is incredibly stubborn, and has instead stopped drinking milk altogether. She can drink from cups, bottles (water, juice etc) and sippy cups, but she chooses not to drink milk from these. She only wants it from her bottle. It's been almost a month now and we don't seem any closer to a solution. We have been supplementing with lots of yogurt, cheese and other dairy rich items. We had a mini-breakthrough yesterday when she requested cereal in her milk; she typically likes her cereal dry. We'll see how things progress. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Kira went for her quarterly check up this week, and her prescription was amended to something slightly stronger. Her eye is starting to turn in more so the doctor is trying to strengthen the muscles. She is now at +5.00 and +5.25. Jon and I have noticed her eye turning in when she is not wearing her glasses, hopefully the new prescription will help. Poor kid.

Otherwise, things here have been the same old. We have a few videos to post of Kira and I'll try to get those up tomorrow or later this week.

More pictures + videos too!

Grandpa and Isabel

Kira and Mommy at our friends housewarming party

Kira's cousin Marcus came by for a visit on Friday night, they had a great time as you can see in this video.

This is Isabel having a chat with our tv. Apologies for the commentary that comes along with the video...

Pictures!

She drew a picture for Daddy

Go Suns Go!

Before....(drinking her yogurt)

....After! (don't know why she looks so angry)

Sitting on Mommy's stomach - she is smiling because she's jumping up and down on my stomach

This one is for everyone that knew me when I was Kira's age. Apparently, I used to lick the butter off of buns, which resulted in butter all over my glasses. Kira does the same, except she does it with Nutella. Sigh.

This is Kira putting the DVD into the playstation and then taking it out again. It's a great game for her, but she won't get to play it again - Daddy wasn't too impressed. Hee.

The week that was...

I won't lie, this week sucked. Kira is teething, sick, and seeing things in her room. This has resulted in very little sleep for Kira, Dad, and Mom. Poor little thing, she is not sleeping well but she is very happy while she is awake. She had a great playdate with her friend, Kieren. He is such a cute little man, he and Kira had a great time playing with her toys. I was a little concerned as she has entered the stage of not wanting to share her toys, but there were no problems.

To try and cure her fear of the shadows in her room, we moved her bed 90 degrees, so it is against a different wall. We also changed out her guard rail so that she can see out from her bed, tonight it seemed to work - hopefully this trend will continue.

She continues to grow and I'm fairly certain she is going to be a very clever girl when she gets older. On Wednesday she found a cd on the floor by Jon's computer. She picked it up and ran into the living room, where she proceeded to put the cd into the playstation, and then eject it. She was very proud of herself and kept exclaiming "oh yeah" and "oh wow!" I was shocked, I have no idea how she learned this as we don't ever use the playstation when she is around. Jon reminded me of one time where we had left a dvd in the playstation which ejected when she hit the button. That happened a while ago, so how she remembered that is beyond me. I have a great video of it which I will post soon.

This coming weekend we will be heading to Victoria to go meet Kira's newest cousin, Conner. He was born on Wednesday weighing in at a little over 7lbs. It's funny, a few years ago I was wondering when people in my family were going to start having kids, there was a serious shortage of young ones after all, and now we have 3 nephews, 1 niece, and, of course, 1 daughter.

Heading towards "terrible two's"

Recently Kira has developed a bit of an attitude. Ok, so this isn't really recent, but she is much more expressive with the attitude lately. If something does not go her way, she says "no no no no no", and sometimes she will shake her finger at you simultaneously. Lovely. We are doing our best to take care of these little outbursts, but it will be a long uphill battle I'm sure. This one is a stubborn little thing. Today, she wanted to get something out of her stroller, but I would not let her. She started pouting and pointing at the stroller trying to win me over that way. When that didn't work, she turned to full out crying. She caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror, then continued on with the tantrum while staring at herself in the mirror. It was so funny, I had to laugh - which only made her cry harder when she snuck a peek at me.

Anyhow, here is a picture of Kira from the aquarium on Saturday.

This week my sister will be having her baby boy, she is scheduled for a section on Wednesday. We are all very excited to meet the newest addition to the family, and I'm sure my sister will be excited to have this pregnancy over with.