The tradition continues...

Here is Kira enjoying The Price Is Right. There is a tear of pride in my eye, and I think that Auntie Christina would be impressed too.

This is Kira practicing her "no" when Daddy tries to steal her food. Ha.

And she seems to enjoy using her belly to open and close drawers and doors lately. Just after we turned the video off, she closed the drawer so hard, she fell backwards on her bum.

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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.