Baby KJ! (Formerly known as 2.0)

Here is the first pictures of baby KJ! We had the ultrasound today, seems that things are progressing well (yay!) so we are now just waiting for him/her to make their appearance on or around December 7, 2010. KJ was plenty active during the scan and kept its hands up near the mouth for nearly the entire time. The feet are moving constantly, kicking every direction -- oh goody, just like Kira was :P

I was going to find out the gender of KJ, but Jon didn't want to know, and since I have a big mouth, I decided not to find out either. Personally, I think that it's a girl, but I have nothing to back that up with. We'll find out soon enough!

Apologies, I'm a tech idiot and I don't know how to change the direction of the picture...

Bear at the Park

Here is a video of Bear at the park with Kira. She decided that he wanted to go down the slide with her...

I've been trying to upload the video of Kira changing bear's diaper, but it's been taking upwards of 3 hours and nothing happens, so maybe I'll try again this week.

Kira + the Bear

This weekend Kira made a new best friend, her teddy bear. Her Auntie May and Uncle Simon got her this bear from FAO Schwartz in NYC and it has all of a sudden become her favourite companion. He went everywhere with her this weekend, including to dinner with us on Sunday night. She changes his diaper, dresses it, and takes it for car rides. At night she sleeps with him too. It's pretty cute. Jon will try to get a video of Kira changing bears diaper tomorrow morning.

Taking Bear on a car ride

Repositioning Bear to keep him on the car

Fully dressed for the day - complete with her glasses

(notice how Kira's hair is in a ponytail, we finally succeeded this weekend in getting it up!)

At the playground with Daddy

Long weekend

Happy Canada Day long weekend everyone! We stayed home this weekend and due to the lingering colds, we didn't partake in any organized Canada day celebrations (save a bbq at a friends place). It's been nice to have Jon around this weekend, I've done a lot of resting and fully maxed out the pregnancy card. Kira has enjoyed having her Daddy around and has been quite attached to him most of the weekend.

Here are a couple of pictures that Jon took of Kira at the park today...

Hugging a tree, she likes to do this to lamp posts too. I have no idea where she gets it from

Walking down the stairs at the playground

Surprise, Kira is distracted by something else ---- she's so nosy!

Aquarium Style

Here are some pretty fuzzy pictures from the aquarium on Sunday, I forgot the camera, again. Kira had a great time looking at the fishies and the other animals, she was pretty exhausted by the time we left.

For a time, we were hanging out in the kid play area, Kira kept grabbing these bean bags shaped as blocks and then disappearing around the corner - so I finally had to go investigate. Here is what I found...

Kira applauding her tower that she built, not long after this some kid came and dive bombed her tower, thankfully she thought it was funny and didn't freak out.

This is another one she rebuilt, she's saying uh-oh because the yellow and red ones just fell over. Love that she stacked on the seat as well as the floor.

On our own, again!

This weekend Jon has gone to a stag in Whistler, so it's just Kira and I again. She seems to be in a better mood this weekend as her molar has pretty much cut through her gum, so that makes me happy. Plus, she even slept until 7:00 this morning (as opposed to the 5:30 wake-up calls we've been getting for the last week or so), can't complain when you get a little more sleep!

This week Kira figured out how to balance on her run bike on her own. We've been holding the seat or the handlebars for her for the last while, but this week she decided that she was going to do it on her own. With one wave of her hand, she pushed my hand off the handlebar (while saying "no mama, mine!) and then she was off! Here's the video of her, it's not too exciting for most people, but I was pretty darn proud. (notice how she slows to check herself at the oven and the mirrored closets)

Her vocabulary continues to grow, she is repeating most everything we say now, we can't always understand her, but she is getting pretty good at communicating. She also has started to sing along when we sing the ABC song, she doesn't know what letter to say, but she knows the breaks in the song and loves to sing along, it's pretty cute.

Beach and Dragon Boating

Today Jon started his charity bike ride to Seattle, so it's just Kira and I this weekend. The weather is finally cooperating too, so Kira and I headed down to the beach with her cousin Nicholas this morning. They were supposed to play in the sand, but they just opened up a HUGE new playground at the beach, so the kids were a little distracted by that. No worries though, they had a good time and were very exhausted by the time we left. Mission accomplished.

After her nap, I took her down to the Dragon Boating Festival at False Creek. She really enjoyed looking at all the people and waving good bye to the boats as they went by. With all this fresh air today I'm hopeful she'll sleep like a champ tonight, that molar has been waking her up a lot the last few nights, poor kid.

Naturally, I forgot my camera, but I was able to quickly snap 2 pictures with my phone...

Kira playing in the sand, it was pretty windy at the beach this morning

Watching the dragon boats go by, she decided all of a sudden that she hated shoes

Eating crackers while I posted this...charming isn't she?