Animals

I'm proud to announce that K-Mac can recognize and tell you the name and the sounds of 8 different animals.

1. Dog Dog - Woof woof
2. Kitty Cat - Meow
3. Bees - Bezzz bezzzzzzz
4. Rudy (Horse) - Neighhh
5. Duck - Quack quack
6. Ticken (Chicken) - Ba bac bac bac
7. Bird - Weet weet (Tweet)
8. Cow - Moooo

Yes, I'm super proud.  She still can't tell the difference between a spoon, fork, or a knife (they are all spoons in K-Mac world) but whatever!  Our kid is smart!

She did not want to attend Church this day..

Just made a cheerio mess...so cute!

Meeting Santa!

Play time with Daddy!

This is over sharing..

K-Mac has been killing this potty training thing.  Like, hardly has accidents during the day.  Nights are a whole other story because we are just not that dedicated yet.  I mean, she's not even two.  We'll give it time. But this morning, she sat on her potty, goes "pees pees" and then tells me "not all done".

This is where is gets gross, so feel free to turn away.

She toots.  Then she giggles.  And THEN she says, "uh oh...oh man potty, it's poo poo".  And she proceeds to do as promised.  I just died laughing when she "warned" her potty.

I bought a crazy ridiculous potty that sings every time she uses it successfully so it's probably nothing more then another toy for her.  But, whatever!  It's working!

Now, if you'll excuse me, she's feeding the kitten animal crackers and apple juice.

xoxo

September Times

Old McDonald had a farm...

I sing this song on repeat.  If we are in a car, it is expected of me to mute the radio and sing this song until we get to our destination.  Sometimes, Momma has to improvise and sing about Old McDonald's zoo, his various vehicles, and so on.

But, this is kind of good.

Kyra now knows 4 animal sounds!  Ask her what the dog, cat, horse, or chicken say and she's got your back.  She may also start yelling "Eeeiiiieeeiiiiooooo" and you may have to sing the whole song to her.  It's a risk.

Other adventures:

• The word, "Baby".  All of her stuffed animals are now her babies.  She calls them baby and insists on keeping one under her arm when sleeping or in the car.
• Kisses!  She's a mouth kisser to the max these days.  It's cute.  And drool covered.
• "Get that!"  Her new phrase.  It really comes in handy when she's having a meltdown during breakfast.  Now I know whether she wants captain crunch or apple jacks without having to fill a bowl of each.
• "I gee booo"  I love you.  
• "Bye bye".  Really cute, unless we're visiting someone and she says it to me because she wants me to leave.  
• "Shoes?  Go?"  She's pretty clear when she wants to put her shoes on and go outside.  She's even trying to do it herself.  I wish she'd slow down!  

xox

I've been a bad blogger

It's been a while.  Like, a LONG while.  So, let me catch you guys up on the happenings in Kyra Land.

Kyra is an 18 month old, walking, talking, running, throwing, screaming, dancing, bundle of energy at 31 inches tall and 22 pounds.

Her Favorite Words:
Momma and Dadddd...she says those a lot.  No, Hiiiiiii, Thaaaaank Youuuu, Num Nums, Banana, Grendel (our dog's name), More, Down, Aww, Gum (which means cup...I don't get it either), Neighhh, Weeeee (when on a swing), Go!, One Two Tree, Red Set (ready isn't a word yet), and a bunch of other gibberish sound effects.

Mom and Dad's New Catch Phrases:
Stop, Get your finger out of your nose, Use your words, Calm down, Please let me change your diaper, Don't you want to brush your teeth?, and a bunch of rambling on and on about us not understanding how she grew up and turned into a monster toddler so quick.

Kyra's Likes:
Dancing, trucks, spinning, swinging, dogs, cats, horses, birds, trees, lights, music, mocking Mommy while she works out, and swimming.

She has turned into such a little character.  She's funny, flirty, and a little bit crazy.

Like us.

Turkey Day

Oh my gosh, I'm a slacker!  It has been about a month since I last updated this.  Things have been busy!  Let me bring you up to speed....

1. K-Mac has four teeth now.  She has her two bottom teeth and her top vampire teeth.  It is probably twilight fever.
2. She has a walker that we got for cheap on Veteran's Day.  She is always cruising in it!
3. K-Mac's favorite movie is Sleeping Beauty.  She'll watch it again and again for hours.  
4. She loves food!  She's always eating cake or soup or bread.  Whatever we have!
5. She even plays with wooden toy food.  Seriously.  Loves.  Food.
6. She isn't growing like she used to so we have to go back to the doctor.  We aren't worried, she's all over all the time so she burns those calories (lucky).
7. She is a cheerio addict and calls them num nums.
8. She saw her first theater film- Footloose!
9. She is clapping!!!!!  It is the cutest thing!  Whenever she does anything, even bad, she claps.
10. She had a lovely first thanksgiving!  And I have the photos to prove it...

Chilling while momma and dada cook 

Our feast

FOOD!

K-Mac's plate.

We love turkey...

Is there something on my face?

All done!

The agreement was that if I showed this photo....

....I had to show this one too.

Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll!

Toothy Smiles

CAR SWINGS!

Sleeping...mid jump

This time last year, we were starting to buy pink clothes.  We learned that we were expecting a pink, not blue bundle of joy.  I was so convinced she was a he.  Hubs, on the other hand, knew for certain that I was carrying his daughter.

 I guess he can be right once.

In K-Mac land today, things are moving a lot faster.  I felt like I was pregnant for two years and here we are.  She is already eight months old!  So, I guess it wasn't very age appropriate, but we took her to go pumpkin picking this past weekend anyway.

The Horse we attacked.

The lovely Autumn Acres, to be exact.  While we were there, we got to pet the animals and go on a tractor ride to find a pumpkin.  She couldn't be bothered with the chickens or rabbits.  K-Mac wanted the horse.  My heart smiled.  The problem with her wanting something is that she typically growls at it and smacks it in her excitement.  This reaction holds solid for everything from toys to food to people.

So my kid punched a horse in the face at a petting zoo.

Tractor Rides

Yeah, we left to go on a hay ride before PETA showed up.  We sat in the front and her eyes were glued to the big ol' wheels the whole time.  When it was time to get off and get a pumpkin, we kind of just held her up and waited until she growled at one.  Lucky us, she wanted a small one.  THANK YOU LORD.

I think I failed to mention, she's a candy corn

Needless to say, it was a long afternoon for her and she was asleep in hub's arms before we even got back into the car.

In other news, I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but she has TWO TEETH.  Her bottom two teeth are finally in and all sorts of tiny and adorable.  With her new found teeth, she has been exploring a wider variety of finger foods.  She enjoys yogurt covered cheerios and banana shaped cookies.  It disturbs me that all of the cookies she tears apart have faces on them.

Mostly Asleep

Speaking of tearing apart cookies...We were finishing lunch the other day when I cleaned her up and took her into my office to watch me do some work.  She didn't want to lay down though so I put her up on my lap.  She started laughing and I asked her what was so funny.  She SCREAMS and slams a cookie into my shoulder, exploding crumbs everywhere.  Yes.  This really happened.

Wouldn't change a thing.

Eight Months and Counting

Yesterday, K-Mac turned eight months old.  She's been getting into any and everything possible and has quite the personality these days.

First off though, I want to put out the two photos at our sides.  This is slave labor.  Daddy was feeling sore and stiff and K-Mac was feeling sorry for him.  She was hitting his back and scratching it.  Massages!  It was adorable and when I caught her and took her picture from in front of her, she seemed stunned.

K-Mac is also on mommy's best buddies list.  She has (finally) started to say momma!  It was one of the best feelings ever the first time I heard it.  Yes, she usually only says it when she's mad or wants to be picked up but the point is, she is calling for ME.

Little Peanut is also eating big kid food!  She eats little cookies, finger foods, cereal puffs, wagon wheel cookies, and dried yogurt.  This comes in handy when we are food shopping or when she wants a little snack while I'm busy.  It makes me sad though when she turns her head when I try to feed her a cookie and then promptly picks it up and eats it on her own.  She's growing up so fast!

I'm also starting to think about her first birthday!  I've been considering a few different themes.  I like sock monkey, hungry caterpillar, animal prints, and elephants.  Now to narrow it down.  This is going to take some serious thought.