Ice cream on a hot summer day

August 2009

Here we are approaching the end of August 2009. Kiriana will be turning ONE in a couple weeks. Time flies! I can definitely say it has gotten easier. As I write, Kiri is finally getting her two top teeth in. We suspect she might have a gap between the two front teeth...we'll see. She has also added some new words to her list. She says "juice" and "duck" now. Her walking is getting better too. She took 3 steps today. She loves to wave "bye" to people. Her hair is getting curlier and curlier by the day. Lyon goes looking for her when he wakes up from his nap. He looks at me and says "where baby?" In the morning he can't wait for her to wake up. He goes into her room and sees her on the bed. As soon as she stirs from his noise, he says "BABY! YAY BABY!" She gives him this look that says "I'm tired!!"

And Mr. Lyon....so many words...This morning I made him a piece of toast and he looked at me and said "ooooh mommy! Thank you mommy!" Tonight when I got home from a quick trip to the store for ice cream, I came in the door and I heard him in the kitchen say "YAAAAY MOMMY!!!" and start clapping.
I think the best story is the other day he was playing in his room while I was cooking in the kitchen. He walks into the kitchen with this confused look, throws his hands up in the air and says to me "Where daddy's balls?"
I wasn't sure if he was referring to his volleyballs or his bacci balls.

Babeeez

Here is Kiriana at 11 months old at the beach on a hot summer day. Ariki is holding Banx, almost 6 months old. Banx is my best friend Lila's first child. He is younger than Kiri but already bigger than her.

New Words

Lyon has added some new words to his vocab. He is also doing 2 word sentences now. Here's what we have been hearing:
"where daddy?"
"Thank you mommy"
"please"
"dodo"
"oh yea"
"I love you"
"where bobble (bottle)"
"baby. baaaaaaaaby"
"wait"
"Mobie (movie)"
"nooooo"

Miss Kiriana

Today I saw Miss Kiriana take a couple steps across the couch without holding onto anything. It was quite a moment and I think in a couple months Lyon will have to learn to run faster because she will be running after him!

She also has learned how to wave at people. Her favorite is to wave at her Daddy. Her hair keeps getting curlier and bigger. She is such a heart-melter...One of her other favorite things to do is play wrestling with Lyon and Dad.

She's turning 11 months old soon....I'm going to miss her being a little baby...

Funny Story

This evening I was in the kitchen and Lyon was in his room. It started to rain really hard. Of course, Lyon came running and whimpering into the kitchen because he is still a bit scared of the rain. He ran about half way into the kitchen, stopped, and turned around and ran back to his room. I thought that was a bit weird and wondered what he was up to. About a minute later he comes running into the kitchen and whimpering "Moommmy Raaaining" but this time he has his arms loaded with about 5 big toy trucks!!! I guess if you get freaked out by something make sure you have all your favorite things before you run away!

Dear Aunty Esther...

Dear Aunty Esther,
Thank you for the very creative and wonderful birthday card. You did an awesome job designing it. The best part was the little card that was attached to it with all the 2's!! You are a great artist-I hope you keep developing your talent!!
Love,
Marie, Roger, Lyon and baby Kiri