Quick Update

Okay so I have been TERRIBLE at blogging lately...and I have several excuses but none of them sound very exciting or interesting, so I will spare you the details....

We had Kryi's 15 month check up last week. She finally made it over the 20 lb mark and is actually legal to be sitting in the forward facing car seat she's been in for 3 months. Yea!! But our pediatrician also referred us to a cardiologist down at Primary Children's for Kyri's heart murmur, which she was born with, but he said it was sounding different and wanted to get it checked out. Talk about giving a mother a heart attack herself!! I actually took her down to Salt Lake for the appointment today and she is "about as perfect as you can get" said one Doctor. They could have told me something I didn't already know! Yet, what a relief!!

A couple months ago my friend, Brittany, took some 1 year pictures of Kyri. These were a few that I thought were pretty cute...thanks again Britt!! Now we just need to decide which of the several others we want to print...oh the decisions!!

This is a total "Kyri face"! All we have to say is "Kyri, can you do this?" and she will do it without even looking at us to see what we're asking her to do. Too cute!!

Gary bites Kyri's fingers all the time and lately she has become a bit obsessed with us biting her fingers. She will try to stick her fingers in my mouth at any chance she gets, even though I try to discourage the game (most of the time) but I somehow think her daddy is quite encouraging of this behavior...I just have this feeling that a few months down the road we are going to have a bit of a problem when Kyri is biting other people's fingers and thinks it's ok because "daddy does it" to her!! Still cute!

Okay, so Kyri wouldn't put her Halloween costume on for a long time....this day included. But we tried it out anyway and this is what we got: her screaming with Gary and me laughing at her...we are such good parents!


Another update: Kyri is just talking SO much! At her 12 month check up she wasn't saying anything besides mama and dada, and while those are still 2 of her favorite words (only it sounds more like DAAAAAAAAD! DAAAAD?! as loud as she possibly can) some other words that have become our favorites are: hot and hat (very good enunciating on her "t"s), pants, church, peach, dowwwwn, bye, piwoh (pillow) and one of my very favorites is when she says "I love you" in sign language. She usually just points with one finger, but occasionally gets her pinky up too. Just tonight when I put her down to bed I laid her in her crib and she pointed her finger at me. When I said "I love you too!" she smiled her big toothy smile, blew me a kiss, and I remembered why I love being a mommy so much!!