Where to begin....

I know bad blogger again but trying to keep up with an almost 14 month old who only naps once a day now and that is usually at daycare is very tough.

Kiya is still fabulous even with the double ear infection she is fighting off. For a sick baby, she does pretty well. A couple of rough nights but not too terrible. Here are some things Miss Kiya has been up to lately:

--She pretty much insists that she feeds herself the majority of her meal. If she is really hungry she will tolerate letting you feed her cereal or yogurt but the rest she wants to do by herself. She does pretty well too, most of the food makes it in her mouth, a few occasional pieces make it to the begging dogs on the floor and every once in awhile she will put food in her hair. Okay that is the nice version, she does well but absolutely LOVES to put things on her head including food. We were at a restaurant and she was eating green beans and she put one on her head and just left in there. It is pretty funny.

--Walking....well that is still a work in progress. We can see just how badly she wants to it is just those darn long legs and tiny feet making it tough to balance. She is getting better and more confident. I have a feeling she will just do it one day when no one is watching but not until she is sure she can do it perfectly.

--Pulling up. This is also a work in progress but we have seen LOTS of growth in this area. She is trying to pull up on her toy box and she got one foot going the right way and then mommy saw what she was doing so Kiya stopped. She is also trying to pull up in the bath tub, yeah not the best place but she is trying. She still prefers our fingers and will climb into our laps to get to them and use them to pull up. We got some great tips from her teacher and some other parents on things to do to help her gain confidence and we are starting to see the pay off of implementing those tips.

--She LOVES to talk. She can now say mama, dada, doggy, wow, hi, bye bye, uh oh, night night, puppy, ta da, vroom, and then she is trying to say mouth. We ask her where her mouth is and she points to it and says "mou" so cute. She is also trying to say belly button or bee bo. She can point to her belly button and say "bo". She is attempting to say 'no' and usually it comes out 'na' along with a head shake. She also does baby signs for more, eat and all done. She is big on imitating what we are saying so we are really starting to watch what we say in front of her.

So as you can see she is busy busy learning new things and we are just trying to keep up. Her social calendar is getting fuller as we had playgroup yesterday with a fairly large group of adopted children from Ethiopia and she has a play date this coming Friday with 2 other great kids from Ethiopia.