"Nine" Months Pictures!!!

First of all, we got the pictures back from Kyra's dedication at church in August so if you go look at my August 3rd post, I put them up there. :)










On Monday, Amy was nice enough to do more pictures of Kyra and they turned out just beautifully! They were supposed to be her 9 months pictures... but Mama is running a month behind. Kyra was her normal, non-cooperative, stubborn self so there's not a single one where she's just sitting and smiling, but that's just our girl! I love that her personality comes through so strong because the reason I treasure her pictures is because she's growing so fast and we'll have them to remember this stage! If she always had the perfect JCPenny style posed portraits, sure, they'd be cute, but it wouldn't look like KYRA!! I think my favorites are the ones where she's beating on the wicker stool like a tom tom drum. :) Some were in her Christmas dress and some were in her tutu and some were just plain naked! (She of course liked the naked ones the best because our little one is sort of a nudist.) Neither modesty nor humility are her strong suits. After we got home when I was looking at all the pictures on the computer she was sitting in my lap and insisted that we look at them over and over!! I'll put the link to her pictures on Amy's site up and also add a few here that aren't up there.

Kyra's Pictures at Full of Grace Photography

10 Months Already!!!

So Kyra was officially ten months old on wednesday. It's amazing how much she's changed in the past month! She's gone from pretty much doing just rice crackers and thick baby food to eating 75% of her food herself! (For example, tonight for dinner she had chicken nuggets, peas, carrots & cheerios!) She's crawling now and getting faster every day. She gives very food fives when she feels like it and has officially learned what "no" means. Tonight she actually ASKED me for a kiss for the first time instead of me asking her for one (Phil saw it too so it wasn't just wishful thinking). Now if we could just convince her to give kisses with her mouth CLOSED we'd be doing good! She's also getting very good at sitting with us to read. We get books out of the library which works out great. Free books, lots of variety and when she fixates on one it's no big deal because eventually it's due to go back! We put holds on a bunch that have dog in the title and one of them is called "My Dog, My Cat, My Mama and Me". It turns out it's about the dog, the cat and the mama all getting pregnant and having 2 puppies, 3 kittens and 4 baby brothers. Kyra just LOVES that book and wants to read it over and over and look under all the "peek" flaps at the puppies, kittens and babies. It's very simple and now I have it memorized. Boy will I be glad when that one goes back and I no longer have to read about Mama getting fatter and fatter!

She's Doing It!!!

So Kyra is FINALLY crawling well enough to call it crawling! She's still a little splay kneed and she sort of collapses every few feet when she's tired, but she's sure getting there, especially if Mama or Dad is on the floor for her to crawl to. She's not exactly a little speed demon yet (she's actually still faster in her army crawl) but I'm sure she will be soon. Thank goodness for super yards! She's so cute sleeping in her crib now too. She usually doesn't fuss for more than a minute or so when she's put down and then she either goes right to sleep or plays with her bear or her feet first. You can always tell when she's been playing before she went to sleep because she ends up way in the corner of her crib with her butt up in the air because she was up on all fours and just sort of passed out. :)

Slept ALL night!!! (And baby's first Halloween)

Friday was Halloween and we were all invited over to John, Amy & Tristan's house for a party that was LOTS of fun!! Kyra dressed as a bumble bee. (We were very glad we'd gotten her two costumes on clearance last year since she'd outgrown the banana!) She loved watching the kids at the party and thought trick-or-treating (she just went along to watch) in her wagon was a blast until she got a little hungry and tired. She was a very cute little bee!
She's been sleeping really well most night lately since she's over her cold. (She does have a little bit of an occasional cough still hanging on, but other than that she's doing good.) She's been waking up just once around 5:30/6:00a.m. to eat and then sleeping until 8:00. Last night she actually slept through until 7:30a.m. with NO waking up! It was great!