Catching Up

Well, I've gotten very behind so this may be long! First, Kyra had fun on her first New Year's Eve. We spent it at our friends' house and Kyra had a blast playing with their kids (or at least watching their kids play, she got a little overwhelmed. ;) ) She did NOT do what I was thinking she would and doze off in one of our laps or in her BabyHawk carrier so she stayed up until midnight!!! We were amazed. She was a little glassy and wide eyed by that time though. She crashed in the car on the way home and woke up at home just long enough for us to get her diaper changed and get her into bed. She woke up for an hour around 6am and then went back to sleep until noon! (She's "toasting" with the last two drops of Dad's sparkling cider in the picture. No, we don't give our daughter beer.)










We had company over Saturday and Sunday and she seemed to like that! Amy, John and Tristan came Saturday and she had a blast playing with Tris, but he didn't have quite as much fun playing with her since her idea of playing is taking whatever the other person is playing with and passing it back and forth. He did really great with trying to share the toys he wasn't currently using with her though! Phil's family came over on Sunday afternoon and Kyra showed off most of her tricks. She did fall down and bump her little head twice and made a much bigger deal of it than she normally would have because all those grandparents were there to say what a poor baby she was. :)

This past Monday, Amy did one year pictures of her. We even had it all figured out so that Phil could go and hopefully keep her in a better mood, but as it turned out, she was teething poor thing and was just a snot for Amy. I was thinking when we were on our way home that I'd be surprised if any of the pictures turned out, but even with my snotty daughter who was more uncooperative than usual, there are SOOO many cute, adorable shots!!! Amy is just a genius. The shoes she is playing with in the one picture are her first tennis shoes and the ones she's wearing now.











Some of the pictures were a group of birthday cake shots. We took a practice cake along and let Kyra play in it to have pictures taken and it was so funny. Kyra has never had anything sugarier than a vanilla wafer before, so the frosting was a little bit of a surprise for her. She was a little tentative at first, so I dabbed some frosting on her mouth and then she slowly leaned down with one hand and foot on either side of the cake and tasted it directly! It was so cute! She did pretty good during that part of the shoot until she dipped her feet in the cake accidentally and decided she was too sticky and got all upset and started fuss, so we stuck her right in the tub. :)















If you click on the "The Hardestys" link on the right, it links to Amy's blog where there are some more of the pictures if you scroll down to the post titled "Kyra is 1" and/or click on the top link that says "Portrait Photography" and then the one that says "Recent Photo Sessions".

It's been quite a bit easier than I expected to get Kyra to start to understand about things she's not supposed to do. I know she's going to have phases where it's NOT so easy, but we've been really surprised so far! The other day, she was playing in the living room and I went in the kitchen for a minute. All of a sudden she stopped babbling and got really quiet so I went in to check on her and sure enough, she was standing over by the coffee table holding a plastic decoration she knows she's not supposed to touch. I said, "You know you're not supposed to have that," and held out my hand and she immediately gave it to me, but started crying right away and had about a 20 second tantrum. Silly girl.