Kyrah's 1 year Photos

Below are Kyrah's offical 1 year photos that we had taken at Sears. The protrait studio was okay - I doubt I will rush back, but I knew I needed a lot of pictures so wanted to find somewhere less expensive. Of course Dennis wants to know why I bought an expensive camera if I still go to get her photos done... I told him he will never understand and not to question it.

I love the one of her in her tutu.

On her birthday she took 2 steps by herself and just this past Monday she took 6 steps!! She is learning, just has to get some confidence. A friend suggested I have her hold a toy when she is trying to walk and that may "fool" her into thinging she is holding onto a table so we may try that tonight.

Happy 1st Birthday Kyrah!

On November 12, 2008 at 4:12 pm Kyrah officially turned 1 year old. I took the day off work and made her egg bread (basically french toast) and eggs (her favorite). Then we played a bit and went up to day care to play with her friends and have a little party up there with her. We basically spent the day playing with all her new cool (older!) toys. I took all the baby type toys and stored them away for the twins and brought out all her new toys that help her develop. She also took her first official step on her birthday. She was on her blue chair and I was on the floor about 2 feet away and she stood up (which she does great now by herself) and took two steps to me. Very exciting. She likes to "walk" with fingers or with her little walker and just in the past few days she has been standing on her one very well so we are hoping she will be walking by herself soon.

This is what I wrote in her journal on her birthday...
My little baby girl is one year old today! One year ago today, November 12th, at 4:12 pm Kyrah Janet came into our lives. Over the past year she has been a wonderful baby and I can not imagine loving someone as much as I love her. So for an update on what she is doing and where she is at. She says Ma Ma and Da Da but won't tell you who I am if you ask her the question. She is cruising along furniture but is scared to let go. She loves to climb on things - especially her little rocking chair. She drinks 2% milk and only takes one bottle right before bed time, although we are going to take that away soon. She still takes a pacifier. I know that will be very hard when we make her give that up. She eats all adult food - no baby food anymore - although that has been for awhile now. She loves to pull up on things. She points with her finger at objects. She is really fast at crawling. She has 3 confirmed teeth - possibly more but it is hard to tell because her top gum does not show when she smiles and she won't let me put my finger in there to feel around. She can throw a ball and likes to put objects in to and out of a bucket or bowl. Kyrah loves to '"tickle" Mom or Dad - which for her is just touching our toes. She knows where a nose is on someone else and can point it out. She likes to play with Broc and likes it when Broc throws her on the bed then jumps on the bed like he is going to jump on her. She like to open cabinets and pull things out of them. She plays peek a boo by covering her eyes and then pulling her hands away. Just recently she has started crawling through Daddy's legs like it is a tunnel. She has also started "dancing" she really likes music and will bounce up and down or if she is sitting down she will hop on her butt like she is dancing. We are working on drinking out of an adult cup and likes to do it when we help her, but she is not that good at drinking. Most of the time the liquid will run back out of her mouth. She is not really a cuddler, I usually only get her to lay her head on my shoulder when she is really tired, but she likes to be picked up, so when she does cuddle up to me I take advantage of it and soak it up. She has started giving kisses which for her is just leaning in to you with her mouth open. She likes to have a blanket when she goes to sleep. She loves the Baby Einstein movies - usually we only watch those when she is in the van now. Before she would watch one at home when she was having her snack. She can stand on her own very well and likes to walk with help.

There are a thousand more things that make Kyrah special, but that is a pretty good list of what she is up to at 1 year old.

Kyrah's Birthday Party

Sunday November 9th we had Kyrah's birthday party. Because our families are so big we had to have it somewhere that could hold about 50 people. So we went to our local Community Center and had her party from 3-6. We had passes for the kids (or adults) to go swimming and Kyrah and Daddy went swimming. She loved the pool. It has buckets that spill water and little sprinklers and it has a graded shallow end so she could crawl into the water and play around. She didn't really have a theme to her party - I guess if you could say it was Balloons - she had tons of balloons around the room and had some on her cake and on the decorations. We had pictures for everyone to take with them and treat bags for the little kids to take along. Lots of people came to the party to wish her Happy Birthday. I would guess about 50 people came. She didn't understand about blowing out her candle, so we had to do that for her. We also did not let her tear into a cake, actually Grandpa fed her a piece of birthday cake. Maybe on her actual birthday we will give her a cake to tear into and get messy. The party was a great success and it is clear that she has lots of family and friends that love her very much!

Also at her party we opened the envelopes that told us what the twins will be and as it turns out we will have a boy and a girl!!!

This is Dale helping Kyrah open her presents.

She got lots of really cute clothes and books and toys.

Grandpa always lets you get messy when eating cake.

She didn't understand the concept of blowing out a candle but she liked looking at her cake.

Yummy - dinner ~ I know the pictures are in the wrong order, but ...

Kyrah had a great time on Halloween. She was a peacock. Her day started out at daycare and having a party with her daycare friends. There were 3 spidermen at daycare! Must be a popular costume for the little boys. I picker her up around 1 and we went to Daddy's school to watch the grade school kids walk the halls in their Halloween parade. She was so tired because it was 1:30 and she had not yet napped more then 30 minutes, but she sat quietly on my lap and loved watching all the kids. After that we left and I drove her around for about an hour to let her get a small nap in. Her Halloween evening started out by going to Grandma's and playing a bit until it got dark. By this point, Nick, Lydia, Jess, Anna and Dale had arrived. We walked around Grandma's neighborhood a bit and Kyrah liked going to the different houses. She didn't really need the candy so we usually declined when it was offered to her. The only candy she eats at this point is suckers. I hold the sucker and she licks it - she really likes the cherry ones the best. We headed home about 6 or so and gave out candy at the house. Once Nick and Lydia came over we walked around our neighborhood a bit. At this point she was in the stroller and cuddled up in blankets so it was much better. She loves being outside and loves watching all the activity. Of course when we got back home at about 8 and her bed time … then she wouldn't go to sleep and fussed until she finally fell asleep at 9 or so. All in all a very fun day. The next day we went to a Halloween carnival and she was in a costume contest and won "Cutest"!