Merry Christmas!!

Kyrah had a great Christmas. First on Tuesday December 16th she decided to start walking everywhere. It was so weird, that evening she just started walking from room to room. Up until then she would only walk back and forth to people or from a toy to a person. Then Tuesday night it was like a switch flipped and she decided walking was better. She still stumbles a lot, but now it is her perferred method of mobility. She will still crawl around once in a while, but she is officially a walker.

On a sad note she has developed this nasty rash under both arms. Daycare thought for sure it was the start of strep throat so we took her to the doctor and they said it was nothing like that, just maybe due to teething or something she ate. Well it is now Dec. 29th and it is still there and has gotten worse - now it itches her all the time - poor thing. So Daddy is taking her to the doctor again today. Lets hope they can figure it out this time.

Here are some pictures of Kyrah on Christmas Eve morning showing off her new walking skills in her candy cane shirt.

On Christmas morning I tried to get her to understand that Santa delivered presents and she gets to open something, but she just wasn't interested. So we didn't open presents until later that evening when Broc came over. We went to Christmas mass at 10am and this girl babbled during the entire mass! She just would not shut up - she was not fussing or crying, just baby talk the whole time. When we were singing she would even do a sing song type of babble - very cute, but I am sure the priest wasn't happy - oh well. Here is Daddy and Kyrah before mass.

After mass we headed to my families Christmas at my parents house. She of course loves going there because there are 8 other kids running around and all the adults so she gets lots of attention and she has tons of activity around her to watch. She finally got the hang of opening presents as well.

Here is a picture of all the Propst Grandkids except Broc is missing. He did not get to the house until later.

After presents and a short nap (way too short), she was in a great mood and had fun being chased by Broc around the house.

Overall we had a great Christmas. We are doing Daddy's side on Jan. 3rd, so Christmas isn't over for us yet. Kyrah received wonderful presents like a dancing tower, a little giraffe that she sits on and rides around, a set of tunnels and mazes, an art easel and tons of baby dolls (two sets of twin baby dolls - of course - just getting her used to the idea!)

Speaking of which, yesterday she grabbed a baby out of her toy box and she carried it around and it sounded like she said "day-dee". I want to hear her say it again before I will officially call it a new word for her, but she does seem to immate words more. I pointed out the kitties to her and she sounded like she said "kit-tee", but when I ask her who I am or point to a baby doll and ask, she doesn't say anything. We will keep working on it.

By the way - here is Kyrah at Christmas one year ago when she was just 6 weeks old! Wow what a difference a year makes.

Day Care X-Mas Party

It has been a while since I have written. Thanksgiving was a bit rough. Kyrah was sick starting the Monday before Thanksgiving, then I got sick and had to go to the ER and then a few days later the hospital, so needless to say we are hoping for no more sickness.

She is getting better at walking. She stands up by herself from a sitting position and will take off walking. Her favorite is to walk between people and she is up to about 10 steps. She stills crawls most of the time though.

Sunday Dec. 7th we were grocery shopping at Wal-Mart and they had a Santa there and offered free pictures. So for fun we put Kyrah on Ms. Claus' lap....it didn't go well - crying and hands straight out.

Well tonight at her daycare Christmas party we knew Santa would be there and we tried again. Here are the results

This was the only bad moment of the party. She loved her present from the daycare workers - a curious George monkey and Curious George book.

She also enjoyed the candy cane Santa gave her even though she was being naughty.

After Santa and presents, Kyrah showed me some of the toys she plays with.

I hate to tell her this, but we are scheduled to see Santa again on Saturday. I don't expect her reaction to be much differnt from the first two times, but they say 3s a charm...