Well poor Kirra is battling a cold. She is all stuffed up. It is affecting her sleeping and even eating. Because she is so stuffy it’s hard for her to drink out of the bottle, so we’ve been offering lots of table foods, and finger foods as well. Also I think babies by nature are nose breathers, so I think she gets frusterated needing to breathe out of her mouth in her sleep, so sometimes she will start crying in her sleep, we just feel so bad for her.

We’re definitely going to keep our other bike trailer for long bike rides to put extra stuff in, and also for grocery shopping, we can put our food in the “spare” (aka Garage Sale Buggy). It does ride well, and we can use it, but we definitely feel better with the “new” one for longer rides. The new one however doesn’t fit on my bike, because the back axel is shaped weird on my bike. Jason wants to pull Kirra anyways, for a “better work out” um… more power to him!

We’ve decided not to sell my car at all (at least this year) Having the next step car seat in my car has really helped my shoulder, and I am not in pain anymore. My car runs well, and everything in our price range now, is a bit of a step down for me, so we’re going to hold out for a few more (other) bills to be paid off first.

Hopefully Kirra will feel better soon. We have the vaporizer going full steam, with vics aromatizing her room. We’re going camping on Friday, and hopefully she isn’t sick anymore for that. We’re planning to bring our high chair with, so that we can feed her, it just seems like we need to bring SO MUCH stuff for such a tiny little person. I will have my Mei Tai for hiking, but this time I am staying on the road. I have a real discust for ticks after me and pams jaunt thru the woods at Lydick, if you hadn’t heard I had over 40 ticks on me at one time…. sadly i am not exagerating!

Cheers.

Well just last week, Jason bought a new bike (bicycle), and we’ve been biking since Thursday! It’s our new family time, and it’s very fun. Our bike trailer that we got at a garage sale has been a little sketchy, the right wheel appears bent, and Jason’s parents were planning on buying us one before the garage sale, so they bought us a new one. It’s very nice. We’ve figured out a way to actually strap Kirra in there, even though she is technically too young for it. Next weekend we’re going camping for Labor Day. I’m a bit nervous since the last time we went camping with Kirra she was imbobile, now she is crawling and standing up on everything. Hopefully it will be a peaceful trip! Cross your fingers!

Well no new tricks lately, but Kirra is becoming an olympic climber on furniture! (If there was such an event, she would definitly win Gold.)

We gave her some cut up hot dog tonight, and she loved it! Our pediatrician gave us the ok, so we’re trying new things besides just purred baby food.She really seems to like feeding herself.

We think she is getting more teeth, but she is such a trooper,that we can’t really tell. It doesn’t seem to wake her up at night, so we’re never really sure. She doesn’t have any “clasic” signs right before hand, so we just have to sit it out.

Her other teeth that are popping thru haven’t come all the way up yet, but they are working on it. We’re not giving her anything because it doesn’t seem to bother her at all.

I just installed our “next step” car seat in my car. I wasn’t toting the other one in and out anymore anyhoo, so I figured why not move up. It’s probably safer for her anyways. This one even has the fancy latch system. I got Kirra sized up in it, and I got it in my car, so we’ll see how it goes tomorrow. I hope it’s not hard to get her in and out. It shouldn’t be, but it definitely doesn’t recline as much, and now she won’t be able to look over her shoulder and see me. Such is life. Three more months she can face foward (if she gains 3 pounds) and see the world!.

Well, we survived our first outing to the indoor playyard. It went very well, even though Kirra mouthed a few of the balls. And then against my better judgement I put her in the ball bit, and that was kind of funny. She only liked it for about 5 minutes, and then it was too hard for her to sit, and crawl in, but I got a few good pictures. She even spit up in the ball pit, which is one of my main reasons for thinking they are kind of gross, because you know the people who work there aren’t sanitizing every single ball….. BUT…She really enjoyed climbing on different things, and going down the little slide.

We also decided to go down the BIG BIG slide… let me tell you about this… we had to climb about 14 flight decks to the top, and it was very hard, because the platforms were sooo close together, but somehow we got to the top without too much fussiness… then Kirra and I went down the biiiigggg slide. This sucker was HUGE!!!

I tried to go as slow as I could but the S-bomb came out of my mouth a few times. 

We have a big week with hanging out with friends. It should be a blast!!!!!

Well Kirra is nearly 9 months old already! I absolutely can’t belive it! I feel like she was just born yesterday! I look back at pictures and think WOW, she reallly was that little. Now she is climbing on everything, and crawling so well! Today she crawled over to her toybox, and there is this bucket with a lid on it, and Kirra (sneaky girl) figured out how to open the lid!!!! and dump out her toys! We couldn’t belive it. It was awesome. (And very scary too).

We’re so happy to have Jason back home. That was the longest we’ve spent apart since we were in the Navy. Things are definitely easier when there is a pair to take care of Kirra.

Teeth are breaking thru and Kirra is being a trooper! Not the typical crying and crabiness that you would expect, it’s like nothing is happening, although now when she bites you it really hurts!

Today I ran in a 5K in New Brighton, and Jason & Kirra came to cheer me on. I did much better on this 5K than my last one, so I was very pleased about that. I got 4th in my age group. If i would have ran 30 seconds faster I would have gotten a medal in my age group. Oh well, there is always another race.

After the race we did some housekeeping, and even test drove some cars. I really want to get into a 4 door car, but we need to sell my car first (because a trade in, isn’t enough…) I test drove a 2003 Ford Focus and really really liked it! Hopefully I can get into this car sometime! I will put my car on Craigs List and see what happens!

I went on a bike ride with Kirra in the bike trailer, but I either screwed up how to strap her in, or she isn’t big enough yet… maybe a combo. I biked to the bike shop just down the road to ask for advice, but they were closed. Maybe I will stop in tomorrow, or some other day.

Tomorrow I am breaking one of my biggest rules! Indoor playground! I’m meeting my friend at one. I think Kirra will be fine, even if she does mouth everything. I will just help her NOT mouth everything… haha wish me luck! I just think it will be fun for her. She is in this climbing up on furniture phase, and exploring, and this will be good to practice all of her skills. Hopefully it’s not crowded!

Well Kirra might not have been totally teasing! She does have “rock” like feeling on her bottom gums, and they are pretty white. So we think this is it. They haven’t broke thru yet, but I think in the next week or so.

She is getting really good at climbing on furniture, and trying to go from one piece to the next. We went to Heidi and Ed’s wedding shower today, and she showed off all of her new tricks including climbing up one stair. They have a one step sunk in living room, and she climbed up the step! It was amazing.

Jason is off to Flordia this week for some training for work, so it will be just Kirra and I. I guess I will get a small taste of what a single parent feels like. Everyone is so gracious to help, and I will definitely take them up on their offer if need be.

Hopefully Kirra doesn’t learn any new tricks with her daddy away, I don’t want him to miss a thing!

We ended up “scoring” a bike trailer for $20 at a garage sale too! I haven’t put Kirra in it yet, but I think this week we will go for a few rides anyways!

We also traded the old truck in for a brand new one. It’s a 2008 Dodge Ram. It’s also a 4 door, quad cab, and really easy and nice for getting in and out etc…

No teeth yet for this little wee one. Her fevers went away and she is back to normal. Perhaps it was just growing. She is crawling all over the place, and has actually grown some hair now. She has a little curl on the top of her head, and that’s about it. We do think it’s rather cute though. She helped me out at Relay for Life last week, and she was such a good baby!

We’re going walking with our friends today, however the umbrella stroller is in dad’s truck, so we have to take the jogger. Such is life.

Last night Jason put Kirra down for a nap and about 15 minutes later he found her crying standing up in the crib. Poor little dear. She is growing up so fast!

Well Kirra has been acting very strange for about half a week now. Tally called today and Kirra had a small fever of 100.8. When we got home it had spiked up to 101.2 Poor baby. She is also chewing on her tounge/air, and absolutely will not let us touch her mouth. She whimpers in her sleep and has been having loose bowels as well. Hopefully the “tooth” or whatever is hurting her makes her feel better soon!

Well we have been so busy! I ended up walking with Kirra and our friend Stefanie (Anna was already sleeping) on Friday night, and we even stopped at the park to swing for a while. Kirra had a blast, and we tested (again) our new stroller. This time I didn’t kick the wheels as much, and I am more used to pushing it. I really really like this stroller!!!

Saturday Kirra helped me at work by being cute and adorable. I had to work at Lake Calhoun by passing out water/PowerAde and clif shots to people running, and training for our marathon. Kirra was such a good baby, and entertained everyone including the runners!

Once we got home all three of us took a nap, and then we were off for AJ’s birthday party. It was very nice, Julie and Matt had the garage decked out for the occasion, and had sloppy Joes for lunch/dinner. At first AJ ate his cake very dainty, and then… he was covered in cake! His whole body/high chair, and sippy cup. It was classic!

Later we came home watched movies and just relaxed.

Today we woke up and hung out, and then decided that Kirra needed some boundries. She has gotten very good at crawling and will crawl to the kitchen in the blink of an eye, either entrance. So we now have the livingroom completely closed in. We moved the love seat to block off the kitchen/dining room, and put up a gate in the kitchen doorway, and we now keep all of the hallway doors closed. This way we know the livingroom is free of small choking hazzards/dog food, and other dangers!

Kirra tried a cheeze it tonight, well a quarter of one. She liked it, but then dropped it on the floor, so that was enough for her. Kirra is so excited to be a master crawler, and she sits herself up too, so she can access toys, and play with them, she just has way too much fun!

We have Relay for Life comming up this Friday, and I think Kirra will be coming to part of it, so we will see how she does! Tuesday is our playgroup day, and we’re really excited to see all of our friends!

Today Tally called and Kirra had been crying, and not feeling well at all.