However...like I said... most of her developments are good and very cute. She now loves to put on her shoes because she seems to understand that this means she can walk around. Kira LOVES to go outside and points to show me that she wants to go in the stroller for a few laps around the neighborhood. She has such a playful demeanor, and a streak of mischief as well! She enjoys hiding my shoes, my keys, my phone, and taking anything out of my purse and wallet. In fact, she likes accessories of any kind, but especially sunglasses. The other day, she didn't take off her blue heart sunglasses the entire time we were in the supermarket, and the other shoppers couldn't help but laugh or smile when they saw her. She now plays lots of games and throws a darn good fit, complete with belly flopping on the floor. We haven't put any locks on the kitchen cabinets, so one of her newest hobbies is rearranging the bottom two drawers of towels and oven mitts and the cabinet of tupperware. She first started this habit in her bedroom by doing the exact same thing with the clothes from her dresser and the laundry basket. Sometimes she puts the things back in the drawers, and sometimes she doesn't. ;)
At meal time, she enjoys pretending to feed me and then taking the food away at the last second to eat it herself. However, Kira is more than happy to feed me the food she doesn't want, and if I am not close enough, she loves to throw it off her highchair. She understands "clean up" and if I give her a tissue, she will wipe up the table or floor, which is really cute. I think she may have learned this at daycare. She loves to high five and to feed herself with a spoon. She often claps when we have finished a meal and she said "nom nom" or "nummy" if she is eating something she really likes. It's a nice reward for making her food. :)
She says a few words, and understands much more. Seriously, every day she does something new! Between yesterday and today she went from vigorously shaking her head to saying the word "no." Yippee. I knew this day would come. Now I'm sure it will become her favorite word. She now calls her pacifier her "baby" and says "book" and "ball" whole holding or pointing to them even though both words kind of sound like "ba". She enjoys kicking balloons and Lisa's soccer ball around the house. From the looks of it, we might have a little soccer star in our future. A few days ago, I was talking aloud as I was searching for her shoes so that we could play outside. I couldn't find them anywhere! I said aloud, "Kira where are your shoes?" and seconds later she came back into the room holding both of them in her hands. Pretty impressive, I think!
We are working on blowing kisses.. she's got the kiss sound down, but hasn't quite coordinated it with moving her hand. I think we are now down to one 1-2 hour nap during the day, and we are still working on sleeping through the night. She has two top teeth and four bottom teeth, and many molars on the way, which I think are the cause of the latest disruption in sleep! Good times.
