Kyra is Growing Up *sniff sniff*

The topic today is Kyra. Um, Kyra. Yes, and more Kyra. She's had a lot of new firsts this last week, and I have only recently come to accept them and stop crying.

My baby is growing up. This has not escaped my line of sight, but I've chosen to watch her learn and do all new things, then pushed the "idea" that she is growing into the full fledged toddler world to the back of my mind. Kinda like, if I don't think about it it's not completely true. Ya, it only worked for about a month... then reality hit me square between the eyes. And I cried. A lot.

With out further patheticness on my part, here is some visual evidence of her growing up.

She has learned to use the slide at the mall all by herself. When I do hit the mall, I usually don't stop at the play area because there are 10,000 screaming monkeys with their oblivious parents in tow. The play area is usually too crowded for my liking, as my little baby might get lost in the chaos. Aside from that, there are always the one or two parents with 9 year olds playing there too. The height limit is 36" or something close. When the kid is nearly as tall as I am, and probably weighs more then I do, I'm not comfortable with that either. These are usually the heathen children who climb all over top of the equipment with unsuspecting (much) smaller children below them. I just hate this place. That is, unless I can catch it once in a while with only a couple small toddlers for Kyra to play with. As was the case the day she climbed and slid down the slide all on her own. *sniff sniff*

Next up is that Kyra has learned to use a real fork. She can stab her food, and successfully make it to her mouth. We've been giving her a plastic fork, and she uses it with thick mashed foods, but on a whim, I gave her a real fork. Lets just say she won't eat anything with out it. She doesn't always use it... some foods will still elude her fork, but she must have it in hand at every meal.

These books have become her favorites. All four books she got for Christmas. All four must be read at least 32 consecutive times a day. Why is this in my "Kyra's growing up, sniff sniff" blog? Because this shows that she is getting old enough to sit still for such things as reading the same book 32 times in a row.

And finally today, comes the toddler bed. We got this bed for her on the 29th of December. Last night was the first night I didn't cry about it. She does so well in this bed. We put her in it, and she doesn't get out. We told this to one of our friends who has grown children, they laughed at us and said "just wait, she hasn't learned yet." Thanks guys, thanks a lot for killing our joy. While, no, she still has yet to climb out of bed, I hope that she will remain a good, great, fabulous toddler who stays where she is put. We'll go check on her and she'll be laying sideways, legs hanging off, sheets crumpled around her head. We'll straiten her up, fix her sheets, but even still, there have been several occasions she's fallen out of bed. I guess its a good thing the bed is only 6 inches off the ground.

Oh, also. Is there anything you notice in the top two pictures of Kyra? Like maybe she got her first haircut? That's right. I finally gave in to the rest of the world's requests and got my child a haircut. I had too. It was long so long and now she's started continuously pulling her her ponytails out. I got tired of her looking like a heathen in public. At home it's fine, but in public. I'd at least not like her to look like a rag-a-muffin.

Now there is one thing that I have yet to figure out how to put on here. Videos. If I could ever figure that out I would post a video I took of her saying some of her words. She can say (but usually won't when prompted) Mommy, Daddy, babies, Papa, birdies, bye bye, bad and what's that?.

So there you have it. Ive finally admitted it. Kyra is no longer a baby. She's a toddler. And an ever growing and changing one at that. Maybe next time she decides to grow and learn, she could at least space everything out one week at a time. Versus the everything in one week? Maybe?