The past month and a half have been big ones for Keira. Until 8 months, she did nothing aside from sitting up unassisted. We had no rolling or scooting or anything. When she hit 8 months, she rolled and crawled within a few weeks and was pulling up not much longer after that. Now she’s climbing the entire flight of steps, walking with a push toy and while holding onto our hands. She is very very busy these days!
Her favorite thing to do is try to go after Tyler’s toys. She barely played with any of her baby toys. She just wants whatever Tyler is playing with. He usually is not too happy about that. She has been pushed quite a number of times. Then, of course, he always wants what SHE’s playing with. They do that tug of war thing all the time. Our rule is that if he wants to play with something she’s playing with, he has to find another toy to replace the one he wants. So he is usually very good about that. He will walk around and find something, give it to her and then take the toy she’s playing with. (Although from an outsider’s perspective, it totally looks like he’s chucking a toy at her, then snatching her toy. hahaha).
She babbles all the time. Usually she says, “papa” (hmph)…but sometimes she’ll say, “mama.” Then there’s a wide variety of strange sounds….usually spoken with her shouting voice. This girl is LOUD. Once she opens her mouth, you can’t hear anything else. The worst is when she’s in bed with us when she’s sick and she starts babbling. It’s like she’s speaking through a megaphone right in your ear.
We gave up on purees. We just give her table food. Usually whatever we’re eating…in tiny pieces. Well, not really the meats since she still only has her 2 bottom teeth. Where are her teeth?!!!!!
No weight or height updates for 9 months yet. We…uh…forgot to make her 9 month appointment. By the time we remembered, the earliest opening was the end of this month…when she’ll be practically 11 months! oops. The receptionist yelled at us for not making the appointment after her 6 month visit. EXCUSE US, but due to the nature of our jobs, we only get our schedules 1 month at a time and we’re scheduled for random days of the week, so we can’t do it 3 months in advance since we don’t know which days we’ll have off. They yell at us every time we have to make a short notice (1 month or less) appointment…which is ALL the time. We can’t stand the receptionists there…..at least the doctors are good and we don’t have to pay copay ever since that practice is an off-site clinic associated to the hospital where we work.
She is currently sick from her second viral illness. She had roseola a month ago. This time, it’s just a nasty cold she caught from Papa and Tyler. Lots of boogers, post-nasal drip and cough. I am usually reluctant to give meds other than tylenol and ibuprofen at her age, but I had to give her some benadryl to dry her up a little since she kept choking on her boogers when she lay derown. She LOVES that stuff…..slurped it all up. She made is seem so enjoyable that Tyler kneeled next to her and asked, “I want some?” She was up at 1 AM, happy as a clam, after the benadryl last night. Darn…I have one of those kids who turn hyper with benadryl.
Keira has a big time attitude. In Taiwanese, we call girls like her, “Cha Tza-Boh”…meaning fiesty or even biotchy. When she gets annoyed, you will know it. She screams in your face and wipes everything in her reach off the table. She started throwing tantrums at 8 months…throwing herself backwards and screaming. It’s fun times. Between her and Mr. Drama King, there are a lot of fake tears in this house.
First train ride:
Pulling up
Failing to scale the ottomans
Our little pianist
Best buds:
Holding hands in the car
Acting as Tyler’s watch out woman (T is ALWAYS in her jumperoo)
“Who gave you those horrific Thomas PJ’s?” (wasn’t mama or Papa)
Sharing…sort of
(just wanted to say that the plaid thing is not our sofa pattern. Our sofa is actually nice…but it’s fabric…which is why the plaid sheet is on it)
