Life of a 3 month old

Kiera is full of energy and needs to be doing something non-stop. She is not big on naps so we have a packed day! The pictures show a few of her daily activities. (Today Kiera saw her very first movie in the movie theatre - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! She did very well and was either napping or watchin' the movie with us!)

Kiera enjoys tummy time and likes to kick her feet. She may be off and crawling before we know it...

She enjoys standing up on my tummy and wants to lean in for a kiss.

Daddy loves to read to Kiera to help her start her love of reading.








She loves to stand as you saw from my last blog. If it wasn't for her newbie legs I am sure that she would be standing all by herself!

With all that work we always need to take to pamper ourselves so we decided to paint our toenails. Girl time!

"Sitting is for babies....I wanna stand!"

Kiera has been doing this for about the past 3 weeks but we just finally got this on video a couple of nights ago. She loves standing up and doesn't really like laying down or sitting very much anymore - she is wanting to grow up WAY to fast!

Visiting Nana & Pop-pop

With us in Florida, it is WAY too close to Virigina to not visit the grandparents. My mom and dad just loved spending time with their first grandbaby and Kiera LOVED being pampered!

The great blowout of 2008

Kiera's ritual with going to the bathroom is to grunt, push and poop. It is quite humorous to us (we get a GREAT laugh out of this) so we try to get the ritual on video when we can. This time it backfired and the laugh was on us...or should I say the poop was on us. Take a look - we are still laughing about how well Kiera got us!

Happy Father's Day

For Paul's first Father's Day Kiera we took him out to dinner for a nice steak. We got Paul a couple of new pairs of dress pants and a whole box of cigars. Paul was excited about both but I think that he was a little more excited about the cigars because he left his whole collection in Seattle. This way he could enjoy the nice warm nights here in Florida with a book in one hand and a cigar in the other....

Paul is such a good daddy!!!

Like Mother Like Daughter

Now that Kiera has found her voice, she is definately using it. But with me as her mom - you knew that her voice was going to be one of the first things she was going to develop! I love to listen to her tell me her story!

The Diaper Escapade

Turns out Paul is a "baby whisperer" and tells us what Kiera is thinking...only problem is - the translation is in Spanish. Where is the SAP button when you need it?

Kiera's first Aquarium trip

We've decided while in Florida that we were going to try to do as many Floridian things as possible. One of those things was to see the different animals indigenous to the Florida area. We had great fun and Kiera LOVED looking at all the different animals. She would just watch them swim by her...SO CUTE!

Leavin' on a jet plane

6 suitcases, 3 carry-ons, 2 personal items and 1 stroller later we are ready to head out to Florida for Paul's intership. (Honestly, I never knew that we would actually fill all the luggage but we certainly did and actually had to leave some things behind. You never realize how hard it is to pack for 10 weeks until you have to do it!)

The travel was great and easy! Kiera is a master traveler - she was either asleep or just looking around taking in the sights of the airplane, airport or new city. Once we got into town we drove straight to our house and found that it was MEGA cute! Perfect for the 2-1/2 months we will be in town. We dropped off all our luggage and then headed straight to the store (you can see Kiera along for the ride in her Baby Bjorn). We stocked up the essentals - toilet paper, drinks, snacks etc and headed back to the house. We unpacked that same night and then put Kiera down to sleep. She took the new place quite comfortably.

coo-coo-ca-choo

Kiera is starting to get her voice and I thought that I would let you hear her story!

Smile and the whole world smiles with you....

The older she gets the cuter she gets! I still can't believe that she is really smiling back at her mama!

A few videos of our baby girl...