Conversations with Kirra

Shawn had just taken the garbage out and put in a new bag when he noticed that Kirra was tugging on the bag.

Shawn: What are you doing?
Kirra: Just checking.
Shawn: Just checking what?
Kirra: To make sure it's a Glad Forceflex bag.
Shawn: How do you know that?
Kirra: I saw it on a commercial.



(Please just know that Kirra does not watch that much TV, we are pretty sure she has a photographic memory and can recall just about everything she sees. She still talks about things that we did before she turned 2.)

Kirra

Yesterday I am at Sam's Club with Kirra. We are in the pet isle getting rawhides for Toby and I am turning the cart around. Here is our conversation:

Me: Looks like we don't need anything else from this isle.
Kirra: We don't need cat food anymore do we?
Me: Nope, we don't
Kirra: 'Cause we ran all out of Kitty huh mom.

I love how her little mind thinks.

Update

Okay, so I was going back thru all my old posts, tagging everything so it would be organized and I realized that I really suck at this posting thing. Thanks to all who have stuck by my side as I muddled my way thru the past two years.

So, best news first. Shawn has finished the semester and if all goes according to plan, he will graduate with a Bachelors in Criminal Justice next December! The end is in site!

Thanksgiving was spent a little differently. Due to scheduling difficulties on my part, we were not able to spend it together. The kids and I flew to my parents house while Shawn stayed home with his family. I forgot the camera, so as soon as I can get my parents and my sister to send me pictures I will post them. We got their a couple of days before everyone else, so the kids got some great time alone with their grandparents. Kirra has decided that she is going to marry Grandpa B because he's such a good husband to Grandma B "'cause he gives her lots of sparkles and I like sparkles."

The kids were able to meet their cousins for the first time since my older sister and her family drove up. Their oldest is Magnolia (7), Donovan (2), Juniper (9 mo.). Kirra and Magnolia hit it off right away and the only time we could get them to leave eachother alone was at bed time. Since Juniper and Collin are only two months apart, they played really well together until Juniper decided that she wanted Collin's Binky (which was usually in his mouth), then he would get mad and wander away. Poor Donovan went between the two groups. He would try to hang out with the older girls, but when they were sick of him, he would come and play with the babies.

At the first of November, our beloved dog Andrew passed away. This was really hard on us, since we had had him for so long. I bought him for Shawn for our First Anniversary, and he has been a wonderful addition to our family. He was a wonderful protector and cuddler.

Since Andy was the only dog that Kirra has had, she took his death really hard. It still makes her tear up when she talks about him dying, so now she has come up with a way to deal with his death. She has decided that he just faded away. She will tell people that her Andrew was old and he just faded away. Since we feel that it is necessary for all children to have a pet, we got another dog less than a week after his passing. THIS WAS NOT MY IDEA. I wanted to wait and greave, but Shawn and Kirra were lost without a dog.

So, meet Toby.




I found him on the KSL ads. He was with a family in American Fork, who due to health issues couldn't take care of him. He's 6 months old and 60 lbs. already. He is one of the most cuddly dogs I have ever met and he really doesn't act like a puppy (to much of the time!).

Okay, I think that's enough for this post.

The past week

Last Thursday morning as we were getting the kids ready for school, Kirra started to complain that her legs were hurting. Since she's been eating like a horse, I just chalked it up to growing pains and gave her a dose of Tylenol. I guess it got progressively worse though out the day, since when I went to pick them up, Kirra wouldn't even come up the stairs and was sobbing. Teresa said that Kirra wouldn't play unless she could do it sitting or laying down and really hadn't moved all day. She cried as we carried her out to the car 'cause she couldn't even walk. By that night, she would cry in pain if a blanket touched her legs. On Friday, she was a little better if I kept up with the Tylenol/Motrin every 4 hours, but even then she could only hobble around and it got worse at night (as every illness does!).

On Saturday, I finally took her into Urgent Care to see what was wrong, and the doc said that it was an upper respiratory infection that was causing the leg pain. Gave her a shot of antibiotics to clear it up and she said that she felt better that afternoon, but she still wouldn't walk around. So, now it's Sunday and 24 hours after the antibiotics and she STILL isn't better, so I finally cave in and we take her down to Primary Children's Emergency Room. I have to carry her in 'cause she still wont walk, but she's being really good. It's only 20 minutes or so before they get us into a room and Kirra's sitting on the bed with me reading stories, while Shawn and his dad sit in the chairs.

About 20 minutes or so after we get into the room, Kirra starts crawling on the bed, then the nurse practitioner comes in and checks her out and does all sorts of contortionist moves with Kirra's legs and she just lays there. The legs aren't really hurting now mommy. After the NP leaves to go get the doctor, Kirra decides she wants to try standing, since she really hasn't done much of it the past few days. So I stand her up in between my legs for support and she decides to walk to Shawn and Grandpa. After she goes between us a couple of times, she discovers that her slippers slide on the tile floor. "Look mom, I can ice skate!!" Right as the doctor walks into the room. Can I tell you how hard it is to tell a doctor that your child has been crying in pain from her legs while said child is 'ice skating' across the floor?

Needless to say, she got all better in the Emergency Room. Why do they wait until you are in the Emergency Room to get all better?

Now Shawn has what ever virus Kirra had and has been sitting in pain in the bathtub and on the bed. He gets to go to the doctor tomorrow 'cause now the pain is in his arms, so we will see if this is even the same thing.

Conversations with Kirra

Mom: It's time for bed, don't you have an off switch?
Kirra: No, (Sigh) Heavenly Father didn't give me one. I only have ON. He ran out, so I went to the switch store and tooked him more switches.

A couple of weeks ago:

Kirra: Mom, Jesus made the sun.
Mom: Yes he did. Do you know why?
Kirra: He looked out his front door and it was dark so he made the sun so he could see, huh mom.

Big Girls

As Kirra was doing her usual dragging of her feet to get into bed, I tell her that she needs to sleep so she can grow up to be a big girl. This comment has her dissolving into tears and when I finally get her calm enough to talk she tells me "I don't want to grow up" and when I ask her why, she says "'cause then I wont be your little girl anymore".

How do you tell a 3 year old that no matter how big they are, they will always be your little girl?

Kirra's Birthday

So, Kirra's Birthday was on Saturday the 21st. She is now 3 years old!! I can't believe that 3 years have passed. We couldn't imagine our lives without our funny girl. Here are some pictures of the weekend. We had to do it that way since family couldn't make it on Saturday, so Kirra got to have a birthday weekend.


So proud of being 3!


Getting to blow out the candles.


Good Party!

Kirra

So, I have been going through old pictures, trying to get everthing as organized as I can. I found this picture of me..



Then we have this picture of Kirra. Do you think she's mine?

The day my heart stopped

So, yesterday Shawn and I survived every parents worst nightmare. Kirra disappeared and we couldn't find her.

I was standing at the door to the garage telling Shawn something when I realized that Kirra was being way to quiet, which we all know means that they are doing something that they shouldn't be. Then I hear a door open and shut, so I start doing the search of all the favorite places to hide. Ten minutes later, I still can't find her and I realize that the front door is unlocked. Then your heart stops. Is this the door I heard open and shut? I run out to the garage to tell Shawn that I can't find her. Shawn runs in and we do another search of the house and then he takes off in the car to see if she is taking a walk around the block. Which leaves me to make the hardest phone call, calling the police to tell them that my child is missing.

After I hang up, I fall to the floor, I just can't stand up any more and I sobbed and I prayed and I prayed. About five minutes later, I hear the light in the stairwell being turned off and on, I look down the stairs and there is Kirra playing with the light switch. I run down and grab her and call the police to let them know that I found her and she's okay. Shawn of course didn't take his cell phone with him as he's driving around the neighborhood, so I just sat there and held Kirra tight until he came home.

We probably looked like some cliche out of a movie, but we both just sat on the floor and hugged her and cried. She's looking at us like we are crazy and then asks why we are sad. She thought that we were mad at her and so she hid really good huh? She still wont tell us where she was hiding.

All that and I STILL didn't go into labor! Shawn said that was his second thought after I told him I couldn't find Kirra. "Please don't let my wife go into labor while our daughter is missing."

Monkey

So, on Saturday, my SIL and MIL and I decided to take Kirra to climb a rock wall 'cause she has now discovered how to climb up the refrigerator and sit on top of it. Let me tell you what a shock it is to see your extremely proud Two and a half year old sitting on the fridge. So, at this really cool place called Momentum, they strapped Kirra in a harness and let her go at it on a 40 foot wall. She got to about 15 feet by herself before I think she got a little freaked out by the height.



So, here she is with her Aunt Kim after she's all strapped in ready to go.



Here's Grandma helping her get her footing.



This is about the highest that she got.

So, for Christmas this year, we are building an 8 foot rock wall in the basement to give my little monkey something to climb on without having to drive all the way to Sandy to do it. Shawn is building it with commercial grade stuff, so as she grows, we can make a bigger wall. I think the plan is to eventually clean out the 3rd bay in the garage and put the rock wall up the one side. That would give her at least 20 feet.

Halloween

I know it's a little late, but here are some pictures from Halloween. Kirra was Minnie Mouse and called it "tricker tower". She loves watching Mickey Mouse and they have an episode called "Trick-or-Treat Tower", so she just shortened it.







You can almost see how big my stomach is in the last picture. I will try and post some more as soon as I get more pictures!

First joke

So, we were driving around trying to get Kirra to go to sleep when she lets out a really loud burp. I turn around and say "What do we say when we burp?", she looks at me and says "Excuse the pig!"

I know that this is something that Shawn and I haven't taught her. I have a strange feeling that her Uncle B had something to do with it. Like he did when she started picking her nose. I'm just waiting for him to have kids so I can return the favors.

Kirra

So, I got to do some updating today due to the fact that Kirra is taking a marrathon nap. She has now been asleep for 4 hours!! I got the basement partially cleaned out, my car loaded with stuff to take to the DI, the baby's room cleaned out a little bit more and a couple loads of laundry done.

Also, we think we have a name for the baby. It's the only name that Kirra hasn't vetoed even though she insists that she still will call him brothery. She keeps wanting to know when he's going to come out and play with her. She says she needs to know so she can "teach" him.

Good News!!

Kirra is Potty Trained!! Woohoo!! No more diapers! She only took 3 days and we have been accident free since Friday morning. We did have one accident on Saturday, but I don't count that as we were in the bathroom taking off her panties when it happened. We just didn't do it quick enough. She is so proud of her self and cheers after evertime. It's so cute!

Sleeping

Last night, I kept Kirra up a little late. Shawn was supposed to be home by nine and he hadn't seen her all day. Well, he called and said he was going to be late, so I got Kirra to bed an hour late. She climbed out of bed and brought her pillow to me and wanted to cuddle. We went back to her room and cuddled on the rocking chair for a few minutes and then she went back to bed. I could hear her talking to herself, but nothing unusual. Then Shawn comes home at about 10:15 and asks why Kirra is asleep under the table. What?! That's not where I left her! She must not have wanted to stay in her bed because she crawled out of bed with her pillow and three blankets and made a bed under the coffee table in the front room and crashed.

Kid's say the darndest things!

The other night Shawn and I were sitting on the bed watching 'So you think you can Dance' and Kirra kept coming up to dance on the bed. She loves to just be in a diaper and tell us she is going to "shake her booty!" She makes us laugh so hard some times. So, anyway, I pulled her in front of me and I look her in the eye and tell her she is the light of our lives and she looks right back at me and says "Light is good, it's dark outside!"


So I am here at work thinking about it and it makes me laugh, but it also makes me think. We (adults) so often forget how close our little children are to their Heavenly Father. This world is so dark and sad sometimes that we forget to look at the light. I am amazed that it took a two year old in a diaper to remind me that "Light is good".

Ohh... it's so bright!

She woke up, looked outside and said, "Dad it's bright...I need sun glasses. Where are they? I don't know?" So after searching to find the glasses she is so happy go lucky!!

Check out the last picture, it looks like a drunken Paris Hilton mug shot or something! Ha, made me laugh!

Mittens

She said her feet were cold, so I asked if she wanted some socks put on them? ...she said "no, I put mittens on feet...warm"

The Monkey

So, Kirra this morning decided that she would climb up our furniture. Shawn had just gone to the bathroom and heard her doing something. When he came out, there she was, on top of our dresser as proud as she could be.

Then, Shawn followed her as she dragged the laundry basket into the kitchen to try and climb the kitchen cabinets.

It amazes me at all the things that this child will try to climb!