Andrej, Jessica, Kaiya and Tobi

It is so hard to believe that our little baby is already over a year and a half old. She is growing up so fast and well on her way to the big 2! It was right at a year ago that I made my first contribution to our family website by writing, Kaiya at 6 Months. A lot has changed since then, but one thing remains the same, I have so much I want to document about Kaiya. In fact, this Kaiya update will need to be split into three separate posts because I can’t stop thinking of things I want to share. This post is a general update of Kaiya at 18 months and the following post is about the language explosion that happened just over the last month. The third post is found here, as I thought it would be best to backdate it to December when one of our scariest moments with Kaiya so far actually occurred; our little girl obtained a snaggle tooth. (Read more …)

Over the last month or so Kaiya’s vocabulary has really taken off. I don’t think I will be able to even list all of her new words because it seems like each day she says something new and then uses it over and over again. She also just recently started repeating a lot of what we say. It’s really cute as Andrej and I have a conversation and every couple of words Kaiya will repeat something that caught her ear. She has also started to put two words together and form somewhat of a sentence. Her latest was the other day when Andrej had finished changing her diaper and was getting her dressed. Kaiya looked up at him and exclaimed, “Pants, On!” Andrej and I were both amazed and praised her for creating a sentence, and then Andrej quickly got her pants on so she would know that we understand her. (Read more …)

Baby Ciho and I had our 24 week OB appointment today. Thankfully, I only added one pound to the massive amount of weight I gained before my appointment last month. I also measured exactly 24 weeks. Our doctor let Andrej and Kaiya use the wand to find the heartbeat. Kaiya grabbed the wand and turned it around and stuck it right on my belly as if she had done it a hundred times before. Thankfully she let Andrej operate it from there and it didn't take long before we heard the familiar whooshing noise. Baby Ciho's heart rate was around 148. It really is a beautiful sound. (Read more …)

You might have noticed that we moved our pictures to a new photo gallery. The one we've used until now has worked ok, but adding new pictures was a very time consuming process where it could easily take over an hour to add 40 pictures. With this new gallery, adding new pictures should be an easy process so you should see new pictures posted more frequently.

I wanted to ask that if you see something not work correctly that you let us know either by email, the contact form up at the top or just by commenting to this post. Thanks!