Happy 42 week Birthday Kalia!

I just did a double take when I typed that.  Hard to believe my baby girl is 10 weeks away from being a year old.  How time flies when we're having fun!

This week, Kalia :

• stayed sleeping through the night - yay!
• still hasn't found her magic window for going to sleep - boo!
• thoroughly enjoyed splashing in her pool all week long.  She made it down to the second step.  When her lips started turning blue, I decided we'd had enough most days!
• stood up by herself without pulling up on anything.  She looked like she was squatting and then she just popped up.  
• is standing quite a bit more.  Every time I say "yay Kalia!" though she looks at me and plops back down.  I've started just not saying anything and she stands for a good 30-45 seconds before grabbing onto something.
• does the sign language sign for more.  She has no earthly idea what it means though, she signs more for every single thing, and then sometimes pushes whatever it is she asked for more of away annoyed. 
• climbs.  She showed me the hard way - poor girl.  I grabbed a big bag of carrots from the fridge, and of course she was in it before I could slam it closed.  I put the carrots on the counter and turned around and she was literally standing IN the refrigerator.  I asked her how the heck she got in there and she turned to look at me and fell out, right onto her noggin.  It was her hardest spill so far.  She's tough though, nothing a little splashing in the pool didn't fix.   
• thinks it's hilarious to fake fall down in the bath tub.  She'll stand up, reach for us like she's ready to get out, and then plop down on her little butt and die laughing.  Such a goof!
• went for her first bike ride!  Kalia's Granny got me a bike carrier seat for my birthday, and Chris hooked it up on Sunday (after our awesome neighbors dropped off a bike - thanks Nancy and Bob!!).  Kalia absolutely loves it!  I had Chris take her on her first spin so I could video tape it - video coming soon!  We've gone for a bike ride every.single.day so far! 
• is not going to be toothless until she's 18 (she's still going to be bald until then though I think).  Her bottom two front teeth started cutting through her gums on Sunday night.  She woke up about 30 minutes after she went to bed screaming like her arm had gotten chopped off.  I went in there and she was shoving her hand into her mouth and screaming crying.   We gave her some advil and took her on another bike ride.  She had a rough time going to sleep Monday and Tuesday night too.
• played with Nancy on Monday night while Mommy and Daddy went to volleyball.  She's generally asleep by 730, but with her teething she just wasn't having any of it.  Nancy went and rescued her after we left and said she played great!  She did not, however, think too highly of Nancy trying to put her back to sleep when she started rubbing her eyes.  She doesn't think too highly of us trying to put her down either, haha, so it's nothing personal!  Thanks so much Nancy!

"Allright Mommy, here's the deal.  I'll smile for these pictures if you take me for another bike ride when we're done.  Otherwise, this is what you're getting!"

"And I'll smile bigger if you let me sit up like the big girl that I am instead of laying here like a little baby!"

"Wahoo...I'm a big girl!!!"

"And I get to go for a bike ride now!!  YAY!!!!"

 Bonus pictures and video coming shortly...