Happy 33 week Birthday Kalia!

This week, Kalia :

• is trying to stand without holding on.  So far she can do it for about 2 seconds without falling, and does it all on her own.  She'll pull herself up on one of her toys...even the little ones...and then take one hand off of the toy, then try to take the other hand off of the toy, stand for her 2 seconds, fall, and then repeat the cycle.  She tumbled and rolled about 6 feet hard one day, all the way to the glass slider, turned herself over, and crawled right back to the toy she was playing with.  She's tough!
• bumps her head a lot on things from doing the above and because she pulls herself up on everything, and doesn't necessarily look for handles or anything else sticking out above her head.
• loved her avocado, banana, and apple mixture that her Daddy made for her!
• did not love her mashed potatoes, but didn't hate them either.  I'd give her a big bite of potatoes and put a little bit of her fruit mixture on the edge and she'd eat it that way.
• fake teethed pretty badly all week.  She was up every 4 hours from the Tylenol...rough nights!
• had a play date with 5 other little babies ranging from one boy being 4 days younger than her to 22 months.  She did so amazing there!  She crawled all around, pulled herself up on everything, played with the other little ones, smiled, laughed, 'talked', and was so happy.  After 2+ hours of solid playing, I got her in the car and she passed out on the way home (40 minutes).  When we got home, I nursed her, then she went back to sleep for another almost 2 hours!
• has added giving Kodi a treat every night to her nightly bedtime routine.  She's actually has semi stopped trying to put his treat in her mouth and holds out her hand to give it to him now.  So cute!  Kodi tries to hang out in her room now until it's time to put her in her crib.
• likes to play fetch.  I know this sounds horrible, but, well, it is what it is!  She likes to go after Kodi's soccer ball, and I kick it away from her and she thinks it's great fun to go get it, and then repeat the process.  Kodi has one soccer ball that's seen better days that he just chews on and he plays come and get it with her.  He'll chew on it, and if she gets close, move about 3 feet away and then lay down and start again, and they repeat this for quite some time.  He is great at wearing her out!
• thinks drinking milk from a sippy cup is disgusting.  She wants it straight from the source, nothing artificial please.  Water, okay...milk, not so much.
• went to the beach on Sunday and was not a fan of the sand.  She threw a fit when she crawled over to it!  I think she was expecting it to be grass or dirt, and she happily crawled as fast as she could off of our sheet and towel, got to the sand, held her hand up and screamed.  She liked the waves, and she liked it if I touched the water then touched her, but she also did not like actually being in the water.  She yelled loud and clear for me to get her outta there now!!  She loved playing with the water jug though.
• went to volleyball with us for the first time in a long time.  Nancy has been coming over while Kalia sleeps so we can get out and play, but she's out of town this month, so we just took Kalia with us.  We set her up in her pack n play with a ton of toys, and she did pretty well during the first game and a half.  She played, ate the top of the pack n play, and thought it was great fun to lick the netting and press her face completely against the side of it and watch us play.  She made a really cute cheerleader!  She pooped half way through the second game, and an older guy George that always watches our games picked her up to try to calm her down.  Kalia told him "I don't know you, get me my Mommy or Daddy NOW!!!!"  After Chris changed her diaper, she calmed down some for a little bit, but then decided she was just over the pack n play and wanted Mommy or Daddy back to play with her.  Asking her to self play at her age for over an hour is a little too long I think, especially past her bedtime (the game started at 630).  We definitely miss Nancy!!
• went on her first play date with just Daddy.  I had gotten a pretty bad migraine and was up getting sick all night Monday night, so Chris worked from home Tuesday morning and took Kalia down to "the power of play" at the library with one of my girlfriends (and Kalia's little friend Reese!).  He was the only Daddy there but said Kalia did really well and it was fun.  He thought it was really cute how much Kalia and Reese like each other.
• ate, and actually liked, her chicken, sweet potato, and apple mix her Daddy made for her.
• started chewing on her tongue.  She looks like a goof when she does it!
• loves to make a new noise which sounds like when you're inhaling really hard because something is about to take your breath away.  She might be doing it from us gasping so much at her when we think she's about to eat it.  She makes the noise when she's really excited though...so goofy!

I don't really plan to do this every week, but I needed another break this weekend, and I took off for an hour running after Kalia went to bed on Saturday.  I ran 7.17 miles in 60 minutes and 9 seconds.  Woot!

Kalia was so so impossible this week with her pictures.  She's gotten really really fast at transitioning herself to the crawling or standing position and refused to actually lay on the pillow for any length of time, and kept trying to crawl right off the chair.  I'm working on "stay."  So far, I'm failing!!