My Pregnancy Journal: Kalia : 20 months

More craziness over these past two weeks! Kalia :

likes to pick up sticks and break them into pieces. She likes to run with them, so I started breaking them up to be really small so that if she falls, she doesn't hurt herself. Now she thinks snapping them is a fun game.
walked .95 miles with Mommy to go get my car from getting it's oil changed. She refused to get into the stroller and kept saying "D-ya WALK, all-DONE stroller" until we were almost there. We walked really slowly, but it was still a lot for her!
caught what I think was the norovirus the day we went for the long walk. She got home and slept for a few hours, and then woke up screaming crying, and when I ran into her room, there were PILES of puke everywhere. I thought I had just over-heated her. She puked pretty much non-stop from 430-930. We'd get her to sleep, and she'd wake up and puke.
The next morning she woke up without a fever and kept down some cheerios and water, so we headed up to the panhandle to visit with her Great Granny (and Granny and Grandpa too!). She didn't throw up the entire way there and even slept for 30 mins of the trip (which was a small victory, even if the car ride was 7+ hours!). She ate a little bit and drank some, so we thought it was just the over heat thing and she was fine. Then she spiked 103 fever after we got there and started going out the other end, even to the point that she went and slept in it and we had to wake her up to change her :-(. It lasted a few days, and then she over it. She still played a ton while she was sick, she just got sort of sedate at times and didn't eat much. I think it was the norovirus because...
was very generous with her virus and gave it to her Daddy, Granny, Grandpa, Great Granny, and also our friends Lindsay, Jamie, Kenley, William, and Truitt, who were taking care of Kodi while we were gone. Yep, my name was off that list. I took emergenC and prayed a lot!! Someone had to take care of everyone else!! Kalia's poor Granny was sick taking care of Kalia's Great Granny getting sick. Kalia says she's so sorry!!!
cut in three new teeth (her canine's) while she was sick at Granny's house. Poor girl, when it rains, it pours!
does not like puppies. Debra (Granny's neighbor) has a little lab puppy and a 6 month old mix puppy that we got to play with while we were there. She says "oh no Puppy!!" for the puppy, and then doesn't stop talking about Murphy (the bigger pup!). She thought the little puppy was too much with all the excitement and jumping. She's used to being in charge on the dog front!
started going down slides all by herself. She gets so proud of herself at the bottom! Sometimes she's a little scared, and certain shoes can trip her up, but she does pretty well for the most part! Now if I could just get her to stop thinking it's fun to jump off the 10 ft high drops in the playground, I could let her run around all by herself!
loves loves loves to climb. On anything and everything. I meant to write this in the last post, but she's started climbing on the ottomans and furniture. I was cooking dinner one night, and hear a little sweet voice saying "Hi Mommy!!" and I walk away from the stove to see Kalia standing on the little ottoman stools in the living room, waving at me. It took me a second to understand why in the world she was 5 ft tall. She thought it was hilarious. I actually had to let her fall off her ottoman in her room (I just walked away when she started climbing) because she won't listen to "no climb". Now she says "No Climb, OUCHIES!" to the ottoman in her room.
loves to climb steps and little rock wall thingies at the playground. We count the steps as we go. She'll go up a few by herself and count them all by herself too...it's cute!
had Blake Harvey over for another playdate and didn't want to share any of her toys with him. She is kind of obsessed with her karaoke machine, and Blake loved the microphone. I told Kalia she needed to share with Blake, and she turned and told Blake "share!" and then sat on Erin's lap. I think she was telling Blake if she had to share her toys, he had to share his - his Mommy!
has little pretend conversations with her dollies and babies all the time.
is still working on jumping, she likes to practice a lot!
is still taking off her diaper and clothes if we don't have the zip up and button ones on her in the crib (picture below!).
had Ashleigh and JB over for a playdate, and won't stop talking about "JB'd". While JB was here though, she kept calling him Murphy!

Onto the fun part!!

"Hey Mommy!! I'm jumping!!"

I tried to not put her in her zip up jammers, and heard her saying "night night", and came into this...

"Excuse me, can I help you? I'm busy going night night with Violet!"

"What Mommy? I'm sharing with Blake, I just have to show him how this works!"

Giving Blake hugs...

...and then going in for the choker hug. What can I say? The girl is an aggressive lover!

Taking pictures before heading to the zoo. She HAD to have on all of her beads! She's getting pretty heavy by the way, it's getting increasingly harder to hold her and pose for pictures!

Giving her Daddy kisses...so sweet!

Before church! Kalia's showing off her pretty dress that her Great Granny got her for Christmas!

The only real way I know she's teething anymore - she chomps on her fingers like crazy. Not suck, chomps! They come out looking horrible!

At the playground in Niceville! This was after she broke her fever, but you can still tell she's pretty exhausted from it - she zoned all over the place!

Slides all by herself!

She wasn't sure how to do the tunnel slide, and decided it was just easiest to go head down. So silly!

She LOVES turning wheels too!

She wasn't so sure about this little pink car this time around. She wanted to get in it, but only for a few mins before it was "alllll done!!!".

This little smirk just cracked me up!

Kalia told me I had to go down the slides too. She said "Mommy do it" and pointed to the one slide and "D-ya do it" and pointed to the other slide. I think I could've just laid down on mine and been at the bottom!