Kira did NOT win the baby derby.

This morning I found out that there was a Baby Bonanza happening near my house. I found the website and looked at the calendar of events and saw that they were doing baby races. I knew Kira was a super fast crawler, so I got her ready quickly, drove to the Baby Bonanza, and signed her up for a race.

There were eight lanes, about 20 feet long. The other babies were mostly older than Kira, but if a baby could walk, they couldn't be in the crawling race. About 100 people surrounded the track, anxious to see who would win.

I intended to record the race with our camera, but I had to choose to either focus my energy on recording or on helping Kira win. So that's why there's no video for this.

When they blew the starting whistle, I released Kira and ran to the other side to beckon her. Two babies started crying at the sound of the whistle. Two others just sat there in a daze. A couple other babies started slowly but surely crawling toward their parent at the finish line. Kira looked around for about five seconds, then saw my cell phone, flipped open and lit up, at the finish line. She grinned, screamed, and started crawling as fast as she could. She caught up with the leading baby a bit past the midway point on the track.

Then Kira noticed the leading baby. She screamed and zoomed over to her. The leading baby sat back on her butt, and Kira got on her knees and put her hands on the baby's shoulders and bounced a few times with a big smile on her face. I thought for sure I'd have to pull Kira off of her, because Kira tends to pull hair and bite. But the baby got away and started crawling again. So Kira moved to the next lane, where another slow baby was crawling by. She pushed that baby back onto her butt, and I did have to rescue her from Kira. I didn't want to cheat, though, so I put Kira closer to the start line in her lane.

Right around that time, the first baby Kira encountered won the race. So even though Kira was the fastest baby, she was also the most social and didn't make it to the finish line first.

I did record Kira playing with the brother of the winning baby after the race. He was used to playing with babies and was a good sport about it.

Eating and the playground

Kira has tried three foods so far, and only one of them works well for her: bananas. I gave her the food dish after I fed her last time. Not much got in her mouth, but she was happy.





Yesterday the weather was gorgeous, so we took a walk to the playground. There is a newish enclosed toddler play area at a nearby park that has a cushioned rubber surface. I let Kira crawl around there, thinking she would want to check out the playground equipment. In actuality, she spent 99% of the time crawling from leaf to leaf to piece of mulch/dirt on the ground, and I just followed her around trying to get the debris from her before it made it to her mouth. A good time was had by all.




I have more pictures and video that I'm still working on uploading.

It's been too long!

I've been blogger-MIA lately, and I apologize for that. Nothing will kill a blog like not posting on it!

While I'm thinking about it, I want to thank those who have commented. Its nice to hear from you, and I love the feedback, too. If you have your own blog that I'm not already following, I'd appreciate it if you could comment so I could read your blog as well.

Kira is crawling faster and faster. She doesn't take many rests on her belly anymore; who has time for that, really? ;) I think I'm seeing her thin out because of how active she is these days. She will literally crawl around or stand/cruise on furniture for an hour or two or three at a time. I don't know how she does it. With all of this mobility comes more frequent falls. About twice a day I'll have to pick her up to calm her for a minute after she bonks her head on the floor, a toy, furniture, anything. But she's okay within a minute. She's tough, and she's a risk-taker.

Without further adieu, here are some pics of Kira from the weekend. I have a few others and some videos I have to sift through. When I'm looking at 100+ pics and at least a half dozen videos every week, its difficult to choose which ones to post.

Playing with her daddy early one morning




This picture makes me think of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer is wearing the rainbow coat from Joseph's Technicolor Dreamcoat.


Pigtails! I've been having fun playing with Kira's hair sometimes, but I have to be quick about it. Patience is NOT one of Kira's virtues. Notice the bruise on her forehead. Its probably from falling on something; I'm not sure.