Ryan & Nikki: October 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Little Thoughts Through The Day

For some reason this year, I am getting really excited about the Holiday season. I want to decorate for Christmas already and I want to listen to Christmas music. I know I am crazy, but I am totally excited this year. We get to go down to San Diego for Thanksgiving this year and that will be nice. My side of the family has not seen Kiyah in almost a year. Most of them did not get a chance to see her when we went down in June. We are going to get to stay for over a week and we are flying this time. Hurray!!!!!! We will never want to go back to driving. An hour and 45 minutes versus a 12 hour drive split up going down and straight through coming back. Last year it tooks up 12 hours just to get to Cedar City!!! I love air travel.
Kiyah went into nursery this last week. She loved playing with the toys and all the kids. Poor thing though, she was so tired and started to get a fever, so she did not make it all the way through. It is going to be rough for the rest of the year with her. We have 1:00 church and that is her nap time. But next year we go to 9:00. Good for her, bad for us with a new born. Oh well. Life goes on.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

My Little Girl

Our baby girl is 18 months old. Off to NURSERY!!!!! Yeah! 4 months of freedom until the next crying child comes. Kiyah is doing so well. We had her 18 month check up this last week and her doctor said that he has never had a patient so welcome to strangers. But I am sure he says that about a lot of patients. Anyway, she did the cutest thing, one of those I wish I had a camera moments. We were waiting for him to come in after the nurse left and I handed her a tongue depressor to play with. She took it and walked over to the step to get on the exam table, sat down, and started filing her nails. What a GIRL!!!! It was so cute though. Then the doctor walked in and was surprised that she figured since it was the same shape it must be the same thing. He was even more surprised when she had her blood drawn to see if she was anemic, she did not cry once. She was content with the eraser soccer ball that he had just given her. What made it hard for me was that they had to do a finger stick test because they could not find a good vein in her arm. So they sat there squeezing the blood one drop at a time from her finger to fill up the tube. What a brave little girl. Other than that she is going great. She talks all the time and points out everything that she knows. She will see a tiny picture of a dog or a ball and she will point to it and say the word. She is growing up so fast. I miss the small stages, but I guess that is why you have more. Right?!?