Another month has gone by in a hurry. Although I guess summer months tend to fly by anyway.
Keira seems to be growing and developing in leaps and bounds! She has 5 new teeth this month (for those of you who are counting that's 8 teeth in 6 weeks!!!). She has one more that is about to make an appearance over the next couple of days, then we should be in for a little break. The good thing is that this next tooth is her first canine tooth (one of the pointy ones - for those who haven't dealt with teething babies), and it doesn't seem to bother her very much. It's great to see the "old" Keira back to her eating ways :> Keira has also started to talk. She now has 4 words that she uses frequently - Daddy(her favourite word by far), Mom, hi, and go. This was also the month that Keira decided that she just might be able to sleep through the night again. One night she even went 10.5 hours straight for us!!! Usually it's about 7 hours with her requiring some sort of intervention, but I'll take that over the every three hours that it seemed to be a few short weeks ago.

Josh has been Josh. He's still quite busy enjoying all the sports that he can (which now include Frisbee - see photos), and his ability to communicate continues to improve daily. One of his biggest intellectual accomplishments - which we find amusing - is his desire to try and be sneaky with us. We see this when he wants to eat his toothpaste (yes, I know it's weird, but he likes the taste of the kids stuff). He'll pull a stool up to the counter to reach the toothpaste (this happens on the days where we've forgotten to put it up on a higher shelf). Inevitably by this point, either Kev or myself have walked in (either because we've heard the stool being moved, or because we don't hear a thing, and when you don't hear a thing in a house with a 2 year old boy, you know that trouble is soon to follow...). When Josh notices that we're standing there (because he's constantly watching over his shoulder as he unscrews the lid), he tells us that we should leave him alone and go down stairs to talk with mom/dad (which ever parent is not in the room). What he doesn't know how to do yet, is how to tell a white lie, because if we ask him why, he doesn't hesitate to tell us that he wants to eat the toothpaste :>

As a family we just embarked on our first camping trip to Sandbanks. It was great fun although bedtimes were quite the struggle. Both kids loved playing in the sand, but the water was a little cool for them as they are spoiled and are used to the 90 degree pool at the Baba and Papa's (Kev's parents).

Enjoy the pictures and the video

xoxo

JK(2)

A few of Keira's first words

July 2007