Tug-O-War

I keep trying to get a video of Kalianna and Kutse playing tug-o-war together, cause its so cute! But every time Kalianna sees the camera, she hams it up and she always comes towards me. But it turns out that is even cuter!! Make sure your sound is up for these, cause she gets excited when she notices me, and its really funny.

DONE!

I just finished writing my book. A book! I WROTE A BOOK! I feel so happy, ecstatic, stunned, amazed, exhilarated, nauseous, and giddy right now! I still have to go back and review and edit, which will take time. But I wrote a freaking book!!!

yay me :-)

10 Months!

The other day I was visiting teaching and the sister I visit said:

"I just got the roll for this next year, and I couldn't believe your daughter was on it!"

"Kalianna?"

"Yeah"

"No, she's not old enough...Holy cow! She WILL be in nursery this year!"

Crazy! Kalianna is now ten months old! She is crawling, and pulling herself up, and getting into everything...and I love it! Even though I would prefer her not to dump the dog's water all over the kitchen floor, or pull stuff out of the garbage cans, it is so fun to watch her explore! Its amazing to see things through her eyes and see them for the first time all over again. She loves to try new foods, chase the dogs, dance, listen to music, talk, and follow mommy around the house. She starts out shy, but once she's comfortable somewhere, she will jabber nonstop! She is so much fun! Sometimes when she is taking a longer nap, I just want to wake her up cause its too quiet and I miss her! (I don't though)

Trying to get a picture of her next to the bear is a lot more difficult now that she's mobile! These were the best 3

Christa

Christa is one of the girls I was a nanny for back in Virginia. She is in Utah for a little while and I was able to spend the afternoon with her today. It was so much fun!! We went to lunch and then she came over to my house and met Matt, Kalianna, Sobaka, and Kutse, all for the first time. We just hung out and talked all afternoon. It was so awesome to see her again and visit! She was ten last time I saw her and now she's fifteen, so we had quite a bit of catching up to do!

Lame

This morning Sobaka and Kutse had their annual check-up/teeth cleaning. The vet called a couple hours later to inform us that Sobaka had two broken teeth. His big molars in the back, one on each side. They had chipped from chewing on something hard (I'll get to that in a second) and the roots were starting to rot. So they had to be pulled before infection set in and things ended up much worse. My poor baby! An hour later we got another call. Kutse had a chipped tooth as well. One of her big molars in the back. It was starting to rot and had to be pulled. The molar on her other side had a tiny chip too and will probably have to be removed eventually, but it wasn't severe yet. So both of my furry babies are super sore, can only eat soft food for the next two weeks, and have to be on pain killers and antibiotics for a couple weeks as well. The culprit: hooves. Hooves that we bought them for Christmas. Hooves that they sell in every pet store across America, including Petsmart. The same Petsmart that owns the vet clinic where we bring our dogs. Someone explain to me why the H-E-Hockey stick-Hockey stick they sell treats for dogs that dogs are not supposed to have?!? Not only are they bad for dogs (health wise), but they can seriously harm them! Now my poor babies can never have bones, or any other hard treats ever again, because they don't have the teeth to chew on them! The total from todays "adventures": $842.46. There goes our tax return for this year...

Big Girl

Every day Kalianna is becoming more like a little girl and less of a baby! Yesterday morning before church, she pulled herself up to standing for the first time! And I was lucky enough to be sitting right next to her so I yelled to Matt to grab the camera. She has also learned that a camera means its time to smile. She's such a little show-off! :)

Cutie Pie

These are some cute pictures we've taken lately of Kalianna that I just had to share!

Yes mommy, that flash is a little bright

Her first black eye =( After a fight with the headboard, and unfortunately the headboard won (it looked a lot worse, this is day 3)

She taught herself how to clap and does it all the time now

She loves playing with her bath toys, whether she is in the tub or not!

Kalianna loves her new toothbrush!