Monkeys quick update

Kiana is doing ok. She is still a little behing in her language and some other areas but considering she's doing really well. She seems to enjoy torchering her sister and every one else around. She loves her dog and is always giving her hugs. This coming year we have appointments with both a Ped. Neurologist and opthomlogist. I'm also trying to set up an appointment with a cardiologist to make sure her heart murmur is not serious. Kiana still loves her trains and cars as well as anything else that has wheels that make it go.

Tia-Kiana's service dog

I know it's been over a month since i've last blogged about either of the girls.
Kiana is doing great and is loving school and her teachers love her. This past week we decided to get her a dog to train as a service dog for her to help with her independence and not wanting to be held all the time in large groups of people. Unfortunitly we've won't get to pick up Tia until monday so the only time that Kiana gets to see her pup is on days that we drive the 45 mins up to the animal shelter so that Kiana and Tia can Play together.

This is Kiana with Tia at the animal shelter where we got Tia. This is one of the only dogs that she isn't completely terrified of and both of them are so cute together.Kiana is very excited about her puppy and talks about her all the time.

Nap time?

I know I'm horrible at updating anyway, the other day I put kiana down for a nap and forgot to turn on the baby monitor so I could hear what she was really doing. Well while little miss monkey trouble was supposed to be napping she took her sisters baby Pictures off the wall and took a Part the frame luckily she didn't break the glass on this frame but then she took apart the frame that had her class picture in it and took it apart and shattered the glass all Over her bed and her side of our room. Luckily she only got a small cut on the top Of her foot during this little escapade and hasn't messed with the pictures since(so far anyways) on another note she is doing really well in school and loves riding the bus to and from school.

My little monkey

Kiana is still way behind with her social and communication skills however she has really done so well with her motorskills. She loves riding her bike and just about anything that she can do with her sister without actually having to play with her. I have taken kiana off of the gluten/casin free diet to see how much of an affect it was really having on her and will definitely be putting her back on that diet in a few days. Since taking her off she has gone back to not making eye contact with anyone and has the worst tantrums ever and is also violent towards everyone. Kiana will be attending preschool again this year at either mutual elem, Calver elem, or Calvert country(which is a special needs school for children with sever handicaps as well as behavioral problems.) I'm still waiting to hear back from the school board to find out for sure where she will be attending. Since summer has started again kiana's massive nose bleeds are back and of cours until I figure out how to acquire another set of "cars" sheets I am unable to wash her bedding with out a total break down from her. Kiana loves to sing and has memorized "you r so beautiful" from little rascals and parts of all the songs from "Annie" she is getting to be such a big girl and I miss my baby. She is also talking more and more but most of it still needs a translator to be understood. I am happy with the progress that she has made in the last year while at oakridge elementary and am anxious to see how much of an improvement she will make at which ever scho she goes to this fall.

Monkey

Kiana is doing ok. She has been off the gluten free diet for a couple of weeks because I ran out of our food stamps and what I had bought she managed to eat in about three days (now I have to keep everything locked away so she can't do that anymore). She currently has pink eye and looks miserable but acts like she always does. Since she's been off her special diet I've noticed that she has become more aggressive again and freaks out easier if her routine changes in the least little bit. She still loves her cars and trains and anything else that has wheels on it. She also constantly repeats herself and is still putting everything in her mouth.(we had a close call on Sunday at church.) she also stated sucking on her fingers so she still has binky that is around in case she needs something to chew or suck on that isn't a choking hazard. Kiana likes for everything to go her way and gets really aggressive when it doesn't.

Quick update.

Kiana is doing ok. She has started acting up again since she's eating more of the foods that have gluten and dairy in them. So we will completely take her off of these things as soon as I get more food stamps and I might make it a family thing so I don't have to worry about her wanting what me and Aelita are eating. She has finished preschool for the year and did great in the little program that they did for the parents. (I'd post pics but Aelita deleted all of them from the iPod).

Build a bear

Today after work I took the girls to build a bear in the university mall and Kiana had lots of fun. I let the girls pick out their bears( I limited them to no more than $15) of course she picked the little blue bear and she helped stuff it and "bath" it. Then she was able to pick out one outfit so what does she pick out? Of course she runs all over the store and looks at everything they have and finally decides on a cars outfit. After all is said and done we buy her stuff and register her bear and she named him Aaron after her nursery leader Erin whom she loves.

Kiana the curious little monkey.

Kiana is quite the little monkey and loves to climb on anything and everything. Kiana is almost done with school for the summer and I am trying to get her there as often as I can. She loves going to church and loves seein Erin and her husband Chance or chonce as she days it. Every time someone knocks on our door or rings the bell she says"my Erin". She also loves to ride her bike and anything else that involves being outside. On to the climbing issue kiana has started climbing up the cabinets to get to the snacks that I tried to put up out of her reach. She has also started climbing all over the inside of the bus when ever she can.

My beautiful girl.

Kiana is growing so fast. She is now saying more words than I can count however more than half of those words are not really understandable unless you are around her alot and can figure out her language. She has also mastered riding her bike and really loves to go on bike rides and just being outside in general. She also really loves watching go Diego go and throws a fit anytime she doesn't get to watch right when she says she wants to watch it. Kiana also has a habit of throwing things to you rather than just handing them to you when you ask her to get something for you. She is such a sweet girl most of the time but definitly has her moments of being a little terror to everyone she is around.

Quick update on my little singing monkey

Kiana is now 39 months old and is developmentally about 19-20 months old. She is doing so well in her preschool though and everyone loves her. Her newest achievement is singing. She can sing so of the most random things at the most random times. Her favorite at the moment is to sing e-I-e-I-o especially in he middle of sacrament meeting. Some of her other favorites are the itsy bitsy spider, twinkle twinkle little star, and a song off of little rascles that were trying to figure out where she learned it since we don't have that movie. She is getting so big too she's catching up on her sister size wise. Kiana really loves her nursery leader Erin and her husband Chance and will literally jump out of your arms to get to Chance any time she can. I am so grateful to have her in my life. She is such a special little girl and has come so far from where she was just a few months ago.

Kiana, Kiana, Kiana

Kiana is Getting extremely stubborn now. I think she's finally hit the terrible twos well terrible 3s since shes now longer two. She also has started to not finish her food thanks to the wonderful example from kiona and quasey at the babysitters house. She is talking more and more every day though which can be bad or good depending on the day especially since since she's learned to say shutup which we are trying to break her of which means that mommy needs to stop saying it too. Kiana has also learned how to ride her bike and loves to be outside. She also really enjoys going to school and riding her bus.

Update on Ki

Kiana is finally feeling better. She has started wearing her glasses, but of course i can't find my camera at the moment and keep forgetting to take pictures with our i pod. She is talking more and more everyday and her speech is becoming more clear now.  She loves Chance and Erin from church and gets all excited when ever the door bell rings or some one knocks on the door saying "my Erin" and gets upset if it's not Erin at the door when i open it. She also loves to eat and will eat just about anything.

Sick baby

this past week has been hectic Kiana had a fever of 102 and was really miserable, and sleepy( the sleepy part i don't mind much, just the miserable part) The fever wouldn't go down no matter what we did. The fever started Sunday so on Monday i took her to see Dr. Glade and for once her ears were fine but her tonsils were swollen again. Tuesday she seemed to be doing a little better so i took her to brandy's house and went to work after dropping aelita off at school. After work on my way to school, brandy called and told me that Ki was starting to act sick again and that i needed to come pick her up(which just meant that my spring break at school started a bit early no big deal) from then on her fever would not go down below 101 even with piggybacking the children's Tylenol and Motrin so on Wednesday we spend the day at Provo instacare were Ki had blood drawn, a chest x-ray and a UA in order to check for pneumonia, a UTI and who knows why they took her blood she didn't seem to mind though. After all that we discover it is just tonsillitis which normally they don't treat but since she's had a fever that didn't go down even with medication they went ahead and gave her a shot of robaxin(i think) and now she's finally all better, although i really miss my cuddly baby.

update

Ok so i've been slacking on updating the girls blogs.
Kiana is doing well. She loves school and is talking more and more all the time. She also went to the eye doctors this month and found out that she has a stigmatizm in both eyes and will be wearing glasses. Today she had to get her MMR shot again because the stupid doc in Alabama didn't write a date on her record when they gave it to her the first time. I'm glad that she doesn't need anymore shots until she starts kindergarten. Kiana still has a short temper when she doesn't get what she wants when she wants it and loves go diego go and dora as well as chuggington. She is trying to say her abc's but it still comes out sounding like she is just repeating abc over and over again.  Kiana loves Nursery at church and the nursery leaders especially Erin.  She also really enjoys playing her preschool games on the ipod as well as playing with her trains and she'll occasionaly play with her babydoll that has jus been laying around for a really long time.

Kiana

Kiana is doing well. She started school in january and loves it. She was a little terrifed of the school bus at first but now she likes it. when i pick her up from the baby-sitters she always tells me i ride home bus mommy it's so cute and she is learning so much. i'm glad that we are were we have support from friends that love my girls as much as i do

December update for Ki

Kiana is doing well. She is on a gluten and casin free diet to try and help with some of the Autism behaviors and her life long diareahha issue. luckily it's been helping and its been almost 2 weeks since i've had to change a diarea diaper. Kiana will be starting school in january. She still has an ear infection and if it wasn't for her running a fever i would have never even known.  She has also started taking a little more since we've taken her off all milk and wheat products other than a few things that she manages to get into. She's still bad about hitting which we are now working on.