Kiana's World

chewbaca

2012-02-13T14:48:00.001-07:00

Kiana is constently chewing on everything and anything . She's four years old now and she still mouths everything. She's such a chewer that she has chewed the tips off of about 30 pacifiers at this point, so now i've gotten her some teeting rings that seem to be holding up to her so far. Kiana loves school and riding the bus. she still has her extream temper and would rather play by herself or be with mommy all day.

Monkeys quick update

2011-11-30T22:31:00.001-07:00

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

2011-10-26T20:50:00.000-06:00

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?

2011-09-22T01:51:00.001-06:00

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

2011-07-04T03:33:00.000-06:00

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

2011-06-13T21:45:00.000-06:00

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.

2011-06-01T22:16:00.000-06:00

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

2011-05-24T23:20:00.000-06:00

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.

2011-05-17T20:29:00.000-06:00

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.

2011-04-26T21:50:00.000-06:00

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

2011-04-18T22:28:00.000-06:00

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

2011-04-05T12:15:00.000-06:00

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

2011-03-28T16:56:00.000-06:00

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

2011-03-19T20:49:00.000-06:00

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

2011-03-07T21:57:00.000-07:00

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

2011-02-17T12:44:00.000-07:00

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

2011-01-02T14:45:00.000-07:00

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.

Quick Ki update

2010-12-12T18:53:00.000-07:00

Ki has had two ear infections in 10 days so has been pretty miserable. She also has a cold and fever. Ki loves to play with trains and cars. We're still working on some of her behavioral issues due to her autism but lately since she's been sick she's mostly been sleeping so no issues there. She is now seeing the early intervention people every week and a therapist every two weeks. next month they will be trying to get her into a special education preschool at the girls elementary school.

Autism

2010-11-04T21:49:00.000-06:00

Kiana is mildly autistic which i guess it's good that we found out now rather than when she's older and in school. She still isn't making eye contact with anyone and doesn't want to play with her sister or anyother children. Kiana is also still throwing the worst tantrums and gets very violent. She is also always banging her head into whatever she can find. We have found things that Kiana likes to do however, she loves to string beads on elastic cord and play with trains and cars. Kiana is also still on her pacifier however now its just used as a chew toy and to keep her from chewing on clothes and other toys like her cars and everything else she can find. to find out more about autism check out http://www.autismspeaks.org/ or http://www.autism-society.org/ or you could just google it too.

Another quick update on Ki

2010-10-03T09:30:00.000-06:00

We had another appointment with a therapist for Ki Friday and did another assessment and put in a referral so that she can be tested for autism. In the mean time she will be seeing a therapist to work on helping her with her aggression and to help her with boundaries. Kiana is still not talking understandably at least not much. She is also now on a gluten and casein(milk protein) free diet to see if it helps any with some of the issues that we've been having with her digestion. Kiana has also been throwing the worst temper tantrums ever lately. while at Aelita's school she tried to throw a chair at me because i wouldn't let her have any juice that the other kids were having for snack.

Quick update on Ki

2010-09-24T12:47:00.000-06:00

Today i called Kiana's pediatrician and she did a survey over the phone on kiana's progress and now they want me to take her to wasatch mental health to have her tested for Autism. so when i get out of school i have to call them and make an appointment to get the testing done.

2010-09-21T08:02:00.000-06:00

Kiana is doing well, she's still not talking much at all but we're working on it. she has an early intervention appointment on monday so we will see what happens. She has also started to get really fustrated and angry lately if you don't figure out what she wants and will throw everything too.

kianaisms

2010-07-25T22:29:00.000-06:00

every sunday when aelita goes to sit with another family in the ward kiana will look under pews and everywhere and say "dita go?"

she also now will run around the little island in the kitchen at meal time and make me chase her in order to put her in her booster chair.

she loves to throw rocks whether it be in the water or in the street

she loves to go for walks outside and help in our friends yards when they're pulling weeds and trimming trees and bushes.

Kiana also loves to wrestle and tends to bully her big sister.

she speaks some more

2010-07-17T16:20:00.000-06:00

Kiana has started talking more and more lately.
she can now say
"eeping" (sleeping)
dita(aelita)
sing the whole wonder pets song from nick jr.
ilk-milk
ink-drink
diaer-diaper
mine
pants
unkey-monkey
shoes
socks
uggy-doggy
ees-trees
ater-water
cup
no
on
more
nose
and a few more but of course i can't think of them at the moment and she's drinking her milk and watching wonderpets again so she won't help me out at the moment.

Kiana's New Haircut

2010-07-17T16:12:00.000-06:00

sorry it's a little dark but what do you expect from a phone with out a flash on it.

she looks really cute with her hair cut short and framing her chubby little face though.

photo update #3

2010-07-14T23:07:00.000-06:00

here are a few more pics from our trip to colorado

Kiana Throwing rocks into the creek

photo update #2

2010-07-13T10:43:00.001-06:00

photo update#1

2010-07-08T19:55:00.001-06:00

(Blowing dandilions at trout lake)

riding around Telluride, CO

Kiana update

2010-06-16T21:24:00.000-06:00

After starting Kiana on the formula that is made specificly for toddlers she is doing quite well she hasnt' had diareahha since she started drinking it and i'm gratefull. She has also started to talk more so here is a translataion of the words she says now: akie=blanket, ilk=milk, ink= drink, mommy, no, deta=Aelita, ocks =blocks, socks, shoe, and there are several other words that she can say now i just cant' seem to think of them at the moment.

another kiana update

2010-06-08T18:43:00.000-06:00

Kiana is finally back to her normal self again. she's still got slightly swollen tonsils but she's eating a bit better now and not sleeping all day long. She's also back to annoying the heck out of Aelita. She is on a toddler formula now to help with her anemia and it has also seemes to be helpping with her diarrhea which is a plus. The heart murmur isn't as noticable now either now that she's not so sick but it's still there.

update on Kiana

2010-06-05T16:32:00.000-06:00

Today Kiana is feeling a little bit better. This morning she woke up still feeling kind of yucky and drink some water a little too quickly. Anyway, apparently her swollen tonsils were also bleeding quite a bit because she ended up throwing up a lot of mucus and blood all over her blanket she also got a bloody nose in the middle of the night or early this morning. I'm really hoping that this is the end of her being sick for a while or she at least doesn't throw up anymore blood anytime soon. but now she's back to her almost normal self just a tad bit more whiny then normal.

Doctor appointment

2010-06-04T15:45:00.000-06:00

Today I had to take Kiana back to the doctor for a fever of 103.2 it turns out that she has a sore throat and has been sleeping all day long today and hasn't really be up at all for more then maybe 2mins at a time before she falls back to sleep she hasn't eaten anything other than a few pieces of toast at 940 and a few sips of water through out the day while she's been awake. hopefully this goes away soon and my baby will be back to her normal self again.

Kiana's GI appointment

2010-06-02T21:32:00.000-06:00

Today Kiana had her GI appointment in Salt Lake. It went pretty well and they pretty much said that she just has toddler diarreha and that i need to reduce the amound of fluids that she takes in and increase the amounts of fat and fiber that she takes in. so now i've but her on a toddler formula that she really likes and pedisure which she also likes and they include extra fiber and fats i've also got to make sure that i give her more fresh fruits and veggies.

Tomorrow

2010-06-01T12:06:00.000-06:00

Tomorrow is Kiana's GI Appointment and i'm terrified of what they could find out. I'm also nervous i've never had to have this kind of stuff done with either of the girls and it scares me. I just hope every thing goes ok and that she's fine. I'm really hoping that i just over reacting.

Should have Known

2010-05-26T17:19:00.000-06:00

I should have known it was too good to be true. Anyway in case you're wondering what i'm talking about, Ki's diarreha has returned and it's really getting fustrating. It also means that i have to go up to salt lake on my own to the pediatric GI specialist to see if maybe they can figure out what's going on with her and why she's not been able to have a solid bowel movement since starting on solid foods. I hate not knowing whats going on with her and not being able to fix it. i thougth the alinia had solved the problem but i guess not at least she got a three day reprive from the diarreha and we got a short reprive from the awful smell that came with it.

update on Kiana

2010-05-24T19:09:00.000-06:00

Kiana is doing a little bit better. She's on to a new phase in life that i never had to deal with with Aelita. Kiana has learned how to undress her self including the diaper and so it is difficult to keep her dressed and I've had to start putting her diapers on backwards to keep her from taking them off. She was also put on Alinia for 3 days for her diarrhea issues and is now eating a lot less then she normally does. i can't even get her to eat a full bowl of cereal anymore. Maybe that will change after the meds are out of her system and she'll start eating better again. if the diarrhea stays away i will be able to cancel her GI appointment which I'm hoping i will be able to because I'm terrified to have to do that on my own with no one to go with me.

really Kiana seriously

2010-05-22T10:10:00.002-06:00

Ok this morning kiana decided that it was time to wake up at 6am and pour Aelita's Cup of water all over mommy and the bed in order to wake up mommy, it was so cold so needless to say i was soaked this morning and had to wake up(me getting woken up is never a good idea though I'm usally pretty cranky) Luckly she finally went back to sleep and so did i but Aelita was up for the long haul today and i just put a movie on on the laptop and let her watch until the computer finally died

Doctor appointment

2010-05-20T22:40:00.000-06:00

Today i took kiana to the doctor's again. She has had diarrha since she started eating solid foods. well last night she had a little bit of blood mixed in as well so today i took her back to see dr. Glade who also happens to be a counselor in our stake presidency as well. anyway, he looked her over and ordered some more lab work and wants her to go see a pediatric Gastrointestinal specialist for some test. I just really hope that they can figure out what's going on with her and that it's nothing too serious.

Sleep

2010-05-08T20:23:00.000-06:00

For the past few nights kiana will NOT go to sleep for anything. When she does finally fall asleep she's up again in about 2 hours or so. It's getting so aggravating because after awhile she wakes up Aelita. She's also way more cranky during the day too and i have no idea why. She used to be such a happy baby and lately its like the terrible two have completely taken her over.

2010-05-07T21:13:00.000-06:00

Kiana is now 28 months old and a very happy baby for the most part, however she has started waking up in the middle of the night and is still not talking at the level she should be talking at. She also is starting to sign a little bit more and will get very fustrated if you don't figure out what she wants when she wants it. She has also started hitting aelita and thinks that it's funny.

signing

2010-04-30T23:09:00.000-06:00

The speech interventionist has been having us work with kiana on signing for things until she can speak and she has done pretty good she signs more and please almost all the time now. she still gets angry if she can't figure out how to do something and you show her how to do it. she also gets pretty upset if you try to throw things away for her and not let her do it.

Potty

2010-04-22T21:22:00.000-06:00

Kiana went pee on her little potty tonight !!!!!

I know i know its been a long time

2010-04-19T22:02:00.001-06:00

sorry it's been so long since i've updated Kiana's blog.
she is doing well. she is starting to talk more finally but still won't tell you what she wants or needs. When she's hungry she'll just point to the fridge and whine. she will say more when she's done eating what she had. she also sings twinkle twinkle little star and the ABC song(sounds kinda funny though) she says mommy, daddy, aelita, sister, diaper, and a few others that i can't think of at the moment. She is still meeting with the early intervention people from kids on the move here in utah. Her next appointment is actually on wednesday so i'll post an update on how that appointment goes.

Easter

2010-04-05T09:35:00.000-06:00

Kiana had a pretty good easter. In the morning after breakfast she got her easter basket from mommy that had a stuffed doggy with bunny ears and a flower in its mouth that she loved as well as some candy. in between conference sessions Sister and brother Johnson gave her and Aelita a huge picture of Jesus with children. After conference we went down to Jenny and Nates in paysen for dinner and dessert.Kiana had a Ton of fun playing with Remington and all of his toys.

Early intervention appointment

2010-03-31T18:59:00.000-06:00

Today Kiana had another appointment with her early intervention person Melinda. Melinda work with herand me on parallel talk which is using simple phrases such as egg open and egg closed or pig in and pig out and a few other things like that. She also work with us on signing "more"

she speaks....kinda

2010-03-28T21:35:00.000-06:00

lately kiana has slowly started to say a few more words lately but they are still pretty much nonunderstandable, and she still mostly grunts whines and cries to get what she wants or needs. However when she needs a diaper changed she'll to get me a diaper and the wipes and starts to undress herself so that i can change her diaper(i'm thinking that means it's time to start to potty train her, but i like having a baby around way too much) She also likes to sing twinkle twinkle little star, when she sings it it's inkle inkle ittle tar but it's still way cute and at least she's finally trying to talk more now. she also has a meeting with her early interventionist on Wednesday so I'll let you all know how that's going. some goals that they've set for her are

1. learn some basic signs

2. imitate animal and environmental sounds

3. increase vocab to 25 to 30 words from the 10 or so that she now says.

Ryan and Asha's Wedding

2010-03-24T23:22:00.000-06:00

Kiana was a flowergirl for Ryan and Asha's wedding. She was actually a little terrified of all the people that were around and didn't quite know what to do for the 1st few days when all of ryan's family started to show up and just wanted to be held. however after a few days she started warming up and just wanted to be with all the other kids. She also looked adorable in her dress and really enjoyed the food.

i am assuming that i was feeding her something when ryans sister took this pic.(i wish i could cut myself out of the pic though)

hearing test

2010-03-11T23:20:00.001-07:00

today kiana got a visit fromthe nursethat works with the people thatwillbe working with her on her speech. she passed her hearing screen, and is 30 something in and weighs 25lbs

Bright eyes

2010-03-02T23:48:00.000-07:00

Kiana with curly hair. Kiana really loves to have her hair done. She just loves to have it brushed and put up and is just so much fun when it comes to doing her hair.

Next assessment with kids on the move(early intervention program in Utah)

2010-02-26T12:50:00.000-07:00

This thursday Kiana has her overall assessment with kids on the move. The will check her hearing and a few other things they will also play with some toys with her to try and get her to talk. I'll post more after the actually assessment and tell you how it went.

Speech Delay

2010-02-18T14:09:00.000-07:00

today Kiana had a meeting with Kids on the move for her language. She's really not talking much at all and today i was told that she was on the border of a moderate/severe delay with her language. so next week her developmental specialist will call me and we'll set up another meeting so that they can do an overall assessment

New Bed

2010-02-13T22:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday i bought the girls bunkbeds and put them together. Since I hadn't bought a the second mattress yet that night kiana still slept in her toddler bed and aelita slept on the bottom bunk. Tonight i finally got the other mattress and put it up on the top bunk and attached the ladder to the bed. So tonight is Kiana's first night in a twin bed and she seems to like it and fell asleep quite quickly. The only thing i'm afraid of is her climbing up and down the ladder since i can't take it off the bed during nap times without unscrewing it from the bed. She also got new sheets and a new pillow for her bed but is still sleeping with her blanket that i made her for her birthday.

update on Kiana's lab work

2010-02-07T16:08:00.002-07:00

well thursday i was finally able to get what we need to take to the lab from kiana and took it in and they drew her blood. this kid is made of steel or something cause even after they poked her with the needle and moved it around until they found the vain she didn't make a sound and just sat there and watched them take her blood.Anyway, the lab work came back negitive meaning no celieac disease or anything like that which I'm gratefull for. On the 18th of this month she meets with kids on the move to see if she's where she needs to be with her language.

2 year well baby appointment.

2010-02-02T20:54:00.000-07:00

Today was Kiana's well baby appointment. She weighs 24lbs and is 32 inches tall. The doctor looked her over and she's doing pretty good, however, since she's been having really runny diapers still he wants to do some test on her to see what's making her diapers so runny still. He also wants her to meet with kids on the move to see if she needs any early intervention with her language.
some words she can say now:
cup
hi
bye
momma
aelita
sissy
eat
more
ashes
baby
koogle
banana
night-night

Happy Birthday Baby Girl

2010-01-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

Today Kiana is turning two. I can't believe that two years have already gone by since she was born. She's So much fun to have around and loves to play and be held. She also loves to give kisses and hugs. She still isn't talking much though but here are some of the words that she can say.
Mommy    cup
daddy        ashes(her part of singing ring around the rosie)
eat             sissy
more
aelita
baby
Koogle
banana
that's pretty much all she can say. other than that she just grunts,points and whines until someone figures out what she wants.
Today is also her birthday party which i'll post after it happens.
Kiana also really likes to eat. her favorites though are greenbeans, broccoli, bananas, and spaghetti.

Turning 2

2010-01-10T20:18:00.000-07:00

I can't believe that my baby girl will be 2 in just 6 more days. This year we're just going to have a small party since i don't really have many friends in the utah area yet and she is only going to be two, plus the last time i had a big party planned for one of the girls now one that said they were coming actually came so this year i'm really not planning on anyone showing up if they do wonderfull if not oh well. We'll be having a baked patatoe bar and cake and ice cream. It will still be fun. I'm making Kiana a princess blanket which i need to start soon.

Doc Appointment

2010-01-04T15:14:00.000-07:00

Today i took Kiana in to see the doctor because she hadn't had a dirty diaper for 21/2 days and when she did it was really runny. I also talked to him about her nosebleeds, however i'm an airhead and forgot to mention the brusing on her feet and legs. He pretty much said that she's doing fine and to just keep montitoring her and if things get worse then we'll go from there he also said to keep a list of the words that she says and bring it to her well baby appointment next month, and to give her more veggies to eat rather than fruits and limit her juice intake.

Kelli's Visit.

2010-01-02T17:10:00.001-07:00

Kiana really enjoyed the visit we had from Kelli, Tom and Morgan. They brought her a headband with some flower attachments and candy. Kiana also loved the monkey ornament and promtly broke of the poor monkeys tail then aelita knocked it's ear off but i will glue him back together and then put him night night until next christmas when we can give him the safety of the christmas tree. She also really liked taking to morgan and giving her her blanket and pacifers and toys.

Kiana with the way Cute headband from Kelli

christmas

2009-12-26T12:58:00.001-07:00

Kiana Really enjoyed christmas this year alot more then last year. She had a great time opening presents and playing with all her new things. Kiana got a new doll and stroller, a booster seat, puzzle, book and movie, she also got a box of legos from santa. Kiana Loved everything she got and carries or pushes her baby doll in it's stroller and sleeps with it at bed time and nap time.

Getting ready for Christmas

2009-12-20T18:43:00.000-07:00

Kiana is starting to get excited about christmas. She's noticed that presents are starting to appear under the tree and i'm constintly telling her to leave them alone. luckly she hasn't managed to unwrap any as of yet. but she has a couple presents under the tree that a ward gave us the money to get(i've noticed money doesn't go very far anymore) i've still got a few other things that i want to get her before christmas though.

23 months

2009-12-08T23:29:00.000-07:00

Kiana is now almost 23 months old and is a joy to have around. She has grown so much in the last few months. here are some pics from when she was born to now. I can't believe how much she has grown. The past two years have really flown by. I miss her being so little but i also enjoy being able to play with her more . some of the things she likes to do now are:

follow aelita everywhere aelita goes

eat all the time

be held

sing

play with blocks.

BYU's Earth Science Museum

2009-12-08T23:19:00.000-07:00

i don't know why i didn't post about this in november when i posted it in aelita's blog Kiana was with us i guess i just got sidetracked. anyway Kiana really enjoyed the museum as well. here are a few pics. (they're kinda blurry kiana can't stand still long enough for me to get a picture)

snow

2009-11-17T21:31:00.000-07:00

when we got snow a few days ago i took kiana out to play in it but instead of playing in the snow like i though that she would she just stood on the sidewalk and cried to be picked back up.

UVU Homecoming Kids night.

2009-11-13T21:00:00.000-07:00

Tuesday i took Kiana and Aelita to the UVU Homecoming kids night. The had a lot of fun and really enjoyed seeing the basketball teams and the cheerleaders and dance teams. It was a lot of fun and she loves playing with the basketball that she now has with the entire 2009-2010 men's and womesn's basketball teams signitures on it.

Happy Halloween

2009-10-31T23:02:00.000-06:00

Kiana really enjoyed Halloween this year. She was so cute going up to the doors with Aelita and Remington. She was the cutest little butterfly ever. She also liked the donuts that we got from the relief socity president as she was making them in her garage. I'll post pics of her in her costume as soon as i can find a cord for the camera.

Big Girl Bed

2009-10-11T20:20:00.000-06:00

Well yesterday i got Kiana a toddler bed. Last night was her first night to sleep in it and it took forever to get her to go to sleep. She would scream for 20 mins and bang on the door so i'd go in and put her back to bed and then finally about 3 hrs later she was fast asleep. I can't believe that she's going to be two already in January. She's growing up way too fast. next thing i know she'll be starting kindergarten.

2009-10-06T00:21:00.002-06:00

Kiana finally has gotten over the bloody noses for now at least. she's getting so big now and so much like her big sister. Tonight i took them to movie night at UVU and Kiana had a fun time. She loved looking at all the different things going on and getting her face painted and getting a balloon puppie. she also loved getting popcorn and ate about three bags of it and then stole her sisters. it was a fun night and wish it could happen more often but it's not everyday your school gets a new president.

Bloody Noses

2009-10-01T21:23:00.002-06:00

Lately kiana has been getting really bad bloody noses at night and at nap time. I've started putting vaseline in her nose to help keep it from drying out but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm going to look at humidifiers tomorrow to see if maybe that will help.

big girl.

2009-09-12T21:40:00.003-06:00

Kiana is growing up way too fast. She will be two in just 4 months. She loves to eat. Her new favorite food is apples and pears. She also loves spicy foods and just about everything else too. She doesn't like it when i leave her at the baby sitters but is just fine once i leave. When i get there to pick her up she doesn't want to leave. She also loves to play with sissy and going outside. Kiana is still very much a mommas girl and very strong willed. She's still not talking much but i'm hoping that she starts soon. Kiana has also started to take of her diapers when ever she gets the chance so i've had to start keeping pants on her during the day and blanketsleepers or pajama pants on her at night so that she can't take off her diaper.

my baby girl

2009-09-05T10:59:00.003-06:00

Well the physican's assistent came and looked over Kiana and said the it was most likely a viral thing going on. He looked at her ears and throat and they looked good so he said to wait it out and it should go away in a few days her temp has gone down it's now 99.6 which is a lot better then 104 like it was yesterday.

My sick baby

2009-09-04T16:56:00.002-06:00

This morning when i woke the girls up to go to daycare i noticed that kiana was a little bit warm. So I left her here with carolyn and took aelita to daycare. When i got home i was told that her temp went up to 104 and then slowly went down after a luke warm bath and a dose of motrin. Right now we're waiting on a physican assistent to come over and look at her and see what he says to do right now i'm just giving her lots of fluids and trying to keep her cool as i can. I'll update when i know more.

Daycare

2009-08-28T22:45:00.000-06:00

Kiana started daycare this week in provo while i'm going to uvu in orem. She has a great time while she's there playing with the other kids. She cries when i leave but then has a great time and is all smiles when i pick her up after school. She's such a sweet baby and loves everyone.

2009-08-22T21:41:00.001-06:00

Kiana is getting to talk more she still mainly babbles but she is talking more everyday. She's also taken to heather quite well. She's such a good baby and still loves to eat anything and everything.

2009-08-06T14:57:00.002-06:00

Kiana is doing well. she as already adjusted to being in utah and loves taking baths in the huge bath tub ok maybe not huge but compared to the bathtub at the trailer we were living in it's huge. She's a very active little girl and is mimiking every thing that she sees her sister doing.

my little climber

2009-07-23T17:51:00.003-06:00

Kiana is now climbing over anything and every thing. at first it was just climbing out of her highchair, but now she climbs on the couch, the chairs, the beds and anything else she can get her hands and feet on. i just hope she doesn't figure out how to climb out of the crib anytime soon. She also loves to eat and if i take her her out side when i try to weed out the garden she tries to eat all the greenbeans. Kiana has also become a little bully. She has started hitting aelita and just non stop aggravating aelita all the time

my little monkey

2009-07-17T13:20:00.002-06:00

okay so lately Kiana has been my little monkey. she has started climbing out her of highchair and onto the table which means now we have to start strapping her in to the high chair. She's also a momma's girl and wants to be held whenever i'm home and won't go to anyone else unless i peel her off of me and hand her off to someone else. She also loves to go out side and play and bug her sister. other then that she's such a good girl.

2009-06-28T20:23:00.002-06:00

Kiana is taking more and more everyday. She has also started to try to sing and dance. Kiana has also started trying to tickle Aelita. She is getting so big way to fast. She still loves to be held by mommy and loves to give kisses and hugs

2009-06-07T14:22:00.002-06:00

Kiana is such a good baby. She loves every one and really brings a smile to everyones face that she's her.every one at church loves her and always says how cute she is. Next months she starts going to Nursery and i'll be able to go to sunday school and relief society with no children :( i'll miss having her with me. but i'll be glad she'll be around other children.

food

2009-06-02T08:12:00.002-06:00

Kiana loves to eat. She'll eat her breakfast then she'll try to eat everyone else's food. Her faviorite foods right now is pretty much every thing except veggies other then greenbeans. She probably weighs as much as Aelita at this point and is almost as tall as Aelita

Getting so big

2009-05-24T22:09:00.002-06:00

Kiana is getting so big. She's now almost as tall as Aelita. Kiana loves to eat and will eat everything that she can. If we feed her and then we eat she'll want whatever we have to...Most of the time i don't let her have my what i'm eating my Aelita and nana sure do. Kiana has also started to get sissy back for being mean to her, takes peoples food out of their hands and a few other things too. She's still my little cuddle bug and loves to give hugs and kisses to everyone.

new words Kiana can say

2009-05-10T16:11:00.000-06:00

Kiana is getting so talkative now here's some of the things she's saying now
no
nana
bruiser
eat
momma
angel
jasper

silly girl

2009-04-29T21:20:00.003-06:00

Kiana is getting to be so silly lately. She's always doing something. Today she was playing with aelita and laying on her. it was so cute. I can't believe that she's almost 16 months old already.She's growing up way to fast. I've also started to try and potty train her she'll sit on the potty for little bits at a time. this afternoon she pooped on the floor right next to the bathroom door.it was so gross. I can't believe that she's growing up so fast.

15 months already

2009-04-19T22:08:00.003-06:00

I can't believe that kiana is already 15 months old. She's grown up way too fast. She's now getting into everything and is entering the terrible twos....couldn't she have waited until Aelita grew out of it first? Kiana has also started trowing little temper tantrums although not nearly as bad as Aelita yet and hopefully it doesn't get to that point. she loves to play outside and has a fit if you try to get her to come back inside.

Easter

2009-04-12T15:17:00.003-06:00

Kiana had a pretty good easter just like aelita she got a lot of candy and a toy and a movie she got springtime with roo and sat and watched most of it. She also sat through most of sacrament meeting. She found a lot of the eggs that we hid in the yard with help from papa. She dumped most of the candy all over the floor which we had to get up before the puppies found them bruiser found a few but i got them from him before he could actually eat them. She had fun and i think she enjoyed the day.

2009-04-06T13:10:00.002-06:00

Kiana is starting to babble more and more every day. she now says momma, nana, no and stop. she's also started to irrate her sister and standing right in front of the t.v when aelita is watching a movie. I can't believe that she's going to be 15 months old this month which reminds me i need to set up her 15 month well baby appointment.

cuddler

2009-03-29T09:57:00.001-06:00

Kiana is such a little cuddle bug. she loves to give hugs and kisses to mommy, nana and aelita. I can't believe that she's already 14 months old. She's growing up so fast.

almost 1 1/2

2009-03-23T22:26:00.002-06:00

Kiana is getting so big she's already almost 1 1/2 years old. the time really goes by way too fast. She's becoming quite independent and loves to bug Aelita all the time and gets into everything. She also likes dumping out bruisers food all over the kitchen floor.

allergies..maybe...hopefully

2009-03-21T19:05:00.002-06:00

okay so i think Kiana's runny nose and watery eyes are just allergies. since this just started when the weather got warmer and my car and every thing has been covered in pollen this past week. hopefully that's all it is.

sick once again

2009-03-17T19:25:00.001-06:00

Kiana is now sick. She's running a fever and one of her eyes is really watery. She's also got a runny nose and is really fussy. poor baby i feel so bad for her.

favorite food

2009-03-13T07:50:00.002-06:00

Kiana loves to eat. so far we've found that her favorite foods are
spaghetti
cereal
eggs
rice
cookies
she's really not much of a veggie and fruit eater like aelita but i'll get her to eat them somehow

Outside

2009-03-09T13:41:00.002-06:00

Kiana loves to play outside with her sister. she pushed around her little ride on toy all over the yard it was so cute. then she played with there little toy kitchen

sleepy head

2009-03-05T18:21:00.002-07:00

this is kiana tonight just before dinner she wouldn't stay out of the kitchen so i put her in her high chair and this is how i found her when i went to feed her.

so big

2009-03-03T21:31:00.002-07:00

Kiana is getting so big now. She walks everywhere now and can even pick up her toys while standing with out falling over. She's also babbling more and more everyday and has found a new hobby of bugging her sister.

1 year check up

2009-02-27T17:59:00.002-07:00

Kiana finally had her one year well baby appointment. the poor kid got 3 shots today. I'd tell you how much she weighed but they didn't tell me so when i weigh her myself i'll let you know. she is 29 inches tall though she's about a foot shorter then aelita

she's fully mobile

2009-02-23T16:44:00.002-07:00

Kiana has started walking everywhere and gets into everything. She also bugs her sister more and more now. she loves to eat and she's also started to talk she says no and stop it that's about it for now but i'm sure she be taking in no time. I just wish she'd slow down on the growing up.

2009-02-08T12:00:00.001-07:00

1 year old

2009-01-16T20:48:00.001-07:00

today is kiana's first birthday she's getting so big way to fast. She's also such an easy going baby most of the time. tomorrow she's having her birthdayparty at the rescue squad that grandma works at. i'll post pix when i can.

christmas

2008-12-29T11:37:00.001-07:00

Kiana had a good christmas. She got all kinds of toy and clothes. she's also started walking more and more and for longer distances. i'll eventually post some new pix as soon as i can.

2008-12-05T11:39:00.001-07:00

kiana is getting so big. She's crusing everywhere and starting to walk. She'll be 1 next month and she's already almost as big as aelita.

2008-09-03T07:18:00.002-06:00

Kiana is doing very well. she's now almost 8 months old. She's started saying da da and crusing around the furniture and babbling all the time. she still hasn't started crawling yet but she'll probably just start walking. Kiana is already almost as big as Aelita.