signing

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

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

I know i know its been a long time

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

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

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

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

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)