WALKING

Walking, walking, walking - its official, we have an 11 month old walker. She is still a little unsteady, and goes for crawling at times but for 11 months, she does well for walking! She was cruising for awhile but just these last couple of days, especially in Eagle River with my father telling her - NO, you walk - come on - you can do it - WALK....she is now walking multiple steps on her own with no help!! She is so darn cute to watch! (now, until she starts running away from us). Here are some videos I got of her today. Sorry, first one is sideways - rest should be good.

Notice the tongue out towards the end of this video.

Updates, updates....

EASTER

Kaiya went to visit the Easter Bunny last Friday. She really could have cared less about the bunny - she was more interested in watching the other people at the mall. She wore an old outfit of mine - you can't really even see it as the bunny's hands are so large! But its still cute nonetheless!

FOOD
Kaiya has a great appetite and loves MOST of the food she has tried. She is not a fan of green veggies, she makes the wierdest face when we give her those. But she loves all the orange veggies she has had and cauliflower. I have made a couple recipies for her, one was carrots, cauliflower, tomato and cheese with basil - it was very yummy if I say so myself!! Just today she got some chicken, and really enjoyed that too. In the picture below she was eating blueberries and had a blueberry smile! We also have started giving her gerber puffs - basically cereal things that dissolve in their mouths - she really likes them and has started to put them in her mouth herself.

WALKING/CRAWLING
She isn't doing either just yet - well at least not forward. She kinda crawls backwards a bit - though I don't quite call it 'crawling' - she kinda pushes herself backwards. She is mastering going from her knees back up to a sitting position - and going from sitting to her tummy. She is getting better at both of those daily. She gets up on her knees and rocks a lot - so I can only imagine one time she will go forward and then it will be downhill from there! She also has started trying to pull herself up on her toys, her parents, her crib, etc, etc. She still needs a little help from mommy and daddy - but she can get to her knees with no problems - she can't get to her feet too easily - yet....

My mom has a walker at her house that Kaiya was in when we went to visit grandpa (who is finally out of the hopsital and at home!!!). Kaiya was again very proficient at pushing herself backwards - couldn't grasp the concept of pushing forward.

Kaiya had some help from her Grandpa moving forward in the video below.