California or Bust!

Breakfast with Grandma

We spent Thanksgiving and the rest of November in California, staying with Grandma and Grandpa Need and spending time with Dwayne's siblings. Kyla got lots of time with her 5 cousins (the oldest is 18!), and thinks cousins are an excellent idea. She thinks fevers and illness are not such a good idea, but it took her most of a week to recover from hers.

Posing at the San Diego Zoo

Learning bad habits from Daddy.

Cooling off at the Wild Animal Park.

Running toward Daddy at the Flight Museum.

The Need Family Portrait, 2007

New Stuff!

Mama got a haircut and a minivan and Kyla started cutting more teeth. She loves to climb and stomp in mudpuddles. She's not at all timid about trying new things and I have to hear quite the "thump" before she cries. She is so much fun!

Octoberfest

Kyla the Cow clings to Keith. (Love the alliteration, don't you?)

Naked Kyla

Sauna

Kyla caught a cold, and a steam bath with Daddy seemed to help the sniffles.

Gold Beach Vacation

In the middle of September, we did a group vacation down to Gold Beach, OR. (Hadn't heard of it? Well, it is just a "quant little drinking town with a big fishing problem".)

"Yes, I'm on vacation!"

Uncle Brian, Dwayne, Kyla and I got to pet a baby Bengel Tiger. Thrilled, Kyla was.

That was almost as thrilling as the breathtaking hike we did from Highway 101 down to the beach. Daddy is doing this on a bum knee.

David stands with us in front of a particularly large redwood tree on a little sidetrip we took down to northern California.

Across the street from the Trees of Mystery was a Forest Cafe. It had fake trees and fake bears and everything!

None of the pictures show Kyla being horribly sick most of the trip. Just take into account that her parents failed to get any pictures of that, and you have a general idea how tired it made us.

One Year Old!

We celebrated a week early on a camping trip with Denise's family. She turned one with a bit of fuss on our part, but surprisingly, little on hers.

Grandma and Grandpa Kruger are making her into a camper with her very own camp chair!

On her actual birthday, Dwayne and I took her to ToysRUs to get her a tricycle, which she will need to grow into. For now, she loves being pushed in it. After the purchase, we went to a local park where Daddy pushed her in the swing and we watched ducks swim in the pond. She slept all the way home! A perfect birthday for a one year old....and her parents.

Denise

First Steps!

Run Away, Kyla. Run Away!

Kyla took her first steps today! I was making dinner and glanced down at her and saw her toddle toward a chair so she could grab the towel (on the chair) and throw it to the floor. She has taken several steps since then, but never to Mama or Daddy. She is more interested in walking toward the open fridge or dishwasher or pantry shelves. Our darling Destructo.

Ah, the superpowers you didn't wish for your child.....

Surprise!

And here's the reason I haven't blogged for two months. If she's sleeping, I'm sleeping. If she's playing, I'm feeling sick. However, we are about 12 weeks, and it feels like everything's going well (for Kyla and the new baby--I've got a few more weeks to go until I feel great again)>