The Toppling of KG - An empire, a ruler, and Ovis aries

Hello Again!

Welcome back to KylaNet, home of the adorable baby girl of the new millennium.

So much to say, but so few keystrokes to utilize. Kyla is sitting up quite well these days and is quite a happy baby. She is a very tough baby, consuming nothing but White Russians (virgin): 6-8 ounces every few hours. But then she conks out by around 8-9 pm and sleeps in till about 6-7am. Then she wakes up in a fabulous mood and we tickle the heck out of her.

This is a nice photo series Rachel took with KG on the couch. Pic3 is our desktop wallpaper right now...very pensive, a foreshadowing if you will. The yellow thing is a little duck toy, but the white toy she is playing with is Sheldon Sheep, a soft fuzzy sheep that opens up into a little fabric book. The covers are made of crinkle paper, which she grabs at. She generally manhandles Sheldon in a raucous series of wrestling maneuvers, but Sheldon is unequivocally and unilaterally compliant. He's a good guy. Note at the end of the photo series KG starts to lose her balance and topples to one side. In searching for this photo on our desktop Rachel informed me that it was entitled "Topple.jpg"

How appropriate.

Five months old today!

Checking out the goats with Corinne!





How quickly five months have passed! And Kyla is just itching to be mobile... we have been encouraging her standing up and even getting her legs moving in a walking motion, but we'll probably regret it when we are running after a little thing who can somehow run faster than us even though her legs are about 1/8th the size!!








The baby shining???

She likes seafood!!




Today we tried out a new fun thing -- the jumper that hangs in the doorway. She needed no instruction as you can see on the video!






I think the girl likes to dance!!

more pictures

What a pretty pink dress Auntie Tina picked out!!
(Dan hasn't seen this yet -- haha!)







Big eyes!

funny girl in action!!

Rolling, rolling, rolling on the blanket

Welcome Kyla fans, to the site of neverending cutitude:

Kyla is definitely progressing by leaps and bounds. Today I came home from work a little early, primarily because little gnomes from the firey depths of the Earth's core have decided to make a surprise landing in random dry brush fields in San Diego. Luckily people water their lawns a lot near us and we are well away from the mayhem, but work has been spotty this week. So I returned home to play with KG and shortly after I did we started tummy time.

Then it got good.

Kyla was getting pumped up, kind of getting frustrated but kind of making progress getting her knees partially under her waist and then, wham! She toppled over onto her back. She was kind of crying, but we were both so excited we whooped and cheered and kissed her all over. She was a little confused, probably thinking "Here I was suffering on my face and you guys just watched...and now you are happy about it??" What the heck is the matter with you?"

I am sure we will rue the day we urged her to be more mobile sooner, but it was fun for the moment.

Kyla also had her 4 month doctors appointment last week. She is growing quite well.
-26.5 inches
-16.5 pounds

Oh, and with a little help she can stand up!

another woo hoo!

Learning to sit up... kind of... and, of course, toes are really fun!