New Glasses

Kirynie, it has been a while since I have posted anything here for you, honey.  You are six years old now.  For about four days now you have been wearing glasses!  I cannot even believe it!  You look so mature, and so big, and you look very intelligent!  I don’t have a picture handy to post for you, sadly.  Perhaps I will remember to get one on here in the next few days. 

When I was a kid and I had to wear glasses for the first time, I was so scared.  I already got teased a bit at school by a couple of other kids who didn’t like me, and I didn’t want to add fuel to their fire by showing up in glasses.  But my teacher, Mrs. Daily, was a very unforgiving and hard teacher.  She walked past my desk while everyone was writing, and slammed her palm down on it and yelled, “You get your glasses on mister!”  There was nothing I could do but put them on, so very reluctantly I reached into my desk and pulled them out and put them on.  Well, of course I got called Four Eyes and all of that.  Some of the other kids were very cruel.  And that is why I was always nervous about getting their attention. 

When you went to class for the first time with your glasses on, you just walked right in proudly wearing them, and talked to your friend, a little girl you liked.  A little boy who was sat half way across the room stared for quite a while.  Everyone else mostly just carried on with their work while I spoke to your teacher, Mrs. Earl.  Mrs. Earl was very excited for you because you had been really struggling to see what she would write on the white-board.  We agreed that your studies would probably improve, which is saying something as you were already doing really good in your classes. 

As for me, I was so proud of you.  Something changed about you, and you just embraced it and ran forward with it full steam!  I could not have been happier as a father, to see how you smiled and how you spent your first day looking at things whose details had gotten lost in a blur to you before, and how you smiled when you met up with others you knew, and beamed about your new glasses. 

I attended your appointment with you when you were tested for a prescription.  I have a bad left eye, and my vision is quite blurred in it.  I was sat about as far from the wall as you were, and even with my bad eye I could make out the shaped projected there with greater ease than you could, by far.  Your mom and I have decided you get your bad vision from her side, if any, as she has quite bad eyesight in both eyes, like you. 

I love you sweet Kirynie, and I am so happy that you can see well with your new glasses. 

Love,

Daddy

Talk, Talk, Talk!

Lately I talk a lot!  And I mean a lot!  I get busy talking to everyone about everything!  There are so many things to talk about that I lose track of them all!  But there are so many people to talk to around the house that I never go without practice during the days!  After all, there is Nana, Papa David, Mum, Dad, Jordan, Dylan, and of course the dogs!  And outside there is a rooster to yell at when he tries to attack me! 

I got to meet Daddy’s Aunt Amy last week, and here is a picture of me with her! 

Amy and Kiry

Amy sits in a chair and has to be helped out of it by Daddy, or someone strong!  But she is fun, funny, and really nice, and I like her a lot.  Even though she is all grown up, she is a lot like a kid, and a lot of fun to play with! 

Daddy and Jordan went to pick Amy up from her old home in California, and brought her home, then Daddy and I took Amy to her new home in Idaho.  Nana went along on both those trips! 

I like Amy a really lots because she is nice and good! 

Kirynie

Happy Birthday From Daddy..!!

Kirynie, today is your third birthday, which is so amazing to me because it has already been three years since that day in Worcester that your mom and I were at the hospital, and we took a walk in the Nunnery Wood, your mom on her crutches, trying to encourage you to pop out and say ‘hello..!!’  Of course, now you say hello all the time, and without any help from anyone else!  These last three years have been such an adventure for our family because we had you, we learned how to keep food down you, which was a little difficult at first, then we prepared for our big move, then we flew from England to America, and finally we settled down on a ranch in Nevada, and got horses and chickens and pheasants and ducks.  The whole time you have been going from baby in tow to little girl in charge, learning how to do as much as you could, and always making everyone around you smile and always making me so proud of you! 

Of course, by the time you actually ever READ this on your own, you will be much older, and you will have grown so much more.  Well, my darling, today is the day we celebrate your third birthday, and even though we are still settling in and we can’t get you everything I would like to, it doesn’t matter because you are already everything I could ever want, and that’s how family is.  We have each other, and for that I am the happiest man on Earth!  I hope that you have grown to be as happy as can be, and that whatever has happened in the years between when I wrote this, and when you are sat in that chair, reading it, you have learned to be happy no matter what, to keep learning no matter what, and to make the best choices you can with as much confidence as you can muster, then follow through with courage. 

As I write this, you are across the room from me, teasing Dylan, and smiling as big as can be.  You are learning to form the I Love You sign with your hands and whatever other signs you can learn.  We are heading in to Las Vegas tomorrow, and we are looking forward to getting there and having a lunch that I am planning on dedicating in part to your birthday at the Firelight Buffet in the Sam’s Town Casino.  Right now, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is on it’s last mission, and the last mission for the Space Shuttle program, something that has been going since I was in grade school.  Gas costs nearly $4 per gallon today, though it has gone just over $4 in the past, but when I was a kid I remember prices like $0.64 per gallon, and of course everybody is complaining about $4!  A gallon of Milk costs $3.23 at the local market, and horse feed is costing us $215 per 1,200 pounds bag of Alfalfa cubes.  Barak Obama is the President of the United States, and Elizabeth is the Queen of England.  Osama Bin Laden was killed two months ago, and every day, the world seems like it is about two days from the collapse and end of everything we know, yet we still trudge on, despite the perceived uncertainty.  You keep trudging on too, because that feeling is actually NORMAL!  You will be fine as long as you make good choices and stick to being YOU..!!! 

I love you, Kirynie!  You are learning to speak so well, and you always seem to know what’s going on and what you are doing.  You are wonderful beyond words to me!  You still sleep in our bed, and to be honest, I love having you to snuggle up with!  I seldom ever get angry at you for anything, even though I sometimes have to be stern with you to help you to learn. 

Your blonde hair and your blue eyes contribute to your cute little face, and attract so much attention to you from complete strangers.  I have long lost count of how many people both in England and in America have stopped me and said how cute you are.  You attract attention!  As a father, this is more than a bit frightening at times, and fills me up with more than a little pride as well.  But I know something strangers don’t, and that is that under your shyness, and under your cuteness, there is a little girl who is bound to become a woman, and who is already one of the most amazing people, at THREE, that I have ever known in my life! 

I am happy beyond expression to be your father, and I love you so much, Kiry!  Happy Birthday, and may you have an hundred more  of them! 

Yours in the love and sincerity that only a father can offer you,

Kelsey J Bacon, your Daddy! 

Hey! I Live In America Now..!!

Wow, have the last few months been busy!  I have been really naughty for not updating my blog!  There is too much to tell now!  But I will summarize!  We moved to Idaho on the end of September, lived there for a couple of weeks, then moved to Nevada.  Now we have seven chickens, five ducks and one horse..!!!!!!  Yup, you got it!  I have a pony!  Only my pony is full grown, so she will always be a pony!  What’s even better, she is part Arabian, and it really shows!There is a lot more to tell, but as I said, there is more than I can say at the moment!  I will try to keep up-to-date in the future!Kiry and Daddy..!!  (Thanks for your help with this Dad..!!)

Nanny’s House!

Lately I have had the worst time!  For a week, my mom and oldest brother went to a place called Birmingham Children’s Hospital.  Poor JJ had to have surgery on his noggin!  They had to remove blood that was between his brain and the skin the brain has under the skull called the dura. 

Well, anyway, dad scared my nappies full because Auntie Tasha came over for the whole week and they moved all our stuff out of the house!  When they were all done I was waking up at Nanny San’s house!  Luckily mom and JJ found their way over there because now they are here too, and Auntie Tasha went home. 

We have been living at Nanny San’s house ever since.  It is much smaller than our old house, but it is also much, much nicer.  I can tell because I am not allowed to touch anything! 

Things are pretty good here.  Nanny San has a TV, which we never had at the old house, which means that I can always find my family right where I left them when it is on.  No more getting lost looking for everyone!  And since the place is small and the decorations are civil, it is easy to clean, which means the family don’t have to spend as much time away from me when they are cleaning it! 

Daddy says that we will live here till the end of the month, then we are going to go up with the birds in an aeroplane and ride it to a place called America.  Mom and dad have talked about this place for all of my life, so I am sure glad we will be able to get there and finally see it! 

Well, that’s enough for now!  Nanny has a great big book with nicely dressed people for sale in it, so I am going to go shopping! 

Ta!

Kiry (& Daddy)

Mommy Got Permission to Live in America

Yesterday we went on a train down to a great big city called London to spend the night, only to get up to a rainy morning.  We had breakfast in the hotel before we went out into the pouring rain, then we walked all over  Bayswater to Marble Arch, then Mayfair trying to find someplace that had a way to keep dry, such as an umbrelly!  Well, anyway, we finally found one, then Daddy and I left mum and JJ and Dylan at a place called the Umbassy, and Daddy and I went to a place mum really likes, called Starbuck’s.  Daddy very slowly drank a hot chocolate, then checked my nappy, and we went over to a huge place called Selfridge’s.  While I was there I watched some of Toy Story on a really heavy Television, because it weighed £33,000.00!  Then, daddy talked to a guy named Ben over at the department that sells armoured cars and bullet proof vests.  Ben suggested a Nanny-Cam to watch the person who watches me, but Daddy said that meant Mommy and Daddy could only watch each other because nobody else is allowed to.  Daddy says that he is very particular about who watches me, and he is, because nobody has ever watched me but those in my family, and Nanny San. 

Well, after we left the Umbassy, we walked all over the place to Paddington Station so we could sit down and rest.  Then we took a train home to Worcester, where I live, and was born.  Well, I sure am excited that mummy and JJ and Dylan will get to come and live with Daddy and I in the Nevada!  Now we have just got to move house twice and then fly on a bird-plane.

Ta!

Kiry (& Daddy!)

New Blog Location

As of today Daddy has moved my Blog from Bogspot to WordPress.  He did it in an attempt to sort out the formatting issue he has been having with my blog.  So far the carriage returns are working, but for some reason it will not download the blog’s theme to his computer so we can see the proper layout when we type in the new posts, which affects us and not you, the reader.  So you won’t see the troubles anymore, and Daddy will feel much better about posting!

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Oh look!  There is Daddy and me now in that photo..!!

There is so much to tell about going back to the time when the posts slowed down!  I have been so busy learning to do new things almost every day, and learning to say new words!

One of the things daddy has shown me is Birds!  I saw them one day while they were in the tree below our house.  There was one that I later learned is called a Collared Dove hopping around the tops of the branches, and daddy pointed it out to me.  But silly daddy was not sure I could see the bird.  Then when one flew by and I yelled out “Bird!”  That is when Daddy knew I could tell what he was talking about from all of the things we could see out the window!

Now I mostly know the birds are birds, but when the black and white ones come by, I know that is a Magpie!  I love Magpie’s!

There is so much more to tell about too, but I will get online with Daddy’s help and let you know all about it as soon as I can!  Till then, be well..!!  🙂

Kirynie and Daddy..!!

The First Fireworks I ever Saw

What are they?  There are flashes and then sounds.  The whole sky flashes sometimes.  And there are so many colours, they look like glowing flowers in the night sky, or like someone is trying to put all the falling stars back where they belong.  Daddy told me they were called “Fireworks,” and that they were probably from a pub down in Lowesmore.  It was 31 August, and Daddy says he is not sure why they set them off, and that he did not expect them.  I have included the best photo Daddy was able to get of them with St. Andrew’s Spire in the background.  Daddy could not get a better shot that night because I woke up and really wanted to see what was going on.  I sure am glad I got to see the show!

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I Have Taken a Few Steps In The Right Direction!

     Yesterday I did something that made Mum and Dad almost almost jump for joy!  Mum came in from getting some air outside and I was stood at Daddy’s knee.  Mum held out her arms and I took a step away from Daddy’s knee and to her.  She stepped back and I took two more steps till she caught me!  Not only were they both so proud, but so was I!  When Mum picked me up I kept tapping my hand on my chest and smiling because I knew that what I did was really good! 

     So, today I have been sneaking in some more practice when nobody is looking!  I can only get a step or two on my own, but you watch out, and I will be all over this house before you know it! 

     Yours,

Kirynie and Daddy!