Kiry has been a busy bunny as of late. Most important things to note are that she is now 18 months and two days old. She is sat on her mom’s lap now trying to go to sleep, so she cannot come and write this herself, so it is up to me to put this post together… Her Dad.

Kiry is walking around fine, and she is even saying a few words that she has been saying for some time, such as cat, and daddy, and Ticky, but those words have been just about the limit of her comprehensible speech. Communication is however becoming far more important to her as she is recognising it as a way of getting others to understand her. Recently she tried tangerines for the first time. Soon after, she would see me eating one and then point to her tray, and then after a few goes at that, she has started pointing onto her tongue to indicate that she wanted some of my tangerine. Luckily, she has a sharing daddy who does bit off the bigger share of the segment, but then shares the bite sized tip with Kiry.

Also of note is that Kiry is very much a creature of comfort. She is always happy at bedtime to spend all the time she needs in arranging her blankets and her pillows till she is content with how she lays before she tries to go to sleep. If she sees her mom going to her computer to play a game before bed, what do you know, but there goes Kiry with a pillow in one hand, her binky/diddy in the other, and a blanket dragging behind her. Once she is cosy on mom’s lap, the game can begin, and it is not long before she is usually asleep.

Kiry also has recently gotten into the habit of carrying her nappy just changed to the bin, and disposing of it properly.

One of Kiry’s favourite things to do is organise. This weekend she was helping to put away the clean dishes. Mommy would dry off a plastic one, and Kiry would go to the plastics cupboard next to the fridge and to our amazement she set down the lid that was in her hand, a unique item of the many types in the cupboard, then used her newly freed hands to open the door. We were further amazed as she started going through the items in the cupboard in her way, till she came across a container, lifted the lid and put it on the container, being the correct one! She does have quite a mind for things like that as she is always able to find one toy, and then the related toys, even if they are among others or in the next room.

I am certainly proud of her, and it is easy to see that she will soon outsmart her Dad, though it will take her some time before she outdoes her mother!