kiera-isms

well, i finally get to post some of kiera's words. ok, so maybe they are only words to us and must still be translated by us (someone at storytime asked me if kiera knew any words yet, i said, yeah, she can say ba-ba, they said, um, that's not a word)
mostly kiera speaks russian when she is angry, which we cannot translate, but we just know to back off. when she is happy, she babbles excessively. I am thinking kiera will pick up the talking thing quickly considering me and halle really never stop talking.
ok, so here are some of kiera' s words, (well, maybe just sounds to some of you. maybe we're biased, but we see sparks of genius, yes, this is becoming most defenitly a brag blog, but in my defense, i don't have a journal/baby book, so i have to brag about the girls somewhere for them and their posterity, right?)
"DA" (in really high pitch, everytime she sees tom or hears the garage open, which means he's home) translation: da-da
"daw", translation, dog, everytime she sees a dog, she gets so excited and screams, "DAW!"
"Ba-ba", translation: bottle, a better translation is probably, get me a bottle, NOW!
"shhhh, shhhhh" , translation: shoe. it may not seem like enough to qualify as shoe, but she really does do it when she is holding shoes.
"shhhh, shhhh" , translation: FISH. ok, so your thinking that she's saying shoe again, but she points to fishes in books and says, shhh, shhh. she'll get the "fi" sound in there any day now.

other tricks:
if you say:
lay down, she'll do, no matter where she is.
give hug, she'll run in your arms and lay her head down on your chest.
where's your hair? she'll touch her hair
blow on your food. she'll blow on her food, she's use to me doing it all the time, she usually does this without prompting.
get dizzy, she'll spin in circles
dance, she'll bounce up and down
hold hands, she'll hold her hand up for me to take or grab halle's
where's kiera, she'll pull her blanket over her face

kiera turned a year a few weeks ago! yea! i made it through the first year, i think they are more fun here on out, since i have not ever had an easy baby or an easy year.
kiera has turned into the happiest little baby ever. she walks around laughing most of the day. she has a permanent smile on her face all the time. in public, especially. she says ahh, ahh, to get people to look at her and they always smile back. she adores halle, but has moments where she gets really jealous if i am holding halle and has to come sit on my lap at the same time. she doesn' t get pushed around by halle's freinds and will stand her ground if they try to take things from her or not let her join in what they are doing. she is so snuggly and huggy and sweet, it makes up for the last year of torment, fussy, and craziness, she put us all through, well, mostly me.these upcomming months are so fun, i am excited at how much they learn in their second year, what a fun year its going to be!