ALMOST 14 MONTHS!

Kylie is one extremely busy soon to be 14 month old. She climbs on everything fromt he couch to the oven to the gate blocking the TV so she doesn't pull that over on herself to her shopping cart from Santa which he have to hide becaue not only doesn she climb in it but she thinks it's great fun to try and stand and jump on everything. Most of the time is only interesting in finding the things you tell her not to climb on and could care less about the bizillion of toys over anything else you try to distract her with. She loves her singing videos Nana and Papa got her for her birthday and really gets excited about the "Wheels on the Bus" and "ABC's" she shakes her head back and forth and says "AHHH, AHHH, AHHH". She is saying so many words, she going to be talking in sentences before we know it. Just this weekend we were getting ready to go for a walk and Jamey ran back in the house to grab something and she said "noo,no, noo, no, mamma,mamma, no, mama" needless to say she thought she was being left behind and wanted to go outside with me. Yesterday she went to the back slider and said "go, outside". I've been trying to come up with a list of all the words she knows and this is my best attempt.... mama, dada, Aliya, baby, ball, eat, drink, cracker, dog, Keana, nana, papa, B, Ty-ty, go, outside, giddy up, neigh neigh, cat, beep, tickle, no, (I know I'm forgetting a bunch so I'll have to come back to that). The poor girl her teeth have been killing her, her 5th & 6th teeth finally broke through about 3 or 4 weeks ago but still haven't hardly made much more progress. She is really liking smoothies lately as I'm trying to get lots of fruit in her and also trying to find more things for Aliya to eat as well. She also have a love of animals, dogs, cat and neigh neighs just like her sister and well I can say that did get that from me. She gets so excited everytime we see a dog or cat on a walk and loves to pet them. Both the girls have been enjoying the warm weather lately and love to swing and Kylie loves to ride in the pink car and Aliya is having fun riding her bike.

POOR MISS ALIYA

Poor miss Aliya she hasn't felt good since to tell you truth I can't remember exactly when. The thing I really remember is Memorial weekend (May 09) her complaining on her back was hurting in the car on our way to Cannon Beach which then carried on to other trips and around the house and especially at night. Then came a horrible bout of the flu over the summer pucking countless times, which is the first time in her life she has ever thrown up. Al soshe began getting a itchy irritated bottom whenever she would take baths. Had a spell of what we believed to be athlete's foot. Still having back pain and began complaining of her tummy too. Then in early fall got a horrible itchy rash on her hands during a weekend in Seattle going to the zoo, aquarium and Pacific Science Center. After several doctors appointments, medications, and finally a trip to the dermatologist and a little over a month later, we finally got it to go away. I couldn't help but wonder if most of this all was related but to what was causing it? Jamey and I both began to question something in our water, but after the test came back crystal clean we were at a loss.
Still having back pain and tummy pain and having a horrible time sleeping we decided to take her to Graham to see Dr. Lapenski who does NUCCA. That seems to help relieve her back pain and a lot of her tummy pain too for a month or two and we were excited. Then the tummy pain came back and the not feeling good all over. After a couple visits to Shannon Neer and a visit to her regular doctor, we decided to see a Naturopath, Dr. Wilkinson, here we come. Unfortuneately we made that appointment the end of November and had to wait until January to see him, but I'm glad we found him. The first two weeks we tried a yeast diet suspecting a yeast control problem, which I must admit made complete sense, between the itchy bottom, athlete's foot, hand outbreak and reading "Back to Health" but unfortuneately almost two weeks on that diet didn't seem to help at all. We then got her food allegry results back and found out that pretty much everything we were feeding her on the yeast diet she is allegric to, Gluten, Whole wheat, rye, eggs, almonds (well minus the almonds). She is moderately allegric to red grapes. So now we just finished day two being Gluten free. For those of you who think it's simple just avoid bread and wheat, Ha! Gluten is hidden in everything from syrup, to candy, to cereal, to noodles, to sauces you name it. I have a page of names that mean gluten you would have no idea that I carry with me. We thankful have a great bakery in Yakima that is gluten free but unfortuneatly Aliya is allegric to eggs also which is in a lot of the breads and such, but we did get some bread and some cookies for her after her two weeks with out sugar. Jenny at Jenny Mae's Gluten Free Goodies is fabulous and a great resource of information and support, love her! She had many insightful things and one thing that really hit home was that people with gluten problems or celiac often feel like they have the flu and they ache all over even in their bones and they are starving always hungery (yep that's Aliya) literally because their bodies can not absorp the nutrients.
So what now? Next we do the diet and pray that she starts to feel better soon! And we will be doing another lab through entero labs (www.enterolab.com) which will tell us if she has Celiac and is having trouble asborping nutrients.

Kylie's 1st Birthday!

Wow! Where has the year gone? Hard to believe she's already 1 year old. Kylie is talking up a storm with several words we can understand including, mama, dada, aliya, dog, Keana, nana, baby and a few others. She is walking all over the place but still crawls some, but has been walking even more the last couple days. She loves animals, puppets, books with flaps and does not like to sit still. She loves playing and being around other kids. She waves hi, goodbye, claps, points at everything and blows kisses. She loves to keep up with her big sis and loves the water too. She just starting giving loves when you tell her that hurts or you need to be gentle. It's so sweet. She has been helping getting herself dressed for a while now and recently started trying to comb her own hair, it's pretty cute.

For her birthday we went to dinner on Saturday at Red Robin and Kylie really enjoyed being sang to and dug right into the sundae. She absolutely loves balloons and it entertained her the whole way home and then some. She just kept a laughing and hitting it. I made her a Mickey Mouse shaped pancake (which is what Aliya loves everytime we have pancakes) and Aliya and I sang her Happy Birthday and she had fun digging into eating and eating it. She really loves pancakes, she about bails out of my arms when she sees them cooking. Then we suprised daddy at work for lunch, which both the girls really enjoyed. Came home for naps and then went to dinner at El Caporal in Selah then home for her Minnie Cake which I made. I was a very hard time deciding what to make because figured since we just went to Disney World I would do Minnie. I haven't decided what to do for her party, but probably something different. We laid out a sheet to take pictures and contain some of the mess and she was getting pretty tired before that, but as soon as Jamey put her down on just the sheet she was lauging, crawling and rolling all over it! She had fun digging in the the cake, even had her foot in there a few times! She kept trying to stand up (which wasn't a good idea as it was very slippery on the tile) and wanted to share the cake with us. Then off to the shower and bed! It was a great birthday!

Snow Days!