standing and thinking about walking

Kai is pulling herself up like a champ. She can let go and stand by herself for a good but before she has to grab onto something. She is thinking about walking but can't quite get the coordination.

Landon was riding his scooter with his friend who lives down the street. She is 10 months older. They were at the top of a little hill-very little. He takes off like a shot as fast as her can. She started off slowly and hadn't gotten 2 feet when she fell and started crying like the world was ending. Landon reaches the bottom and loses it. He knows to jump off if he can't stop so he does and his scooter keeps going. I am know about 30 yards from him and he starts yelling "mommy!" I yell right back and tell him "you're fine!" so he stops fussing and runs to save his scooter, meanwhile, the little girl is still crying. It cracks me up the difference between boys and girls. She had a little scrape on her and he had no marks so she was hurt worse. The next day, Landon was playing outside by himself when I hear a very loud scream. I run to him and he says he hurt his back "how did you do that?" I ask. He points to a broken branch on a tree that is lying up against our fence. He has a pretty good scratch on his back. he then tells me he tried to climb the tree and fell off. We now have an agreement that won't try to climb a tree unless dad is around to help.

I took Landon to kid's yoga the other day-didn't make it too long and I had to take him out of the class. Yes my child had to be removed. Just like at his 1st soccer practice an he cried for the 1st 20 minutes. I am going to start teaching a new kid's class next week and he will need to go with me. Hopefully he gets better at it, just like at soccer where he is now doing great and loving it.

I just realized I have never written down anything bout the night Kai was born. I did for Landon, but not her, so here it goes. She was due on June 22, which was a Friday, but the doc didn't think it would take that long. The week before Diana had been out of town and my parents weren't there yet. She gets back and they arrive. I see the doctor on Monday and she says it will still be a few days. Then I start feeling a little strange that evening after dinner. About 1 in the morning it starts to get intense. Chad manages to doze a little, but not me. At 3 I say it is time to call the doctor an go to the hospital. We tell my mom and off we go. It is a 30 minute drive. We saw lots of cops-I dared them to pull us over, but Chad wasn't driving that fast-though he offered to speed up. When we get there, there is no one in the lobby so Chad pulls the car off to the side and walks in with me. Of course there are no wheel chairs as we go to the elevators with my contractions coming every 3 minutes. We finally make it to the maternity ward and still no wheelchair. We sign in and I get to the room about 3:45. Pretty much immediately they start the iv and the antibiotics because it is obvious the baby is on her way. Did i mention that we had just decided to change her name? It was going to be Kai Elizabeth, but is now Kai Emily. (sorry Lex). Move on to 6:30 and the doc says she is coming and will be out in 20 minutes-fast forward 35 and she arrives just after 7 am. Kai had her fist up by her mouth and that was what had made it take longer. She still has that hand up by her mouth all the time when she sucks her thumb. The 2nd time around was much faster and much easier than the 1st. The recovery was much less as well. I was up and walking around a little the next day.

Kai will be 9 months old next week. This morning I was sitting with her in the glider in the nursery when she pointed to a book (Goodnight Moon) We were reading it together when Landon came in, still very sleepy. He leaned up next to me and we read it again, it was very sweet. Landon is becoming such a big boy, it amazes me.
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