I, proud father of Kimi

[karlhenning]

Isn't it cute that she stood up to call for the waitress?


Kimi is talking a lot now, and she is a trickster. As Vanessa was changing diapers for her, she commented something about "who created this awful smell". Kimi said: "Daddy poo poo, mommy faint!" In fact, she has a habit of laying the blame on others all the time. As soon as she let go of some gas, she'd say: "Mommy farts." When she drops or breaks something, she'd say "nanny screwed up". She's the Ronald Reagan among babies.

Soon she'll be saying, "There you go again!"  

[greg]

Lol, I like this one. 

[Anne]

She's darling.  Paul, are you and Vanessa writing down these cute sayings?  You think you will remember them but so many others follow that you can't.

[Joe Barron]

Updates:

Kimi is now 1 and a half year old. She loves music and dance. Her favorite song is the one I sing to her every morning, the "aria" from "Oklahoma!". She loves it when I let the last syllable of "Everything's going my WAAAAAAYYYYYY" go on forever.

Interesting. This was my favorite song when I was a child, though I was a little older than one and a half. Oklahoma was the first movie I saw on a big screen. The film was released in 1955, but I wasn't born yet, so I must have seen a revival.

[secondwind]

They are wonderful pictures, thanks for sharing!  She looks like a little charmer.

[Harry]

Papa Paul was very active on Sunday!

[vandermolen]

Lovely photos 

[springrite]

Today, not more than five seconds after I told Kimi "don't try to run before you can walk well", she ran and fell in the living room.

Me: Kimi! What did Daddy told you?
The Master of Deflecting Responsibility: Slippery floor! Daddy go wipe!

[Joe Barron]

You could just eat her with a spoon.

[Novi]

LOL, she looks and sounds like the cheekiest wee thing.

[springrite]

Jealousy. I am Kimi's favorite and when I am around, no one can get her away from me. Every morning, whether I am home or not, she's be outside my study knocking the door, calling out daddy. Now this has developed one step further. Now she does not allow Vanessa to get close to me. If Vanessa touches me, rests on my shoulders, holds my hands, or kisses me, Kimi gets very upset and tries to pull mommy away from daddy. She even does not want others to talk to me.

"Mine!"

[MN Dave]

You'd better fix that. 

[karlhenning]

She'll be a CEO someday.

[springrite]

You'd better fix that. 

I am now forced into turning my marriage into an "office affair" as the office is the only place where we are safe from Kimi's prying eyes. It makes me feel like I am cheating!

[springrite]

Well, OK so this is NOT Kimi, but a friend from Ohio who worked with me in Sichuan earthquake area earlier this year for the Mental Health Fascilitator training became grandparent the BIG way -- his daughter had triplets! Here are the 2 girls and 1 boy 5 months later. They are so cute I thought I'd post them here.

[springrite]

I am the one without the long ears.

[springrite]

Two weeks ago, Kimi saw a kid in the yard who has a teddy bear. Now, with several dozen teddies, she must have thought ALL teddies SHOULD belong to her. So she asked for it, and the other kid would not give it to her.

Then, the funny thing happened. She walk around a bit so everyone is off-guard, then suddenly grabbed the teddy bear and took me by the hand: "Daddy! RUN! FAST!"

[karlhenning]

Gracious!  She'd be a deadly moll in Chicago Gangland!

[karlhenning]

You've got to admire the beauteous simplicity of it, though:  of course all teddy bears belong to Kimochka . . . .

[Joe Barron]

This is all normal behavior. I went through a similar phase in my early forties.