Fall, Fall, Fall...

Hi Everyone!

Fall has brought many changes- I have started going to daycare three times a week, I now run, dance, sing, and knock on doors!!!! I am keeping mommy and daddy super busy. I can pull out all my toys and I am learning what clean up time is-- although I am not as good as my mommy wants me to be at it.
First Day @ Daycare:


Einstein is still my best bud- we just chase each other around the house all day. We also play tug of war with his toys and of course still play in his water bowl, try to eat his dog food and steal his treats from his mouth! He sits right in front of my high chair when I am eating and since he is sitting so nicely, I share my food with him. He is so good at eating the food right from my hands! When I am finished, he eats all the crumbs from the floor, my high chair and bib- mommy doesn't have to vacuum! I must say...He is just the best dog-brother in the WORLD!
Feeding Einstein:



We had one set of visitors from far away-- Auntie Jamie and Uncle Paul all the way from Winnipeg! We had a lot of fun with them being tourists around Vancouver. We danced to Elmo's song everyday- they told me it was now their favorite song!!! I am really looking forward to being a ring bearer for them in August- I can't wait!!!!!

With Auntie Jamie & Uncle Paul-



I had the opportunity to celebrate two holidays this past month. I enjoyed my first Canadian Thanksgiving (Oct 8th). Mommy and Daddy and their friends Andrea and Sascha over. They cooked quite the turkey dinner!


For Halloween I dressed up as the cutest bat! Me and my BFF Nateo went to Brentwood Mall and went trick or treating! It was a blast!

Trick-or-Treating with Nateo and my cousins at the mall:


All in all, life is pretty busy these days. I am about 24 pounds and 32 inches.

My first birthday is coming up on the 18th... For those of you who can make it here is the invite! :) I am having a tropical beach party!



Take Care... Enjoy the pictures below!!

Hugs and Kisses.
Love from,
Kailas Andrew

How you feelin' HOT HOT HOT!

Greetings from your favorite 9 month old!


Over the summer I have been traveling all over Canada and a heat wave followed me from the west coast to the east coast! The average temperature was 30 degrees Celsius (86F for my fellow Americans) wherever I went and can you believe that most people DO NOT have air conditioning on the west and/or east coasts?!! They say they don't need it and this summer has been unusually hot... To stay cool Mommy and I went to the mall almost everyday and window shopped! This summer, my family and I did take in some stuff in BC- the Caribbean Days Festival, Eurofest, and a Vancouver Canadians baseball game. As well- our second vistor came... "Auntie Christie" from Winnipeg spent a few days with us!

BUT...This summer I mainly traveled-
Snoqualmie, Washington; Pullman, Washington; Seattle, Washington; Kelowna, British Columbia; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Halifax, Nova Scotia (with a brief layover in Toronto, Ontario)... My passport is well used and my airplane ride count is now up to 11!

The highlights of the trips were meeting (Great) Aunts and Uncles (Thor, Misty, Rick, Amber, Kelly, Diane, Ann, Wayne, Tracy, Shelly, Danny, Carlene, Christine, Kendra, Chris, Paul,Lindsay) and cousins (Lucy- my dog cousin, Bryson, Dylan, Olivia, Chloe, and Ryley) for the first time. I also had a fun time with Uncle Ryan and Auntie Jodie! I was really really really excited to meet my GREAT GRANDMA BHOLA in Halifax. I just love her to pieces! We played peek-a-boo, she gave me tons of hugs and kisses AND I even took my first 6 steps in her condo (I took my first 2-3 steps in BC two weeks before this)! In Halifax I saw Peggy's Cove, the waterfront, ate lots of lobster (well Mommy and Uncle Leon), had a COWS ice cream, had a nice family "Trini" BBQ and of course checked out the new H&M store!

I also attended my first wedding- of my Auntie Jenelle and Uncle Jesse. It was held in Kelowna, BC (Canada's wine country) at a winery and the scenery was breathtaking. It was a beautiful wedding and I danced the night away! Mommy was her maid of honor, as Auntie Jenelle is her bestest friend!


In Winnipeg, I visited with grandparents and many Aunts and Uncles. We had a chance to officially celebrate Daddy's graduation with a nice party. It was a lot of fun to catch up with family and my parents friends. I also had a little toast for him-

Congrats to my Daddy

Your graduation has filled us with love and pride,
We always knew that you could do anything when you really tried.
It's was long and challenging journey to get your PhD,
But you wouldn't quit it, you just went and did it,
And we're beaming affectionately!!

Your achievement is awesome, Daddy
You've worked very hard and you've passed the test.
Mommy and I love you so, and we want you to know,
We think you're the very best!


We are now back in Burnaby doing our usual- playgroups, story time and walks at different parks on the weekend. I am now 31 inches and weigh 20 pounds, but still NO teeth! I am walking, side stepping, dancing,kicking, climbing on furniture, eating everything in sight and just getting into everything (as mommy and daddy would say)!!!

Until next time...
Sloppy kisses and squeezes from--
Kailas Andrew
xoxoxo

P.S. Enjoy the following videos and pictures below... sorry there are so many but Mommy went a little picture crazy on our trips! ;)

My steps in Halifax-



Me in action-



And here are the pictures from 8-9 months!

Seven Months of FUN FUN FUN!!!

Hi Everyone~

Sorry it has been so long since my last post but I am a busy guy! :)

First of all I will tell you about some of the new stuff I have been doing.... I crawl like CRAZY and am ready to WALK! I take every chance I get to scale the furniture and walk myself along it. It is soooo much fun! No teeth yet but I do get cranky at night so I think my top two are coming in. I have tried eating tons of stuff like brussel sprouts, avacados, carrots and sweet potatoes. My mommy and daddy make all my food for me.. It looks like hard work!

Over the past few weeks I have enjoyed visits with my cousins in BC- I got to meet my new one- Saavin... He's a cutie!

I went with Mommy to Winnipeg for a couple weeks. She worked on her thesis and I got to spend time with my grandparents... They fought over who got to watch me!!! hahaha.
I celebrated my 7th month birthday over there and enjoyed a Winnipeg tradition- a Jeanie's Cake!

We came back and celebrated Father's Day ( a week late- but Daddy didn't mind- he's the best!)
We are back to the "norm" around here... Playgroup, meeting up with friends and cousins, swimming and doing family stuff. I have been to 2 birthday parties too.. One for my cousin Jaya and the other for my cousin Jahan! The weather here has been great for the most part and I am outside everyday! Today it was FREEZING and I had to wear a warm hat and hoodie!!!

Mommy and Daddy celebrated their third wedding anniversary on July 2nd. They bought themselves a BBQ and patio furniture since they have the space to set it up! They already had 2 cookouts!!!

There are some pictures and videos below! Enjoy...
Love Always,
Kailas
xoxo

And so the crawling begins!

Kailas has been semi-mobile for a couple months. He started off sitting up (when we would sit him down) at about 4 months. A couple weeks after that he would start moving on his bum and scoot around. He was rolling about the same time so it was a choice between scooting or rolling to get the toys that he wanted. He has been getting up on all fours for about a month now. Over the last week and a half he has been moving both his arms and knees! And so the crawling begins...
Check out his video:


And a P.S. It was requested that I put up the video of his first day of Green Beans. Notice how he doesn't like mom's cooking and spits it out in Daddy's face!

Video Blog Day

Please enjoy a few videos of Kailas over the past few weeks.

First is his swimming experience at the Tot Pool. We have been going every Sunday and he seems to like looking around, splashing and kicking his feet. He is turning into quite the water baby! It has been a nice family outing that is fairly inexpensive. We are also slowly getting used to showering, rinsing him off and playing tag team with him so we can all get dressed-- one needs to have some sort of strategy!



The second video is in his new Jolly Jumper. He tried this model today at playgroup (one of the other moms was nice enough to bring her daughter's for Kailas to try out). I ended up going on Craigslist and finding one for a quarter of the price at Toys R Us. As you can see HE LOVES IT! The only thing is... where do we store it?!!

Happy Second Birthday Einstien!

Today is Einstein's birthday and boy what a fun night we had! Mom made us party hats and we had cupcakes!

My cousins Jaya and Amaran came over and they gave Einstein a birthday treat- they are not as scared of him as they were before and Einstein really likes them!

I must apologize for not blogging as often as I had promised. I swear- I have an excuse!

First Nana Mohinder visited on his way back from India then Amma Linda was here for a while and then we headed off to Winnipeg for a few weeks! I had Easter in Winnipeg then Daddy, Mommy and I went to Grand Forks so Daddy could defend. So all I saw was that he was wearing a tie and he did a big presentation in front of a bunch of people. According to Mommy he passed and now we all have to call him "Dr" :) Congrats Daddy- you're a PHARMACOLOGIST... whatever that is.


While in Grand Forks, I had a great visit with Uncles Andy, Javi, Auntie Susan (they came from Brookings, SD/ Chicago, Il/ Boston, MA) , all my friends in Grand Forks and the Graduate School. I even got babysat by "Grandma Kris" (Mommy's old boss)in our room at the hotel while they went out to celebrate! Oh yea.. I also had fun at the the splash park at the hotel!


Daddy headed back to BC while Mommy and I stayed in Winnipeg. We had lots of visits with friends and family and we stopped in Calgary for the weekend on our way home. We stayed with Auntie Jenelle, Uncle Jesse and Maori. I had a blast playing with Maori, even though she thought my name was Charlie...

Now that we are home, Mommy is trying to finish up her Masters thesis so we can go to Winnipeg/ Grand Forks again this summer. She is also looking for a job now that she has her BC teaching license.


These days we are still going to play group and storytime. Mommy and I also went to Salsababies and the Vancouver Zoo this week with my friend Nateo (he is exactly one week older than me) and his Mommy Sharon.

I also got a new cousin this week (he is still a "No Name" like I was when I was born) so I am not the youngest anymore! He was born on Sunday- Mother's Day. We went to visit him on Monday and I was in awe... He is so tiny and so cute! Congrats Uncle Bunny and Auntie Jag!


I am a pretty big guy these days... I think I am 29 in and 19 lbs. I sit up on my own and I eat solids! (I will post some videos below so you can see how big I have gotten) I can hold myself up on all fours and I am trying to crawl! I will be 6 months old on MONDAY!! Can you believe it?


I will write again soon. Enjoy all the pictures and videos!