Kedaar comples 13 months

Kedaar completed 13 months today.
We went to Bellevue Squaremall for buying something today unplanned. Last year he completed one month on Dec 8th and we took him for the fist time out side after his birth to Bellevue Squaremall in his stroller. We noticed that Christmas decorations in the mall today were exactly same as last year. That is a very nice memory.

Kedaar seems to became much more active after he turned one. We bought a front facing car seat for him now from BabysRus and now he is enjoying going in the car very much.

We are actually thinking of going to a long trip during Christmas time as Kedaar's day care lady is going to be OOF for a week during that time.Kedaar loves outdoors. We went Mount Rainier during Thanksgiving holidays. He loved playing with the snow there and doesnt want to come back to sit in the car. I want to take him to more sunny beach sort of place.



Few tricks he did this month.

1. He is an expert tracing moon now. If we ask him "where is Chandamama", he shows the moon with his finger. He also keeps searching for the moon when he is in the car.
2. He clealry says "Nanna", "Amma", "taata", "Bye bye C u" now. He also lot of complete sentences in his language and try to make conversations with people.
3. He goes to hardwood floor and hits his head against if he is not happy with what we do with him (like snatching things from him etc). But then, in seconds, he gets diverted.
4. He knows pooja room very well now. Whenever we go to temple, if he sees any picture of god or whenever we say "dandam pettu", he immediately gets his hands together for praying god.



5. He loves kitchen, if I am in the kitchen, he has to see what's going on there.
6. He plays peekaboo now and tries to surprise us by doing something suddenly when we dont expect.
7. He can easily climb tup the bed and climb down. He can open and close microwave.
8. He is learning how to give a hug. He loves soft toys. We got a very soft bear from him in San diego. That is his favorite. He just keeps hugging it and plays by putting his face against it. He also affectionately gives hug to people.

Kedaar's first birthday party

We have hosted Kedaar's first birthday party yesterday. We did that in a Kabana in Redmond. Lot of friends came to the party and wished Kedaar. We wanted to have a pooh themed birthday party, so we bought the balloons and cake with pooh on them.
Kedaar was very excicted and played nicely almost till the end of the party.
Here are few pictures from the occassion.

Kedaar turns ONE

Today is Kedaar's first birthday. I can not believe it is one year already since this cute boy entered into our world.

He started his day with wishes from grandparents and cousins early in the morning.
Then we took him into his room which we painted in light green last week. We also sticked a 5 ft pooh poster in the room. He was super excited to see that.
We went to temple later, but unforunately the temple was closed as we reached there little late around 12 PM.
After temple, we celebrated Kedaar's birthday in his day care with balloons and cake. All the kids had lot of fun.
In the evening, we did Ariselu perantam for Kedaar by calling 3, 4 families. They do this when the kid starts taking his first steps.
I really wanted to do this for him though he started walking 2 months back :) I got these from Vasanthi, a friend of ours coming here from Microsoft India. The perantam was fun and Kedaar enjoyed it.

We are also hosting a party coming Sunday for his birthday.
One more special thing for the birthday, this blog I have been writing from almost an year finally came into the form of a book. We printed the book from blurb.com. The book quality was amazing and we are going to order more copies of these.
Here are the few pictures from the occassion.

RECW get together

Some of us from RECW planned a get together in our house last Saturday. 9 families attended this party and we had lots of fun. We want to have more of this often and involve more people from RECW who live in Seattle here.
While the elders were busy playing DumbC, Kedaar and SmithaV/Praveen's son Advik had fun racing with each other in climbing stairs.
Here are few pictures from the occassion.

Kedaar is 11 months old

Kedaar completed 11 months yesterday Oct 8th. He is just one month from his big milestone, 1st birthday. I was just looking at the older posts in this blog where I posted Kedaar's photos when he was born, 1 month old etc. He has grown up so much and it was a lovely experience watching him grow before our eyes.

Kedaar completes 6 months in day care

Kedaar completed 6 months in his day care by October 1st week.
Thanks to Kathy, he likes his day care very much and never cried a
single day till now when we leave him there instead he joins other kids
to say "bye bye" to us :)

Here is an albumn of Kedaar's photos we took in the past month along with few pictures in his day care.

Kedaar's favourite play now a days is playing Peekaboo. He loves watching us doing it and he tries to imitate us immediately by putting hands on his cheeks, head,mouth wherever and plays Peekaboo.

North West trek wild life park

We went to North West trek wild life park last weekend with Kedaar. As that was a very sunny day, we just wanted to take Kedaar outside and we thought he might like looking at different animals if we go an animal park.
It is about 60 miles from our home. This is a good park with lots of animals and kids would surely enjoy it. Here are some of our pictures from this short trip.

Vinayaka Chavithi celebration

We celebrated vinayaka chavithi yesterday with Kedaar. We got up in the morning and did preparations for the puja. Kedaar was very excited to see all the decoration etc but by the we are almost ready, he slept off. We did the puja after he woke up around 1 PM. Initially he showed some interest and put some flowers with us, later he got busy playing.He tasted little bit of vundrallu and seemed to like it. Here are some pictures from the occassion.

First haircut for Kedaar on his 10th month birthday :)

Kedaar had his first haircut at Brat Pack in Redmond yesterday.
He did pretty good through out the process watching the lady who did har cut for him.
He became 10 months old yesterday as well. We have to start planning for his first birthday.

Kedaar's first tooth

Kedaar started cutting a tooth after he completed his 9 months.
The pediatrician found it when we went to his 9th month immunizations:) Later it started showing up and now it became big.
His day care lady took a few days vacation combined with labor day and she was totally surprised seeing him with the grown tooth after she came back. Luckily he didnt seem to have too much pain or other symptoms people say generally happen when infants are teething.
We (he himself) are excited about his new tooth :)

arre huzoor! wah Tarbuj boliye

When we got these Watermelons home, Kedaar realized he got a new toy and
started playing with them. Here is his toy story on them, have fun ....

Balance on it and lift up :


Roll and make them fight


Roll and walk with it


Lift it and improve muscle power

Play Tabla with them. arre huzoor! wah Tarbuj boliye!

Kedaar walks comfortably

Kedaar started waling very comfortably without support from the past 2 weeks.
He just does not want to crawl now. We have captured his walking in several videos and will upload them seen.
Here is a latest albumn of Kedaar's photos.

Kedaar Walking

Kedaar is 9 months old

Kedaar completed 9 months yesterday on Aug 8th. Time just flies by. He is becoming more and more naughtier day by day.

Kedaar wore a new dress in the evening and we took a bunch of photos while he was playing, laughing and trying to stand.We will upload the photos some time during the weekend.

Kedaar's photos from Sears photo session

These are few pictures of Kedaar's recent photo session in Sears studio.

Kedaar's photos from PicturePeople

We had a photo session for Kedaar in PicturePeople studio.
Here are few pictures from that.