Hello from Malaysia

Well we made it here in one piece. The trip started at the grand hour of 3am as we caught our flight to Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific had screwed up the seating, so the 3 of us were not together as originally booked. Long story short, Mom ended up sitting with us in the front and Charlie was 5 rows back. Charlie will be able to fill you in with a far more colourful version!

We got into Hong Kong and quickly headed out to KL. Once we arrived we were greeted by Rose, Kira had no problems remembering her Grandma and was beaming at the sight of her. 

This is our 3rd day here now and Kira is slowly adjusting to the time and temperature difference. She is still waking quite a bit during the night, but she will usually fall back asleep within a few minutes. I'm hoping that she can sleep through the night again very soon because I am pooped!!!

Her crawling has improved a lot too. She is now "crab crawling" where she moves one leg and drags the other - too funny. But she is quick now! She is keeping me on my toes for sure.

Mom and Charlie have gone off to the resort town (island?) of Lengkawi for the next 3 days. I'm pretty sure that they will enjoy doing nothing but sitting on the beach in the sunshine. 

This weekend is James' (Jon's cousin) birthday party. I believe that he is turning 7. Then on Monday we are heading to Malacca to visit with the rest of the family and hopefully to have Kira meet her Great-Grandma. After Malacca we are hoping to do a trip to Singapore and Bintan (Indonesia), but we will see how Kira is doing.

I won't be able to post any pictures while we are here, but I will put some up when we get home on the 25th of November. 

Hope everyone is doing well.

The beginning of the end....

She is starting to figure this crawling business out...

More Pictures!!

Pictures!

There isn't too much going on here, we are just gearing up for our trip and getting in as much time with Daddy as possible. Tonight we are going for dinner for Joanne's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JO!

Here are some pictures of Kira from the last couple of days...


As her hair grows out, we are pulling it back to keep it out of her eyes, which looks super cute.

And then you take it out of the ponytail, and this is what you get! She looks straight out of the 80's.


This is her pink elephant she snuggles with sometimes.

Home sweet home

Hello everyone. Couple of quick updates...

#1) Kira went in for her 6 month checkup/shots on Tuesday. She is 16.45lbs, 67cm long (approx - she was moving way too much for an accurate measurement...and she kept trying to eat the tape measure), and her head is 43cm. All of her measurements are within the 50 - 75 percentile, so she is growing very well.
She also had her shots in this appointment and amazed both the doctor and me by not crying at all! She was even laughing with the doctor about 3 minutes after wards . The only time she cried was when I put her clothes back on - this kid loves being naked!
She continues to develop everyday. She is now able to sit up on her own, she topples now and then, but is quite steady for the most part. She has also started a backwards wave, she does this a lot in her stroller much to the delight of strangers that are waving at her. She is getting close to crawling, she is still moving backwards only but I figure by the time we are back from Malaysia she will be able to show off her crawling talents to her Daddy.

This is a picture of her today. She is in her exersaucer while I type this post. For those of you thinking she needs a haircut (Mom), I am letting her hair grow out so too bad!


#2) Our floors have finally been replaced and man do they look great! Kira and I were able to move home again last night. The baseboards were installed this morning and they are touching up the paint right now, then we will move our furniture back out and get back to normal life for a couple of weeks...then off to Malaysia!
Thanks again to Mom and Charlie for letting us crash at their place while the floors were being done. I'm sure it wasn't easy having a baby around to keep you up at night, but we are very grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving long weekend. We have returned home for one day to give Mom + Charlie a break from Kira and I. After a bit of a delay with the install (yay strata's!), the flooring will be installed tomorrow and Tuesday. We are hoping to move back home Tuesday night. Here are some pictures of what our place currently looks like:

Moving on out

We will be moving to Mom + Charlie's house on Monday for about 10 days or so while our floors are replaced. Turns out that the flooring was a little more damaged from the washing machine overflow than we originally thought. The way we are looking at is that we get brand new hardwood flooring for $500 (our deductible). We have now also repaired our washing machine and replaced the hoses, drain hose, as well as the toilet tank in the second bathroom - it had a crack and we didn't want to risk another flood!
There was a flood in the building late last week, someone working in their bathroom knocked the sprinkler and it went off. The flooding was so bad there was water coming out of the ceiling in units 3 floors below. Thank goodness the flooding happened 7 floors down from our unit, I just don't think we could handle going through this all over again.
Hope that everyone is doing well and enjoying the first few days of fall!