For Sale!!!

Well it is official all the paper work is signed, our house will be on the market on Monday…. so scary. I know I am going to bawl my eyes out when we finally leave this house…

Oh well bring on the excitement of the next house and inevitable reno

5 Months Brings Rolling and Some Quality Food

The little guy has grown up so much in the last month. He has so many facial expressions and noises. He is growing into such a little boy.

In terms of appearance he has started to slim down… abit. On occasion he actually only has one chin. He has lost of majority of his brown hair, with the exception of the tuff at the base of his neck. His brown hair is now bring replaced with white blond hair, it looks kind of like baby duck down. He continues to have shockingly blue eyes and there doesn’t seem to be any change in that.

This month he has started to roll over, from front to back and back to front. He started off only doing in once of twice in about a week or so but now he has turned pro and he can flip himself quite easily. As you know he sleeps on his stomach but now I never know which side I am going to find him on when I come to get him.

He still isn’t stable sitting up but he is getting better at it. He does love standing and he is pretty sturdy.

Felix and I have been getting a lot more fresh air in the last month. I haven’t been using the stroller very much but I have been using the carrier, it is quite the back strengthening. We have been for a lot of walks since the weather has started to warm up. Felix does not think much of being faced towards me and makes his feelings know but he is quite happy if he is faced outwards. Unfortunately although he is happy in the carrier he doesn’t usually sleep, bah!

Speaking of sleep, Felix has been sleeping through the night for the most part but unlike Amelia, who once she started sleeping through the night never looked back Felix has hiccups in his routine. In the last few weeks he has woken up crying in the night. Jeff and I think it might be his teeth of that he is hungry and ready to start solids.

Felix continues to be a drooling fool with no teeth in sight yet but an increase in the amount of drool and a set of rosy cheeks indicates they are on their way.

Felix is starting to get abit clingy, he gave my mom a run for her money the other week by screaming for about an hour while she was watching him, poor mom. I am not sure if he actually wants me or just wanted some one to rub his back and sing him the “Meatball” Song… Yup that is right that is his fav, I always sang Amelia Hush Little Baby but Felix just screams louder if I sing that but for some reason as soon as I start with “on top of spaghetti” he quiets right down. I am abit worried my son is going to start thinking his name is meatball, it is actually a rather appropriate nickname.

I am confirmed my son is not a shopper, Amelia would never fuss when I took her to the mall, Felix not to much. Every time I take him there is a minor melt down while I am browsing as soon as I pick up the pace though he is a happy camper again.

This isn’t actually official part of month 5 but seeing as I am late with my post I will add it anyway… As I mentioned above Felix has been waking up in the night, we narrowed it down to two possible explanations, teeth or hunger. First we tried giving Felix tempra before bed but that didn’t help so we thought food might be the problem, as such we decided to start Felix on solids this weekend. You would think we were rookie parents with the major lapse in judgment we made… Sat morning we took as break from home fix ups and went down to St. Lawrence market to get some fixin’ for dinner that night and we decided to get some yummy veggie for Felix to test out. We selected some lovely orange and purple carrots, so has anyone noted the problem… purple carrots not so smart…. They are like beats, they were impressively purple once steamed and squished. Oh well it made for an adventure. Anyways Felix seemed quite into the food. He was all about trying to grab the spoon and shove it in his mouth, this was about of an obstacle for us. In sticking with tradition we implemented the feeding hat again, Felix doesn’t have quite the voluminous locks that his sister did but still we figured better safe than sorry. Felix has had two more days of solids now and he really seems to be digging it. It is nice to have one child excited about the food we make 

Friday we headed to Dans and Rubs for a BBQ and drinks with friends, it was a good night. We hosted family dinner on Saturday night, it was chocked full of fresh market yummies. Sunday we went for our yuppie walk in High Park followed by some house tiding and storage room reorganization.

Amelia is doing really well, she is abit makeup and princess obsessed for us at the moment but other than that she is great. Friday we spent the day with Leigh and Ronan and those two had a great time together, they are so cute together.

Okay better go.

He’s Rolling…

I knew it was coming but Felix started fully rolling over last week. So far he has only mastered rolling from his back to his front but not back again, my mom thinks its just because he is so happy on his tummy. The kid is abit of a beast, he can push him self up almost to his hips when he is on his stomach, he looks like he is doing yoga, it isn’t so great when I am trying to get him to go to sleep though.

He is LOVING his saucer, mostly for it’s chewing properties. Thank goodness the thing is plastic because there is a never ending ring of drool around it.

He continues to be abit of a chatterbox though he is turing up the volume. THe faces he makes while he talks are pretty priceless, I will have to try to get a pic.

Amelia is doing well but she has had abit of a rough week a school, on monday when Jeff went to pick her up she was standing by herself in the corner of the playground staring into space, when she saw him she came running and burst into tears. Turns out one of her best friends at school is staying over at another of her friends houses for a sleepover, Amelia was devestated she wasn’t invited. So it beings… Poor little bean. Jeff did a great job talking to her about it.

Not much else going on, the little renos were put on hiatus this weekend as there was alot of social stuff going on. OH it is offical my brain has atrophied.. On Sat I took Amelia to her friend Edwards birthday party, I had fed the invite weeks before so when I ran out the door running abit late as usual, I didn’t re check. We arrrived at Edwards House and no one was there… OOPS I had to drive home check the invite again only to find out that the party was at a kids play place in Mississauga… ugh!

Nose Picking

So over christmas Jeff and I were playing this quiz game and one questions was what percent of the population have picked someone elses nose… the answer was 11%, at first I found this to be shocking and gross but a few weeks later I came to a startling relisation, I am one of those 11%…

With booger season upon us plus teething, seems Jeff and I regularly have a finger up one of our kids noses, yes I know gross but true. I am now rethinking my orginal impression of that 11% and am now thinking it should be much higher because most of the mom’s I have surveyed also openedly admit to doing the odd booger retrival. Now that I think more about this I am starting to worry about my mental health that I have been spending so much time thinking about this, maybe it is time for me to go back to work…

In other news, we had a weekend of fixer uping in preparation for selling the house in the spring, we painted ceilings and the bathroom. Joy oh joy. John and Denise were kind enough to let us stay there for the weekend. During both Sat and Sun Denise watched Amelia and Felix while Jeff, John and I sanded, scraped and painted away.

Both Kids are doing pretty well, Amelia had tons of fun with Denise, baking cupcakes (she even got to measure the ingedients) and doing lots of dishes (this seems to be a big hit these days, I think she paints just so she can wash the brushes after).

Felix is still flighting the teething battle and will chew on anything in site. He is abit cranking but still a funny little guy.