Felix is Half a Year

Felix turned 6 months old on friday. Felix has become quite mobile this month, he rolls with a purpose now. Write more later…

Okay finally got this done… Felix continues to be a pretty happy smiley little boy, he has a great giggle when tickled or rough housed with, he also has quite the cackle. He loves smiling at people, me, his sister, strangers, even people on TV (but only if they smile at him first).

His looks have been changing in the last month or so, he is starting to stretch out but he is still pretty compact. He is very long in the torso with stocky little legs. He has now lost almost all his brown hair and his white blond hair is getting thicker. He still has his dimples on both sets of cheeks.

He now rolls around with a purpose, and as a result he is getting into more mischief. The other day I was cooking dinner and he was in the dinning room on the carpet, I turned my back and then looked back and he was on the hardwood licking the floor with my shoe in his other hand (not sure which would have been better to be licking but either is pretty gross). We now find him all over his crib, the other day I was down stairs when I heard him wake up and start chatting away to himself, I figure I would finish what I was doing before going to get him, then this blood curdling scream started so I ran upstairs only to find him as the foot of his crib with his big quilt pulled down on him (I usually hang the quilt over the end of his bed). By the time I made it into his room he managed to get the quilt off his face and he was smiling away at me quite please with himself. He still isn’t so good at sitting, he can sit there for a moment but as soon as he sees something to either side of him he is leaning and over he goes.

He doesn’t seem that far from crawling, he gets up on his knees and he gets up on his arms but he hasn’t managed the two together. I am in for it when he does get it. The other day John was playing with him and he stood him up next to his exersaucer and Felix grabbed on and John let go of him, he actually stood there on his own for a few seconds.

Felix continues to be a very noisy baby, he loves yelling just for the fun of it. He talks to himself and coos away. He has also learned to blow bubbles/make the motorboat noise. He was doing it bit then one night last week we were going out and Amelia and Felix were in the back seat, Felix started doing it and Amelia started laughing, and Felix started doing it more and then squealing with delight, the tow of them just egged each other on. This was a first for us, this was the first time the two of them were playing with each other, it was pretty cute.

Felix loves his food! He has eaten all sorts of things and hasn’t really found anything he doesn’t like. Lately I have started giving him little pieces of bread when we are out. I put them in front of them and he manages to grab them (often sending half of them to the floor). I like this self feeding thing.

Felix is a pretty good sleeper, he hasn’t been up in the night for over a month. He has about 3 naps a day on average and he sleeps from 8pmish to 6:30amish. Amelia was like clockwork with her times but her isn’t nearly as routine (actually I think I am not as routine) all his times vary quite abit.

All in all Felix is growing up and starting to seem more like a toddler than an infant now.

Easter ect.

I am abit behind on my posts/ Let em start with Easter, we had a great easter weekend. We volenteered to host Easter Dinner, we were abit worried that our house might not be sold and we would have to balance keeping the house show ready and cooking a big meal but in the end that was not an issue. Actaully the first dinner party we ever hosted in our house was Easter Dinner, our house was still in abit of disarray at the time.

Anyways we decided to Deep fry our turkey this year. We were amazed at how much you can actaully cook when you don’t have a turkey in the oven. The meal turned out really well. Jeff’s Family came along with our friends Heather, Adam, Dani, Rory and Andrea. I was goodtimes all around.

As the night progressed Adam and Rory decided to take it upon themselves that they would couch Amelia in the act of the easter egg hunt. They started to explain but Amelia asked themt o hang on while she went to find a piece of paper and a pen to take notes. The advice was first check the window sills, she didn’t know how to spell that so she drew a picture instead then the shelves, she draw another window It was a very extensive training with much running around involved. Very entertaining.

The next morning Amelia seemed to forget all the advice imparted to her. She saw the easter basket with the big easter bunny and she couldn’t be bothered with the window sills. After alittle prompting she did do the big hunt though.

Following Easter my dad and Sarah came out for a visit and to join us for my birthday. We had a great visit. Sarah had to work on Tuesday but Dad, Amelia, Felix and I went to the zoo for a few hours. It was a great day. Amelia informed us that she was no longer into dots and she liked stripes better therefore the giraffs were no longer the favs but the zebras were. Tuesday night Dad got to see the reharsal of Amelia dance preformance, rather cute.

On Wed, my birthday Dad, Sarah, Felix and I spent hte day togehter and went out for lunch in the beaches. In the evening all the familyexcept Rich went out for dinner at the Boiler House in the Distillary District. Dinner was very yummy, unfortuntaly after a busy day and not much napping for felix, Felix was not a hppy camper and the night ended up being abit stressful, either way though it was nice to have everyone there.

Going Going GONE!!!

Okay so our house was on the market for 12hrs, the listing went up for agent at 8:30am by 10:30am we had 5 showings booked and by 8pm we had an offer. It was rather exciting and a big sigh of relief for both of us. We close on July 15 eeep! Now we just need to find a new house, unfortunately there is NOTHING on the market in the area we are interested in!!!! BAH! We put an offer in on a house on Saturday and unfortunately lost out in a bidding war, BIDDING WAR I KNOW!!! There aren’t supposed to be bidding wars right now, that is why we decided to move now! Double Bah!

Oh well enough of the house saga, on to the rest of life. We have been our usual busy selves, Jeff ran the Spring Runoff this weekend and went to the season home opener for the TFC. Amelia and chilled on Saturday and went to see a movie with her friends. Monsters vs Aliens, she seemed to like it but informed me it was abit scary. I thought is was abit slow but that may have been because I was running in and out signing back offers on this house we were trying to get. Sunday was a much be relaxed day with just some groceries, a birthday party for Amelia and Sunday dinner at J&D’s.

Amelia’s is slowing developing a sense of humor. Both John and Jeff like to tease Amelia relentlessly, for the last year or two she has bit and will get all upset until we tell her that they are joking her. She is starting to be able to tell when they are teasing her. The other day I was putting my makeup and Amelia was watching me, as she does whenever she gets the chance. I have a basket on the top of the toilet with all my makeup in it, Amelia was rummaging around in it after I had asked her to stop repeatedly, (I was getting annoyed) and she looked up at me and got a quirky grin on her face and said “but Mommy I am just so curious….”, I melted. On the weekend I was making some spiced nuts for snacks during the week, Amelia was asking about them and I told her I was making these so we had a healthish snack instead of chocolate or chips, she looked at me and said “so mom they are NUTrisous”. Jeff and I both laughed and Amelia was pretty pleased with herself. Melie is princess, makeup and generally girlie stuff obsessed these days, Jeff has vowed to put her in sportball this summer 

Amelia is starting to learn her ABCs, she has known the song for awhile but now she is getting much better at writing all her letters. It does amazing me how quickly kids learn at this age. She has this little etch-a-sketch with a pen thant she loves to use for playing “school” Jeff or I are the teacher and we have to tell her what letters to write and have to lead the songs during circle time…

Felix is a happy little dude these days, he makes me laugh. He has this massive grin that I think looks like a muppet. He is getting much more mobile and is rolling all over and can even inch worm along abit and can hold himself up on his knees for short periods. He is a lot getting much stronger at sitting but still looses his balance and topples to one side or the other quite frequently.

He is also developing more hand eye coordination, he reaches up to touch my face now, which I find very cute. He is very good at grabbing his toys.

He continues to be VERY vocal, his latest trick is to yell at the top of his lungs so the rest of us can’t hear ourselves and he smiles away while he is doing it. Ugh!

He is LOVIN’ his food. We have thrown all caution to the wind and have been going crazy with foods. SO far he is had purple carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, squash with onions and cinnamon, Chicken and squash courtesy of Hez, bits of bread, avocado, mango and bananas. You can really tell when he likes what he is getting (which is the norm) because he getting very involved he grabs the spoon and shoves it in his mouth, then if his spoon isn’t in his mouth he has to get his finger to suck on. It is a very interactive and messy affair. Oh he has also had prunes for obvious reasons.

Here is Miss Mealie helping out with some of the house touch ups, she was wearing new clothes so she was told to remove them before helping out with the painting.