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.