The Little Beast is 7 Months

Filo is such a boy everything is done with brute force and as loud as possible. He is currently rolling around the floor attacking and chewing a board book and yelling, you would think he was in a battle to the death from the noise. From the yells I keep thinking he is upset but if I turn to look at him I get the big open mouth muppet grin so I guess the battle is going his way and he thinks he will be successful in his assault on the Hungry Caterpillar. Last week Jeff gave Felix a bowl to play with while he was heating up his dinner. We did this with Amelia to, she would pick it up try to chew on it and kinda spin it around with her hand, not Felix he immediately picked it up and started slamming it down on his tray.

Filo is quite mobile now, he rolls with purpose and is quite skilled at the commando crawl. His fav is standing, he gets the Muppet grin whenever you pull him up. Last week we pulled out the music table which he is lovin. He can stand at it without problem but he gets distracted he goes over. Similar situation with the sitting, he can sit but hasn’t quite got the stabilization thing yet.

Felix’s other new discovery is his feet, he is so pleased with himself. He can’t quite get them in his mouth yet he just likes to grab them. He is big on sucking his finger, he doesn’t suck his thumb but he does suck his pointer finger when he sleeps or when he is tired.

He continues to love his food though he is getting abit more selective about it. Thing he likes such a meat, squash, lentils but he isn’t so keen on super texture-y food or peas and beans but he will eat them mixed with stuff. I think plain cereal is still his fav though. He also LOVES his mum mums and cheerios. I think watching him eat cheerios is one of my favorite past times, he is so intense in his attack.

The other new thing for Felix is various noises, his favs are clicking his tongue and making motor boat noises.

Right now he is abit sick, runny nose and a cough. Maybe signs of his first tooth? But as of today still no sign of any teeth.

Felix is 7 Months and I am a lazy Mother

Okay still haven’t written a post, blame it on my obessive compulsion for MLS. I did take his 7 months pics so here they are.

Felix’s latest favourite toys.

Ramdon Pic of Miss Meals.

Still no house for us. Very fusterating bah!

Amelia’s 4th Birthday Party/The Day We Lost the Class Hamster

So we had Amelia’s 4^th birthday the other weekend. Amelia was allowed to invite 6 of her girlfriends over for a fancy dress tea party (which turned into a princess tea party… gag gag) . In the end two of the girls couldn’t make it so we ended up with five little girls (including Amelia) this doesn’t seem that daunting but you would be wrong, thank goodness we brought in reinforcements in the form of Heather. THANK GOODNESS FOR HEATHER. We decided to try to do an old school home birthday party, we planed a couple arts and crafts and then “tea” and lunch out on the deck. Unfortunately for us the girls breezed through the arts and crafts in all of 20mins and lunch in about 30min. We ended up with about 20min of unplanned time EEEPPPP! With some songs and story time we all managed to survive ha ha ha Jeff pulled out his robot voice and some fancy head wear and was King of the Robots, this entertained the girls. I was surprised how long the tea party actually entertained the girls, that and the fancy voice competition.

The party was going okay until I went downstairs and I heard some scratching in the wall, hmm strange. Oh did I mention that we were babysitting the class hamster Simon for the weekend… yeah so he was in the laundry room in the basement so he was safe from the cats and kids. Unfortunately it seems somehow the cage was opened and Simon got out and into the walls of the basement. Not really what we needed in the middle of a 4 year old’s birthday party. AHHHHHHH!!!!

Well the party continued and we survived. Amelia had a great time, I think she enjoyed having all her friends over.

In the evening we had round two of Amelia’s party, the grown up party. It is an annual tradition, all our family and a few friends come over, including Amelia’s boyfriends, Edward and Ronan.  There was much food and drinks in celebration of Amelia’s fourth year.

Amelia is turning into quite the little girl. We have some impressive battles but for the most part she is a cheerful, smart, fumy little girl. In the last couple months she has learned to write all her letters, she hasn’t figured out that they have to go in a certain order to make a word, she frequently writes her name AMLEIA. She is also big into performing these days, dancing and singing are her favs though last night she also got into the piano and harmonica at John and Denise. She has been in swimming lessons for the last few months and she is becoming much more comfortable in the water. She was so proud the other day when she finished her lesson and she had done SIX bobs, she had to tell us all

So if you are wondering about the hamster, yeah… the next day still no sign of Simon the next morning. We were feeling pretty bad and we didn’t want to be the ones responsible for the loss of the hamster. So by 2pm on Sunday afternoon we decided it was time to ACTIVELY search for Simon. We knew he was in the wall behind the toy closet under the stairs so we ended up cutting a few holes and luckily we found Simon after hole #2. Very annoying about the holes but thank goodness we found him!! Simon you tricky little …  When Jeff dropped Amelia off at school the next morning he alluded to the fact that Simon had had some adventures over the weekend. When Jeff picked her up the teachers all had a few laughs as Amelia had spilled the beans on the new additions to our basement décor.