Bye Bye 46 Gooch

After 5 and a half years, this past weekend we moved out. Oh my goodness what an undertaking!!! it was exhausting but as usual our fantastic family helped us out. We moved all our stuff into storage for a month or two while we renovate our new place. Our storage unit is filled to the brims and it has been nicked named the Tomb, it is just short some jarred organs and a mummy Well we loved our old house and lord know we all put alot of blood sweat and tears into it but we are pretty excited about our new place and all the possiblities it has! I must say moving to etobicoke has its perks, we still get garbage collection!!!

Mystery Solved!

There has been some debate over who Felix looks like, I think I solved the mystery when I was packing up some old pictues. That’s me chillin’ in a drawer with a case of beer.

The Paper Boy and His Sister Dr Ruth

Felix is obsessed with paper, eating it to be more specific. His love of paper has really helped with his mobility because if he sees as piece of paper, a tiny scarp, a magazine or a full on book he will head off to get it in a flash. It is abit exhausting, I pulled him away from my huge stack of home decorating magazines about 10 times the other day!!!

His palate has also been experiencing some more diversity, he is been rockin’ the samlon the last couple days. I had some leftover salmon and rice so I just forked it up with some bby mush and he was digging it. Yippee I love the transition to non-purées. He has also done, lots more bread and crackers which he loves and peas, berries and of course Pake has introduced him to ice cream….

Felix’s is becoming more interactive, it was like a switch was flipped a week or so ago, he is all about playing and making people laugh. Air raspberries are his favourite, I made the mistake of laughing a couple times when he started while I was feeding him. He thinks he is very funny! He is still loven’ peek-a-boo, the other day he had himself in fits of giggles when Amelia and I gave him his shirt to play with and he started pulling it over his eyes then down again.

Felix’s is sleeping well again and has been upping his sleep-ins in the morning which I can’t complain about! His teeth still haven’t poked through yet but man are they ever bulging!!! Felix is mostly commando crawling but he does get a few crawls in now and then. He is also getting very good at walking along things.

Amelia has been really good lately, there have been far fewer flights about clothes in the mornings. We have changed two things, one we pick out her clothes the night before and two we feed her breakfast before we get her dressed. She has also been very helpful with packing, she is very keen to be involved with everything, not bad for us as we have some child labour  Jeff has taught her the fine art of wrapping plates (we will judge how well she learned once we unpack the plates…)

Amelia’s seem to have taken all our much loved phases and quirks and run with them, it is abit disconcerting. She cracks out some impressive vocab these days.

She has also taken an interest in her body… The other week we were driving home and Amelia and Felix were in the backseat. Amelia decided to educate Felix… She explain the following in a totally serious voice “Felix, I this is my cracker, you don’t eat crackers, you drink milk it is from mommy’s boodie. This is my boobie, that is your boodie. My boodie is little, your boodie is really little, Mommy’s boobie is big….” And it went on, Jeff and I were both shaking with stifled laughter. The other classic Amelia moment was when we were all down in the kitchen and Amelia went up to go to the bathroom. She was gone awhile when I called up to ask her if she needed help, she informed us that she got her arm stuck in the middle of her vagina while she was wiping and now she was washing her arm…. Oh boy!

As a whole we are all very good, we have been madly packing and getting ready for the reno’s we have sourced most of the tiles, appliances, and fixtures. Now we just need to start knocking down walls so we can confirm measurements. This weekend we are doing the final move and we move in with John and Denise for a couple months. I thought I would be really sad about leaving our current house after all the blood sweat and tears that we have put into it but I am not, at least not yet. I am sure that last day will be bitter sweet but really I think Jeff and I have both moved on to the new place.

This weekend we went antiquing, this is the first time I have done this since I was a kid and got dragged from antique store to store. This tame we dragged Amelia and Felix. Amelia was abit crazy at first but after she had Jeff tried out the pancake breakfast she was good to go and she was all about looking at all the vintage jewels. We ended up getting a new dinning room table which I am totally excited about. It is long and narrow, 3ft by 7ft which fits our new dinning room to a tee!

Sat night we headed to our friends Mark and Chelsea’s with Heather, Adam and Cam for some play time on their new deck and an Indian feast for us! The kids were getting abit bored at one point so Mark pulled out the mixing bowls, a few cups of flour, some spices and whisks and Amelia and Sammie created wonderful cakes with the help of Miss Mags and Cam (Felix was having a snooze).