9 months for Felix and some BIG achievement for Amelia

Oh Mr. Felix, that are so many changes in him and so little time to write them down. We are all happily moved in our at the Reitsma resort now, it took felix alittle adjust ing but he seems to be back to normal now.

His nineth month was a busy one for everyone in our family, Jeff and I spent much time packing and getting organised for the move and felix spent much time unpacking and eating paper.

He perfected his commando crawl and even started crawling normally though he found it slower and after a couple shuffles went back to the commando. When he first move in at John and Denise he went on strike and refused any sort of movement, I think it was partially the hardwood floors and partially just being out of sorts from the move.

He also has turned into a massive mommies boy in the last couple weeks. It started around the time we moved and has continued, if I am in the room or he can hear me then he wants me to hold him. I will say in the last few days it has been getting better as he gets more comfortable here.

He also managed to spring two teeth just before he hit nine months, the two bottoms of coarse. He looks so much more grown up with them now.

His hair in now white blond and he still in managing to retain his very chunky little legs.

He is big on making noises these days, he has the mamama and dadada down pat, every once and awhile I think he actually know what those sounds are associated with with then I wake. He is big on yelling too which is very annoying and he thinks is very funny, his favourite time is when we are on the highway driving, I think something is horribly wrong but Amelia reports that there is usually smile on his face while he does it. BAH!!!

He has now figured out how to pull up on things and does it with easy, I usaully find him standing up in his crib now and he loves getting up and walking around the coffee table or pushing Amelia’s chair around the kitchen. Here comes trouble.

IN other big news Amelia has learned how to swim in the last few weeks. She was very timid at the beginning of the summer and only wanted to play on the steps with her swimming vest on but then we got her in a two week long swimming camp and we had some warm weather. After that first week and a half she had it and will now jump in to the deep end all by herself and swim back to the shallow end, we are all so proud of her.

Amelia has also really started to catch on to reading, I guess it pay to live with a primary teacher Amelia knows all her letters and can write out words if you spell them for her but in the last few weeks she and denise have started making little books with simple sentences that she can read, she loves the chance to show off her new skills to unsuspecting visitors.

I’ll throw this in now too because I don’t know when else I will get a chance. Our house is coming along, I have posted some pics on flickr. we had a big demo party a few weeks ago and we got most of the required demo done, we have such wonderful friends who came and helped us out. Since then Johnny, the contractor has taken over and has been putting the main floor back together while Jeff works on the basement. Things are looking great and we are so excited to go visit and see the latest progress.

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