Hmmmmm

This:

Or this:

Soooooo obvious!

Old wrapping paper roll FTW!!

Tunnels and Tiny Places

So, after months of exclusively walking, I have revisited my stance (…get it?) on crawling. I now realize that crawling has it's time and place. Crawling is an excellent method of travel for getting into tiny spaces and tunnels. Recently, this has become quite a thrilling game at my house. Mommy sets up some blankets in a tunnel formation and I hide and crawl under them. Seriously, have you tried this? It is groundbreaking! If you are looking to laugh your head off until you fall over, get your mom to drape some blankets over some furniture and have at! You heard it here first.

Entering the tunnel….

Sneaking out of the golf-club-armchair cubby.

The greatest hiding spot ever.

Love, Felix

Swim or Shall I call it S Win!

Okay, that was terrible…but swimming is definitely a win! I love swimming. I love going with Daddy, I love the water, I love the noodles, I love all the things about swimming.

For my first birthday, Mommy and Daddy went all out with the presents and bought me a $1.99 ball from Toys 'r Us (also a huge win) and swimming lessons. They still say that the ball is the best buck ninety nine they have ever spent. After all, ball is my first love. Anyhooooo, back to the pool. Every Saturday morning, Daddy packs me up and whisks me off to swimming lessons at the rec centre where we blow bubbles, dunk, float, kick and slide.

This is me 'seal' ing into the water.

Pool Noodling about. That's really a thing, right? Pool Noodling. 

One other note about swimming lessons is that it is very tiring work. I enjoy a nice, long snooze after my lessons. My parents don't seem to mind.

Love, Felix 

Nana Time!

As mentioned in my last post, mommy has returned to work, and Nana and Gramps hang with me for most of the week. Gramps and I spend our time playing chase around the house, I impress them with my eating habits and Nana and love playing musical instruments and marbles together. This past week, she and I decided to attend a playgroup with a bunch of other kids and their grandmas! We sang songs, played with toys, had snacks, and read stories! It was a LOT of fun!

Here is me chasing after some toys...(I'm the one in the red shirt in the background)

Here is me waiting patiently for my snack...

And another pic of me playing...

Already looking forward to next week, Nana!

Love, Felix 

Missing Mommy

So, my mom has returned to work. It's not like she works a lot…but still. Currently, she works two afternoons a week and two superlong days. The days that she works the afternoons is cool, because we get to hang and play all morning, but it's those really long days where I only see her for about an hour before I go to bed that I really, really miss her.

Now, I am not a super snuggly guy, or even a mildly snuggly guy as
I am extremely busy at any moment of the day working on many, many important projects that do not include sitting, being still for even one second, or being held. Those cups aren't going to stack themselves, nnnkay! However, I have started making exceptions. For Mommy. After she has been gone for a long day at work, all I want to do is snuggle with her. Today when she got home, we laid on the couch together for about an hour chatting about our days, laying down a few slow jams, and yes, snuggling. Admittedly, it was so nice I even nodded off for a while. Just as I was entering slumber town (if you've never heard of it, it's across snooze river right next to La Snore), she snapped a sneaky picture. She asked me to tell you to imagine that the giant circles under her eyes are actually just baby-butterfly-unicorns giving her gentle smooches.

Love, Felix xo

SkillZ

See what I did there? Because my last name starts with a 'Z', I changed the word skills to skillZ to personalize it....

It's late. Anyhoo, I think it's been a while since I have updated everyone on all the stuff I like to do now.

I can...

1) Drink from a cup and feed myself with a spoon
2) Say, "Ticka, ticka" while tickling Mommy and Daddy
3) Walk...pretty well if I may say so myself. Here I am taking an enjoyable stroll through the park with Mommy.

4) Play a mean game of peek-a-boo anytime. Anywhere. Note the top secret hiding place I have concealed myself in, in the first picture.

                    

5) I can stack things. All sorts of things. 

6) I can pull off multiple patterns in one outfit. That's plaid on different plaid, with stripes. Mommy dressed me today.

 

7) I wave, stack things, bake...sort of.

(This was pre-haircut)

8) I play piano

...with my feet!

 

9) I can open the cereal cupboard, pull out the cheerios and feed myself AND Luna (Nana and Gramps' dog)

10) I am really working on my sounds and can actually hit a pitch so unique, only small dogs and other critters can hear me. I enjoy singing along to music, dancing to music and clapping to music. Music in general.  

That about sums things up around here. Here are a few more pics from the park.

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Love, Felix xo

Une. Uno. One. ONE!

That is how many years I am! One year old. It was a superb day! All my grandparents and Aunts and Uncles were there and so was my cousin Ben. After a rocky start (mom-sliced-her-finger-open-and-spent-half-the-day-in-emergency-getting-stitches), we had a splendid time. We had snacks and treats and I opened so many wonderful gifts. Everyone was so generous and I got totally spoiled. Let's return to the eating part of the day. I basically snacked for 4-5 hours...grapes, nuts 'n bolts, carrots, broccoli, mini burgers, the list goes on. The highlight though, was the cake. Mom made me a one-year-old sized cake and covered it in tiny rainbow sprinkles. She sat me down in just my undies and I got the whole cake. The whole cake. Literally, the ENTIRE cake. CAKE!

 

After I carefully selected about 7 individual sprinkles off the top of the cake and tentatively ate them, I realized I could just take entire handfuls of this cake business and mash it into my face. So I did.

 

Sugar is so, so good. Afterwards, Daddy took a picture of everyone who came to my party! The large beige-y fur pile in the bottom left corner is Luna, Nana and Grandpa's dog. She likes eating cake also.

 

I threw on my new puffy vest to open gifts. (I though it would be a good way to show off my biceps.) Even though I could totally open the presents up all by myself, I let mom help me out. You know, make her feel "involved".

 

I really enjoyed all my generous gifts-I am one lucky guy! 

 

This is what I look like on a sugar high:

 

And, just for Auntie Kate...SELFIE!

 

Love, Felix xo