Felix's Christmas

Felix's Christmas started with him getting up about 6am (usually 5.30 - 6am) and then standing at the Christmas Tree for about 15-mins staring, saying 'wow'. It was very cute, he was memorised by the tree and the wrapping paper. Felix quite clearly says 'Santa' and as Santa was on a lot of the wrapping paper he pointed and everyone saying 'Santa', 'Santa'. He then had to wait another 1 1/2 hrs for Jarvis to rise from his bed (Jarvis now sleeps in to between 7 - 8.00am.

When his lazy brother eventually got out of bed we firstly went to ensure the carrots and chocolates had been eaten by the reindeer and elves, which of course they were. Then onto the stockings, the boys had some lovely stocking fillers with Felix receiving a teddy bubble blower and car from Santa (thanks Santa). Once the stockings were all empty we moved into the playroom to check out the Christmas Tree, the boys were very impressed with the tree and all the presents. We did one present at a time which took some time as the boys then had to play with each toy before moving onto the next one, it was very beautiful to watch the boys they were both very patient and delighted with their toys.

Felix received a 'Little People's farm' from his Mumma, he was delighted with the farm. It has a barn, tractor and loads of animals. He is especially pleased with the horses who he now carries around everywhere and attempts to ride by sitting on them. He received a drum kit from his Dah which he is surprisingly good at and loads of other cars, trucks, chocolates etc - boys stuff!

All in all a lovely Christmas was had by the Baker family, the boys were very sweet playing with their toys and each other.

Adrienne

New Experiences

Felix has had a couple of new experiences over the last few weeks:

1. He had dinner out with the family - we met up with some of Lee's running buddies and their little ones for dinner in an Italian Restaurant last week. It was very funny, when we just get to a stage where Jarvis is happy to sit and have his dinner, now Felix is the mobile one that won't sit still, running all around the restaurant.

2. He met Santa Claus. Again Jarvis is now more than happy to sit on Santa's knee and tell him all about what he wants for Xmas, whereas Felix would only sit with Santa if we sat with him.

3. He's been a Xmas tree. We put up the Xmas tree and lights last weekend, already all the decorations around the base of the tree are missing - they come off on a daily basis and Felix scatters them around the house and on himself.

4. He's been to his first birthday party. Our friend from down the road Dane had his 2nd birthday party a couple of weeks ago and I went along with the boys. Felix just loves the other kids, and he tries to get in amongst all the activity and to join in.

5. He went to Luna Park with friends. We meet up with Jarvis's buddy Ollie, his sister Madeline and Mum and Dad a couple of weeks ago. While Felix is too little to go on the rides, he still enjoys wandering around looking at everyone and he especially loved Madeline. She was just beautiful with him holding his hand and talking away to him - it was very cute.

Adrienne

Stuff, Stuff And Stuff

Felix has had a very busy couple of weeks, his weeks pan out as follows: Monday/Tuesday are Dah, Jarvis and Felix days where they go off and do boy stuff, Wed/Thursday and Friday are just Felix and Dah days which he really enjoys having his Dah to himself and Sat/Sunday are Mumma days. On Fridays Felix and Lee go to the local playgroup which Felix loves, he runs around giving all the kids kisses on their legs.

We had 'Family Day' at work a couple of weeks ago, Jarvis was at school so he didn't come along but Felix came along with Lee. We were surprised by how social Felix was, up until now he has really followed Jarvis around and been quite clingy at times, but at work he was happy to be the centre of attention. They had a magician for the day to entertain all the kids, Felix was more than happy on the stage smiling and waving at everyone, now I wonder where he gets that from??

Hows the weaning going? Not great, we tried one weekend and Felix screamed the house down. When he's with me he expects Mumma milk, we gave in! I must say we're not very strong when it comes to things like this, the way we are going I will still be feeding when he starts high school! Has anyone seen 'Little Britain' and the scene where the 25 yr old man asks his Mumma for 'bitty'? Well that will be us!!!

I arrived home from work in the week and the boys were waiting on the corner for me (which they often do and it makes my day!!), they had gone shopping for Halloween costumes. Jarvis looked great in his vampire costume and Felix was the cutest skeleton you have ever seen!

All in all it's going well with the little man, he's a happy cruisey little fella.

Adrienne

Boys at the zoo

Great photos of Felix at the zoo today with Lee & Jarvis. I especially like the one of Felix in the boat/pool area, growling as he doesn't want to be in the boat - how cute!

Adrienne

Felix The Underweight Eating Machine

What has Felix been up to? Its been a busy last 6 weeks with Felix's Nanny & Granddad from England staying with us for a month. We had such a lovely time with them here, Nanny Ronnie kept saying how much Felix was like Lee as a baby. He looks so much like Lee, he has a lot of his mannerisms, very relaxed kid he just cruises along behind everyone having fun.

It was so very cute for Felix and Jarvis to meet their grandparents from England, we did loads of things with them showing them around Sydney, our parks (because Granddad's a bird watcher, Felix has been walking around all day with Jarvis's binoculars, reminded me of Granddad Steve), beaches, the zoo, the Australian Reptile park etc. It was really great to show them around, as now when they read the boys blogs, from England they will be able to visualise what they have been up to.

Felix is now 14.5 months old, its such a cute age - while I'm writing this blog Lee and Jarvis are sleeping in the front room and Felix is wandering up and down the hallway giving me hats, shoes, books anything he can pick up, laughing and then going off to find something else - its very cute!

His hair is getting very long but we don't want to cut it because when he has his first hair cut he won't be our baby anymore, silly I know but he's our wee baby boy. His hair is getting lighter in the sun, its straight with a wee curl at the back (just like Lee's - little mini Lee).

He's still feeding at nights, I do want to start weaning him soon as I'm sure he will sleep better once we do (I'm just too tired to bother as yet). As Jarvis wasn't breast feed I actually have no idea where to start with weaning, any advice? My sister weaned her first two relatively easily, but is still feeding baby Kate. I'm sure the first two weaned so easily as she was pregnant with the next, I don't want to try that tactic, two is enough for us - any other advice would be welcomed.

Felix got his 12 month jabs last week (late I know), the doctor weighed him and measured him, she plotted him on the graph and told us he is underweight? Now we could understand this with Jarvis as we have always (and still do) had to follow him around with food to make sure he eats whereas this wee fella eats anything you put in front of him, or in front of Jarvis or leave on the floor - he's an eating machine, he definitely isn't skin and bone like his brother, in fact he's quite a stocky wee man - I challenged the doctor saying her scales must be wrong as there's definitely nothing wrong with Felix's appetite. I'm not worried about it as he is just fine, just amused me as if anyone is underweight in our house its Jarvis Tahi.

Thanks to Nanny Ronnie and Granddad Steve to coming to stay with us, we all had a lovely time and it was very special for our precious boys to meet them!!

Adrienne.

Climbing Boy

Felix is turning into a real little explorer, he loves to wander around having a look around and he especially likes climbing. He's funning with wandering away as unlike his older brother Jarvis who would wander off with anyone and not even look to see where we are, Felix will go off having a look around but he always looks back to see where we are to ensure we haven't gone too far.

Lee was in the loft the other day with Jarvis while Felix was waiting at the bottom of the ladder looking up adoringly. He would usually sit at the bottom grunting away at them to come and get him, this time however was different, he decided he wanted to be up there as well. I was in the kitchen clearing up and turned around to see Felix half way up the ladder, I ran to him and stayed behind him to see how far he would go, clever little man climbed the whole way up by himself. He was so proud, clapping for himself when he reached the top and absolutely delighted he could play with the big boys! See as below a video of Felix climbing up to the loft!

Adrienne

Posting With A Vengeance

Felix is into posting with a vengeance, its funny the stages they go through that you forget about. Felix will currently post anything anywhere; his most favorite place to post stuff is in the toilet. My sneakers, Jarvis's toys, Lee's books, anything he can carry (and the bigger the better, he’s so funny as he tries to pick up the biggest things he can find) he wanders into the bathroom and pokes it down the toilet.

When we growl at him for doing this he just laughs and laughs, its hilarious. Jarvis growls at him no, no, no, Felix and he still laughs, its very cute. The amount of things we have found down the toilet got to be too much so we have put up a gate in the bathroom door so he can do it no longer. This however doesn't stop him, the next favorite place is the laundry bin or the rubbish bin. We do recall Jarvis going through this stage but its funny as it all comes rushing back when you see Felix doing the same things.

Another one of Felix's favorite things at the moment is climbing into the dishwasher when you are emptying it, Jarvis did exactly the same thing, we have a photo of him happily standing on the dishwasher door looking so proud of himself.

Adrienne