Putting Felix to bed.
K: Whoops, I kissed your eye.
F: You want me to poke you in the eye.
K: Do you want me to sing you a song?
F: You want "Never Did No Wanderin'," song number 10. (From the Mighty Wind soundtrack.)
K: Okay. (singing) My mother was the cold north wind, my daddy was the son....
F: "Mighty Wind," song number 17.
*****
Coming home from school after Dick and Neva have left:
F: You wish grandma and grandpa could stay here all day long.
*****
Felix has just counted to 94 and then stopped.
K: Felix, why are you counting to 94? What's so special about 94?
F: (brightly) The John Hancock! You think it would be fun to go to the 40th floor of the John Hancock with that girl with the long hair.
K: Where did you see her?
F: At the John Hancock.
*****
At school, teachers and parents used to refer to the "There Musketeers": Felix, Gabriel, and Luke. (Luke is now in a different class.) The other day, Felix was counting the "Six Musketeers": John Henry, Aardvark the Aardvark, aardvark, spiky worm, silly shark, Felix. I may have taken a picture but I'm not sure.
*****
Petting Cooper very gently:
F: I am petting Cooper gently and not hitting him in the face.
*****
On the bus to school the other morning:
F: It would be really really fun to make Mommy and Daddy a cocktail.
*****
At the playground, after Felix spotted a tiny spiderweb:
K: Good eye, Felix.
F: Good J, Daddy.
*****
This morning, Felix was standing on the toilet lid (which he fell off last night, bonking his head on the wall traumatically):
F: I want to hurt myself...ready, set, go!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Quoth Felix:
F: You miss Oscar all day long.
F: You love Cosmo all day long.
*****
Making an observation in the stairwell:
F: That is a cute little tiny yellow smoke detector with a blinking light.
*****
At some point, many weeks ago, Felix discovered a little pot of lip balm on the shelf above the toilet. His initial fascination with screwing and unscrewing the lid was soon replaced with fascination at applying the lip balm. Dipping a finger daintily in the ointment, he would rub some on his lips, then his nose....
M: Felix, that's lip balm, not nose balm.
F: It's nose balm!
Felix soon started rubbing nose balm on his ears....
M: Felix, that's not ear balm, it's nose balm!
F: It's ear balm!
It is now also cheek, chin, and forehead balm. He is one balmy boy, and we get balmy kisses before bed every night.
*****
Felix's memory constantly astounds us. Just a few weeks ago we were talking about his great-grandparents and I was reminding him--I thought--who Grandma Laura and Grandpa Dave are. Felix promptly reminded me that he heard the doorbell at their house through the white doorbell speaker. If my memory serves, they indeed have a white doorbell speaker. Bear in mind that this was last August.
*****
He's also performed a number of mathematical feats. We were discussing his aunts and uncles, and I listed Auntie Kirstin and Uncle Sean and also Auntie Iris--three aunts and uncles. Then I remembered that we sometimes refer to our good friends Rob and Sarah and Josh and Jenni as aunts and uncles, so I listed them, too.
F: You have seven aunts and uncles.
Also, at Navy Pier, he looked up at the roof of the crystal garden and saw a very large ceiling fan, then promptly announced that it had ten blades. After much squinting, Marya and I were able to confirm that he was right.
The last example may be a feat of math or a feat of memory, but either way we're amazed. We were out for a walk one evening and Felix looked up at large building and announced that it had 18 stories. We were flabbergasted--he was right. After talking it over at length, we started to suspect that one of us may have counted the floors for him, but it would have been last fall at least, and it hasn't come up since then. (Cue eerie music.)
Okay, that's the most egregious bragging out of the way.
*****
Felix loves to play simple word games:
M: Avocado starts with "A".
F: Avocado starts with "B".
M: It's not "bavacado," it's "avocado."
F: (laughing hysterically) Avocado starts with "C".
M: It's not "cavacado."
F: (shrieking with laughter) Avocado starts with "D".
...and so on.
******
F: You love Cosmo all day long.
*****
Making an observation in the stairwell:
F: That is a cute little tiny yellow smoke detector with a blinking light.
*****
At some point, many weeks ago, Felix discovered a little pot of lip balm on the shelf above the toilet. His initial fascination with screwing and unscrewing the lid was soon replaced with fascination at applying the lip balm. Dipping a finger daintily in the ointment, he would rub some on his lips, then his nose....
M: Felix, that's lip balm, not nose balm.
F: It's nose balm!
Felix soon started rubbing nose balm on his ears....
M: Felix, that's not ear balm, it's nose balm!
F: It's ear balm!
It is now also cheek, chin, and forehead balm. He is one balmy boy, and we get balmy kisses before bed every night.
*****
Felix's memory constantly astounds us. Just a few weeks ago we were talking about his great-grandparents and I was reminding him--I thought--who Grandma Laura and Grandpa Dave are. Felix promptly reminded me that he heard the doorbell at their house through the white doorbell speaker. If my memory serves, they indeed have a white doorbell speaker. Bear in mind that this was last August.
*****
He's also performed a number of mathematical feats. We were discussing his aunts and uncles, and I listed Auntie Kirstin and Uncle Sean and also Auntie Iris--three aunts and uncles. Then I remembered that we sometimes refer to our good friends Rob and Sarah and Josh and Jenni as aunts and uncles, so I listed them, too.
F: You have seven aunts and uncles.
Also, at Navy Pier, he looked up at the roof of the crystal garden and saw a very large ceiling fan, then promptly announced that it had ten blades. After much squinting, Marya and I were able to confirm that he was right.
The last example may be a feat of math or a feat of memory, but either way we're amazed. We were out for a walk one evening and Felix looked up at large building and announced that it had 18 stories. We were flabbergasted--he was right. After talking it over at length, we started to suspect that one of us may have counted the floors for him, but it would have been last fall at least, and it hasn't come up since then. (Cue eerie music.)
Okay, that's the most egregious bragging out of the way.
*****
Felix loves to play simple word games:
M: Avocado starts with "A".
F: Avocado starts with "B".
M: It's not "bavacado," it's "avocado."
F: (laughing hysterically) Avocado starts with "C".
M: It's not "cavacado."
F: (shrieking with laughter) Avocado starts with "D".
...and so on.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Monday, April 09, 2007
John Hancock
We can see the John Hancock tower from our bus stop, and Felix was becoming very curious about it. A month ago he would say, at least once a day, "It would be really, really fun to go all the way to the top of the John Hancock!"and "You can't believe the John Hancock is really, really tall!"
Imagine the excitement when we told him that we would take him to the observatory. "We are going all the way to the 94th floor!" When we got off the elevator and went to the south windows Felix saw the Sears Tower and said, "Look! There's another John Hancock!" We'll take him to Sears some day but for now J.H. is still his favorite skyscraper. I took him back last Friday when he had the day off school. We were the last to get on an full elevator of tourists who apparently thought the elevator would automatically go to the observatory. Luckily Felix knew better and reached up high to select the button which read "94th floor observatory".
Imagine the excitement when we told him that we would take him to the observatory. "We are going all the way to the 94th floor!" When we got off the elevator and went to the south windows Felix saw the Sears Tower and said, "Look! There's another John Hancock!" We'll take him to Sears some day but for now J.H. is still his favorite skyscraper. I took him back last Friday when he had the day off school. We were the last to get on an full elevator of tourists who apparently thought the elevator would automatically go to the observatory. Luckily Felix knew better and reached up high to select the button which read "94th floor observatory".
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Various Animals
Some photos from Mom and Wolf's recent visit--and beyond!
Cosmo eats tiny Fisher-Price people for Grandma Nancy's entertainment; Cooper stands poised to leap clear.
Watching the seals and the otters at the zoo.
Two young rams head-butting.
Finally freed from the stroller, walkin' Cosmo can't contain his happiness.
More wildlife: ants.
Camel and bedouin rider.
Felix, nearly out of patience for photos...
...all done.
Felix likes getting cozy. ("You want to get all cozy.") Note Cosmo in lower left frame.
Cosmo likes climbing on Felix's bed. They both like wrestling.
A random picture of Marya, because she's always behind the camera lately.
Cosmo eats tiny Fisher-Price people for Grandma Nancy's entertainment; Cooper stands poised to leap clear.
Watching the seals and the otters at the zoo.
Two young rams head-butting.
Finally freed from the stroller, walkin' Cosmo can't contain his happiness.
More wildlife: ants.
Camel and bedouin rider.
Felix, nearly out of patience for photos...
...all done.
Felix likes getting cozy. ("You want to get all cozy.") Note Cosmo in lower left frame.
Cosmo likes climbing on Felix's bed. They both like wrestling.
A random picture of Marya, because she's always behind the camera lately.
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