Catching Up

It's been 17 days since my last post, but so much has happened that I'd get very behind if I didn't post now.

I actually have news of my own! I interviewed for and accepted a job with a rival firm. This past Wednesday, I turned in my resignation and fought tears all afternoon as I told close friends that I was leaving. Everyone was supportive and wished me well. It helps a lot that I'm going to a company that works closely with them and people had nothing but good things about which to say. It's really because of this new firm's attitude toward family that I'm leaving - they allow flexible schedules and comp time, and encourage you to do things with your family. All very important to me. Thursday I had to hand off my work and found out at 2:30 that it would be my last day. But I got to go out to lunch (ooh, Peruvian!) with two close coworkers. I stopped by the new firm on the way home after getting Felix to see my new office (!). I spent Friday happily unemployed, taking Felix to day care and having the day to myself. I can't remember the last time I could do what I wanted all day long. I did meet Nick for lunch at Plaka Taverna. We stuffed ourselves full of Greek and had to fight a food coma all afternoon. I start my new job on Monday.

Last weekend, we celebrated the wedding of my cousin, Jimmie. We drove up to Medina/New London for the fun. Felix looked so dapper in his little outfit, and had a great time running around with his first-cousin-once-removed, Erik. I loved seeing toddlers on the dance floor.













Felix has developed some good and bad habits lately. The bad would be screaming/shrieking for fun inside. Oh, our poor ears. This has lead to quite a few time outs, and hopefully he'll grow out of this phase soon. The good would be his language skills. He's started using "the" in his sentences, and now when he talks, they are mostly complete, coherent ones. It's amazing to hear what he comes up with. This morning, it was "That is not the house, that is the barn!" and "There are cows in the barn" when talking about the house behind us.

We've seen lots of family lately, too, and that's always nice. :o)

Felix: 2 yrs

Crooning

Felix has taken up singing at every occasion. He has a repertoire of most of the toddler standards (Old MacDonald, The Wheels on the Bus, ABC, Itsy-Bitsy Spider, etc.), for which his memory impresses me greatly. He does, however, miss a number of the words and the notes, which can make it a little tough to endure, but it's still so darn cute. He also will do a mash-up of songs while singing them. I'm trying to get him to sing On Wisconsin in its entirety (currently he just sings "On 'Sconsin, On 'Sconsin U-Rah-Rah!"). I enjoyed a moment this week when I started to sing a song and he interrupted me with "No, Mama. Felix sing it." And he did. :o)

Nick is teaching him left and right, and he's starting to figure it out. He's about 50-50 guessing which shoe you're holding out to him.

He also has been showing us that he may have a future as a valet, parking his vehicles with great precision:

Felix: 2 yrs