a.k.a. this is the post I've been meaning to write for weeks, but didn't: Stuff what the Flixster has been up to these past months! As he turned one and a half last Friday, I'm taking that as an excuse to finally summarise the most recent developments ( Read more... )

We don't actually do Hallowe'en. But if we did, Felix would obviously have dressed up as Bilbo Baggins...
( Pictorial proof )

but it is an update ( Read more... )

Real life, incidentally, had so much stuff coming up that I'm beginning to doubt I'll ever catch up. However, I am determined to try!

Before I get to the Drachenfest picspam, however, I have to get one very important information out of the way ( Read more... )

The mucus of the Spanish slug is unpleasant and evil-tasting, but not poisonous.

Isn't that soothing?

I mean, I sort of intuited the "unpleasant and evil-tasting" bit. The "non-poisonous" part I learned from calling the Poison Hotline just now. Because, guess what? Felix tried to eat a slug.

( Details cut for the feeble )

Throughout the past months, every now and then someone would ask, "Is Felix talking already?"
Ever since he started babbling, my reply was "He is - we just don't understand him yet."

In the past week, I've been realising how true that is. It's not that Felix isn't using language to communicate: It's just that he doesn't speak our language yet ( Read more... )

Test run succesful.


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- A lovely four-day, four-generational vacation in the Black Forest, courtesy of my grandmother, for Felix, my mom and myself. (The others had to work, so they couldn't come ( Read more... )

In the olden days, that is, around 30 or so years ago, it was still believed and propagated that babies who did not learn to crawl (as in, move forward on all fours) would have trouble learning to stand and walk ( Read more... )

Yeah, April was meant to be Back to Business month, but it's also Catching Up with Stuff month more generally.

For instance, I was so busy writing and stamping and posting about stamping and posting about writing in March that I missed the entirety of The Return of the King on Mark Reads. And after that he moved on to The Princess Bride which I ( Read more... )