In the short time (for me) since I last posted, a lot has happened. I haven't invested much into learning how to manipulate these posts, that's why they often look sloppy, but what can you do? Anyway, my little girl is nearly a woman, it actually moistens my eyes thinking about it. She had her prom last weekend and as you can see, she was stunning. She got a lot of help getting ready from Renae and her Aunt Annie and Susan. Where has the time gone? I still have a baby picture of her on my refrigerator that I've had there since she was born, or thereabouts.




The other day Rooney stopped by to yuck it up with Felix. Aren't
they adorable? They laughed, they cried, they made crank calls on the toy phone. It was pretty harmless. I don't think they really thought out what they wanted to say when Cookie Monster answered the phone because they would just hang up and giggle about it afterwards.

Who doesn't love Felix at the park? Felix sure loves Felix at the
park. We go there quite a bit now
that the weather is better.

Last post I said that I would include a picture from his grandmother's birthday party. I know it's blury, but it seems a little ethereal to me.









Felix, Felix, Felix. Sometimes we catch Felix "taking a play off". Actually, like many of the pictures I post, I don't know the story behind this one. I think one of the girls took this picture.
I do have a story that I don't have a picture for though, and it happened just last night. For awhile, Felix and I have this game we play where I go hide down the hall and he comes looking for me. When I see him, I crawl chasing after him and he runs away, giggling and laughing until I eventually catch him and he squirms and shrieks trying to avoid my tickling. Last night we did this when he thought he would try something a little different, after I chased and caught him, he walked down the hall and then peeked his head around to see if I saw him. When I did, he chased after me. What was so cute about it is that when he looked around the corner, he was initially trying to hide but not really, like he wanted to be seen so as to bait me over. He popped his head out then leaned back when he saw that I was turning his way. When we both knew he had been seen, that's when he jumped out after me. He didn't quite know what to do after chasing me, when he got close to me he turned into the couch and fell down laughing.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Hey, look at that, if you scroll down to the bottom of this post you will notice that I learned how to take credit for my own posts.
Okay, so it has been a while since I've posted, but that just means there is more to tell. Why just today Felix broke a branch off of one of our plumeria plants, and that's just the beginning (or, to date, the last) of the misadventures of Felix Truman.
Several weeks ago, our family along with Felix's great-grandmother, Ramona, visited Northwest Trek. Northwest Trek is a wild life park that features animals indigenous to the Northwest. Unfortunately, we got so caught up in photographing the animals that we didn't get many of Felix. But here is an animal we saw, see if you can guess what it is.If you said "buffalo", you are wrong. It's a bison, and apparently there is a difference, as true buffalo, though related to bison, are only found in Africa and Asia. It's too bad because I really prefer the name buffalo to bison. We also saw moose, or meese as some may incorrectly refer to more than one. At this time of year moose are without their antlers, otherwise I would have included a picture. It would be like posting a picture of a horse.
As we have done for the last several years, and what has become a tradition, we hosted Easter this year. In Seattle the weather is always hit or miss, but despite an early storm the day was beautiful. We had a lot of both sides of our family come over, which meant lots of cousins for the Easter egg hunt. Even little(?) Rooney participated, kind of. Felix had a lot of fun and loved being around all the kids, which wasn't a problem as they loved picking him up and carrying him around. Unfortunately we didn't get many pictures. We mostly videotaped. But we did make sure we got one picture.


That coat he is wearing is a coat that I wore when I was his age. I thank my mother for holding onto this coat so that one day my son could wear it. When we first put the coat on him, he wrapped his arms around himself, squeezed, and said "I love you, daddy". It was really touching.
Around Easter we discovered that Felix finally broke a tooth. He has two showing now, and a third upper tooth about to poke through. In contrast, Felix's cousin, Eva, has a mouthful of teeth, and she's only two and a half months older than him (she and I share a birthday, Jan 1st). We saw her, along with almost all of Renae's family, in Mount Vernon this past weekend to celebrate Felix's grandma Deanna's birthday. I think Eva's mom, Rita, said that Eva had a molar coming in.
Felix had a great time. He loved being around all those kids. Most of the kids played in this large room, large enough that it would echo. Felix screamed, and laughed along with the other kids. It was pretty neat to watch him interact with so many of his cousins, he has so much fun. Unfortunately the pictures didn't really turn out, they were blurry. Maybe later I'll post one anyway.

Lastly, Felix got a haircut. And I gave it to him. Usually my haircuts aren't that good, but after all those years practicing on Natalie and Megan, and then on Karma, well, it really paid off. Even Renae thought it looked it good. Also, you may notice that Felix is wearing shorts. We finally had a day warm enough for shorts.