Happy New Year, one and all!

Felix enjoys his current favourite toy, an empty coffee tin

As the New Year is born into the world, Felix is quietly nursing with Amy after a good nights sleep, still toothless, but ready to tackle 2009!

2008 was quite a year, however it seems that with all the changes and shifts of that year, 2009 looks to be just as busy. Felix is currently changing at a rate of knots - in the last week alone he has started to pull himself up into standing, talk in different voices, bounce while kneeling - he also continues to master the kazoo!

Felix sports a knitwear number from Grandma Gambell, with daddy

He's an impressively curious little guy, and has incredible eyesight (spotting the smallest thing, he will go for it and try to manipulate what ever it is, studying it intensely) and an inbuilt sixth sense that just knows when a room that he shouldn't be in is open (where he will at once crawl at full pace towards that open portal).

Yesterday I assembled a book shelf with his assistance, him mainly picking through the pieces of wood, and trying to eat the tools, or hide under half assembled pieces, but ultimately he was more interested in the box that the flat pack furniture came in than the actual construction. However, now he has a new book shelf to attack, and another place that he can remove the books from and place them about him on the floor.

Felix stretches his legs, and begins the pull up to standing, with a little help from his high chair

Happy New Year, everyone!