Saturday, November 18, 2006

Funny

I was set to take Ella to school the other day and was dressed in a t-shirt because it was a warm day. When she saw me, she said, "Can you wear a shirt with buttons?" So I had to change into a nicer shirt. It wasn't because I wasn't dressed nicely enough (this is a toddler, don't you know) but rather because one of her favorite games is to button and unbutton my shirt. She didn't do this game while we walked to school, but she liked to have the option.

Ella and Felix went to see the pediatrician on Wednesday. Felix was 24.5 inches in length (62.23 cm) and weighed 10 lbs, 14 oz. (4933 g). Ella was 36 inches tall (91 cm) and weighed 28 lbs. (12.7 kg). All perfectly healthy. Felix is growing very fast.

Here's a picture of Ella and Felix with the pediatrician, Dr. Liddy, and me.



Felix is one month old as of yesterday! He is already making cooing noises that are more than just grunting and gurgling, saying "oooo" and "aaah". Proto-language skills that most babies don't develop until the 3rd month.

Ella has learned to associate letters of the alphabet with words. She will say things like "B for book", "O for octopus", "D for Diametaceous". Well, I made that last one up. But I'm very proud of her.

4 comments:

juulferg said...

What the...! I keep missing your postings, even when I refresh my browser or check on a different computer (at work). Well... here at Opa's house I discovered all these new pictures, to my great joy!

Sounds like Felix is developing into a genius baby just like his sister and his cousin Emile who also is a big chatterbox (as you know)! We'd better get skype soon before they start running up big phone bills amongst each other, ha ha!

Anonymous said...

thanks for the latest update; we all await these with great anticipation.
keep up the good work, Dennises!
We love you all very much.

Anonymous said...

Congatulations with Felix to all of you and thanks for sending me a nice birthday cart.
Nice site!

Theo Ferguson,
Clan Ferguson Archives and genealogy

Anonymous said...

Hi to all the members of the Dennis-Ferguson family.
Really this Felix-baby makes speedy progress. For sure he'll pick up the telephone all by himself soon and have interesting conversations with me.
Today niece Eva had a beautiful performance with her symphony orchestra (where she plays the violin)in The Hague concert hall. Also something to be proud of.
Love and a kiss from opa and the other Wildhoeflaan inhabitants.