Horner

We had just finished assembling the new tepee. Felix was impressed and decided everything from the play room needed to be in the tepee. He raced to the play room grabbed a box and walked back and forth transporting everything he could possibly find. Michal and I laughed and remarked that he was such a hoarder. "Yes" Felix said with a huge smile "I am a Horner" and he continued dragging in more treasures from the play room to the tepee.

The Love Languages of Felix- aged 3.2

I love to read on a number of topics- one of my favorite at the moment is parenting books. I have just read The Five Love Languages of Children. I have decided that while Felix, like all people, need all five- his primary love languages at age 3.2 are. Physical Loving Touch and Quality Time. These interestingly are not my primary languages. So here is were parenting starts to get a bit tricky and exciting too. In the last weeks I have really tried to work on these languages that I struggle with. Felix, so far , is actually more settled, confident and fun to be around and guess what- I feel better too. You see we all need a dose of each of these "languages" to fill our emotional tank. My emotional touch tank has been a little empty but it is starting to fill a little thanks for Felix :)

Our lost skirt..

Since the Polonez concert Felix has been wearing his beloved dress up skirt. On Saturday night we went to a friends 30th Birthday for which I suggested Felix wear pants and instead of wearing the skirt we take it with us. Felix fell asleep for the entire night and the skirt was tucked away in the pusher- out of sight out of mind. We caught a laste train home and Felix became a little upset when we arrived at home and discovered the skirt had dropped out of the pusher. In fact he was inconsolable- until I told him why his skirt was not with us ..
"When you were asleep Felix we meet a rabbit called Hector. He had just arrived in Melbourne with his family and was worried about the wind and didn't know where he would sleep. He saw the fantastic blue skirt and asked if he could borrow it and use it as a tent. Tata and I told Hector that Felix would be sad if he woke to not find his skirt. Hector replied that he thought Felix looked like a young boy who loved to help others and share his things- we agreed and Hector took the skirt and pitched it for his family to sleep in".
Well I thought it would be a long shot but wow the power of story. He stopped crying immediately and was satisfied that Hector would be using his skirt as a tent. I marvel as Felix's naturally generous heart. It is so difficult for a 3 year old gripped in the ego centric phase to barely share any of his toys with Matilda. I have faith that my beautiful boy will grow up to care about other people- and rabbits named Hector.

Our Sunflower forest

Felix and I have bee doing our "first" garden project together. We planted some sunflowers (Giant Russian) a couple of weeks ago in jiffy pots. Today we transplanted then out to the backyard to hopefully create a sunflower forest near the sandpit. Felix has his own watering can which he excitedly filled up from our small water tank.