The Felix Helix

I'm not sure that Felix should plan to make a career out of hair styling...

Apparently, I make a mean train cake, but completely suck at taking pictures of the actual party.  I'm sure there are some somewhere, but not on my camera or Giles's camera.  So... here's the cake.

Felix has a little announcement to make. In case you don't recognize it... that's the Big Brother UK Logo.  You know, because sometime around the beginning of April, he's going to be a big brother!

Found this picture in the October 18th Star Magazine.  Look familiar?? Here's a hint:

And I ate your cupcake. Happy 2nd Birthday, Felix! We're not having his party until the 20th, so hopefully I'll have some good pictures for you then.

I have a sneaky suspicion I already have a post with that uber-creative title.  Oh well. So, Halloween.  Felix was supposed to be an alligator.  He decided he'd rather just be a headless alligator, because he completely refused to wear the headpiece.  We took him out for a little crazy Park Slope trick-or-treating, and got a lot of "aww.... look at you, you're a lizard?  dragon?  dinosaur?"  But, no kidding, we did about one block of houses, and only went to the people actually standing outside to give out candy and he got quite a haul. Also, sidenote: white pumpkins (I believe they may actually be called "funkins"?) smell like watermelons, and may or may not rot within days of being carved.  Good to know! I'm totally proud of those little pumpkin treats: rice krispie treat pumpkins I made for Felix's daycare Halloween party.

They had a Halloween party at daycare the day before Halloween.  I didn't want Felix to mess up his alligator costume before Halloween, so we put him in his pirate costume that was too big for last year (and is still too big).  He wore this hat for about 60 seconds  - about six times longer than he wore the alligator head.

That's what it sounds like when we take Felix on the subway.  He stands on the platform, greeting every train that comes in with freakishly excited "choo choo!" exclamations, and then waving them all out, going, "bye-bye choo choo!  bye-bye choo choo!"  Slightly repetitive, but really cute.  Unfortunately, he gets so excited on the train that it's fairly impossible to get a good picture.

This kid is mildly obsessed with hanging on the monkey bars at the playground.

I'm pretty sure this has never happened before.  I am putting up a post, and NOT back-dating it to make it look like I put it up when whatever-it-was actually happened.   Enjoy it - it's unlikely to happen again.

Yesterday (like really yesterday, not fake-yesterday) we took Felix out with Grandma (Flip-Flop) and Pop-Pop to Hank's Pumpkintown for some apple picking.  The apple selection was a bit sparse, but Pumpkintown definitely lived up to its name.  There were tons of these great wooden climbing structures.  One was a giant train - Felix was in love. 

We wandered in the pumpkin patch, mostly trying to coax Felix into one of those cute sitting-on-a-pumpkin pictures (unsuccessful).  Felix and Giles took a rather cramped-looking ride around in the "wagon train", and we ended up with an actual wheel-barrow full of pumpkins and squash.  I might actually try to make a pumpkin pie completely from scratch this year.