The Fantastic Master Felix Fawkes: Nine Months In/ Nine Months Out
by Felina Lune Kavi
Category: Soul-of-Thought Revival
Journal: Earth Mother
Date: 10-1-2015
This is a week late, but I've been taking the time to reflect on
the last 9 months of this year that our son has been learning and growing in
this world, and the 9 months last year that he had been learning and growing in
the world within me while we lived, learned, and grew on the outside. A lot has changed with the many moons
since Felix came into our lives. And since I have spent nearly all of the past
18 months with him, I can tell you (as close to his perspective as one is able
to perceive) his journey thus far.
At first, life was warm and
watery. Then I started to hear a
lot of ruckus outside of the womb…though sometimes the noises softened and I
could hear music, singing, laughing, or make out different voices talking to
me. These people were as fascinating
as they were noisy. I wanted to be
noisy too. I wanted to meet them and
learn their language. I also
wanted to teach them a thing or two about noise and silence, I could already
tell the difference. Since I had
some time to prepare my own lessons, I kicked around a lot and made myself
comfortable.
Soon enough, I was grown and I
decided the end of the Taurus Moon was a good time to make my move from that
cozy little nook inside Mama to the home inside the larger universe. Mama was right about the moon, just as
she guessed the exact day my sister was born because of an already apparent
Pisces influence in their connection.
She’s good at guessing the right moon for a birth…though I was still
able to surprise them all on the birth date. I thought it would be fitting for a new beginning to
coincide with the first day of the year, and I like to make things a little
later than expected. On day one of
the year, it would help them out as far as tracking my months to come. I could tell both of my parents would
appreciate the easy math.
In my first months, I learned how
to mimic my family by smiling and babbling. My neck grew strong quickly from nursing and I was looking
around at everything and studying it every day as my eyesight got clearer. I found the comfort of Mama’s singing,
the gentle strength of Daddy’s big hands, and the sweet silliness of my
sister’s antics to be very enjoyable.
I met lots of family and friends, all of them smiling and wanting to
talk with me and hold me. Life
outside the womb was pretty awesome.
I took it all in and learned how to communicate with everyone in my own
ways.
Watching them all, especially my
furry siblings, made me want to get moving too. I started rolling around and grabbing everything I could
reach…putting it all in my mouth to see if it would fit or how it tasted. Soon
enough, I was able to twist and turn myself all over the place. Now, I’m able to do what they call ‘the
army crawl’. They seem happy about
this, but I can tell Daddy is worried now about all of the possible worst-case
scenarios that could happen now that I’m on the move. He keeps bringing up ‘baby-proofing’. That sounds like a challenge.
Now that I am nine months old, I
can say ‘Mama’ and ‘Dada’…though my first word was ‘waggle’ (I thought that
would be a good one to make them laugh…after all, Alyrica’s first word was
‘Edna’). I can’t quite say my
sister’s name, so I just call her ‘Lala’.
In recent news, I just got my first tooth this week. It made them all
very happy…but it made me pretty angry.
My mouth hurts a lot, so I scream about it sometimes so they all know
it. I’m a little over 15 pounds
now…a little heavier than our oldest cat, Ani, but still lighter than our fat
cats Zenya and Zephyr. Our cats
are funny. I like to laugh at them
when they move. When I touch them,
I make sure my hands are all slobbery first so I get as much fur on them as I
can.
I’m great at sitting up by myself
and I can stand with help. Soon,
I’ll surprise them all by walking but I’m not quite ready yet. I like when my parents take me for
walks. I helped Daddy pick some
peppers from our garden…and I picked a marigold for Mama. Mama took me for a walk after the Fall Equinox
and we picked up a bunch of fiery colored leaves. I liked the crunchy feeling in my hand…and I crushed one
into Mama’s chest so she got little leaf pieces down her shirt. We stopped to touch a big tree on the
way. It was much taller than Daddy
and I liked the feeling of the bark.
I really love being outside.
I’ve noticed that sometimes when I get fussy enough, they’ll take me
outside. I’m getting the hang of
training them to get what I want.
So far, I’ve gathered that life
is all about growing, learning, napping, moving from one place to the next, and
making a bunch of noise while demanding quiet. That about sums
it up, right? Mix in a whole lot
of eating, drinking, and excreting waste from what you have eaten and drank…and
I’m pretty sure I’m nailing it.
